Big Read

Jun 26, 2008 13:25

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see ( Read more... )

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kimi_chan June 26 2008, 04:20:31 UTC
Is it just me or dothe people who made that list have very narrow interests. Also, what's with the listing a whole series as a book and then listing one or two books from that series individually?

Crazy.

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chibi_nezu June 26 2008, 04:33:30 UTC
I'm presuming it's working on sales figures and the top 100 of what has made the most amounts of dosh.
However in that case.. the ones that are listed as series are cheating...

yeah it doesn't make a huge amount of sense.. like listening the complete works of Shakespeare and then Hamlet further down..

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mrabyssal June 26 2008, 04:48:52 UTC
I managed about 10 and half of those were from reading at school at various times. Of course that's counting the Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as 2 not being one and the same. Individual books vs collected works in the same list is wrong.

Should probably read more, though most of books I read probably won't make any top 100 lists.

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hazy_crazy June 26 2008, 06:06:13 UTC
You've done heaps better than me, though D: LOL! And that's it - half of these books don't interest me AT ALL. I prefer teen/romance novels than to the supposed 'classics'. Although I love To Kill A Mockingbird - that's such a good book :)

I'm really glad to hear that you've read The Faraway Tree series! I grew up reading those, and heaps of other Enid Blyton books. I love them :D I'd probably still read them now haha. I want to slide on the slippery-slip and eat pop biscuits! :'( haha

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chibi_nezu June 26 2008, 14:06:29 UTC
LOL well I can think of 10 books on my shelf which i've read that aren't on this list.. and I can think of 3 more I have lined up to read ^^;; so really this thing is a horrible judge..

and I remember The Faraway Tree series very little but I do remember that our teacher at school read them to us ^^

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pwned_spit June 26 2008, 18:20:34 UTC
I am going to recc you three books:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The first I read in college prep english, and I literally devoured the whole thing. Got an A on my paper.
The second I picked up on a whim for vacation reading, expecting it to take me the whole week of vacation, and it took me two days to finish. The lesson in it is amazing.
The third is more of a children's novel like Narnia, but more modern. It has pictures and everything. I once knew this guy who had the illustrations from the book tattooed on his arms. He was pretty hot. That is how I ended up reading the book, and then I stole it from my school because I loved it so much. He had nothing to do with it afterward, lol!

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