30 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Are 30

Tripe · December 31, 2008, 08:06:04 AM

See as far as Asian books on a single subject go, I'd recommend people read The Book of Tea before The Art of War. But then, I love tea

gbeenie · January 11, 2009, 06:15:27 PM

Not everybody has time to read. When I was pushing 30, I was getting ready for Carousel.

mrbasehart · January 11, 2009, 06:24:29 PM

Quote from: gbeenie on January 11, 2009, 06:15:27 PM
Not everybody has time to read. When I was pushing 30, I was getting ready for Carousel.

You were a carny?

Tripe · January 12, 2009, 05:51:29 AM

Quote from: mrbasehart on January 11, 2009, 06:24:29 PM
Quote from: gbeenie on January 11, 2009, 06:15:27 PM
Not everybody has time to read. When I was pushing 30, I was getting ready for Carousel.

You were a carny?

No silly, she was on Broadway.

mrbasehart · January 12, 2009, 06:05:40 AM

Quote from: TripeHoundRedux on January 12, 2009, 05:51:29 AM
Quote from: mrbasehart on January 11, 2009, 06:24:29 PM
Quote from: gbeenie on January 11, 2009, 06:15:27 PM
Not everybody has time to read. When I was pushing 30, I was getting ready for Carousel.

You were a carny?

No silly, she was on Broadway.

The Lady Rommel · January 17, 2009, 09:35:40 AM

I'm a voracious reader, and a librarian. Over 30.

I've read two. The Tipping Point and Lord of the Flies.

List seems a bit pretencious to me.

Darth Geek · January 17, 2009, 11:25:07 AM

I think it would take me more than 30 years to get through War and Peace alone.
I've only read a few on this list, I remember To Kill A Mockingbird was really good.
The first one, Siddhartha, I've never heard of, but it sounds like the worst kind of pretentious nonsense that I hate: the idea that age and experience is EVERYTHING.

Screw that list. Watchmen is a book everyone should read before they are 30.

mrbasehart · January 17, 2009, 03:14:36 PM

Doesn't it feel more like the columnist who wrote this is saying "these are some of the books I read before I was 30, look at how smart I am"?

Tripe · January 18, 2009, 06:32:31 AM

It's also a bit like how they imagine culture to be in the 24th century, nothing but classical music really.

gbeenie · January 18, 2009, 11:00:16 AM

Quote from: Darth Geek on January 17, 2009, 11:25:07 AM
I think it would take me more than 30 years to get through War and Peace alone.

Bitch, please. I read that shit in high school. The last thirty pages are about as dry as dry gets.

Tripe · January 18, 2009, 01:40:21 PM

I think that should read:

QuoteEvery other thirty pages are about as dry as dry gets.

Tolstoy was not untalented but there were so many significantly better Russian writers.

Jazzman99 · January 27, 2009, 09:12:05 PM

Well, I'm 38 and I've got a doctorate in American literature, and I've read 15 of the books. Yeah, it's an essentially random selection, though I'd certainly recommend the ones on it that I have read. It don't get better than Catch-22 and Lolita.

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