100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)

aulsmith : Definitely parts of it, but the whole thing? Nah.

yarb: Rip-roaring early English picaresque

yarb: Classic picaresque novel, English translation by Smollett

-pilgrim- : There is another version on page 1 of list

Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que ce long poème dit les horreurs de la guerre et les douceurs de l'amour, et parce qu'il a façonné l'imaginaire occidental.

Mapguy314: Means I have it in my library, not necessarily that I have read it, although I have read some of them

: yawwwwwwn

camainc : One only needs to read Augustine's City of God to know that Gibbon was so very wrong about the reasons for Rome's "decline and fall."

Turambar: Whether Gibbon was wrong or not is irrelevant to whether The Decline and Fall ought to be read. We don't read Herodotus because he was right. We read him because he helped shape how a civilization thought, as did Gibbon in his own, later way.

JacobKirckman: Gibbon's not 'on my list', as I have it (just not catalogued on LT yet)! Commenting purely to counter Camainc's claim that Gibbon was wrong. I'd take an historian (even an 18th century one) over a Bible-Basher any day...

ErykaSosa91: I have been wanting to reread thus epic poem for the longest!!

aulsmith : I understand why it's important, but it certainly didn't hold my interest.

Mapguy314: I read this many years ago.

cemanuel : Agreed. The purpose of this list is specifically for alternatives to Amazon's. Great book though.

karenb: Squeaking by, barely (published 1812)

karenb: Original version please! (No, really, the right one this time ;)

aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.

aulsmith : His non-English writings add nothing remarkable to the corpus I already rejected.

lorax : Thumbing down just to counteract psdavid's proselytizing. I think parts are worth reading for basic cultural literacy, but nobody likes being preached at in a forum like this.

aulsmith : Again, parts of it. But the whole thing? Knowing some of it was done from unreliable manuscripts? Nah.

psdavid: A book in two parts, the old testament which is the new testament hidden and the new testament which is the old testament revealed. Every one of the 66 books (39 Old testament and 27 new testament) interlinks and joins with every other, written in original languages by 40+ authors spanning 2,000 years and many cultures. A book that attracts lively debate as to authenticity and yet every day sees more of its writings and dates confirmed by archaeological finds.

: Why not read one of the better translations, if you're going to read the whole wretched Bible in the first place?

yarb : duplicate

ManWithAnAgenda : Duplicate