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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    edited 21 November 2010 at 12:10PM
    I've read only 38!
    aureol212 wrote: »
    wow I have read 53 of them!
    I have read 43

    Oh god I'm such a philistine :o. 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 :o).

    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 :o

    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 better :)
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    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.

    Firewalker
  • Aesop
    Aesop Posts: 23,773 Forumite
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    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!
  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    Aoreaol, how old is DS?

    FW
  • Aesop
    Aesop Posts: 23,773 Forumite
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    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".
  • macgirl
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    Well I'm ashamed to say I've only read 10 on the list :o 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 :T
  • Here is my list 64 read plus most of Shakespeare but not all but all the bible so that must count for something :D
    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


    DTxx
  • An online book club would be a good idea any suggestions as to what we could read?

    DTxx
  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    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.

    Firewalker
  • savingwannabe
    savingwannabe Posts: 16,619 Forumite
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    Oh my gosh DT go and read The Grapes of Wrath. NOW! 00020148.gifYou are jolly well read. Recommend something for us.
    Aiming for a minimal spend 2022
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