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5. I've read quite a few...but too many great ones I still haven't finished.

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 02:01 AM

Jan 2014

I keep trying to knock out another 3 or 4 of the "big ones" a year.

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Modern Library Top 100 board picks (both fiction and nonfiction) Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #1

I need to read Catch 22 again. zappaman Jan 2014 #2

I've read quite a few...but too many great ones I still haven't finished. Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #5

Very great book... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #6

I remember trying to read that one. zappaman Jan 2014 #8

I made it through... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #10

I'm rereading it right now. Definitely entertaining. Gravitycollapse Jan 2014 #12

50 Greatest Books as published by The Globe and Mail Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #3

I give you a fair amount of grief ... 1000words Jan 2014 #4

thanks Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #9

Good stuff Pretzel ucrdem Jan 2014 #7

I can't believe nothing by Thomas Pynchon made it on that list. Gravitycollapse Jan 2014 #11

well, he's up against thousands of years of writers from around the globe Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #13

Several books made it on there that were published after Gravity's Rainbow... Gravitycollapse Jan 2014 #14