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townx - Comments (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (some of them)5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6 The Bible (well, 3 of the gospels)7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (first two books)10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I hated...
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
A beer at the in San Francisco a la Kerouac? A spot of deduction at 221b Baker Street with Holmes? Travel website TripAdvisor has come up with a list of t, according to its editors. So, in order: London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, Concord in Massachusetts, Paris, San Francisco, Rome and St Petersburg. As travel advice, it's somewhat uninspiring - apart from , which I hadn't realised...
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scan man's notes (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
... - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I’ve read an abdridged version). 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (I’ve read an abdridged version). 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott...
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Leo's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Look at the list of ‘classics’ and: 1) Bold those I’ve read. 2) Italicise those I intend to read. 3) [Bracket] the books I love. 4) Pass it on to a few others. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee] [6 The Bible] 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty...
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Tangled Up in Blue Guy (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
So which books have you read from this list? Cut and paste, and then bold the books you’ve read while unboldng the ones you’ve not. Italicize the ones you want to and parenthesize the ones you have started and intend to finish: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper...
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Cantànima (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... of someone who (a) draws up such a list, and (b) makes such a claim. How many people marking Les Miserables, for example, have read the unabridged version? Why is Hamlet on this list but not anything in the standard (American) Shakespeare curriculum such as Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, or Macbeth? Where is The Scarlet Letter, or anything by Mark Twain? (; see also )1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane...
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Clumsy Kisses (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [See above. Do not get] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible [I haven’t read the entire thing but I have read a lot of it, and I could give passable lectures on it, too. My favourite part? The Gospel of Mark. Oh dude, Mark, whoever you were, you rock my agnostic socks. Oh and St Peter? You’re awesome too!] 7 Wuthering Heights...
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Byrnesys Blabberings (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... only, Im a cheat) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (A Level Lit.) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Loved this book when I was a kid for some reason) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott...