More Miscellaneous

Probably everybody has had to read at least one of these books on the list of books not to read before one dies.

I read this article back in September but apparently never linked it on this blog. Here is the condensed list made up mostly of so-called classics:

1: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2: The Iliad -- Homer

3: War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

4: The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolff

5: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson

6: The Dice Man – Luke Reinhart

7: À la Recherche du Temps Perdu – Marcel Proust

8: For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

9: Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien

10: Ulysses – James Joyce


I don't know how anybody could possibly leave a Charles Dickens book off the list. I am thinking of Great Expectations, which was a great bore to me. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is another legendary stinker which made me swear off novels. I seldom read fiction, and I attribute that directly to having to read shit like the two books mentioned in high school and college.