What do you think about this?
(sorry, I don’t know how to do the fancy link thing)
I guess I’m really screwed up: *Jane Eyre * and *The Stranger * are two of my most favorites. I’d actually pick 8 on the guy’s list and only 4 on the chick’s.
Interesting that the only book in both Top 10s is Catch-22 which barely has any women in it at all (Nately’s whore probably being the most memorable).
And the only woman author in the Men’s Top 10 is a book written from the viewpoint of a little girl.
Could they have been any more condescending and insulting to men there?
They ought to have replaced ‘honours women authors’ with ‘sponsored her research’ in those brackets.
Most suprising find on the list : “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
Jardine is insulting and what she said isn’t a very good summary of that list. Although if it’s true that most men quit reading after they leave school, it makes sense that their favorite books would be angsty.
Female, The Stranger in a New York minite.
And who the fuck calls Orwell puberty reading?? He has (had 
) one the best, most clear and coherent prose styles I’ve come across, and he wrote intelligently about things that were (and are) important. Sh can just get stuffed.
Academia meets outrage. I’m always disappointed when fascinating research hunches over so that mediocre analysis can give it a good strapping.
Actually “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” are on both lists as well. 
I have read three books from both categories, but one of those was “To Kill a Mockingbird.” And all but one of those books were assigned reading in High School. I guess I’m just not into the classics. I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and the others in the set in Jr. High for fun.
Yeah, I was really surprised by that too. Of course it’s a wonderful book, but it probably wouldn’t ever be my first choice for changing my life.
One of the only things that I agree with in the article: I prefer paperbacks to hardcover.
Pssst. I explicitly said Top 10 
Two of you tagged The Stranger, which isn’t on either list. Did you mean The Outsider?
I’ve read 7 on the men’s list, and 3 on the women’s list. I can’t remember which Camus book I read under duress in high school, but it wasn’t The Outsider. I found it boring and pointless. I read Kafka’s Metamorphosis a few years ago, and I couldn’t figure out what was supposed to be so great. I’m planning to read The Trial to give Franz another chance.
Frankenstein is a grim, depressing tale of pain and revenge. Who knew that would be chick lit?
They’re the same book, just different translations of the French title.
*The Stranger * is also translated *The Outsider * from the original French title L’Etranger. So, to answer your question, yes.
Jinx.
The Camus you read under duress was probably The Plague.
Given my user name, I 'd recommend you give it another chance. 
Another book I love.