tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post2626285933481942057..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Guardian's 1,000 Books You Must ReadPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-41529025775260488112009-07-31T15:21:01.470+01:002009-07-31T15:21:01.470+01:00Too many books to read.Too many books to read.Kennyhttp://kensingtonandchelsea.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-77391013448314769742009-02-22T22:10:00.000+00:002009-02-22T22:10:00.000+00:00I love irrelevant spam.I love irrelevant spam.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-46869838202923878312009-02-20T22:15:00.000+00:002009-02-20T22:15:00.000+00:00This is such a great articleName A Star In The Gal...This is such a great article<BR/><A HREF="http://name-a-star-in-the-galaxy-as-a-gift.co.cc" REL="nofollow">Name A Star In The Galaxy As A Gift</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87033861846590829052009-02-15T13:37:00.000+00:002009-02-15T13:37:00.000+00:00I don't know Skidders, are you sure The Chrysalids...I don't know Skidders, are you sure The Chrysalids (which is excellent, as is The Kraken Wakes) has had more of a cultural impact than the Triffids?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-31693986506705833122009-02-14T16:40:00.000+00:002009-02-14T16:40:00.000+00:00Starting from the end, I know nothing of Zola, I h...Starting from the end, I know nothing of Zola, I have a copy of "We" that I never really got into, I assume "Revolutionary Road" is the basis for the film of the same name that is said to have quite a hackneyed theme, and then we get to John Wyndham. Neither of the two listed novels is near as good as, or has the significance of "The Chrysalids", once again showing the gross inadequacy of the list format.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-68260495946706983282009-02-14T08:36:00.000+00:002009-02-14T08:36:00.000+00:00It is quite a list, I know, it took a bloody long ...It is quite a list, I know, it took a bloody long time for me to alphabetise it! So the least you can do is is go through the list ;)Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-59906142570187912362009-02-14T03:17:00.000+00:002009-02-14T03:17:00.000+00:00Wow, that is quite a list. It'd take me ages just ...Wow, that is quite a list. It'd take me ages just to get through reading it.<BR/><BR/>Though I tend to create my own list, which is long enough!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-56544332802781287612009-02-13T09:38:00.000+00:002009-02-13T09:38:00.000+00:00Nothing tragic about wanting to read them all! I'l...Nothing tragic about wanting to read them all! I'll probably have a bash at doing that some point down the line, but I doubt it'll be before I retire (assuming such a thing as retirement exists when I reach pensionable age!)Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-59199132287804416242009-02-13T07:11:00.000+00:002009-02-13T07:11:00.000+00:00104, and 1 that was read to me. I feel more shoul...104, and 1 that was read to me. I feel more should have been read to me. I think war and peace should count as more than one. I thought I'd have read about 40, so I am surprised, but actually what I have read isn't very varied. Tragically, I want to read them all. I feel I will be a better person. I read half of them when pregnant, when I should have been cleaning or working or sleeping. There are too many Brit books definitely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-11136281882685976322009-02-12T09:25:00.000+00:002009-02-12T09:25:00.000+00:00For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is mee...For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.Adam Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18155314207452345741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-74131576029116099202009-02-11T21:11:00.000+00:002009-02-11T21:11:00.000+00:00Just me being a grammatical fascist, Brigada. I gu...Just me being a grammatical fascist, Brigada. I guess Joyce was being naughty and flouting literary convention as per.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-82564610408671804502009-02-11T20:10:00.000+00:002009-02-11T20:10:00.000+00:00306 read but I was an English teacher for 30 years...306 read but I was an English teacher for 30 years and I really should get out more. [And does Proust count as one or 12? And 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is 12 volumes, too.] And there's NO apostrophe in 'Finnegans Wake'.Brigada Flores Magonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832555450198713371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-72009635063408432232009-02-11T16:46:00.000+00:002009-02-11T16:46:00.000+00:00You missed a handful from our bookcases (including...You missed a handful from our bookcases (including a couple my mother has of ours too):<BR/><BR/>Wieland, Postmortem, Jurassic Park, Just William, A Time To Kill, The Go-Between (can't believe you missed this one considering you bought a second copy by accident a few weeks ago), Lake Wobegon Days, Dolores Claiborne, Death and The Penguin, The Third Policeman, How The Dead Live, Black Beauty, and Trainspotting. <BR/><BR/>How very remiss of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-29103451488142795842009-02-11T12:10:00.000+00:002009-02-11T12:10:00.000+00:00Naturally we at Tendance Coatesy have read every o...Naturally we at Tendance Coatesy have read every one them - in the original language.<BR/><BR/>We are still raging, however, at the willful exclusion of the Epic of Gilgamesh: an absolute must in Akkadian, though the Hittite (old Kingdom) version is brilliant as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-22516551107596699222009-02-11T00:04:00.000+00:002009-02-11T00:04:00.000+00:00Phil,In the time it took you to format that list f...Phil,<BR/><BR/>In the time it took you to format that list for your post, you could have read a couple of the shorter novellas listed. ;-)Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-5827903987167811832009-02-10T22:52:00.000+00:002009-02-10T22:52:00.000+00:00Ad and Jac, looking back through this list I think...Ad and Jac, looking back through this list I think up until I started reading "properly" six years back, I think I only managed three on the list :)Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61572050069664966892009-02-10T16:49:00.000+00:002009-02-10T16:49:00.000+00:00Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout:Venus on ...Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout:<BR/>Venus on the Half-Shell was first published in two parts beginning in the December 1974 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It is a science fiction novel attributed to the fictional author Kilgore Trout but actually written by Philip José Farmer. Kilgore Trout is a recurring character of many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut and this book was first mentioned as a fictional work in his novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965).[From Wikipedia]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-77708260431565764682009-02-10T16:40:00.000+00:002009-02-10T16:40:00.000+00:00As a literature graduate, I've only managed 38, 3 ...As a literature graduate, I've only managed 38, 3 of which I didn't quite finish, but included because I'd read more than half of. Fair, no? Just because I didn't read the last page, doesn't mean I didn't spend hours of my precious time on them, or get anything out of them. I can't begin to tell you what some of the ones I've completed are even about.Alahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04230003987828854884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-12483916514850526032009-02-10T15:57:00.000+00:002009-02-10T15:57:00.000+00:00OK. I went through the list, and here are my total...OK. I went through the list, and here are my totals:<BR/><BR/>Read: 139<BR/>Saw the Movie: 71<BR/>Didn't read but would like to: 24<BR/><BR/>I didn't make a column for "read but can remember hardly anything about" nor for "read and wish I hadn't wasted my time." <BR/><BR/>I also noted that there were only 998 books (I copied the list and pasted it to Excel). But the multiples --like Dance to the Music and Dark Materials -- more than make up for it. I gave myself credit for Proust even though it's listed as the whole damn thing, and I've read only Swann's Way. And in some places, I found myself saying, "Well I didn't read that one, but I read a different one by that author that was better."Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-53871039533672114262009-02-10T14:58:00.000+00:002009-02-10T14:58:00.000+00:00i was afraid i won't reach 50 books, but i've hit ...i was afraid i won't reach 50 books, but i've hit some 80... and there are some books which sounded so familiar, but i cannot remember anything about them... and yes, the list is anglo-saxon, but my main complaint is that it's not politically correct towards academics! (*joke*). where's aristotle, plato, foucault, kant, heidegger, sartre??? those would have boosted my record considerably... ;)thinkingdifferencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04793349270097291638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-43554553562789648112009-02-10T14:36:00.000+00:002009-02-10T14:36:00.000+00:00pretty anglo- and euro-centric the list (I miss e....pretty anglo- and euro-centric the list (I miss e.g. Miguel Ángel Asturias, Christa Wolf, Stefan Heym, Panait Istrati, Ivo Andrić, Michail Lermontow, Juri Rytcheu, Albert Wendt ...) ... but a similar list in a french or german daily wouldn't be much betterEntdinglichunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06100559259654777563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33544589153747858392009-02-10T14:21:00.000+00:002009-02-10T14:21:00.000+00:00"Whereas you should have avoided Q all along..."Yo..."Whereas you should have avoided Q all along..."<BR/><BR/>You don't remember the late 90s. It was that or NME and/or late night Radio One. We've come a long way.Adam Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18155314207452345741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-34058625096518035662009-02-10T14:09:00.000+00:002009-02-10T14:09:00.000+00:00Mine is 170 I've read from that list. Probably sho...Mine is 170 I've read from that list. <BR/><BR/>Probably shows what an utter sad harpy-no-mates geeky should-get-out-more kinda bolsie feminist I am/was...Read most of those bks as a teenager... <BR/><BR/>And....I knew crime fiction would have its purposes as what pushed up my score was the Chandler, Christie, Dexter, Hammett, Highsmith, PD James, Paretsky, Rankin, Rendel and Dorothy L Sayers, Barbara Vine.. Amazed that 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish' was on there and that bk has been made twice into film (under different names).<BR/><BR/>And Colin MacInnes, 'Absolute Beginners' takes me back to my misspent as in too well behaved yoof.....!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-48682210483425652702009-02-10T14:06:00.000+00:002009-02-10T14:06:00.000+00:00Roobin:Whereas you should have avoided Q all along...Roobin:<BR/><BR/>Whereas you should have avoided Q all along because it's full of dreary dadrock and always has been.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-90874996013879104122009-02-10T14:04:00.001+00:002009-02-10T14:04:00.001+00:00A friend of mine has "1001 albums...". I found tha...A friend of mine has "1001 albums...". I found that Hawkwind was the first case where it was bound to fall down, as they never had more than a couple of good tracks on any one album.<BR/><BR/>Two Le Guin entries, one obviously missing.A little more nitpicking :Bester's "The Demolished Man" is more unmissable than "The Stars My Destination". On crime a Lawrence Block novel would have been nice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com