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Listopia > Joje's votes on the list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort (68 Books)
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Anna Karenina
by See Review |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by See Review |
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East of Eden
by See Review |
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War and Peace
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The Odyssey
by See Review |
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The Name of the Rose
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The Poisonwood Bible
by See Review |
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The Brothers Karamazov
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David Copperfield
by See Review |
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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The Iliad
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Middlemarch
by See Review |
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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
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"This one touched the lives of many of us coming of age in the late 60s, so why not those later on? Has it dated that much?"
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Bleak House
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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Don Quixote
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The Canterbury Tales
by See Review |
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Vanity Fair
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Great Expectations
by See Review |
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Ulysses
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The Prince of Tides
by See Review |
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The Blind Assassin
by See Review |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by See Review |
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The Woman in White
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The Arabian Nights
by See Review |
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In Search of Lost Time
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"Well, Swann's Way is long enough, and is in fact the only one I've actually read. A good friend has worked through all of them in French, and regrets no moment of those months doing so, and exploring around within and around it."
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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"I guess you'd say it's a single ''narrative'' and speaker, why not?"
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The Magic Mountain
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"If this and other Mann novels (Josef und seine Brueder, even) led me to study Germany literature, then it must be worth it."
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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"Same narration? Still worth it."
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Doctor Zhivago
by See Review |
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The World According to Garp
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The Cider House Rules
by See Review |
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Trinity
by See Review |
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The Mill on the Floss
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"An all time favorite, need you ask?"
Joje
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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Ivanhoe
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by See Review |
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Oliver Twist
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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"Again, why here on the list. How can I NOT vote for it?"
Joje
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by See Review |
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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"A great comic book with much of the social and personal themes in Hardy included."
Joje
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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The Yale Shakespeare Complete Works
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"This is not a single narrative at all. How can I not include a choice like this, though, but why the Yale one? Actually there's another collection, I remember. Still, the complete works are hardly a single narrator/speaker/narrative, so why is it here?"
Joje
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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The Red and the Black
by See Review |
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Alias Grace
by See Review |
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The Idiot
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North and South
by See Review |
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Exodus
by See Review |
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The Tin Drum
by See Review |
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by See Review |
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Invisible Man
by See Review |
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by See Review |
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The Wings of the Dove
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Dombey and Son
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The Origin of Species
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"Essential to our time, and better to read the original than any one else's interpretation, especially to feel out if he was truly avoiding the issues we are still arguing over today."
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Democracy in America
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"I had to read a selection in high school and again in college (full edition, more or less read fully), and still consider it essential to understanding more than just democracy in America, whether read in this version or in all the many books that refer to its concepts."
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The Golden Notebook
by See Review |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Marjorie Morningstar
by See Review |
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An American Tragedy
by See Review |
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Testament of Youth
by See Review |
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The Complete Novels
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"How not vote for it. Is it here to be able to leave Pride and Prejudice? "
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Doctor Faustus
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"But I add it ONLY if it includes Part II. Part I alone is not 500 pages, obviously, and is a romance, so the only ''struggle'' is in Part II, and that struggle is well worth the effort, especially if one follows the trails it crosses, too."
Joje
rated it 4 stars
See Review |
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The Complete Poems
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"As for all poem collections that are not a single tome...how is this on the list and how can I not vote for it?"
Joje
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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The Man Without Qualities
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Faust
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The Complete Poems
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
by See Review |
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