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[frozen_wishes]

Over the weekend, I managed to make myself feel very low brow and inferior by looking at this website. Out of the 1001 books listed there, I've read 55, and most of those are due to an almost embarrassing obsession with Jane Austin. Feeling in the mood for self-improvement, I marched myself over to the library on my lunch yesterday and hunted out

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[frozen_wishes]

If we can count books I recognise, I would probably have at least a few hundred on my list!

There were a few gaping holes in the list. Terry Pratchet for example.

[javez_tmf]

Totally agree. How Men At Arms and Wee Free Men weren't on there is beyond me!

I must admit, I did cheat a little in my count. I said I'd read Crime and Punishment. I've sort of read it - well, the first 50 pages or so - about a dozen times, but can't get beyond them. :o(

I noticed that whoever compiled the list REALLY likes J M Coetzee. Don't get me wrong, I've read Disgrace, and it was pretty good. But I think there's about 5 or 6 of his on there....

[frozen_wishes]

Crime and Punishment - same here! I just couldn't stay awake! Maybe I should try again though. It took me several attempts to read War and Peace and I ended up getting really into it when I eventually got past a certain point. (I seem to remember doing a livejournal update about Natasha, Pierre and the progress of the French invasion of Russia a couple of years ago)

I don't think I've read any J M Coetzee - or heard of him for that matter. As I said, I a lowbrow and inferior. ;)

[javez_tmf]

I only read the Coetzee book cos a friend of mine at work insisted on it. She said I should try to read something that didn't involve elves, goblins or orcs.

I still think she was wrong in that.

:o)