Comments | echo_fish: It is only a novel

echo_fish

It is only a novel

Jan 19, 2011 22:24

Blatantly stolen (with permission!) from krilymcc :D

"The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt."

Cold Comfort Farm is on the list. Cold Comfort Farm is on this list. Completely flummoxed by that. ( Read more... )

favorite books, etc.

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echo_fish January 20 2011, 07:55:55 UTC

Right? It's weird. Really, really weird. Oh, please feel free to knock the books. Cold Comfort Farm shouldn't be within 10 miles (16 km :-) of this list. I did some searching, and it looks like it's just a weird meme based on the BBC's attempt to find the top 100 favorite books.

So, really, really, really weird.

Oh, Grapes of Wrath. It really did get better (for me). Curiously enough, I loved it by the time they got to California (my grandmother would tell me about how she watched the cars come in as a little girl in Bakersfield :-)) Not that where we're from has anything to do with it :D That's actually why I want to read Cannery Row--we were stationed near Monterey for a few years and I loved it.

tuckp3 January 20 2011, 07:40:59 UTC

i actually hate this list. there's no rhyme or reason as to its contents and they have four (4) of the harry potter books on here, which is basically a cheat. it actually appears that this version is different than the one that circulated previously. most notably the inclusion of the bible. yes. i HAVE seen it that many times. anyhoo, my list below and you need to read 'one hundred years of solitude', it's an omission that is a slight to your soul.

tuckp3 January 20 2011, 07:41:16 UTC

. here's the list i've seen. **read *started, but never finished ( ... )

echo_fish January 20 2011, 08:31:32 UTC

Okay, seriously, Cold Comfort Farm is listed yet again. What is going on?

Don't you just love double-starring Ulysses?

It's funny about the Harry Potter books; amusingly, the three I've actually read are the three of the four on this list. Aww, Black Beauty. And more of Roald Dahl's oeuvre!

Such a curious list.

avidreadergirl January 20 2011, 13:36:55 UTC

I like your list! If only for the extra Terry Pratchett,

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dr_anitacoffee January 20 2011, 07:42:07 UTC

After having my 18-year love affair with reading destroyed in college, my goal is just to read something that is not about foreign policy or a political memoir. I'm thinking of reading the entire "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" series and, if I have energy after, possibly a pop-up book about a dinosaur that I saw in the dollar bin at Barnes and Noble.

echo_fish January 20 2011, 08:46:27 UTC

Oh, same!! Sigh. I used to love reading so much. My punishment was always having books taken *away.*

IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE IS IN SERIES FORM?!!! Not kidding, that's probably exactly my speed right now. And pop-up books! I miss pop-up books. Stupid school and its powers of destruction.

avidreadergirl January 20 2011, 13:40:50 UTC

Oh, same!! Sigh. I used to love reading so much. My punishment was always having books taken *away.*

Oh me too!

avidreadergirl January 20 2011, 13:51:37 UTC

You think a turtle crossing the road is bad? Try "My mother is a fish" as an entire chapter. Three is a good reason I threw As I Lay Dying, by faulkner across the room when I was in college.

Cannery Row is great.

This list has always bugged me for many reasons, why In the Shadow of the Wind, which is ok, and not The Club Dumas, which makes my own top ten list of my personal favorite books? It's very subjective