Books

[keletkezes]

Cut for your viewing pleasure: reading list!

Comments

[daffodileithil]

It's not all classical - I've read nearly a quarter of that list and I've never gone near most of the classics ;)

Admittedly, that probably depends on your definition of classical literature...I'm going with the Bronte/Austin/Dickens/Shakespeare sort of defintion here - by other definitions, I guess most of the books on there would count.

It's good to see a lot of my favourite books on there, though :)

[keletkezes]

I was more thinking the ones I've seen adapted to screen!

On a related subject, I should read Good Omens soon before I forget what I saw in The Omen...

Brought to book.

[knaw]

Don't listen to what the Book Nazis want you to read: read what you actually want to read, otherwise you've wasted your time.

For example, my most recent books have been Mirabelle Maslin - On A Dog Lead and Ardal O'Hanlon - Talk Of The Town. My current book is Bill Bryson - Notes From A Big Country, and the next two will be Douglas Coupland - JPod, and Jon Butler & Bruno Vincent - Do Ants Have Arseholes? Hardly likely to make a Top 100 of classic books but ones that I know I will enjoy.

[keletkezes]

I don't think I've ever read a book I didn't enjoy on some level. I know back in secondary school we all had to read a book from a genre we hadn't read so I did romance (about the only one). It was a fairly classical early 19th century one and, to be honest, it wasn't too bad. It was quite light-going and such but I wouldn't read it again because I didn't enjoy it as a book (though I only found it boring in places), but as an exercise it was quite fun.