[bksvol-discuss] Re: A New Year's Challenge: De Norske Bokklubbene "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time"

  • From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:04:08 -0800

Judy,

I do think that you introduced an important metric -- "enjoyability."

I wonder what a Bookshare Volunteer list of the "100 100 Most Enjoyble Books of 
all Time" would look like?

Scott Rains

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"100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time"

The selection panel must have come from the same place as my high
school and college literature teachers. grin. That's a daunting
list. I've read 35 total, most of them required reading for
classes. Of the 35, I only really enjoyed 5 or 6 of them, though.
smile.

Judy s.
Scott Rains wrote:
> If ever there was an activity designed to define the word
> "hubris" it would be to singlehandedly write a list of the
> "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time." So, perhaps to spread
> the honor more democratically, the editors at the Norwegian
> Book Clubs devised a survey of about 100 well-known authors
> from 54 countries to create such a list in 2002. Given the
> amazing levels of literacy that Bookshare volunteers showed
> with the BBC list I offer this challenge:
>
> How many of the following books have you read?

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