The name of this blog post says it all... One day last week my wife came home from work and the first thing she said to me was "I have an idea". The way she said it made me feel like whatever it was was going to involve a good bit of work for me. "Why don't we start a blog where we read the 100 best books of all time and then write reviews of them?" she continued. I was right. My wife is always telling me that she's never wrong about anything, so I must assume that this is the greatest idea ever. So after agreeing with her, I was assigned the task of picking a good list of the top 100 novels of all time and creating a blog to go along with it. Check and check.
Picking the right list was a bit more of a task than I thought it would be. Google "top 100 books" and the same handful of lists keep popping up; and each of them seemed to have some flaw in them that made me eliminate it. One list was promising except for the fact that it had The Da Vinci Code on it. How could such a list be trusted? Another list created by Time Magazine was excellent but only covered the last 80 years or so. And so on... Finally I found a great list that compiled multiple lists and somehow created a list which was suitable to my needs. The complete list can be found at http://thegreatestnovels.com/top100.htm.
So our ultimate goal here is for both me and my wife to read each of the books on this list and then write a blog about what we thought about it. I had already read 29 of the books listed and will probably re-read each of them eventually even if that means I'll be reading Slaughter House Five for the millionth time. I already know what my first report will be on... so I better go get reading.
-Dan
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