The Greatest Books of All Time

[beaver]

Readers of today will always prefer recent books because they are more palatable to our taste.

I agree with all your points except for this. Readers of today would prefer something else, not reading the book. As George Bush (younger) said: I have had "Anna Karenina" on my table for some years but I didn't read it because its too big.

[Comte Arnau]

I agree with all your points except for this. Readers of today would prefer something else, not reading the book. As George Bush (younger) said: I have had "Anna Karenina" on my table for some years but I didn't read it because its too big.

Yeah, I guess I was talking like a 20th-century guy. And I forgot we're already in the e-century.

[Bardamu]

Virginia Wolf tied with Mark Twain? Faulkner over Dickens? And where's Charles Bukowski?

[Heart of Oak]

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas... By Hunter S Thompson...

Very funny... Very funny illustrations too...

[beaver]

Yeah, I guess I was talking like a 20th-century guy. And I forgot we're already in the e-century.

Idiotic century? No, there are enough smart guys in the every generation, as for my observations.

[Riki]

My choices.No particular order.Dont really have preferred books

Luis Vaz De Camões

Lope de Vega

Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra

Fernando Pessoa

Gil Vicente

Shakespeare

Anton Checkhov

Jorge Amado

Charles Dickens

Nelly Sachs

Jean-Paul Sartre

[cannavis]

This is a more objective list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100...ks_of_All_Time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002...ooks.booksnews
http://www.evene.fr/livres/selection...les-temps.php?

The 100 books selected by this process and listed here are not ranked or categorized in any way; the organizers have stated that "they are all on an equal footing", with the exception of Don Quixote which was given the distinction "best literary work ever written".

[purple]

Why isn't there a Bulgarian book: Объркан съм:

[Teyrn]

The oldest written story is the legend of Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

[Heart of Oak]

Book of the Dead (disambiguation)

Look up Book of the Dead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The Book of the Dead is the common name for several ancient Egyptian funerary texts. It may also refer to:

Bardo Thodol or Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, traditionally but inaccurately called the "Tibetan Book of the Dead"
The "Book of the Dead" or Nekyia, Book 11 of the Odyssey
Book of the Dead (anthology), a 1989 zombie horror anthology series
The Book of the Dead (film), a 2005 Japanese film
Book of the Dead (memoir), E. Hoffman Price's collection of memoirs
Book of the Dead (novel), a crime novel written in 2007 by Patricia Cornwell
The Book of the Dead (novel), the third thriller in the Pendergast trilogy
The Book of the Dead (Lee), the third novel in The Secret Books of Paradys series by Tanith Lee
Necronomicon, H.P. Lovecraft's fictional book
Book of the Dead (Angel novel), a 2004 original novel written and published by Pocket Books that's based on the U.S. television series Angel
Book of the Dead (Bloodbound album)
The Book of the Dead (Ars Nova album), 1998
"The Book of the Dead" is a long, documentary poem by American poet Muriel Rukeyser, published as Part 1 of her second volume, US 1 (1938)
The QI Book of the Dead, the fourth tie-in book with the British television series QI, sold as The Book of the Dead in the United States
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