Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Links to the Catalog


In case readers would like to check the Merrick Library catalog for the Books to Read before You Die here are the links:










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5 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    Only 10 mmmm. That's easy!

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  2. librarian47April 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM

    3 friends of mine couldn't log on but sent me their comments.

    I trird to post to the blog but it would let me. Here were some of my suggestions:

    Dear & Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell
    The Mezzanine - Nelson Baker
    Any Hardy Boy or Nancy Drew mystery
    Any Agatha Christie mystery
    Flannery O' Connor's stories and books

    Peggy
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    My comment essentially was that the list seemed (to me) too narrow in its perspectives...confined to American and British authors. I’d add some authors from Asia, Africa and Latin America...maybe even Russia , etc.
    Frank

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    I loved the site…
    Connie

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  3. Karen MalnatiApril 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM

    Ten is too limited as I'd have to include most of Dr. Seuss and many children's books. Also there are many non fiction books that have changed me like Small is Beautiful (diff view of economy), Don't Sleep There are Snakes (Piraha tribe in Amazon), The Charmed Circle (biog of Gertrude Stein and friends), etc, etc.
    Too tough to limit to ten. My advice is keep reading.

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  4. AnonymousApril 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM

    Just browsing your list of 10 great books I would have to agree that it is too difficult to pick only 10. There is nothing wrong with any of the books there, but maybe if you expanded it you would want to include Moby Dick and War and Peace a collection of Shakespeare's plays. That way you would include what are widely considered the high points in the literature of three countries.
    Thanks for starting this interesting discussion.
    Bill Morgan

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  5. The GoddaughterAugust 6, 2009 at 3:06 PM

    I have thought long and hard about this. It has been very difficult to come up with 10. So, here is how I came up with some. I thought of all the books/stories I could read multiple times and still enjoy them. They are also in chronological order- meaning, from childhood on so I have left a few more slots to be filled(I am in my thirties). So here are some.
    1. Little House on the Prairie (series minus The Farmer Boy)
    2. A Wrinkle in Time
    3. Anne Frank
    4. Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream
    5. The Catcher in the Rye
    6. Lord of the Rings(series, including The Hobbit)
    7. Harry Potter (series)
    8-10. TBD

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