Beerball Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 How many have you read? Mrs. BB has read 50 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I didn't see any Dr. Seuss books. Should Green Eggs and Ham be on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I didn't see any Dr. Seuss books. Should Green Eggs and Ham be on there? I thought I saw The Cat and the Hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I thought I saw The Cat and the Hat. Your right I missed that while scanning the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) 37 for me. It's obviously a matter of subjectivity, but I have one complaint. If only a small handful of playwrights make that list, nothing by Tennessee Williams should be present. Where's Arthur Miller? Edited July 18, 2012 by SageAgainstTheMachine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 pfft....i couldn't be bothered to read that list...that should give an indication of how many of the books i have read....although i have read alcholics anonymous a bunch of times...cracks me up each time i read it.... How many have you read? Mrs. BB has read 50 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 7. Wow. I wish I enjoyed reading like I did in my childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 21 Pleased to see Shilts made the list - excellent book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhg Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Guess I have some reading to do...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 30 Nice list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 24 for me. 37 for me. It's obviously a matter of subjectivity, but I have one complaint. If only a small handful of playwrights make that list, nothing by Tennessee Williams should be present. Where's Arthur Miller? I would have voted for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a devastating read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternOHBillsFan Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) Worthy of removal from the list: "American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons (1796) "The American Woman's Home" by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869) "And the Band Played On" by Randy Shilts (1987) "Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987) "Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger (1914) "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin (1963) "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (1947) "Harriet, the Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford (1901) "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956) "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845) "Peter Parley's Universal History" by Samuel Goodrich (1837) "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett (1929) "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey (1912) "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats (1962) "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams (1923) "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert E. Heinlein (1961) "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943) "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes (1925) "The Words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez (2002) Many of these are revisionist takes on what shaped America, unfortunately. I sincerely doubt those I have chosen had a tremendous impact during the periods they were published and read. "The Words of Cesar Chavez" is really embarrassing as an addition. To not include Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt or Francis Parkman is an utter joke.... no The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, are you serious???? The Oregon Trail and Winning the West should be included also!!!!! Where is Edgar Allan Poe? Another mind-boggling omission. Edited July 18, 2012 by BmoreBills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Worthy of removal from the list: "American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons (1796) "The American Woman's Home" by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869) "And the Band Played On" by Randy Shilts (1987) "Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987) "Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger (1914) "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin (1963) "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (1947) "Harriet, the Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford (1901) "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956) "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845) "Peter Parley's Universal History" by Samuel Goodrich (1837) "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett (1929) "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey (1912) "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats (1962) "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams (1923) "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert E. Heinlein (1961) "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943) "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes (1925) "The Words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez (2002) Many of these are revisionist takes on what shaped America, unfortunately. I sincerely doubt those I have chosen had a tremendous impact during the periods they were published and read. "The Words of Cesar Chavez" is really embarrassing as an addition. To not include Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt or Francis Parkman is an utter joke.... no The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, are you serious???? The Oregon Trail and Winning the West should be included also!!!!! Where is Edgar Allan Poe? Another mind-boggling omission. Howl wasn't significant when it was published?? Now, I personally think Ginsberg was a pretentious hack, but that thing was a whirlwind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Howl wasn't significant when it was published?? Now, I personally think Ginsberg was a pretentious hack, but that thing was a whirlwind. Toni Morrison is one of the finest American novelists around. American Cookery is just damn fascinating- and it is part of our history. The Weary Blues is a great read by an important early black poet. To each their own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternOHBillsFan Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) Howl wasn't significant when it was published?? Now, I personally think Ginsberg was a pretentious hack, but that thing was a whirlwind. There are very few books written by Americans that have had more impact than Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. To not include it and to include the others that I listed before it is a travesty. Appearing at a time when Japan and the nations of Europe were engaged in a fiercely competitive arms race, Mahan’s work had a singularly profound influence on politics worldwide. In the United States, Mahan’s theories found a particularly receptive audience in Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt: His work bolstered the case for rapid expansion and reconfiguration of the U.S. Navy, which replaced small cruisers with massive battleships and underwent a concomitant change in tactics; continued expansion overseas (to the Philippines, Hawaii and other Pacific islands, and the Caribbean), which allowed the creation bases at which U.S. ships could refuel and protect commerce; and even the construction of the Panama Canal, which facilitated the movement of fleets and freight. Mahan’s work influenced strategists in other countries as well, leading to naval buildups in England, Germany, and Japan in particular. Although Mahan saw military might as a means for avoiding war, the global growth inspired by his theories very clearly set the stage for World War I. http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/alfred_thayer_mahan.html Edited July 18, 2012 by BmoreBills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ajzepp Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Nerds!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 21 for me... I wish I could get back in the reading groove... I have been out of it for the last 5-10 years... everytime I try to read, I start dozing off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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