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	Time's 100 books meme...
	TIME have picked their 100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present. So how many have you read? 12 Which ones have you read? (or indeed haven't if that’s a quicker way to do it) A Clockwork Orange Animal Farm Atonement Catch-22 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Neuromancer 1984 Snow Crash To Kill a Mockingbird Watchmen Do you have anything to say in your defence? No. No excuses. No regrets. Tags: meme

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	From: stelmaria_clg	Date: January 6th, 2006 02:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)

13 and a half

Animal Farm
Catch-22 (the half, i never finished it)
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Great Gatsby
The Heart of the Matter
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Mrs. Dalloway
1984
On the Road
A Passage to India
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse

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	From: quondam	Date: January 6th, 2006 02:40 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That's one more than I've read (two or three differences though).

And I thought some of them were bobbins.

Lolita is around somewhere if you want to increase your score.

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	From: agentinfinity	Date: January 6th, 2006 03:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

17 1/3

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From: ikkleblacktruck	Date: January 6th, 2006 03:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hah! I beat you all! I've only read 6. In my defence - who gives a toss what TIME thinks? There's only one on my list that I would include in a top 100 anyway.

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	From: darkstones	Date: January 6th, 2006 05:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)

30, but there are some on the list I should really have read by now...

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	From: sixtine	Date: January 6th, 2006 08:44 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Coo, 18 and one on order

The ones I loved which you haven't read are in bold

Animal Farm
Atonement
The Blind Assassin
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
The Grapes of Wrath
Herzog
I, Claudius
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Flies
Midnight's Children
1984
Possession - thought about bold; it really impacted but started off as a slog
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Spy who came in from the Cold
To Kill a Mockingbird
White Teeth possibly not your style though

I pre-ordered 'Never Let me Go' from Amazon last week; it's not released in paperback till the beginning of March but I'm really looking forward to it.

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	From: kneeshooter	Date: January 6th, 2006 08:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Coo, 18 and one on order

I'd consider reading "The Blind Assassin" and have "Midnight's Children" on a shelf somewhere. I think.

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	From: sixtine	Date: January 6th, 2006 08:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Coo, 18 and one on order

What would you recommend that I haven't read?

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	From: kneeshooter	Date: January 6th, 2006 09:02 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Coo, 18 and one on order

Snow Crash is good - in a irreverent post-Cyberpunk kind of way.

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	From: velvet_the_cat	Date: January 6th, 2006 09:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Spot the uncultured one!

Thanks to mock O'Levels I can say that I've actually read one of them: Lord of the Flies, and that's it!

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From: ex_john_hat807	Date: January 6th, 2006 10:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

12 for me as well.

A Clockwork Orange
Animal Farm
Catch-22
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Things Fall Apart
The Spy who came in from the cold (Tinker, Tailor AND Smiley's people are better, IMHO)
One flew Over the cuckoo's nest

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From: ex_john_hat807	Date: January 6th, 2006 10:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I'd also say that "Empire of the Sun" should be in there. But we could all add books to the list.

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	12 lies or Lie to me