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How many of these have you read?

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Jessicatmagnificat · 08/06/2007 09:45

johnandsheena.co.uk/books/1001books_arukiyomi.xls

Just came across this. It is fun, but quite scary. Am too embarrassed to reveal my own score here! Don't know if the link will work, and would be grateful if someone more knowledgeable than me could amend it. Thanks

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Quattrocento · 11/06/2007 00:10

Well yes but surely no-one reads Fanny Burney unless they have been afflicted by a particularly ghastly tutor for 18th century stuff. I refuse to believe that anyone has read FB for pleasure anytime in the last hundred years.

policywonk · 11/06/2007 00:04

Oooh, quattro, you are winning by miiiiiles

(not that it's a competition)

reading English is neither here nor there on this thread!

Quattrocento · 11/06/2007 00:03

402 - but I read english. This list is so bizarre and totally lopsided.

twinsetandpearls · 10/06/2007 01:25

I have been trying to get myself more motivated reading wiose and try some new authors, perhaps could use this list as inspiration.

UCM · 10/06/2007 01:08

I have read tons but don't have the time to do it these days.

I figure that I will have loads of time to read the top 100 when I am old and don't have fuck all else to do.

kama · 10/06/2007 01:07

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WendyWeber · 10/06/2007 01:03

It is a weird list. (But there was a lot of John Wyndham and I've read them all so that bumped my score up!)

jura · 10/06/2007 01:03

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suzywong · 10/06/2007 00:59

I didn't spot it, most of the others except When we were Orphans. Do you wanna a scrap about it?

twinsetandpearls · 10/06/2007 00:57

I thought remains of the day was on there but maybe I was just making assumptions.

suzywong · 10/06/2007 00:55

nor me, twinset, and I am not particularly remorseful about it

Agree with earlier poster about odd choice of author's works - lots of Ishiguro but no "Remains of the Day", lots of Toni Morrison but no "The Bluest Eye"

with what criteria in mind was this list compiled?

twinsetandpearls · 10/06/2007 00:52

It absolutely bored me to tears and it wasn't the teacher as I loved everything else we read in English.

serenity · 10/06/2007 00:47

Cider with Rosie was a cracking book!

twinsetandpearls · 10/06/2007 00:44

TwoIfBySea I thought about that as well, cider with Rosie was on the list which I read at school and hated,

twinsetandpearls · 10/06/2007 00:43

Have realised that I have never ead any Dicken or Amis of either generation.

twinsetandpearls · 10/06/2007 00:42

96
There were some rather odd books on the list with some trashy literature that has gone on to become films, captain correlli being a prime example.

serenity · 10/06/2007 00:31

25, higher than I expected and I'm shocked by that because I tend to deliberately avoid books that I'm told I should read (total inverted snob I'm afraid )

Was I just scrolling to fast or was there no Chaucer on there? ( I actually enjoy reading him, just to be contrary)

haarpsichordcarrier · 09/06/2007 23:47

what a bizarre list

poppysdog · 09/06/2007 23:16

51

Quattrocento · 09/06/2007 23:15

Not sensible list at all.

funnypeculiar · 09/06/2007 23:14

Buit it did help to have read a lot of McEwan...
Wierd list...

Boco · 09/06/2007 23:00

148

TwoIfBySea · 09/06/2007 22:54

118

Surprised that they included Bus Conductor Hines, I wouldn't have thought many people would have read that. I wrote an essay on it at school and the teacher made it clear she hated the book, still wrote the essay though.

Was also debating whether or not to include books I had to read at school and hated (f*ing Gatsby.) And trying to remember half the books I have read!

Agree that there are some interesting omissions.

filthymindedvixen · 09/06/2007 21:00
  1. But again, I have read all for example, all edna o'briens, Thomas Hardy, John Steinbeck etc. Lots of interesting ommissions. Many of the ones I haven't read it's because I think I woulf hate them!
InTheHouse · 09/06/2007 21:00

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