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Amazon.com Best of the Millennium

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-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 09, 2000

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Browsing the first page & I noticed The Hobbit. I haven't read this one since I was a pre-teen. Time to dig through the bookshelves.

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 09, 2000.

Thanks Bingo! After looking through the list I think that it's time for me to go back and reread some Steinbeck and Fitzgerald.

-- fwiw (a@b.c), June 09, 2000.

Nope.

-- (can't read@or.spell), June 09, 2000.

Do you have someone who will read to you?

Are audiobooks an option?

Fluent in Braille?

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 09, 2000.

Tolkien lovers UNITE! Had you reproduced, Bingo, you would have introduced your children to "The Hobbit", which even had a record and a movie by the time my kids were ready, and then they'd go on to read the entire "Lord of the Rings" series and you could spend quiet evenings discussing Bilbo Baggins, Gollum, and "My precious!".

I've got a few books sitting around here that I haven't gotten to yet. I guess I spent so many years visiting the library and being consumed with reading the "dead tree" books that I now find my eyes tiring after many hours reading online. I was once as distracted by books as Eve. My public experience came when I was reading while walking and some constructions workers just barely caught my attention before I walked into some fresh cement they'd just poured.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), June 09, 2000.

Recently I was helping a friend move and found the Trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" in a corner of a closet. I hadn't read them in years. I asked if I could borrow them and I sat down and went to it. Needless to say it was as good this time around as the first time. Maybe more so since I'm older and more cynical. Tolkien created an amazing world. And so much detail! His descriptions made me want to escape there for awhile and try to help the quest. The other evening I stood for awhile with a sword in hand on the battlement of Minas Tirith as the darkness of Mordor crept like a dark cloak of evil over the land. But then I heard a voice yelling at me for not putting my dishes in the dishwasher and I was back to reality. After I finished the last book I began again with the first.

Also just finished "Lucifers Hammer". Recommended by fellow doomers from the old time bomb. Comet-Earth impact. Chilling.

-- Outta beer (East of the smoke stack@usa.here), June 09, 2000.

Many great books here, but maybe another classic yet to released in the next six months..you never can tell...

-- justa, (ponderin and@looking.ahead), June 09, 2000.

Interesting list of titles, I wonder if anyone cares to share their opinion on selection No. 19, "Left Behind", it may be the only one on the list that I never even heard of. Is it any good? The Amazon reviews never do much for me, and in this case reviewers seem to be painting it as a Christian novel.

No. 32, "Ender's Game" also sounds good and is an unknown to me.

Glas I was able to ras many of these titles B.C.....Before Cable.

Tolkien - everything her wrote, Fountainhead, Atlas, On the Road, these stories and characters gave us lots to talk about way back before Caddyshack and Stripes took over our minds.

QuietMan

-- QuietMan (quietjohn2k@hotmail.com), June 10, 2000.

Ender's Game and the rest of the Ender series is a must read, IMO. Orson Scott Card is a marvel. His ability to develop characters is remarkable - one of the best I've come across in the sci- fi/fantasy genre.

You may also wish to check out his Alvin Maker series. Captivating fantasy/alternative history.

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 10, 2000.

So many people recommended it to me, I'm sorry to say I didn't care for "Left Behind". It did have a Christian rapture theme..and there is an entire series of books that followed it..based on the apocolyspe and revelations. I just didn't capture my imagination the way I had hoped it would. However, those who recommended it loved it..so as always it comes down to personal likes..ya know.

I've read about half of these books, and I'm adding some of the ones I haven't gotten to yet onto my "to read" list. I've loved almost everything I've read by Thomas Harris, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Grisham and Crichton. I went through all the Tolstoys and Austins a few years back. Still waiting on Atlas Shrugged from the library!!

My mother read aloud to me massive novels and classics when I was barely old enough to understand them. (She was a sci-fi fan, so I heard a lot of Bradbury et al) and I do the same for my children. At the very least, they get a nightly synopsis of whatever it is I happen to be reading at the time. I love hearing "Did you read the next chapter? What happened next?"

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), June 10, 2000.

Left Behind came highly recommended to me by my supervisor. Hes looking for a way to save my soul. I read a few pages just last week  it opens with an unsaved airline pilot craving an illicit affair with a nubile flight attendant - & after laughing loudly for several minutes, closed the book.

My supervisor stated to me that anyone who reads these books, learns of the horrors awaiting those who refuse to accept JC as savior (yada, yada) deserves to go to hell. Good luck to non-Christians.

Sizzlin' Best!

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 10, 2000.

Let me try that line again:

My supervisor stated to me that anyone who reads these books, learns of the horrors awaiting those who refuse to accept JC as savior (yada, yada), and still shuns him, deserves to go to hell.

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 10, 2000.

Link of the day at refdesk.com: < a href=http://www.bibliomania.com/>

-- george (jones@choices.com), June 11, 2000.

Sorry, am link challenged..

-- george (jones@choices.com), June 11, 2000.

-- I'll (try link@link.com), June 11, 2000.

Thanks for an interesting thread, Bingo 1.

My favorites include Twain, Shakespeare, Rand, Frost (poetry), DeMaupassant, and Bradbury.

Here are two well-publicized lists of the greatest books of the century -- one of them through cast ballots (I hope the link works).

Greatest Books of the Century<

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), June 12, 2000.