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Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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100 best books of the 20th Century--worldwide.
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cannot say that I have actually read more than about 35 of these. And that's mainly the American and English novels as well as some of the important books in psychology and philosophy. |
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Where is The Bible ? ? ?
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The Bible does not date from the 20th Century. This are books that were written during the period from 1900 through 1999 or thereabouts.
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... and I have read only 16. Darn, I thought I was getting on with it.
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Guess I'm a bit surprised not to see Steinbeck's East of Eden or Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
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The list was very weighted to French authors as it was conducted in France by a French newspaper and book store with 17,000 French respondents. There are many really great books that are not on the list and some fairly poor ones that made it. So although probably accurate from the perspective on which it was created, not really representative of a "global" list of the top 100 books of the century.
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Here is a list of the Top 100 books of all time which does have a small part of The Bible in it. The Book of Job is one of the entries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100...ks_of_All_Time At least with the other list I have read about 60 of these. |
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I would have thought that "Le Monde" was from Jersey (joy`zee). Go figure! France? Forgetaboutit.
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