{"id":862,"date":"2008-07-10T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/ten-books-to-read-before-you-die.html"},"modified":"2008-07-10T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T00:34:00","slug":"ten-books-to-read-before-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/ten-books-to-read-before-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Books To Read Before You Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this list on AOL today<\/a>. In case the link stops working, I’ve provided the list below:<\/p>\n

1. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell – I read this when I was about thirteen. I didn’t really like the way she depicted the slaves and I didn’t appreciate that she used the N word a lot. However, I was interested enough in the book to finish it. I thought the writing was good, but I just didn’t care for some of the elements of the story.<\/p>\n

2. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein – I’ve read some books by Tolkien while in college, but I don’t think I’ve ever read The Lord Of The Rings.<\/p>\n

3. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling – I read the first book in this series, but wasn’t impressed enough to read the others. I did finish the novel, though, so I didn’t think it was boring. I just didn’t feel compelled to read the rest of the stories in the series.<\/p>\n

4. The Stand by Stephen King – I never read this. As a matter of fact, I’ve never read an entire Stephen King novel. I started reading one a LONG time ago, but could not finish because I was too spooked! I thought his writing was pretty good, though.<\/p>\n

5. The Davinci Code by Dan Brown – Yes, I read this. Thought it was a bit ridiculous, but it was written well enough that I was compelled to finish the novel.<\/p>\n

6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – No, I’ve never read this, but have heard that it’s a great classic! I guess I’ll have to read it sometime?<\/p>\n

7. Angels And Demons by Dan Brown – No, I’ve never read this.<\/p>\n

8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – No, I’ve never read this.<\/p>\n

9. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger – No, I’ve never read this, but have heard great things about this classic! Perhaps I should read this sometime, also?<\/p>\n

10. Drumroll please….The Holy Bible! – Yes, read this, countless times! Now, why couldn’t this one be listed as number one?<\/p>\n

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~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this list on AOL today. In case the link stops working, I’ve provided the list below: 1. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell – I read this when I was about thirteen. I didn’t really like the way she depicted the slaves and I didn’t appreciate that she used the N word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}