tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post526246084603661245..comments2024-01-06T00:28:45.062+08:00Comments on Bibliobibuli: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read ... But Sez Who??bibliobibulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-14568830012106631452009-01-29T09:42:00.000+08:002009-01-29T09:42:00.000+08:00And another thing Sharon...I am happy that Monsoon...And another thing Sharon...<BR/><BR/>I am happy that Monsoon is publishing Frederick Lee's Trilogy. Freddie is cock-a-hoop about that and I am cock-a-hooping about that too. "Fool's Gold" deserves to be published 'wholeheartedly' this time as I think its place is up there alongside Burgess' Trilogy ;¬)Awang Gonenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893937987435850954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-74898097927899725822009-01-29T09:20:00.000+08:002009-01-29T09:20:00.000+08:00Hi Preeta,My copy of yours awaits your signature, ...Hi Preeta,<BR/><BR/>My copy of yours awaits your signature, with my misspelt name and all (private joke). Yes, I've been poring through the Grauniad list too; quelle formidable! An education in itself.<BR/><BR/>Thanks Sharon for this space. Power to your elbow! Hi Yo Silver...Awang Gonenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893937987435850954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-878848216389716062009-01-24T12:01:00.000+08:002009-01-24T12:01:00.000+08:001984 is definitely a must read. Hopefully no coun...1984 is definitely a must read. Hopefully no country would ever need to resort to that kind of torture.Josettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398849417612962089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-70943820529526066852009-01-19T11:56:00.000+08:002009-01-19T11:56:00.000+08:00You are right who says we ought to have read them?...You are right who says we ought to have read them? There are many more I could add to this list.<BR/><BR/>These I've read.<BR/><BR/>100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein<BR/><BR/>98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore<BR/><BR/>97 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams<BR/><BR/>96 One Thousand and One Nights Anon<BR/><BR/>94 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie<BR/><BR/>93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré<BR/><BR/>87 On the Road by Jack Kerouac<BR/><BR/>86 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac<BR/><BR/>85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal<BR/><BR/>84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas<BR/><BR/>83 Germinal by Emile Zola<BR/><BR/>82 The Stranger by Albert Camus<BR/><BR/>81The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco<BR/><BR/>78 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll<BR/><BR/>77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller<BR/><BR/>76 The Trial by Franz Kafka<BR/><BR/>75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee<BR/><BR/>74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan<BR/><BR/>68 Crash by JG Ballard<BR/><BR/>66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<BR/><BR/>63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson<BR/><BR/>62 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift<BR/><BR/>60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez<BR/><BR/>57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse<BR/><BR/>56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass<BR/><BR/>54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov<BR/><BR/>52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger<BR/><BR/>49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<BR/><BR/>47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera<BR/><BR/>44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre<BR/><BR/>43 The Rabbit books by John Updike <BR/><BR/>42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<BR/><BR/>41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle<BR/><BR/>38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald<BR/><BR/>36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo<BR/><BR/>35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis<BR/><BR/>34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler<BR/><BR/>28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding<BR/><BR/>27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley<BR/><BR/>25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins<BR/><BR/>24 Ulysses by James Joyce<BR/><BR/>23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<BR/><BR/>22 A Passage to India by EM Forster<BR/><BR/>21 1984 by George Orwell<BR/><BR/>19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells<BR/><BR/>18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh<BR/><BR/>16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene<BR/><BR/>15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse<BR/><BR/><BR/>13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens<BR/><BR/>12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust<BR/><BR/>5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad<BR/><BR/><BR/>3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy<BR/><BR/>2 Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleMartin Bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02383493547993782756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-77583968360406750622009-01-19T07:44:00.000+08:002009-01-19T07:44:00.000+08:00oh yes preeta - am going to blog the guardian list...oh yes preeta - am going to blog the guardian lists too :-Dbibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-22884346883985090812009-01-19T06:42:00.000+08:002009-01-19T06:42:00.000+08:00Bib -See that's the whole problem. Reading _should...Bib -<BR/><BR/>See that's the whole problem. Reading _shouldn't_ involve stamina. People should not be aware of book length at all (except to think "that was too short.."). If you have to pick up a book and force yourself to read it, what's the point? just to say you've read it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-69558778769967084802009-01-19T00:52:00.000+08:002009-01-19T00:52:00.000+08:00Green apples? That's very Anne of Green Gables, C...Green apples? That's very Anne of Green Gables, Chet :-) . In my case it was ALWAYS jeruk/assam (you can still find the empty packets/wrappers from these contraband items stashed between the pages of certain books at our house. Every now and then one of the wrappers falls out and my mother says once again, "So you mean you all were eating this rubbish all the time ah?!?").<BR/><BR/>Now the Guardian is doing a list of the ONE THOUSAND books everyone should read. Choose your list according to your projected lifespan, I guess :-) . But the interesting thing about the Guardian list is that it's organised by category -- the first category, in 3 parts, was love stories, and I was glad to note several of my favourite novels of all time on there (Waterland, Oscar and Lucinda, Atonement, The Go-Between....).<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-10977205770623240132009-01-18T19:07:00.000+08:002009-01-18T19:07:00.000+08:00Cameron Highlands, Bib? the last time I was therem...Cameron Highlands, Bib? the last time I was therem they wind was howling, you could see your breath condense, and there was a fire. <BR/><BR/>And Pratchett should be there. And Herriot. Europen bias is right, where are all the American classics ? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-5876695781679030032009-01-17T23:21:00.000+08:002009-01-17T23:21:00.000+08:00My favourite childhood reading memory is a book, a...My favourite childhood reading memory is a book, a green apple, a dish of salt and the rain outside.Chethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743260318771644192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-43485346534662525802009-01-17T22:55:00.000+08:002009-01-17T22:55:00.000+08:00shalyzad - agree entirely about reading needing st...shalyzad - agree entirely about reading needing stamina. i think you may need to build that stamina up by readings shorter, but still satisfying reads. why not take a list of the titles suggested for <A HREF="http://www.neabigread.org/books.php" REL="nofollow">america's "big read" programme</A>? it would be good to get hold of <A HREF="http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2007/04/little-books-with-big-mission.html" REL="nofollow">some of the books in the quick reads series</A> and of course short stories are also great. good luck with your reading in english and i'd love to know how you get on. <BR/><BR/>sham - my bookshelves are my tbr list and shouting at me!<BR/><BR/>robert - i miss those winter evenings with the rain or wind howling outside while you sit cosily by the fireside with a nice thick book to enjoy.bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-813416993589056872009-01-17T21:56:00.000+08:002009-01-17T21:56:00.000+08:0040% not too bad! Was glad to see a few old friend...40% not too bad! Was glad to see a few old friends made it, like David Copperfield, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby, books that made me want to be a writer. I have quite a few others on my bookshelves patiently waiting to be read, but my reading fiction took a serious nosedive since moving to Sarawak.<BR/><BR/>I'm a slow reader, too (they say most of us read at the 7th grade level (age 13); but what I have done consistently since moving here is read one hour a day, often in 20-30 minute snatches, and it's that day in day out consistency that has translated into 100 books in two years. Imagine what you can read in two hours a day with the occasional marathon 3-5 hour session (hadn't had one of those since my my last two boys were born). But like Sharon, I take a book with me when I know I have to stand in line or wait, even when I take a child to the clinic. <BR/><BR/>To curl up to a good book on a raining/snowy evening - ah, did a lot of that during my bachelor days, when I read many of those books on that list! And also while traveling, backpacking! <BR/><BR/>Thanks, SharonBorneo Expat Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15657806224924444058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-68096861853512655872009-01-17T21:19:00.000+08:002009-01-17T21:19:00.000+08:00I think I may have compiled a list of lists at som...I think I may have compiled a list of lists at some point...sadly am just attempting to complete what sits on my to be read bookshelf. And Sharon, everytime I pop by, I turn greedy and find an insane need to borrow MORE books.....it's an addictive habit.<BR/>Am reading house of sleep by Johnathan Coe at the moment....no zzzzzzzzz s at all!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10895876005191623758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-25442165761630392942009-01-17T15:25:00.000+08:002009-01-17T15:25:00.000+08:00Hi sharon, thanks a million for your respond and a...Hi sharon, thanks a million for your respond and appreciate it very much . I admire your consistency and steadfastness for the love of books. Your blog is one of my favourite, like it so much bcoz there are so many links. <BR/><BR/>Actually I'm fan of malay literature, my idol are Pak Samad Said and Pak Arena Wati. Sure you had read any of their english translation version. Im still an infant in reading and writing<BR/>in english, it started when i got awed to some of local english writer's work namely Salleh Ben Joned and Karim Raslam.<BR/><BR/>Books i read always ended half way, mostly quarter way. But i love book very much and sumtimes solely bought it just for collections. Just like marathon runner, reading book also demand you some stamina, rite? Hope i can read and write more, even until now, i still need dictionary besides me(bcoz of poor english vocab). <BR/><BR/>Again, thanks sharon for ur guide, feel honoured by that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-57185968344945531892009-01-17T12:47:00.000+08:002009-01-17T12:47:00.000+08:00such lists are always fun to read but really what ...such lists are always fun to read but really what do they show? My hundred would include quite a few not listed here.<BR/><BR/>http://christopherwillardnovelist.blogspot.com/Christopher Willardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12030530919226767487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-4991884599342481982009-01-17T09:39:00.000+08:002009-01-17T09:39:00.000+08:00shalyzad - i'm not a fast reader and seem to be sl...shalyzad - i'm not a fast reader and seem to be slower than ever. one good (by my tastes!) book a week is the pace i aim for. i've slowed down now i think because i tend to do a lot of rereading, making notes for review and comments on the blog (i've a lot of notes to add here, in case anyone was wondering why i haven't talked about books read for a while). i also find now that i am reading several books at the same time because i get sent so many things, so some don't get finished ...<BR/><BR/>*sigh* i'm putting my own pleasure first and not apologising for my slowness<BR/><BR/>but i can read fast if that's what i set out to do - some books i've skim read in an hour or two, but that was to get the gist, not to enjoy them<BR/><BR/>i think many readers who struggle have problems with their basic reading skills and this is something one hopes schools would help them over ... but it doesn't always seem to happen (here or elsewhere)<BR/><BR/>so what kind of reader are you?<BR/><BR/>and as for finding the time to read - i always carry a book with me and find space in the day. a couple of days back i was at immigration and managed a lot of reading in the time it took my number to be called. (i looked round and although there were hundreds of people there, no-one else had a book!) i read on the lrt, on buses, on flights. i read during coffee breaks and if i'm eating alone. i squeeze that time in. (can't read in bed though - a few lines then ZZZZZ)bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-67351082810772522282009-01-17T07:43:00.000+08:002009-01-17T07:43:00.000+08:00hi sharon, what is need to be avid reader? Just wo...hi sharon, what is need to be avid reader? Just wonder how u find and manage time to read, how long u took to read a book ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-67591957590643937032009-01-17T07:17:00.000+08:002009-01-17T07:17:00.000+08:00kOk - plenty of time, you spring chicken you!ena -...kOk - plenty of time, you spring chicken you!<BR/><BR/>ena - want to reread "the great gatsby" - read it so long ago ...bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-13139973472561076202009-01-17T02:08:00.000+08:002009-01-17T02:08:00.000+08:00@anonymous: I enjoyed LotR's style of prose a lot ...@anonymous: I enjoyed LotR's style of prose a lot actually, and have read the book cover to cover at least 5 times. Well, as with all works of literature - your mileage may vary.<BR/><BR/>I only covered 10%. Then again, I'm only 22 yrs old.k0k s3n w4ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09564727389837796019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-63194980072953482122009-01-17T00:52:00.000+08:002009-01-17T00:52:00.000+08:00i love lace..scruples....wish there are more of th...i love lace..scruples....wish there are more of those kind of books nowdays,or have i miss them?<BR/>i have read some books on the list..and i love the great gatsby/catcher in the rye the best!enar arshadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07268658824807108992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-87389533925391885042009-01-16T23:27:00.000+08:002009-01-16T23:27:00.000+08:00agree preeta. and yes telekom did investigate the...agree preeta. and yes telekom did investigate the last time i made a complaint. although they did not contact me directly, i could see from my site meter that they had visited the posts on my blog. more than anything bloggers have to be aware that this can happen - and in malaysia YOU are responsible for the comments on your blog.bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-52500104193256429432009-01-16T23:14:00.000+08:002009-01-16T23:14:00.000+08:00Sharon, by the way, I came across that frightening...Sharon, by the way, I came across that frightening comment on another blog. I'm glad you reported the IP address and I really, really hope Telekom takes your report seriously. Do you think they will, or do you know what should be done next if they don't? It gave me a real scare to read the comment, and I have to think that if there's one person saying these things, there must be others, and it's not something we should take lightly.<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-72023367890281644222009-01-16T21:11:00.000+08:002009-01-16T21:11:00.000+08:00Where's The Thorn Birds on the list? And Scruples,...Where's The Thorn Birds on the list? And Scruples, and Lace...<BR/><BR/>:-) <BR/><BR/>- PoppadumdumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-70967235989484408662009-01-16T19:40:00.000+08:002009-01-16T19:40:00.000+08:00AWANG GONENG! So lovely to see you here, yes yes ...AWANG GONENG! So lovely to see you here, yes yes yes. But you lie, you lie shamelessly and you know it :-) . You read way more than Tin Tin and Thurber and Wodehouse (though those are fine choices). Come on, stop being modest!<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-64832101756676536922009-01-16T18:50:00.000+08:002009-01-16T18:50:00.000+08:00LOL! well i was certainly fooled!how lovely to he...LOL! well i was certainly fooled!<BR/><BR/>how lovely to hear from you!bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-11019566785878872602009-01-16T18:47:00.000+08:002009-01-16T18:47:00.000+08:00What hope is there for a person like me who reads ...What hope is there for a person like me who reads only Tin Tin and the occasional Thurber and Wodehouse? I once made an appointment to meet Herge, but alas, before I arrived, the poor man died. Shocked to death, c'est possible?<BR/><BR/>I must, I must one day sit down and read all those books that I claimed to have read.Awang Gonenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893937987435850954noreply@blogger.com