Book meme I stole from pretty much everyone

[finnmarie]

Okay, I felt like doing this 'cos I like book memes. Apparently this is a list of books LibraryThing's users most often mark as unread. The original meme speculates that people leave these on the shelves to make them look smart or well-rounded. I won't even go into that, because it'll give me a headache.

Anyway the idea is: bold what you've read,

Comments

[mamlambo]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to hate Time Traveller's Wife and Angels and Demons. People keep arguing A&D is better than the Da Vinci code... possibly it is, but is that really a good comparison? I mean it's comparing suck with suck no?

The Time Traveller's Thingy was just so melodramatic and it just wouldn't end lol.

[finnmarie]

the only thing that made Time Traveller's Wife bearable was the Cretan sun :) I read it while at the beach... after I finished some much better books...

A&D... well, we have it, but I've told Basti I'll beat him up if he reads that before he's read all the good books in our house. That'll take him a few years, and I'll certainly buy new good things before it gets to that point :D

[finnmarie]

And, I'm totally with you on Mansfield Park. It's a great book.
Even if my English Lit prof laughed at me when I told him I like Austen.

Yeah, the one who ruined Gulliver's Travels and Moll Flanders for me.

[mamlambo]

Some teachers attempted to ruin a lot of books for me too. Fortunately, my mum is a teacher of English and she always stepped in to try and undo the damage. The other trick she used was to tempt me to read a lot of books long before school thought they were suitable - it worked:-)

My uhh favourite moment, I think, was this idiot teacher who was meant to be teaching us "The Merchant of Venice"... and who kept insisting that Shylock was a DUKE. Of course I objected... and of course I was punished.