The 100 Greatest Books, according to PD.com

[Requia ☣]

We grow kids in vats and think love is dirty?   

[BabylonHoruv]

We grow kids in vats and think love is dirty?   

We're getting close on the growing kids in vats part.  Love meanwhile has been absorbed into the orgy porgy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

We grow kids in vats and think love is dirty?   

We're getting close on the growing kids in vats part.  Love meanwhile has been absorbed into the orgy porgy.

I call bullshit.

[Placid Dingo]

Maybe not kids in vats, but i think we're looking more like a society distracted by shiny things, than crushed into submission.

[BabylonHoruv]

Maybe not kids in vats, but i think we're looking more like a society distracted by shiny things, than crushed into submission.

This is what I should have said.

[Dalek]

It's a nice list, and me being 15, therefore having a lot of reading to do decided to read all of the books to the end of this year. I've read some of them, but I still have a lot to go. Currently reading Dune

[BadBeast]

It's a nice list, and me being 15, therefore having a lot of reading to do decided to read all of the books to the end of this year. I've read some of them, but I still have a lot to go. Currently reading Dune

Good choice. Great book.

[BadBeast]

We grow kids in vats and think love is dirty?   

We're getting close on the growing kids in vats part.  Love meanwhile has been absorbed into the orgy porgy.

Every single child I've grown in a Vat, has had to be discorded discarded for exhibiting signs of retardation, physical abnormalities, and anti-social behaviour. But the two I grew using the more traditional Womb gestation method are now fully functional Adults, with no sociopathic tendencies whatsoever.
So I think we should stop using the Vats altogether, and concentrate on getting Ladies pragnent with the time honoured and tested method of sexual congress.   

[Placid Dingo]

posted for now just so i don'tr lose it still working

1.The Constitution Of the United States
2. The Tao Teh Ching
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
4. Beowulf.
5. The Koran (Translation of;)
6. The Bible.
7. Evasion - Anonymous
8. Flatland - Edward A Abbot.
9. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
11. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
12. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
13. The Skinner - Neil Asher
14. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
15. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
16. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
17. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
18. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
19. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
20. World War Z - Max Brooks
21. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
22. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
23. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
24. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
25. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
26. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
27. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
28. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
31. Don Quixote - Cervantes
32. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
33. Shogun - James Clavel
34. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
35. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
36. If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
37. Inferno - Dante
38. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
39. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
40. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
41. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
42. Mao II - Don Delillo
43. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
44. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
46. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
47. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
48. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
49. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
50. Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
51. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
52. Distress - Greg Egan.
53. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
54. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
55. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
56. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
57. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
58. Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
59. Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
60. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
61. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
62. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
63. Chaos - James Gleick
64. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
66. The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
67. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
68. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
69. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
70. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
71. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
72. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
73. Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
74. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
75. Dune - Frank Herbert
76. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
77. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
78. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
79 The Illiad - Homer
80. The Odyssey - Homer.
81. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
82. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
83. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
84. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
85. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
86. Sock - Penn Jilette
87. Ulysses - James Joyce
88.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
89. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
90. The Trial - Kafka
91. Amerika - Kafka
92. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
93. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
94. The Jungle Books - Kipling
95. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
96. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
97. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
98. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
99. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
100. Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
101. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
102. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
103. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
104.Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
105. Watchmen - Alan Moore
106. Promethea - Alan Moore
107. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
108. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
109. Book of Five Rings - Musashi
110. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
111. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
112. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
113. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
114. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
115. 1984 - George Orwell
116. Animal Farm - George Orwell
117. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
118. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
119. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
120. Common Sense - Thomas Payne {Is this actually meant to be 'The American Crisis, which Payne wrote AS 'Common Sense'?)
121. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
122. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
123. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
124. The Republic - Plato.
125. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
126. Mort - Terry Pratchett
127. Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
128. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
129. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
130. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
131. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
132. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
133. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
134. Software - Rudy Rucker
135. Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
136. The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
137. No Exit - Sarte
138. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
139. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
140. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
141. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
142. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
143. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
144. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
145. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
146. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
147. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
148. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
149. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
150. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
151. Walden - Thoreau
152. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
153. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
154. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
155. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
156. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
157. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
158. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
159. Hellblazer - Various
160. Candide - Voltaire.
161. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
162. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
163. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
164. Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
165. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
166. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
167. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
168. Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
169. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
170. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
171. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

[Juana]

I want to add American Fascism by Christ Hedges. I don't quite buy everything in the book, but overall it's very very good.

[BadBeast]

I've only read 28 of those. But of the 28, there isn't one that I haven't re-read again. And some of them, I must have re-read at least 7 or 8 times. (Dune, Gaiman, Moore, Pratchet) Bit disappointed to see no Gene Wolfe though. Or Kipling.

A lot of the rest of them are on my "going to read" list though.  

[Requia ☣]

Holy shit we actually hit a hundred?

[BadBeast]

Looks that way. I'm really glad Hellblazer made it too. But no Invisibles? Or Sandman? I'm sure we could get the list up to 200 without too much trouble.

[BadBeast]

Off the top of my head, I'd add
The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
The Jungle Books - Kipling
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
The Ilead - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

(Spot the joke entry?)

[Requia ☣]

It's certainly one of the most bizarre lists I've ever seen.

Sandman is in there.

That last one had better be a joke.