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    Britain's Favourite 100 Books - a BBC Poll

    BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml


    Here is the BBC's result of a poll of 140,000 Brits on their favourite book. You were only allowed to nominate 1 book.

    Annoyingly, they did not let us know the winners, just the top 100. Apparently, 8000 books got at least one vote (some got only one).

    Note that the list goes on two pages.

    How many have you read? Me - only 40 (oops recounted).

    Top authors are Dickens and Pratchett with 5 each.

    My 40:
    1984
    The Alchemist
    Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
    Animal Farm
    Birdsong
    Black Beauty
    Brave New World
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Catch 22 (MY VOTE)
    Charlie And The Chocolate Factory,
    The Colour Of Magic
    The Count Of Monte Cristo
    Crime And Punishment,
    Emma,
    Far From The Madding Crowd,
    Guards! Guards!
    Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone,
    The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
    The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
    Kane And Abel
    The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
    Lord Of The Flies,
    The Lord Of The Rings
    Love In The Time Of Cholera
    Midnight's Children
    Mort
    Night Watch
    One Hundred Years Of Solitude
    A Prayer For Owen Meany
    Pride And Prejudice
    A Suitable Boy
    Swallows And Amazons
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    Treasure Island
    Ulysses
    War And Peace
    Watership Down
    The Wind In The Willows
    Winnie-the-Pooh

    Edited: to paste in books and recount!
    Last edited by Laertes; May 20, 2003, 06:52.
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  • #2
    A whooping 10.


    Edit : From 9 to 10, I missed one.
    "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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    • #3
      21 edit: missed Winnie the Pooh.

      -Arrian
      Last edited by Arrian; May 19, 2003, 12:09.
      grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

      The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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      • #4
        37...

        Veronica Loughran: Something like... 36.
        Dante Hicks: What? Something like 36?
        Veronica Loughran: Lower your voice.
        Dante Hicks: Wait a minute, what is that anyway, something like 36? Does that INCLUDE me?
        Veronica Loughran: Ummm...37.
        Dante Hicks: I'm 37?!
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          9
          I'm not sure if I read 'brideshead revisted"
          Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
          Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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          • #6
            37 total

            1984
            Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
            Anna Karenina
            Anne Of Green Gables
            Black Beauty
            Catch 22
            The Catcher In The Rye
            Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
            A Christmas Carol
            The Clan Of The Cave Bear
            The Count Of Monte Cristo
            Crime And Punishment
            David Copperfield
            Dune
            Gone With The Wind
            (Saw The Godfather movies does that count? )
            The Grapes Of Wrath
            Great Expectations
            The Great Gatsby
            Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling, Author profile
            Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling, Author profile
            Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling, Author profile
            Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
            (I'm a Potter nut )
            The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
            The Hobbit
            The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
            Lord Of The Flies
            The Lord Of The Rings (This should count for three)
            Memoirs Of A Geisha
            The Secret Garden
            A Tale Of Two Cities
            Tess Of The D'urbervilles
            To Kill A Mockingbird
            Treasure Island
            War And Peace (All 1874 pages of it and the 89 page translaters notes)
            Watership Down
            The Wind In The Willows
            Wuthering Heights
            Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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            • #7
              Oops, I missed the Lord of the Flies and the Treasure Island. Make that 12.
              "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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              • #8
                This is the thread where the native English speakers are going to clean up.
                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Oerdin
                  This is the thread where the native English speakers are going to clean up.
                  There are only 8 non-English language (first publication) books on the list: Doestoyevsky, Tolstoy (2), Garcia Marquez (2) Coelho one in German (Perfume by Susskind, maybe) and ..... cannot remember the other one.

                  Although I am sure many have been translated, certainly the adventures of H. Potter and F. Baggins

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                  • #10
                    Black Beauty

                    I see the Dianna people have made another pact
                    Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                    Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                    • #11
                      26 for me.

                      1984, George Orwell
                      Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
                      Animal Farm, George Orwell
                      Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
                      Catch 22, Joseph Heller
                      The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
                      Dune, Frank Herbert
                      Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
                      Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
                      Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
                      Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
                      Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
                      Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
                      Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
                      His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
                      The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
                      The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
                      The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
                      Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
                      The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
                      Matilda, Roald Dahl
                      Mort, Terry Pratchett
                      Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
                      One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
                      The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
                      Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
                      "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
                      "That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world

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                      • #12
                        Only 10, but I'm not british

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                        • #13
                          Stefu or somebody else, can you give me a brief rundown on Prachett? It seems like everybody here has read Prachett but me... and perhaps I should rectify that.

                          -Arrian
                          grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                          The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                          • #14
                            Basically, he writes humor fantasy (some say fantasy parody, but that's really not a good description - while there's certainly a strong amount of parody, parody makes us think of a work dependent upon another work and Discworld is a world that can stand on it's own merits). It's, um, good. Funny. Stuff like that. Just read it, dammit!

                            Basically, an easy way to get started is to read Wyrd Sisters and everything from then on in chronological order, possibly skipping Eric. Best Pratchett stuff, IMHO, comes between Lords and Ladies and Feet of Clay, but they will benefit from reading some of the earlier books.
                            At some point, you may want to read the first five books, too.
                            "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
                            "That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world

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                            • #15
                              Damn, how many books are there? Nevermind that, I can find out myself. Thanks for the info.

                              Humor Fantasy, maybe Parody...

                              Hmm.

                              -Arrian
                              grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                              The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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