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1varielle
Bearbeitet: Feb. 11, 2008, 4:13 pm

US Fiction

1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach 2,297 copies on LT

2. August, 1914, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 514 copies

3. The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth 510 copies

4. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 863 copies

5. The Word, Irving Wallace 129 copies

6. The Winds of War, Herman Wouk 584 copies

7. Captains and the Kings, Taylor Caldwell 129 copies

8. Two from Galilee, Marjorie Holmes 138 copies

9. My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok 1,094 copies

10. Semi-Tough, Dan Jenkins 54 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor 229 copies

2. I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris 331 copies

3. Open Marriage, Nena and George O'Neill 39 copies

4. Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman 96 copies

5. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins 580 copies

6. Better Homes and Gardens Menu Cook Book 7 copies
7. The Peter Prescription, Laurence J. Peter 49 copies

8. A World Beyond, Ruth Montgomery 21 copies

9. Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda 483 copies

10. Better Homes and Gardens Low-Calorie Desserts 6 copies

2dulcibelle
Feb. 11, 2008, 4:18 pm

I've read many of the fiction for this year - #1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10. Wonder why I hit so many of these?

3Polite_Society
Feb. 11, 2008, 11:22 pm

1, 4, 6, & 10 from the fiction pile; 2 & 9 from the non-fiction (although I suspicion that distinction as applied to a Castaneda book).

4varielle
Feb. 12, 2008, 8:24 am

Yes #3 I believe the IRS denied Mr. Castaneda some tax deductions that he tried to claim in association with the writing of Journey to Ixtlan. Apparently they thought it was fiction too.

5philosojerk
Feb. 12, 2008, 9:16 am

Ah, that's hilarious that the Castaneda is listed in the non-fiction section. I can't tell if you guys are being serious, but I think it's long since been determined that his Don Juan stories, although he claimed them to be true, were actually made up.

There was an interesting thread about them right around the time when I first joined LT - a user posted a pretty big rant about people tagging his books "non-fiction" and "anthropology." She claimed it was "dishonest" because everyone knew they were BS... My thinking was, "well, clearly everyone doesn't know rofl.

Right, I'm rambling. (Can you tell I just woke up?)

6vpfluke
Feb. 13, 2008, 12:42 pm

I read #1 & #9 in fiction. I really liked Chaim Potok, and tried to read everything he wrote,a fter seeing the movie version of The chosen.

My father really liked The Winds of War and tried to get me to read it. But I didn't.

In non-fiction, I've read parts of #1 and did read #8 (unbelievably).

Almost all the books have some familiarity, so I think I paged through them at book stores.

Although Castaneda's book has fictional aspects to it, it had a guise of self-help to it, which means non-fiction on American lists (2, 5, & 7 are also self-help to some degree).

7philosojerk
Feb. 14, 2008, 9:19 am

>6 vpfluke: You really should read The Winds of War. I read it last summer, and really expected it to be slow and boring, but it was a fabulous read, cover to cover.

8vpfluke
Feb. 14, 2008, 12:33 pm

#7

I think I gave it away the year before joining LT when we did a move.

My father (before he died) and my stepfather were U S Navy pilots on aircraft carriers during WWII. My stepfather and I took a tour on a carrier in Charleston, SC, and he showed me the room where they planned their movements -- he had been a navigation officer, along with other stuff. I had never known in a real specific way what he did.

9barney67
Apr. 14, 2008, 8:56 pm

Grew up with The Living Bible at home.

I did read Jonathan Livingston Seagull about ten years ago.

Currently I have a copy of The Solzhenitsyn Reader on my bookpile. Good to see his work on the bestseller list.

Open Marriage. Wonder what that one's about. Only one down from the Bible, too.

10LouisBranning
Apr. 15, 2008, 11:53 am

I never got around to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but I have read 7 on fiction list, and the Herman Wouk book and both of Frederick Forsyth's novels are excellent.

11vpfluke
Apr. 15, 2008, 11:16 pm

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a fast read, sort of New Age inspirational.

12Storeetllr
Apr. 15, 2008, 11:30 pm

Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Winds of War are the only two I remember finishing, but I know I read some of I'm Okay, You're Okay. Looking back, only Winds of War is memorable.

13keren7
Apr. 23, 2008, 1:11 pm

I haven't read any of these

14rocketjk
Nov. 12, 2009, 2:03 pm

I read My Name is Asher Lev a long time ago.

15adpaton
Jul. 13, 2010, 3:43 am

Oh Dear - I actually OWN Dr Atkins' Diet Revolution, I'm ashamed to admitt. Never let it be said the belief in miracles has passed as long as people continue to buy Diet books promising 'painless' ways to 'effortlessly shed' weight.
Everybody read JL Seagull back in the 70: I thought it was dreary but am perfectly willing to concede it might have been too deep for me. Frederick Forsyth - still going strong - is more my speed and I still own Day of the Jackal and Odessa File.