> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:19 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: "Books to Read Before you Die" > > > Books I would add: > > The Great Gatsby - The great American Novel.
Another one I've never read! > The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wonderfully irreverent. One of my absolute favorites (although the later ones _were_ a little self-indulgent). > Dune - The depth of this book is incredible. Too true. Nearly the perfect novel in my opinion. Just stay away from the prequels! ;^) > Ender's Game - If you haven't read this, do yourself a favor and pick > it > up. It is sci-fi in theme, but there is so much more to it. I considered adding to it. I actually still love the book. But damn Orson Scott Card has been annoying me lately. He's also done all he could to drain any magic from it... the crazy sequels, the umpteen retellings, etc. He had a great little short story. It survived a novelization. Then he just continued to muck with it for years. ;^) > The Godfather - better than the movie. Another one on my list. My neighbor LOVES this book... always brings it up when we get around to books. I think I'll have to read it just to carry an end of the conversation. ;^) > The Bourne Identity - The prototype for today's spy thriller. > Snow Crash - Hard to describe this book. I've got both of these, but not read either. (Yet.) > The Hound of the Baskervilles - Or another suitable Sherlock Holmes > novel. I read all of these when I was younger... I went through a big "Sherlock Holmes" and Edgar Allan Poe" phase. Maybe I should dig some of them out. > Foundation - I periodically reread the first three. Don't like the > latter > novels that much. Me too - I read Asimov's non-fiction voraciously but haven't really read much of his fiction. I was stuck at an airport for way to long one and ended up read almost all of the first three. > Hucklberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. I really love Mark Twain - his personality, anecdotes and healthy skepticism - but for some reason I've never actually warmed up to his writing. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266185 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
