3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwel 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tart 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
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I love you dearly, so I'm not breaking up with you over this.
It will just have to be put in the same category as The Aviator (which nearly broke up my friendship with nullsechs) and Closer (which nearly broke up my friendship with aflockofmollies.
Well, let me qualify that by saying the following:
-I usually read books in 5-10 minute stretches right before I go to bed. Usually over a period of about 6 months, and interspersed with science reading for work.
-I also usually read a book for plot and not much else. So if I can't figure out what's going on, its hard for me to get into it.
I think my problem was that you really can't read that book a few pages at a time and then come back to it 2 weeks later and read another few pages. I kept forgetting what had happened and having to start over. I only got about 40 pages in when I decided that I should give give up. I still plan on giving it the attention it deserves from me, but maybe not while I'm in grad school.
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4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwel
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tart
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ( ... )
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Really?!
I love you dearly, so I'm not breaking up with you over this.
It will just have to be put in the same category as The Aviator (which nearly broke up my friendship with nullsechs) and Closer (which nearly broke up my friendship with aflockofmollies.
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-I usually read books in 5-10 minute stretches right before I go to bed. Usually over a period of about 6 months, and interspersed with science reading for work.
-I also usually read a book for plot and not much else. So if I can't figure out what's going on, its hard for me to get into it.
I think my problem was that you really can't read that book a few pages at a time and then come back to it 2 weeks later and read another few pages. I kept forgetting what had happened and having to start over. I only got about 40 pages in when I decided that I should give give up. I still plan on giving it the attention it deserves from me, but maybe not while I'm in grad school.
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