Book meme

[undycat]

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon

Comments

[rebeccafrog]

God was listed as the author of the Bible? That is both arrogant and stupid. Not to mention patently false. The person from whom I got this list had already deleted it. Though, I suppose, what can we really expect from people who list a series and then list books from said series singly? And we won't even talk about how some of these books made a "top 100" list!

[undycat]

Seriously. The DaVinci Code?

[dangerryan]

What, no I am the Cheese? 3 Miles to Pinecone?

[tweedy_girl]

And where's the Vonnegut, the Wodehouse, and the Wylde? Where's The Scarlett Letter, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Lathe of Heaven, and Good Omens?

[bauhausfrau]

(giggle)

[buniduk]

Quote:"I highlighted books that I've read part of and then abandoned or thrown across the room because I didn't like them"

I love the visual of you picking up the bible and getting frustrated with the way the plot was going.. getting ticked off at the blatant disregard for proper punctuation and sentence structure... chucking it across the room..

(giggle ahh...)

Who is this Big Read? Why do they think the top 100 books they've printed are so important? Maybe the populace is reading better books from other publishers. Maybe just maybe.

Wouldn't the true measure of literacy be quality of reads -not quanity? I like to think a person who will hungrily and joyfully pick up The Lorax or The Very Hungry Caterpillar again and again is more well read than someone soaking up the top 100 systematically with the dry comprehension of a shoe.

And by the way, I actually saw Corporal Nobby at our local grocery store last week.

And I laughed my own private joke all the way home, THAT'S good liturature.

Re: (giggle)

[undycat]

not a clue, but i think they may have crap taste in books. :)

Lame

[rexspeed]

By who's standards are these the top-100 books? Perhaps I ought to make my own list of books and then judge anyone who hasn't read a certain number or portion of them:

The Unfair Advantage - Mark Donohue
The Gold-Plated Porsche - Stephan Wilkinson
The Cobra in The Barn - Tom Cotter
The Mechanic's Tale - Steve Matchett
Michael Schumacher; The Whole Story - Christopher Hilton
The Last Open Road series (4 books) - Burt Levy
Anything from Terry Pratchett
Lamb - Christopher Moore
Fluke - Christopher Moore
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
The Body - Stephen King
Son of The Revolution - Liang Heng
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Berry Smith
America (The Book) - Jon Stewart
The Dead-Guy Interviews - Michael Stusser
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin - Mark Twain
Any of the 'Side Glances' collections - Peter Egan

There's your shopping list. Now go read something.