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- danrdanny, on 04/08/2008, -2/+204Dugg for being on one page.
- bossm4n, on 04/08/2008, -3/+118A big omission-- Sun Tzu's The Art of War under books that changed the world.
- LifeIsARhythm, on 04/08/2008, -16/+104LOTR is absolutely not a children's series.
- tmyprod, on 04/08/2008, -6/+89Not a single mention of Kurt Vonnegut, for shame.
- 7yler, on 04/08/2008, -4/+75This is the perfect library for anyone who doesn't read but wishes those who see it think he does.
- SneepurWatch, on 04/08/2008, -15/+85Where is the Ender Series by Orson Scott Card! Greatest SCI-FI Novels EVER
- visionaryIX, on 04/08/2008, -1/+60To kill a mockingbird?
Also hoping for Fahrenheit 451, Utopia, Lord of the Flies, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, but I'm content with Nineteen Eighty Four, Brave New World, and Do androids dream of electric sleep?
Dugg. - Schrodinger2, on 04/08/2008, -4/+59That attempt at a joke was double-plus ungood.
- Zihuatanejo, on 04/08/2008, -0/+54I would not have been surprised by 110 separate pages.
- ToadLeg, on 04/08/2008, -1/+48reported for thoughtcrime
- spidoman, on 04/08/2008, -1/+38Things that came to my mind:
Art of War (glad others agree)
Les Miserables
The Old Testament (whether or not it's true, it's more influential than anything else on that list.) - iceman0113, on 04/08/2008, -1/+36If you have time to peruse digg, play video games, watch tv, then you have time to read.
- ncairns, on 04/08/2008, -1/+35Eh, it's not that great. No Don Quixote? Really? What about Slaughterhouse-Five? The Brothers Karamazov? Lolita?
- Charklii, on 04/08/2008, -1/+33A list of 110 items. And one page. Dugg for showing the others how it's done.
Even though it's missing The Little Prince and 1001 Nights (Arabian Nights) :) - tmbrwolf19, on 04/08/2008, -3/+33No Ender's Series... How about NO DUNE?! What type of hack list is this? Dune is one of the foundations of SciFi!
However I do have to give kudos for having Hitchhikers Guide on there. - skubiszm, on 04/08/2008, -4/+31Buried as inaccurate. How can they now include Dianetics?
- whoaohh, on 04/08/2008, -2/+28Don't tell me the Bible didn't change the world.
- DeviantDragon, on 04/08/2008, -0/+25I was hoping for Animal Farm, but I suppose two Orwell books would've been overkill.
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -5/+28This is a great list.. all the classics. In the fast-paced world that we live in, I wonder if people take time to read books like this any more?
- calenlas, on 04/08/2008, -3/+26Relegating fantasy to children was exactly the prejudice Tolkien fought against with his writing. Personally, I was more than a little offended to see one of last century's greatest authors shelved in the nursery. After reading the little descriptive blurb for LotR, though, I can easily believe the compiler of this list has likely never read LotR and is just rehashing the most basic plot line and a promotional sales figure, as though they'd never stoop to actually read such tripe.
- mrhedges, on 04/08/2008, -3/+26This list is an epic failure. How could any sci-fi book list be complete without Dune? Seriously, wtf... Neuromancer makes the list, but not Dune? Also, how does LotR end up in the same category as Babar? And where's Slaughterhouse Five? Perfect library my ass.
- visionaryIX, on 04/08/2008, -2/+23To Kill a Mockingbird? Fahrenheit 451?
Still a decent list, dugg. - bakkouz, on 04/08/2008, -7/+27Where's Catcher in the rye?
and LoTR is as much a children's book as Michael Jackson is normal! - inactive, on 04/08/2008, -33/+53They forgot Ayn Rand!
Just joking. Ayn Rand is *****. - jagermeistr, on 04/08/2008, -4/+23Good list but- No "A Clockwork Orange"?
- badassninja, on 04/08/2008, -4/+23#2 Who has the torrent?
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -9/+28There was no fantasy section
- Enderplayer1, on 04/08/2008, -2/+21It's called a library
- bbardlbradd, on 04/08/2008, -0/+18110 is nothing. When you read you get points towards your reading skill, so every book you read takes less time to read.
Your skill in reading has increased by 1 point. - iceman0113, on 04/08/2008, -2/+20Tell that to the 4th grader I'm tutoring who's reading the series and is immensely enjoying it.
- Gndoab, on 04/08/2008, -2/+19I agree with most of it, but where is "the Count of Monte Cristo"? It's like 1400 pages and I read it in a week. I can't think of another book that captured my attention so completely.
Don Quixote was another great one. A few others, but really....where is TCOMC???? - lennybird, on 04/08/2008, -0/+17Very much agreed, that was an amazing book. Also, where is Of Mice and Men?
How about Flowers for Algernon? - mjpanzer, on 04/08/2008, -8/+25No Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, or The Great Gatsby= not cool
(oh and throw in the Bible too....no biggie) - Enderplayer1, on 04/08/2008, -2/+18This list inspires me to spend less time on Digg (and the internet for that matter) and get back to reading more like I used to.
- Crosshare, on 04/08/2008, -2/+18Because a 4th grader can comprehend LOTR, does not make the series elementary, it makes the 4th grader smart. I say bravo to them for reading well at a young age!
- ANT1138, on 04/08/2008, -3/+17I prefer pdfs.
- whoaohh, on 04/08/2008, -0/+14So it goes.
- Hangly, on 04/08/2008, -0/+14Those starry vecs wouldn't know a good niga if it grabbed them by the gulliver, put its yarbles in their rots and gave them the old in-out in-out real horrorshow.
- kaplanfx, on 04/08/2008, -0/+13While Hitchhikers Guide is a fantastic work, many forget that it is derivative of the fantastic Vonnegut novel "The Sirens of Titain", and in fact Adams had said in interview that Sirens of Titan was his inspiration to write Sci-Fi. While the Hitchhickers guide never truly leads us to the answer for human existence, Sirens of Titan offers a profound and fascinating explanation of our purpose in the universe. Ok, that sounded like a book jacket quote, but it's so good I had to at least try to write my praise in a literary fashion.
- tylersciacqua, on 04/08/2008, -1/+14true, but even if it is fantasy, it can't be denied the Bible is one of the great books in the world.. think of the THOUSANDS of references and allegories to the bible in culture... probably half the books in that list have some kind of bible reference/ metaphor in them...
- ledguitar, on 04/08/2008, -0/+12Odyssey and Iliad are first books listed.
- MrShlee, on 04/08/2008, -2/+13You're missing Hunter S. Thompson!
- Flawed77, on 04/08/2008, -0/+11Agreed, but I was pretty happy that Neuromancer made the list.
- ncairns, on 04/08/2008, -2/+13Hey, Catcher in the Rye is a ***** great book. People tend to reflexively generate disdainful opinions of it as they leave their teens in a predictable attempt to save face and embarrassment by dissociating themselves from the naivete and angst and pain it speaks to, but it's one of the few universally relatable books in the world - whether you think you're too cool to admit it or not.
- zohaibusman, on 04/08/2008, -1/+12War and Peace
Tolstoy
Tolstoy's masterpiece is so enormous even the author said it couldn't be described as a novel. But the characters of Andrei, Pierre and Natasha – and the tragic and unexpected way their lives intersect – grip you for all 1,400 pages.
Good Post - chilipeppers4u, on 04/08/2008, -1/+12No religious books, but they did manage to include "On the origin of species" as one of the "Books that changed the world"
- akinapb, on 04/08/2008, -6/+17Where's Aristotle? Locke? Kant? Rand?
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -5/+15(e.g.,) is used incorrectly.
But still a good point. - ncairns, on 04/08/2008, -2/+12Tell me, what do you think William Shakespeare would say about Tolkien's 'masterwork'? Probably that he'd made a cheap whore of the English language to communicate a bit of silly, grunting drivel.
Words don't have any intrinsic value whatsoever. They are only assigned some transitory worth by the person who reads them. Boring, predictable elitism of the the tribe to which you subscribe is such a funny, flailing monster. Kurt Vonnegut described it as like "...put[ting] on full armor and attack[ing] a hot fudge sundae or a banana split." You've got to be pretty insecure in your own literary conceptions to trick yourself into thinking there's such a thing as objectively 'good' books and objectively 'bad' books. Really, it has to be a sad myopia. - laserblazer, on 04/08/2008, -0/+10Ignorance and pomp.
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