Reading meme

[lillyg]

Stolen from shanachie_quill

The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE READ!

So far, I've read only 8 of the list but I've read other books from some author here. The fact that I read mainly French classics at school didn't help

Comments

[finnishsphinx]

Hmmm... Those things always make me hit myself in the head (not literally) and tell myself I really should read more... and then I forget it. LOL Out of that list, I´`ve read 17 of them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
(Okay, I had a bit of a Austen phase in the nineties, but so did a lot of people! LOL)

2 The Lord of the Rings - (killed some spare time when I was in the army)
3 Jane Eyre - (forced on us elementary school)
4 Harry Potter series - (the first 4, it really went downhill after that...)
16 The Hobbit -(see LOTR)
20 Middlemarch - (So many characters it gets confusing...)
21 Gone With The Wind - (Better than the movie)
22 The Great Gatsby - (Slow, but entertaining)
24 War and Peace - (Like watching a paint dry...)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - (Confusing, but in a funny way ;)
29 Alice in Wonderland - (Good childhood memories)
31 Anna Karenina - (Love the book, hate the ending)
72 Dracula - (Better than any of the movies)
85 Madame Bovary - Depressing, but touching)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - (I`ve read them all, and I still go back to them from time to time)

[lillyg]

24 War and Peace - (Like watching a paint dry...)

LMAO! I'd do like John Sheppard, take it to Atlantis to put me to sleep at night...

I love the HP series

The Lord of the Rings - (killed some spare time when I was in the army)

You really had time to kill! LOL! You stayed 10 years? :p (it's the time I'd spend reading it I think! ^^)

[finnishsphinx]

Nope, I was there just one year. When werent in maneuvers or on training camps, we usually had the evenings off. Using the phrase off in the very liberal since, we got off around 5 and the lights out was at ten. Most days we had a chance to go on an evening leave (from 5:30 to 21:30) but were so far away from everything that it wasnt really worth it. It took most of the time to get away and back!

So there was a lot of time. Some people went to the gym, some watched TV, and some read. It took about two weeks to get War & Pace read, but LOTH was quicker to read. Maybe it`s just the authors style. Some auhors books are just easier to read than others, with some books you have read it slowly to understand what the writer is trying to say... LOL

[lillyg]

Some authors are just so lost in description that you don't even remember what they were talking about at the beginning of the sentence... 3 pages ago... :p

[finnishsphinx]

Exactly. Why make things harder than they have to be? ;)

[lillyg]

just to be pompous so it gets "classical"

[finnishsphinx]

Yep.

(By the way, I had to think for a moment what you meant with the whole John Sheppard thing... then it just hit me and I had one of those "I should have remembered that right away" moments... Not to mention I just posted the first part of my first SGA fic, so I was kinda in that mind set, so how did it take so long?

Wonders of the mind I guess: If it doesnt wanna make the connection for you, it won`t do it. LOL)

[lillyg]

Yeah, I did the reference because I saw that you posted a crossover with it :p

[finnishsphinx]

Well, a day isnt complete without at least one of those "can`t belive I didnt get it" moments ;)

[lillyg]

LOL! It happens!