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I did this same thing with movies on another part of the forum.
Now, y'all...this may not pan out like the movie one did (because I suspect more people watch movies than read), but is there a book you can't believe someone HAS NOT read?
We just read The Grapes of Wrath for one of my book clubs (I use the term "we" losely...). Only one other person had read it!! And she read it in HS & didn't like it. The rest of them didn't read it because they heard it was "depressing" or that it had "bad" language
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Read Mockingbird. Will get the second from the library post-haste super-stat. Thank you!
I can't believe people didn't read Beverly Cleary or Encyclopedia Brown books as children. That always blows me away. My favorite fiction novel of all time is Gone with the Wind and it blows me away that more people haven't picked it up...I am not into romance novels, but that's not what it is at all!!!!
Beverly Cleary? Not you got me....not sure if I have even heard of her.....what are some book names?
YES, I agree GWTW is an awesome book, so many layers and history.....one recent interesting read was the biography of Margaret Mitchell....early life and with of course her book and rise to fame after the book and movie.
The movie In Cold Blood was very good and close to the book but yet I never think movies can quite live up to what we get from reading the original in print form.
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Read Mockingbird. Will get the second from the library post-haste super-stat. Thank you!
I can't believe people didn't read Beverly Cleary or Encyclopedia Brown books as children. That always blows me away. My favorite fiction novel of all time is Gone with the Wind and it blows me away that more people haven't picked it up...I am not into romance novels, but that's not what it is at all!!!!
It still weirds me out when real readers under the age of 40 haven't read the Harry Potter series. They are super-fast reads (so not a huge time investment), the writing grows up with the books, and they are quite entertaining.
I don't expect anyone I know to have read what I have, so no surprises for me. And I haven't read the Harry Potter series, I just don't care to -- and yes, I am under forty, way under.
I haven't had the chance to read the book (Grapes of Wrath) but the movie was wonderful. I'll have to look for it when I go to Barnes & Noble this weekend. Thanks!
Papillon was an EXCELLENT book... definitely worth reading. I couldn't put it down! And I was really glad that I read the book before I saw the movie!
A lot of it is personal preference - I have no wish to read true-crime books or really any books on murderers or serial killers or child killers. I don't really care how good the book is, I am not interested in the topic. So In Cold Blood will never make it on my reading list.
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