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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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mummytosteven · 09/06/2007 21:00

phew, 146.

NKF · 09/06/2007 20:58

I couldn't get my pc to calculate the number but it was quite a trip down memory lane for me. There were loads of books I'd read but I couldn't remember why or when or what they were about or what I thought of them. Gormenghast for example.

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pinkspottywellies · 09/06/2007 20:54
fillyjonk · 09/06/2007 20:48

am i the only one who can't get onto it?

prob because i'd show you all up...

Smurfgirl · 09/06/2007 20:47

Haha 66 and i have an English degree.

policywonk · 09/06/2007 20:38

I rather like Mr Faulks. But he is very unfashionable.

Slim · 09/06/2007 20:37

Am feeling rather depressed at the idea that I have to read Sebastian Faulks before I die

rather unimaginative list I thought

Flame · 09/06/2007 20:31

Veeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyy low (34)- but I do have oodles of em sat on my shelves ready to read

They like Mr McEwan don't they!

I don't have an English degree though. Their target for me is very doable - 18 a year.

Slim · 09/06/2007 20:19

I have an English degree too - have recounted and got to 100.

DH is horrified that I have never read Treasure Island - 'all that time reading poetry when you could have been reading Treasure Island!'

in my defence A Dance to the Music of Time is lots of books and some of the others are bloody long. I reckon some of the books should get you bonus points, like Thomas Mann which was excruciatingly dull.

BecauseImWorthIt · 09/06/2007 20:16

99 - just less than 10%. and I have an English degree!

There were loads of books I'd never heard of, as well as lots I'd started but could never finish.

Have tried to read Captain Corelli's Mandolin 3 times now and have given up and decided it's just pretentious and actually badly written. (I know loads of you will disagree ...!)

Tickle · 09/06/2007 20:09

63 - ditto biblio, it has reminded me that there are lots of classics I have yet to read, esp in the 21st century section!
Surprised me how many have been made into films too.

Slim · 09/06/2007 20:08

DH has 115

he is swanking

Slim · 09/06/2007 19:50

95

there are some seriously dull booksa there though

bilblio · 09/06/2007 19:36

88 - I obliviously like 19thC literature. It's reminded me of a lot of other I want to read though.

A lot of the 20thC stuff I only read because of my English Lit degree, and I hated most of them. I also included books I'd started and not finished because a book has to be truly dreadful for me not to plough through it to the end. I don't like admitting defeat.

I thought the Edith Wharton choices were odd too. I've been on a bit of a stint reading everything I could find by her recently, but hardly any of the ones I have read were listed. I'll have to go raiding some new charity shops for her other works

I could've guessed pretty early on that it was compiled by a male, I might get a couple of my male friends to try it and see how they fare.

Blandmum · 09/06/2007 19:09

In which case my total was 57!

DumbledoresGirl · 09/06/2007 19:08

Catch 22 was there MB

DumbledoresGirl · 09/06/2007 19:08

44 finished.

A surprisingly large number of books I started or read parts of and did not finish - I say surprisingly as it is rare for me to not finish a book, but there are some dull tomes among that lot.

policywonk · 09/06/2007 19:01

Oh yes! Quite!

The compiler does seem to have included some deliberately obscure stuff - some pretty dodgy early Toni Morrisons, but no Paradise?

Blandmum · 09/06/2007 19:00

Was Catch 22 in there? I can't remember

Blandmum · 09/06/2007 19:00

I thought it was quite an 'American' choice IYSWIM. I wouldn't have put all those Huxleys in either

NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2007 18:57

Oh, and lots of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell - not just the good ones. I've read everything by both of them, but still.

And where on earth is Sherwood Anderson?

policywonk · 09/06/2007 18:50

Also some bizarre Edith Whartons. I thought I'd read all of hers, but there were three titles in that list I'd never heard of. It's not like she was that prolific.

NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2007 18:35

He clearly has a big hardon for Hollebecq, and Haruki Murakami, too.

policywonk · 09/06/2007 18:34

175

It's reminded me how much I hate some of these authors, actually.

Jose de Saramago - sheesh. Nobel Prize, my arse.

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