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Cheery_Daff wrote: »I've read only 38!wow I have read 53 of them!savingwannabe wrote: »I have read 43
Oh god I'm such a philistine. No way am I listing which ones I have read but suffice to say there are only 5 from the last 10 years (Da Vinci Code, Bridget Jones, Time Travellers Wife, Harry Potter and The Handmaid's Tale) (and I didn't even finish the last one
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OK, will start on this list as soon as I finish The Secret (started yesterday, 1/2 way through) and the 4 cack books I have out from the library. Without looking at it again I think I will just start at the top and work down. Hmmmm, I seem to remember The Bible is near the top. Am I allowed to skip the so & so begat so & so bits.
I really, really am such a philistine
Edit: Just went on library website. I have read 4 out of 20 most borrowed books over last 2 weeks and have another here ready to read. Feeling slightly betterA positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effortMortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"0 -
Gallygirl, the Handmaind's Tail is not everybody's cup of tea - I did find it hard going at times. But I do find M. Atwood hard going most of the time.The Bible can be skiped - I had a go but gave up (a bit old fashioned for my taste but might get back to it when I retire in about 30 years time the way things are going). And I have not read No 4 and do not intend to read it - I think that Harry Potter is a very badly written book.
Whatever you decide to do make sure you have fun.
Firewalker0 -
I have no intention of reading any Harry Potter books and did not really enjoy the one film I watched.
I too did O'Levels in English Literature and English Language. Got an A and B, very surprised!
I love reading, and used to read avidly until I had my DS, now I get to spend more time on the laptop then reading. DS doesn't like reading, and doesn't like me reading.
My favourite book out of the whole list has to be the Secret Garden. I loved it and then Television Series came on and I loved that too.
Anne of Green Gables, we did as a school play, which made me go and read the book and then whole series. I tend to read the whole series of books!
I stumbled upon Little Women at the library and loved it. When I was very young, I read through books in a couple of days, so my Mum always made me choose the fattest books I could find, so she only had to take me once a week, hence me reading the entire series of Swallows and Amazons, Enid Blyton, the HObbitT!0 -
Aoreaol, how old is DS?
FW0 -
He is 3 Firewalker. His friend is the same age and he since 1 and a half age, has LOVED books. He used to crawl, get a book, crawl back to the adult, place it in their hands, curl their fingers around it, then sit cross legged in front of them waiting for them to read to him. PS he was very lazy to walk.
My DS.... shuts the book on you and says "The End".0 -
Well I'm ashamed to say I've only read 10 on the list
and started at least 5 more but didn't finish them.
So I'm going to make it my mission to read every single one and will start this week, as we have a far few of them in the house already.
Thanks for posting the list FW :T0 -
Here is my list 64 read plus most of Shakespeare but not all but all the bible so that must count for something
I have take the apostrophes out they are annoying me:rotfl:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the DUrbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corellis Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 3
9 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Joness Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby !!!!!! - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlottes Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
DTxx0 -
An online book club would be a good idea any suggestions as to what we could read?
DTxx0 -
Emmmm...Let me think about it - but about how to do it rather than whether to do it. It is a great idea and will complement the running club nicely.
Off to meeting now but will write when back.
Firewalker0 -
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