Book Meme

[meddow]

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Comments

[artic_fox]

I feel quite proud because in being brutally honest I had read 25 in total, and I didn't include the ones I actually hadn't finished, so I think I'm doing okay. I've only read the first two LOTR books, and not Shakespeare in his entirity. *shrugs*

[meddow]

I'd say 25 is a very good number to be sitting at. I'm a bit disappointed with 15, but I've been terrible in the past few years when it comes to reading books. Atonement has been siting besides my bed for a year now and I still haven't finished it. Hopefully now I'm not spending my day reading textbooks, I'll get around to reading fiction a lot more.

[xntrick]

I sat down with my mother and we went through the list together. I'm impressed by her reading 20 of them...she's Japanese, and hasn't had the same kind of exposure to a lot of these mostly western books listed here.

I read 31, but I'd say a lot of them I had to read. I was an english major. In fact, there are things listed I know I was supposed to read and just never got round to.

[meddow]

I once went through a list of top ten books with my family. My mother used to be a librarian, and is very kick ass at these sorts of lists as a result.

A few of those started and never finished books were ones I had to read for English in high school and even wrote reports on (such as Jane Eyre).

[frenchroast]

I've read 42, but it would be more if I counted the ones I started to read but stopped because I was bored/hated them.

Then again, one of my bachelor's degrees was English, so it would be kind of bad if I hadn't read a bunch of them.

[meddow]

Wow. 42 is good. I had to count the ones I've started and never finished, since that's my main reading habit. I think one out of five books I start, I actually get all the way through.