10 Books Not To Read Before You Die.

**Shannon** · 09-18-2008, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Gingersnap

You can also manage a good life without being in the least familiar with anything written by Toni Morrison.

I managed to get through about 10 pages of Beloved. It was horrible.

**Gingersnap** · 09-18-2008, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Shannon

I managed to get through about 10 pages of Beloved. It was horrible.

The Bluest Eye - just awful. I don't even have blue eyes.

**Bubba Dawg** · 09-18-2008, 07:48 PM

I enjoyed The Lord of the Rings and the Iliad and the Odyssey.

I also really like Hunter Thompson.

**Bubba Dawg** · 09-18-2008, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by Eyelids

I love Fear and Loathing in LV, though Campaign Trail '72 is better.

I agree. I didn't much like the movie.

**Phillygirl** · 09-18-2008, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by NonConformist

I vehemently disagree w/ No2

I read it and enjoyed it!

I thought the same thing.

I would switch that with Beowulf. I might also throw in Don Quixote.

**Molon Labe** · 09-18-2008, 08:04 PM

I know I'll probably get killed by Ian for this but... Atlas Shrugged.

I would imagine it's a fantastic book, but I cannot seem to even finish Rand's, "The Fountainhead"...and Atlas is twice as long. I think something like 1200 pages...est. I just don't ever think I'll get to it until I'm retired.

**Gingersnap** · 09-18-2008, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Phillygirl

I thought the same thing.

I switch that with Beowulf.

Beowulf is quite a bit more stirring in the original, also, spookier. :D

**Bubba Dawg** · 09-18-2008, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Gingersnap

Beowulf is quite a bit more stirring in the original, also, spookier. :D

Seamus Heaney's translation is very good.

**Phillygirl** · 09-18-2008, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by Gingersnap

Beowulf is quite a bit more stirring in the original, also, spookier. :D

I don't care what language it's in...the damn thing sucked!!! Although apparently I was the only one in senior lit that preferred more of Shakespeare's sonnets. Or at least something uplifting like Emily Dickinson.

**Phillygirl** · 09-18-2008, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

I know I'll probably get killed by Ian for this but... Atlas Shrugged.

I would imagine it's a fantastic book, but I cannot seem to even finish Rand's, "The Fountainhead"...and Atlas is twice as long. I think something like 1200 pages...est. I just don't ever think I'll get to it until I'm retired.

I only read Anthem. That was enough for me.