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Top 100 Books (41-60)

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It’s time to pick back up on my countdown to the top 100 books of all time. I am an American, so most of the book authors I know live in America or wrote a story pertaining to the States. I tried my best to include the best authors and books from all over the world. I did not intentionally discriminate any country, author, or book title in determining the top 100 books.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Perhaps you have read this book or seen the movie For Whom the Bell Tolls. This story took place in Spain during the early days of World War II. You can see the brave American Gary Cooper trying to help Ingrid Bergman and her group of Spanish fighters in the movie. The movie was done in a way that Ernest Hemingway approved of and he did have a voice in this classic movie. This was due to the fact, Ernest Hemingway is the author of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Most book worms have read this classic story or saw the movie that featured a lot of big time Hollywood actors and actresses, as everyone in Hollywood back then wanted to be a part of this great Hemingway novel. No big surprise to see Cooper get the leading role, as he and Hemingway were big time buddies and even hunted together. This is just one of the classic novels that will appear on the countdown in this list of 20 books from the top 100 books in the world.  

60 – A Prayer for Owen Meaney

59 – Gravity’s Rainbow

58 – The Crossing

57 – The Age of American Unreason

56 – Light in August

55 – The Origin of Species

54 – White Noise

53 – The Virginian

52 – The Plague

51 – Where the Red Fern Grows

50 – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

49 – Lord of the Rings

48 – Hamlet

47 – Catch-22

46 – Gulliver’s Travels

45 – Atlas Shrugged

44 – The 48 Laws of Power

43 – Animal Farm and 1984

42 – For Whom the Bell Tolls

41 – The Rough Riders

There is 20 more great books and some even classics that are no longer in the running for the top book of all time. If you didn’t recognize too many of my first 40 selections of books I chose to be on the countdown; then I know you had to know some of these titles from my top 100 book list. There are some really popular books in this grouping and it’s only going to get tougher for me; as I try to narrow the field down to only 40 more books. You can imagine the number of books that have been written over the years. Now I must try to find and locate the 40 best books of all time. Since I have already named the first 60 books and have their special number already marked on my top 100 titles the world and even the Internet has ever seen!

If you have missed out on some of my earlier choices; then you can go back and see which book titles I have already called out. I started out with my list of books from 91 – 100, I then did 10 more famous books from 81 – 100, and after that I tried to speed it up a little more and did my list of popular books from 61 – 80. Once you have viewed those forty top 100 books, you can just see my choices here for the next 20 great books on my book list.

Stay tuned and be sure to bookmark me. This will be one of the greatest 100 book lists you will ever find online. Take advantage of all of my hard work, so you can have one easy place to see some of the best books and their authors of all time. I will be coming back soon to list more great books and continue my 100 book journey to the greatest book titles and classics of all time!

Does Shawshank Give Redemption to the New Movie Avatar?

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Movie Avatar

Have you or anyone you know seen the new movie Avataryet? It is currently available in the video stores, on blu-ray, and on the pay-per-view channels. I haven’t made the choice to rent it yet on PPV-TV that I have on the satellite dish. I’m not so sure I would like this movie, but there is a lot of buzz around it. It’s another science fiction movie that has went way over the budget, in terms of putting together these spectacular scenes that look really cool. I hear the same guy that did this movie, was also the person who did the Titanic movie; which was not a science fiction movie.

I look at Avatar like the Lord of the Rings movies. These are just fantasy movies; where the older kids and some of the science-fiction-loving adults like to spend their money on. I would prefer a movie that was based on a true story. I haven’t heard anyone say that Avatar was a fictional movie, but just by seeing the previews and some of the stills from the movie Avatar, I think its safe to say this is a fictional piece of work.

I can tell this movie involves a love story. This seems to be the only way Hollywood directors and writers can create plots these days. For their movies to have a plot, they feel like they need a few scenes of dialogue and a love story brewing in it. I wish these guys living out in L.A. would create more movies with a good plot and do it without doing the same old love story; that’s been done a hundred million times or more. I’m not for sure the Avatar movie is a love story, but a lot of the clips I have seen, certainly suggest that it is a love story.

Shawshank Redemption

If you remember the movie Shawshank Redemption, you can remember how well the plot was in this movie. It was another “Escape From Alcatraz” type movie, but more importantly, it achieved a good plot without going down lovers lane. It is possible to create a good movie and a movie with a plot, without having the same old love story we see in so many Hollywood movies. I think more directors and writers should use the formula from the Shawshank Redemption movie to create stories with plots. The story-line of a movie has to be good and it has to look appetizing from the start. If a new movie doesn’t do something good or fantastic in the early scenes, most movie-watchers may not stick around to see what happens next. A movie like Shawshank doesn’t grab us at first, but luckily a few people did stick around to see what this movie was about and soon the word got passed around enough, where everyone wanted to see what the Shawshank buzz was about.

Does anyone think this new movie Avatar will grab us in the way the Shawshank Redemption did? I guess it’s possible, since I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I don’t think its going to stand up to the Shawshank very well. I’m already turned off by the love story that appears to take place in the movie Avatar. I hope James Cameron and his crew gave more than just a science fiction love story, which has some really cool-looking creatures playing in it. I guess I will just have to watch Avatar soon, so I can say for sure, if this is a good movie or not.