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1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 6, all from the 1900s. I'm getting worse, not better! 😅
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list6
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag if you want.

EVERYONE is tagged; ALL are welcome. 🤗

Bookwormjillk I thought I would get better at these but only 7 🤦‍♀️ 2h

shortsarahrose 5 - pretty good considering the only “required reading” book for school on the list was To Kill a Mockingbird. Several others on the list are on my TBR but I haven‘t gotten to them yet. 1h

Amor4Libros 1! 😂 100 Years of Solitude 59m

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller | Oliver Darkshire

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I must confess, I borrowed this from Libby under the impression that it was going to be a cozy fantasy novel (I was looking for Isabelle Nagg and the pot of basil) BUT in some respects this worked out very well because this was completely delightful and I probably would have passed it by if I‘d stopped to read the blurb.

This is a collection of anecdotes from Oliver‘s time working as a antiquarian bookseller in London.

BooksandCoffee4Me Oooooh, I‘m going to add it! 2d

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shanaqui

The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages | Sara J. Charles

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Lots of illustrations, actually in colour too despite being in-line rather than those glossy sheafs of inserted images. I didn't love the snippets of fiction introducing each chapter; I understand their utility for some, but ugh, just get to the facts!

Most interesting fact: we don't think there really was an individual “scriptorium“ in most institutions. Book production probably just happened in cloisters.

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kelli7990

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

1. 1984 - I read this book in high school. I didn‘t really like it.
2. The Catcher In The Rye - This book was okay but I didn‘t really care for it.
3. Lord Of The Flies - I didn‘t like this book when I read it.
4. The Lord Of The Rings - I really enjoyed reading the books and watching the movies. I read the books first and then watched the movies. I liked The Hobbit too. The best part is that it‘s a finished book series.

#threelistthursday

dabbe

melissajayne I read Lord of the Flies 10 years apart and both times I didn‘t like it 6d

dabbe LORD OF THE FLIES is a difficult book to like. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 5d

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DGRachel

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

Abysmal. Hemingway and high school assignments were four of the five. Lord of the Flies is disturbing, but is one of my favorites from this list. (So disturbing). Fun fact - I have been grumbling at most of these lists because The Quiet American is the only Graham Greene they usually list and it isn‘t the one I‘ve read. Only, I just checked The StoryGraph and apparently I read it in 2021 and just didn‘t like it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe

dabbe That is hysterical! And I'll be happy when we're done with this list. I need to find lists that better support what we love to read. I still can't believe I didn't even recognize 72 of these! 🤣 #abysmalindeedy Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 6d

DGRachel @dabbe I think I only recognized maybe 10 from this list and that includes the ones I‘ve read. This list was 🤨 6d

dabbe @DGRachel 🎯🩵🎯 6d

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BarbaraJean

The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel

“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

Bookwomble I need to read this book. Ironically, it sits unread on one of my shelves! 😄 6d

BarbaraJean @Bookwomble 😂 It has unlimited patience! It will wait for you! 6d

charl08 Love this book. Due a reread. 6d

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Liz_M

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

I own an edition of this book and have used it as a checklist for more than a decade and i still didn't recognize all the books on the list. 😂

It's not necessarily we're not “well-read“ but rather a specific effort was made to create an international list so, for example, it includes classics from Scandinavian countries that are not well-known elsewhere.

Three books I don't remember reading:
The Roots of Heaven
The Guiltless
Death Sentence

kspenmoll Wowza!!!! 7d

RaeLovesToRead 90?! 🤯🤯🤯 Even with the book as a guide, that is really impressive!!! 7d

Liz_M @RaeLovesToRead So, sorry to disappoint you, but most of these books DO exist. 😆🤓 7d

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Liz_M @kspenmoll Thank you! I'm going to be at a complete loss once I decide I'm done with this list. 7d

TheBookHippie How much do you have to go yet ?? 7d

BarbaraBB You‘re my hero! I wonder if this 10% who apparently read more than you, do exist! Where can I take the quiz by the way? 7d

dabbe Beyond W🤩WZA! Has this book been your major book guide for the last decade? Thanks for the 3 not to read, too! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @BarbaraBB The lists are coming from me and #threelistthursday. If you want to follow me, they'll show up in your feed every week. If not, I'll gladly provide the links when you want them. 😊
Here's today's: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list5 7d

BarbaraBB @dabbe Thanks so much! Don‘t I follow you???? Must change that immediately 🤍 7d

BarbaraBB I read 58! Not bad but you‘re so far ahead of me 😀 7d

Liz_M @BarbaraBB The quiz stats are a little wonky -- both TheBookHippie & I are ranked #1 Also, how can it rank a person as #1 and then say 5% of users did better?!?? 🙃

58 is a lot! You read so much more than me and read way more TOB and prize-list books than me. 🌟 6d

Liz_M @TheBookHippie I've read about 980 books (sometimes I count half-completed books, sometimes I don't) from the 1318 books in all the various editions of this list. . 6d

TheBookHippie @Liz_M you‘re getting there!!! 🙃 it‘s fun to follow a list. 6d

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie Are you reading the list too? 6d

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB Nope. I didn‘t even know about it 🤣 6d

dabbe @BarbaraBB 😍 6d

dabbe @BarbaraBB #woohooyou!!! I am not surprised one bit! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 6d

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie and you read all of those 👌🏽 6d

BarbaraBB @dabbe Thanks for organizing ❤️❤️ 6d

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB School. 🤣😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♀️ 6d

dabbe @BarbaraBB YW! I need to find other lists, so if you know of any, let me know! You're a major book guru! 😍 6d

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie I‘m in awe! 6d

BarbaraBB @dabbe The 1001 list has been my guide for years. I have been neglecting it for the past few years but it‘s the mother list 🥰. What about Booker lists? 6d

dabbe @BarbaraBB Ooh, excellent idea! You've read lots of those, right? I look to you when you post things about them. I'll check it out! 😍 6d

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB it‘s fun to talk about now 🤣😉 2h

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dabbe

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

I S.U.C.K.! For the first time, I actually counted how many books I actually recognized: only 28/100! That means I have never even heard of 72 of them! 😱 Of the nine I actually read, here are three faves:
1. THE LONG GOOD-BYE: love Philip Marlowe and Chandler.
2. THE GO-BETWEEN: beautifully written, reminded me of ATONEMENT (though this one came first).
3. THE LORD OF THE RINGS. #ofcourse

peaKnit I‘ve heard of 14! Read 6…oof. lol 7d

ChaoticMissAdventures I don't think it is you. We are all big readers and many of us are in the book world. I think a lot of these if we looked are not even being published any longer and so by default did not hold up across generations 7d

RaeLovesToRead I love how these lists are so obscure we are now doing marks for recognised haha 7d

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RaeLovesToRead RIGHT. I'M GOING IN. (Wish me luck...) 7d

RaeLovesToRead I've read 8. But I maintain that quite a lot of the books on this list are made up and don't actually exist. 7d

kspenmoll I have only read 9. Favs: Excellent Woman, Barbara Pym, The quiet American, Graham Greene, If This pis a Man, Primo Levi 7d

dabbe @peaKnit Right there with ya! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures I also think it's because a lot of them are from all over the world, and at least in my case, I pretty much read American/Brit lit. It's rather challenging to find decent translations as well. 7d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead I had to do SOMETHING to make us feel a wee better! 🤣 7d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead 🎯🤣🎯 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @kspenmoll Three more for the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

Read4life I‘m consistent. Consistently BAD!!! Just 6 that I‘ve read and 19 that I‘ve heard of before. 😳 6d

dabbe @Read4life I'm with ya, sista! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 6d

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dabbe

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 5, all from the 1900s. I'm getting worse, not better! 😅
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list5
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag if you want.

EVERYONE is tagged; ALL are welcome. 🤗

willaful 9. Fav is Lord of the Rings. I thought The Floating Opera was awful but I may have been too young for it. Want to read Brideshead Revisited and a Town Called Alice. 1w

dabbe @willaful The #hashtagbrigade will be reading BRIDESHEAD this September if you'd like to join us! I want to read that one, too. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💙 1w

Librarybelle Ha! I read 3 on the list. Many titles I‘m unfamiliar with…yikes! 7d

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shortsarahrose Read 6, have seen the movie for two others I haven‘t read (Zorba the Greek and Doctor Zhivago). I actually feel like I had heard of a decent amount and read more than previous lists, but I think we‘re in a time period that I know more about. LOTR is the favorite I‘ve read, though 1984 was also good. 7d

RaeLovesToRead I maintain that despite my consistently rubbish scores on these, I AM A WELL READ INDIVIDUAL 🤣🤣 7d

dabbe @Librarybelle I didn't know 72 OF THEM!!! 😱 #yikesindeedy Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @shortsarahrose LOTR's one of my faves, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead You ARE!!! I promise to find better lists once we're done with this one! Ones that include literature we're all better acquainted with! 😍 7d

RaeLovesToRead @dabbe I'm good with the back catalogue of Harlan Coben hehe 😆 7d

Amor4Libros I got 1: Giovanni‘s Room and I read it last year! 🤣 7d

melissajayne 8; A Town Like Alice is one of my favourites 7d

suvata I got 19. Never even heard of most of them. 7d

MonicaLoves2Read 2 both read in high school. 1984 and Catcher in the Rye 7d

Bookwormjillk I got 8. It‘s been a while but I remember liking Cry, The Beloved Country 7d

Amiable Yikes! I‘m just going to throw in another recommendation for

A Town Like Alice

Texreader Three! And proud of it! 🤣 7d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead 🤣😍🤣 7d

dabbe @Amor4Libros And that's one I have yet to read! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @melissajayne Now on the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @suvata 🎯🩵🎯 You kicked my sorry butt! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @MonicaLoves2Read Same, well, sorta. 1st read of CATCHER was in high school; I taught it for years as a teacher, too. I was lucky enough to read 1984 my freshman year in college during the year 1984. Reagan was presdient, so we thought it jived pretty closely with the book. 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @Bookwormjillk 🎯🩵🎯! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

dabbe @Amiable Moving up on the TBR! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 7d

Dragon I just got 9 😂❤️🐉. My favourites of the 9 were Brideshead Revisited, The End of The Affair and Lord of the Rings 7d

DGRachel Missed this yesterday. Off to see how horribly I do…😂😂 6d

dabbe @Dragon You and I tied! #greatminds! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 6d

dabbe @DGRachel May the force be with you! ✨ 6d

Dragon 🙌❤️🐉 6d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've read 7 of these. Favorites were LOTR, Bonjour Tristesse (more for the sense of place than story) , & Giovanni's Room. I've slowly been working through the short stories that comprise The Burning Plain, but it's not included in the total read. I disliked Zorba the Greek. I've heard of 41 of these, though I'd be hard pressed to tell you what they are about. I might explore some of these lists & add some to my TBR. It is a diverse list. 6d

dabbe @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Boy is it! You've given me more for the TBR, too. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 6d

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BarbaraJean

The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel

“…multinational companies have ensured that, on the one hand, users will not protest against being turned into consumers, since they are supposedly "in control" of cyberspace; and that, on the other hand, they will be prevented from learning anything profound, whether about themselves, their immediate surroundings or the rest of the world. Commenting in 2004 on the usefulness of the Web as a creative tool, the celebrated American comic-strip ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d)…artist Will Eisner explained that, when he first discovered this electronic medium, he believed it to be an almost magical source of new artistic inventions, but that of late it had become “merely a supermarket to which consumers come to look for the cheapest possible product.”

This sleight of hand is achieved, every time a reader locks onto the Web, by stressing velocity over reflection and brevity over complexity, preferring ⤵️ (edited) 1w

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …snippets of news and bytes of facts over lengthy discussions and elaborate dossiers, and by diluting informed opinion with reams of inane babble, ineffectual advice, inaccurate facts and trivial information, made attractive with brand names and manipulated statistics.” 1w

BarbaraJean Ooof. This was published in 2006, and I think it‘s MORE accurate today than it was then. 🙁 1w

lil1inblue 😨 😨 😨 1w

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