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gallygirl wrote: »

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 ).

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 better

I have read my books at different stages in my life. I think you gain different nuances from them as you become older and more aware of yourself and life. I could do with revisiting them again. For example, Moby !!!!!! often did put me into a coma but it is about a man's battle with himself and overcoming the odds - now it will mean more to me.

Whatever you read it doesn't matter. Focus on enjoying it. After all that is why we are here. PS nuffink wrong with being a philistine petal i am a brummie and rather chuffed with it!!! Now i had better go do some marking.

Double_Trouble

savingwannabe wrote: »

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PS nuffink wrong with being a philistine petal i am a brummie and rather chuffed with it!!! Now i had better go do some marking.

I am a brummie too nowt wrong with that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DTxx

Craftyscholar

Only read 40 - and a lot of those were due to schooling. Must admit I had expected to get a higher count, but I suppose it depends on the criteria for drawing up the list.

gallygirl

savingwannabe wrote: »

. PS nuffink wrong with being a philistine petal i am a brummie and rather chuffed with it!!!

Phew, better a philistine than a Brummie .

I am actually v cultured - I went to our brand new theatre yesterday to get tickets for a forthcoming show and am also awaiting news of a festival so I can but more tickets :A. Ok so it's Hardeep Singh Kohli (funny guy off the One Show) and Leicester Comedy Festival, but hey, they're in proper theatres so that counts, doesn't it

Double_Trouble

gallygirl wrote: »

Phew, better a philistine than a Brummie .

Cheeky but I love the smiley

DTxx

gallygirl

Double_Trouble wrote: »

Cheeky but I love the smiley

DTxx

:kisses3:Just kidding DT :kisses3:

savingwannabe

I love the smiley too. Firewalker will laugh when she see's what you have written.

gilligansyle

Was prompted to look at this by macgirl so here's my list.

All books I have read are in bold; the ones I started but did not finish (for variety of reasons) are in Italic and the one I never considered reading are plain.


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 -but at school
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 D'Urbervilles - 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 Traveler's 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 Hiker's 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 Corelli!'s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 3
39 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 Handmaid's 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 Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's 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 !!!8211; 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 Charlotte!!!8217;s 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;

I make it 60 that I've actually read, but most of them were at school, they were part of the curriculum. I re-read Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, Emma is my favourite Jane Austen. A lot of the others I've read after seeing a film, or in the case of Harry Potter, I read them to my son. I am ashamed to say that I've never heard of some of them. I don't know whether to count the Bible or not, if it just said New Testament, it would definitely be a yes, but have only read the 'good stories' in the Old.

groatie_queen

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 Travellers 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
39 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 Jones Diaryt - Helen Fielding
69 Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie70 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

Although I finished Donna Tartt's book I didn't really enjoy it or rate it. Couldn't persevere with Memoirs of a Geisha. The Handmaid's Tale is the only Margaret Atwood novel I have read, it didn't encourage me to try any more.

Russian novels with their casts of thousands have always been a problem for me, sorting out who's who and keeping them all in mind. Managed Anna Karenina but gave up during War and Peace. I was quite young when I read them - maybe if I were to go back to them now I would make more sense of them!

GQ

Firewalker

aureol212 wrote: »

He is 3 Firewalker.
My DS.... shuts the book on you and says "The End".

It sound like your DS is bored - and when you think about it being read to can be pretty boring (I know because recently the reading relationship in the house reversed and I am being read to by DS - fall asleep every time).

Little Boy did not like being read to either - he did not say 'the end' but he will close the book and say 'all mone' (which meant 'all gone' and he was less than two). So what I somehow started doing is not read the books but act them - still the link to the book is very important. Might be an idea to start acting the Gruffalo, for example. It is great fun - for both mummy and little boy. And you son can be part of the play.

Just an idea.

Firewalker