snagged from heloula

What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader

Literate Good Citizen

Book Snob

Non-Reader

Fad Reader

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snagged from snuffkin

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

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So, I read
“The Princess Bride“ by William Goldman


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Okay, after my post here, schribaere posted another 24 German books in her entry here: Of course I had to snag.
Same rules as in the previous posts.

27. Krabat by Ottfried Preußler
28. Stadt der träumenden Bücher (The City of Dreaming Books) by Walter Moers
29. Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär (The 13 ½ lives of Captain Bluebear) by Walter Moers30. Der ( Read more... )

So, inspired by this list I posted here, I was really sick enough to look up "The Big Read" on wikipedia, where I found the lists of Great Britain, Germany and Hungary. And what did I do? Exactely, I followed the instructions from the last list and these are my results ( Read more... )

snagged from HOLYCITYGIRL

"According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
[addition by me (the_lucky_ducky): Strike out the books you really disliked or would never even touch ( Read more... )

...The only doll I ever owned/ Now I love you just the way/ I loved that rag doll/ But only now my love has grown

I'm currently re-reading what used to be my favorite books when I was about ten: "The Mennyms" books by Sylvia WaughThere are five volumes and I just finished the second one. It's funny, as soon as I started re-reading "The Mennyms ( Read more... )

Found this at mad_reflections and I thought it was fun, so...

1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )