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Title: The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Clive on October 13, 2003, 22:26

The Guardian

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html)


I have to confess that I have only read 9 out of the hundred, and most of those was when I fairly young.

2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Simon on October 13, 2003, 22:33

I should be ashamed to say, apart from half of Lord Of The Rings, and at school, To Kill A Mockingbird, I haven't read any of them!   ;D ;D  Where was Animal Farm, and Of Mice And Men?

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Michelle on October 13, 2003, 22:51

am ashamed too, I love reading and I've read one of those lol

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Clive on October 13, 2003, 22:59

But which one Michelle?

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Lona on October 14, 2003, 01:54

I've read quite a few of them

Wuthering Heights
Jekyll and Hyde
Lolita
Alice in Wonderland
Call of the Wild
Jane Eyre
David Copperfield

No Harold Robbins then  ;)

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Barra on October 14, 2003, 06:05

16 for me :)
Plus I've watched a few of them on tv! ;)Saves reading.
I really must get out more :(
Where's all the horror wtiters- Stephen King,Dean Kootz,James Herbert,Phil Rickman(very underated english writer-novels set in the pennines) ???

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Michelle on October 14, 2003, 08:04

I meant only out of clive's 9 I hadn't gone to the website yet. :lol:

Still I've only read 6 out of the 100

The BFG  ;D
Lord of the Rings
Emma
Wind in the willows
David Copperfield
Jane Eyre

Yeah and a few seen on tv.

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Michelle on October 14, 2003, 08:05

oh and Wuthering Heights didn't see that before I saw lona's post  ;)

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Robotochan on October 14, 2003, 11:25

I haven't read any of them. The most difficult books I have read are The Time Machine and The Wasp Factory

Title: Re:The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
Post by: Lona on October 14, 2003, 16:36

Quote from: Robotochan on October 14, 2003, 11:25

I haven't read any of them. The most difficult books I have read are The Time Machine and The Wasp Factory

You'll have to read more,Robo, then you will learn how to spell.  ;D ;) ;D. My son doesn't read either, has higher English, and can't spell either.  :o