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elfwreck

Frequently Unread books meme

Sep 30, 2007 16:00

Grabbed from ellen-fremedon:
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

( I am not particularly well-read, especially for classics. Most of them, I read in school. )

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danodea October 1 2007, 01:17:40 UTC

Some of these are Gaiman books. Anansi Boys & American Gods, in particular.
If you like Gaiman, you would probably also like Neverwhere, if it is the Neverwhere I'm remembering (Green's).

You might like Freakonomics. I found it interesting, but was reading a borrowed copy and didn't have time to finish it. Read most of it, though.

elfwreck October 1 2007, 04:01:44 UTC

I have Neverwhere; I haven't gotten around to it yet. I'd happily read anything by Gaiman. Freakonomics sounds interesting; it's one that I want to look into.

slashpine October 1 2007, 01:28:54 UTC

aaagh. couldn't fit my list in here and besides, too much tagging (wrong browser). But I replied, and commented, at my IJ:

http://slashpine.insanejournal.com/6882.html

Recommendations to fill in the gaps? Are you kidding? I'd say SKIP most of what's on this list. New + long + NYT best-seller list doesn't necessarily = "classic, don't miss ( ... )

elfwreck October 1 2007, 04:07:43 UTC

Well, skipping most of these was definitely the plan. Unfortunately, there's no mark for "the ones you loved" or "the ones you plan on reading."

I eventually need to slog my way through Don Quixote; it's pretty much Discordian scripture. ("A Discordian is anyone who looks at windmills and agrees that they might be giants." --Holy temple of the Saints John.)

Guns, Germs & Steel is on the list to read eventually. So are Gravity's Rainbow, Catch-22 and Wicked. Anything on the list and available through Project Gutenberg is probably not; if it were, I'd've at least started it. (I've started Don Quixote. I will eventually get all the way through it.)

Nonfic recs are okay. I'm considering whether I should get some books about linguistics & cognitive science, or stay the hell away from anything that overtly intellectual as it tends to put me on a pedantic binge for months.

misanthrope_mom October 1 2007, 17:07:11 UTC

I'm not gonna follow instructions; I'll edit and annotate ( ... )