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I checked out the entire list. Of the 21 books, I've only read three of them: "Dracula", "The Lord of the Rings", and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

On the other hand, I've only read a single one of their suggested replacements, the "Earthsea" series.

1 posted on 04/23/2018 3:42:10 PM PDT by Simon Green
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I checked out the entire list. Of the 21 books, I've only read three of them: "Dracula", "The Lord of the Rings", and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

The latter truly amazes me. It is the American Odyssey. Without having read it, your education is not just incomplete, but willfully abased.

I'm glad they had enough sense to not include Albert Schweitzer's two volume survey of "J.S. Bach".

If you haven't read it, you just may be a barn animal.

27 posted on 04/23/2018 5:21:12 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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GQ is for sodomites with feces on their penises.


28 posted on 04/23/2018 5:26:12 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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“Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was a man of his time, so let’s leave him there. We don’t need him. “

This shows that the writer is utterly uneducated and wretchedly ignorant of Twain.

And then we were treated to some little girl named Emily telling us “Catch 22 was an ok telling of some war experiences, but she prefers some book about some iraqi-American girl who joins the Army to be a translator.

Lame.

GQ always did mean “going queer”.


29 posted on 04/23/2018 7:41:00 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Abject cowards. So the Bible makes their list but the Koran doesn’t? One reason: they wouldn’t dare.


31 posted on 04/23/2018 8:22:21 PM PDT by tjd1454 (L))
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GQ has been actively promoting the homosexual, counterculture (anti-Western) agenda for decades.

You can safely disregard anything in its pages.


32 posted on 04/23/2018 9:49:58 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Of course "facing backlash" is why they published the list

in the first place. Notoriety == publicity.

Do even libs go to Vogue for "men" for literary judgments?
That's what New York Review of Books is for.

33 posted on 04/24/2018 7:43:35 AM PDT by Salman (I don't do Facebook, and neither should you.)
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I’ve read a fair number of books on the list including the Bible.

The most important—non religious—reason to read the Bible is the rich prose. More every sayings, proverbs, and turns of phrase, come from the Bible. An educated person should read the Bible to understand the context of that part of our culture.

And, you know, the stories are pretty good.

I loved Vonnegut. I even read it for fun.

Usually, people that recommend books on the internet are giving you bad advice.


35 posted on 04/24/2018 5:54:25 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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