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   Hello CYBERPOPE!   
      
   ** On Tuesday 14.09.21 - 12:31, CYBERPOPE wrote to ALL:   
      
    C> Here we go. . .books   
      
    C> 100 years ago, in 1921 (save you doing the math; I'm cool   
    C> like that)   
      
    C> The number one book, per Goodreads, was: The Complete Anne   
    C> of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8) L.M.   
    C> Montgomery   
      
    C> I have read none of these, nor seesn any episode of the TV   
    C> series, apparently about a loveable redheaded moppet living   
    C> in Prince Edward Island, in Atlantic Canada.   
      
   The series is still a favourite with people who are fed up with     
   vampire/human love.  Anne of Green Gables and the Hardy Boys/    
   Nancy Drew stories get a renewed interest with new generations.   
      
      
    C> Now, 50 years ago (1971--you're welcome!), per Goodreads:   
      
    C> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson   
      
    C> Have not read it, but after reading the blurb/description   
    C> on Goodreads, I marked it on my to read list. . .   
      
   It's on my backburner list too.   
      
      
    C> Name a couple of your favorite old books; Google "number one book in 19xx   
    C> goodreads" to get thetop book for your birth yreasr & post it here --   
    C> let's see who's resd what. .   
      
   Google/Goodreads result for my birth year is:   
      
   #1   
   Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)   
   Chinua Achebe   
      
   #2   
   Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories   
   Truman Capote   
      
   #3   
   Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited   
   Aldous Huxley   
      
   #4   
   Animal Farm and 1984   
   George Orwell   
      
   #5   
   The Witch of Blackbird Pond   
   Elizabeth George Speare   
      
   #6   
   The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)   
   T.H. White   
      
   #7   
   The Agony and the Ecstasy   
   Irving Stone   
      
   #8   
   The Dharma Bums   
   Jack Kerouac   
      
   #9   
   Exodus   
   Leon Uris   
      
   #10   
   Old Yeller   
   Fred Gipson   
      
   #11   
   A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)   
   Michael Bond   
      
   #12   
   Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories   
   Dr. Seuss   
      
   #13   
   Our Man in Havana   
   Graham Greene   
      
   Book Cover   
   #14   
   The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (The Cat in the Hat, #2)   
   Dr. Seuss   
      
   #15   
   The Leopard   
   Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa   
      
      
   Of those..   
      
   I've only read #3 #4 #6 #7 #14   
   Wishlist is #8   
   Started but quit #9   
   Saw the film of #10   
   Read other books be the author of #13   
      
    C> My 1967 book was:   
      
    C> The Outsiders   
    C> S.E. Hinton   
      
   That's another one I'd like to give a go. It's a steadily     
   sought-after title in my shop.   
      
    C> I'm still PO'ed that I was not given "Animal Farm" to read   
    C> at all in my school years.   
      
      
    C> ...I graduated after 8th grade was   
    C> half done.   
      
    C> (yup 13 years old & done with High School -- they had   
    C> nothing to teach me, so I taught them  instead & teachers   
    C> HATE that!   
      
   Huh?  You were an advanced student? The gr13 math and physics     
   was pretty challenging. I can't imagine a 13 yr old passing all     
   the tests for that.   
      
    C> I read one classical novel; "The Naked & tthe Dead" in   
    C> 1979(grade 7) as I was told to write a book report on any   
    C> novel I wanted from the school library, so I went down the   
    C> stacks & picked the thickest book they had & it was Norman   
    C> Mailer's WW2 classic.   
      
   Ah..  Norman Mailer.  Lots of sex in his novels too, as I     
   recall.   
      
    C> These are public forums let's bring some life back into   
    C> them; come on, fellow creaking nerds. . .   
      
   Book nerds are likely to be readers, not conversationalists.   
      
   For now, the LITRPG echo has a few extra eyes and ears on the     
   subject of books. Perhaps add that one to your list of echos.   
      
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