Comments | eowyn_rain: Book Meme Stolen from Passion

eowyn_rain

Book Meme Stolen from Passion_heart

Aug 10, 2009 10:32

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions: Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

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Comments 3

tsukinofaerii August 10 2009, 15:24:01 UTC

Does anyone else feel like it's really weird to see Harry Potter included in a list with the Bible and Jane Austen? Or how apparently HP & Shakespeare only count for one each (saving Hamlet, I guess?). LotR only counts as one too. o.O;

I honestly haven't read most of the ones listed lol. Why do we pin our supposed membership as a well-read person on these-many of them for children or old? Don't new books count? :( (feels left out)

eowyn_rain August 10 2009, 15:46:15 UTC

I believe new books count, yes. I've read plenty of new books, and love them very much. I think the thing with these books are that are "classics". (I do find it funny that HP is "classic" now.) I din't think HP, Shakespeare, and LOTR should be considered only one book, because, well, they are not.

Most of these books on this list I have read because of High School and/or College classes. Most of these books I would never pick up on my own. That is both good and bad.

On the one hand, being assigned to read some of these books broadened my horizons, and let me discover things I might not have if I had never read the book.

On the other hand, there is literally million of wonderful books out there, but the educational system only likes to focus on "the classics". I, for a fact, was forced to read To Kill a Mockingbird at least eight times because of school. Eight times. That's seven other books I could have read, that my classmated could have read year after year, because it was a favorite for all of the English teachers ( ... )

tsukinofaerii August 10 2009, 17:05:41 UTC

See, I think my educational deficiencies are the reason I haven't read most of these. Very, very few of them are something I'd pick up for pleasure reason, and the area I went to school in wasn't one of the best. Or even vaguely close to adequate, actually. In fourth grade I had a speech impediment (or what most normal people call "an accent", except the school gets more money for calling it a "speech impediment" and putting me into therapy for it) and they tried to put me in remedial reading. (eye roll) Then in fifth grade I got sent to the principal's office for lying because I'd brought in Dracula and the teacher didn't believe me when I said I was reading it. I ended up having to quote passages at them. (sweatdrop) Sixth grade was good (I loved that teacher-she focused almost entirely on non-English Language literature, especially Japanese). After that, I think I spent all of seventh reading Treasure Island as a class, when the book is short enough that I probably could have read it in a day, and in eighth grade we got to ( ... )