Top 100 Books

OK, here is my last blog on the Entertainment Weekly issue of top 100 movies, etc of all-time. So the top 10 books on their list is as follows:

1. Anna Karenina (I read this book last year because I thought it would be cool since there was a movie coming up about it. Why do I do things like that?)
2. The Great Gatsby (Read it. It was the length I like - short. If he had written Anna Karenina I would have a lot more of my life back.)
3. Pride and Prejudice (Read it. A turtle-like pace. I say Mr. Bennett, let us have some scones and talk interminably.)
4. Great Expectations (Two of the top 4 have the word "great" in the title. I wonder if these got moved up the list because the people putting together the list got a subliminal message. Would "Good Expectations" or "The So-so Gatsby" have made it as high?
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Never heard of it.)
6. My Antonia. (Barely heard of it.)
7. The Harry Potter series. (Oh yeah I read it. This summer I finished that last two books. I had read 4 or five. I had skipped some and didn't read them in order. Don't do that. I talked to someone who once listened to a book on CD and had it accidentally set on "shuffle". That's got to low(er your comprehension score. Anyway, it didn't totally make sense to me. So, I decided to read them all in order. Done.)
8. The Rabbit books, by John Updike (What?)
9. Beloved. (Barely heard of it)
10. Charlotte's Web. (Mrs. McNeil read that to us in 3rd grade. I loved that book. It was my second favorite book she read to us that year, coming in second to Mrs. Piggle Wiggle.)

I've got a book that has two page summaries of hundreds of books. I've read that you get most of the idea of the book if your read a summary as compared to reading the whole book. That's what I'm doing from now on, at least with those long fiction books. I'll still read the really important books, like Mrs. Piggle Wiggle.