BBC reading list

[karu_chan]

Taken from impressioniste

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Bold the ones you've read.
Italicize the ones you’ve partially read.

Comments

[ina]

Is this really the list from the BBC? 36 is part of 33, which seems a bit strange.

[karu_chan]

As a dumb internet user, I dind't check if it's really from the BBC, but trusted Leah...
No. 26 is missing too.

EDIT: Yes it is. Found the no. 26 too *g*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

[ina]

That's very different list.

[karu_chan]

The few I checked seemed to be similar - and now... good luck with trying to find the original source, because I gave up now
*hmpf* @Internet

There is this list: http://www.dinojim.com/bbc.htm (doesn't match)

I think somebody put the 200 books from the BBC survey together, shortened it here and there, summarized a bit and then it was done?

[neitoperhonen]

WTH You haven't read Winnie the Pooh?! *shocked*

[karu_chan]

Nope, I haven't.
When I was a kid that book wasn't available in my country. And afterwards there were too many other books. FANTASY and tons of STAR WARS.

[mit_souko]

I have actually read most of the books on this list, which are in the main "English culture classics", though a certain number are modern. That doesn't mean I liked them equally. Some of the books are really just for kids or, at best, teenagers, like 11. I did like Dickens when I was growing up.

I love Jane Austen , Charlotte's Web is just sentimental fluff, Cold Comfort Farm amusing but forgettable, same as Bridget Jones Diary. I detest Thomas Hardy and find him a crashing bore. French literature is represented by very few. Les Miserables [100], to me, is just maudlin Victorian stuff, not nearly as interesting and fun as Dumas' The three Musketeers. Zola...don't bother.

I would definitely recommend No. 96. I saw an Australian series done from it, then read the book, quite fascinating [about a British girl and an Australian who meet in Malaysia during WWII, when they are both Japanese prisoners]

[d0ci]

1 1/2....3 teile harry potter
und brand new world..aber das war für die schule...
ich sehe...ich bin unter dem duchschnitt xDDD