Subj : Reading books memories
To   : CYBERPOPE
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 00:48:00

Hello CYBERPOPE!

** On Tuesday 14.09.21 - 12:31, CYBERPOPE wrote to ALL:

 C> Here we go. . .books

 C> 100 years ago, in 1921 (save you doing the math; I'm cool
 C> like that)

 C> The number one book, per Goodreads, was: The Complete Anne
 C> of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8) L.M.
 C> Montgomery

 C> I have read none of these, nor seesn any episode of the TV
 C> series, apparently about a loveable redheaded moppet living
 C> in Prince Edward Island, in Atlantic Canada.

The series is still a favourite with people who are fed up with  
vampire/human love.  Anne of Green Gables and the Hardy Boys/ 
Nancy Drew stories get a renewed interest with new generations.


 C> Now, 50 years ago (1971--you're welcome!), per Goodreads:

 C> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson

 C> Have not read it, but after reading the blurb/description
 C> on Goodreads, I marked it on my to read list. . .

It's on my backburner list too.


 C> Name a couple of your favorite old books; Google "number one book in 19xx
 C> goodreads" to get thetop book for your birth yreasr & post it here --
 C> let's see who's resd what. .

Google/Goodreads result for my birth year is:

#1
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Chinua Achebe

#2
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
Truman Capote

#3
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley

#4
Animal Farm and 1984
George Orwell

#5
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare

#6
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)
T.H. White

#7
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone

#8
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

#9
Exodus
Leon Uris

#10
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson

#11
A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
Michael Bond

#12
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Dr. Seuss

#13
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

Book Cover
#14
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (The Cat in the Hat, #2)
Dr. Seuss

#15
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa


Of those..

I've only read #3 #4 #6 #7 #14
Wishlist is #8
Started but quit #9
Saw the film of #10
Read other books be the author of #13

 C> My 1967 book was:

 C> The Outsiders
 C> S.E. Hinton

That's another one I'd like to give a go. It's a steadily  
sought-after title in my shop.

 C> I'm still PO'ed that I was not given "Animal Farm" to read
 C> at all in my school years.


 C> ...I graduated after 8th grade was
 C> half done.

 C> (yup 13 years old & done with High School -- they had
 C> nothing to teach me, so I taught them  instead & teachers
 C> HATE that!

Huh?  You were an advanced student? The gr13 math and physics  
was pretty challenging. I can't imagine a 13 yr old passing all  
the tests for that.

 C> I read one classical novel; "The Naked & tthe Dead" in
 C> 1979(grade 7) as I was told to write a book report on any
 C> novel I wanted from the school library, so I went down the
 C> stacks & picked the thickest book they had & it was Norman
 C> Mailer's WW2 classic.

Ah..  Norman Mailer.  Lots of sex in his novels too, as I  
recall.

 C> These are public forums let's bring some life back into
 C> them; come on, fellow creaking nerds. . .

Book nerds are likely to be readers, not conversationalists.

For now, the LITRPG echo has a few extra eyes and ears on the  
subject of books. Perhaps add that one to your list of echos.

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  ../|ug

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