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Reply With QuoteOh dear... only 21 for me I'm afraid...
I do know that I have read 100's of books, (an avid reader, actually) though, obviously not the ones on the list....I wonder what that means... (?)
Here is the list of 1001 books you must read before you die.
If you can bear it, post how many of the books you have read.
I'm at 151.
Oh dear... only 21 for me I'm afraid...
I do know that I have read 100's of books, (an avid reader, actually) though, obviously not the ones on the list....
phew!
ive read 61 but if you included all the film/play/tv adaptations id seen that figure would be well into the 200/300s!!!
C x
btw my favourite on that list is jung changs wild swans - did it for my RPR in higher english and loved it!!!
anyone else got a fovourite?
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68 from the list for me - but I was very strict and didn't include any I'd started but not finished. I can't help but wonder why those particular books...?
Well, clearly you can't include books you've started but not finished!! I'd get an extra 6 for all the times I've started Ulysses...Originally Posted by Twirly
It's just a publishing thing, sort of the book equivalent of a boy band; get half a dozen academic critics and put together a list of 1001 books so that you have a 'product' that can be sold in bookshops. (There is also a 1001 films to see and 1001 albums to hear before you die. French equivalent no doubt in the pipeline: 1001 animals to cook before you die...)
You can argue with it too...I don't think there are enough Conrad books nor Goldings in the list, I'd argue for the inclusion of Tom Robbins (probably Another roadside attraction) and I certainly think the cut-off date should be 10 years before publication - you really can't tell any sooner than that whether a novel will have 'staying power'.
An another note - there are a lot of bored forumites out there tonight!!!
I've read Ulysses, and that should count for at least 100 out of the 1001!
I'm not terminally bored enough to go through the whole list tonight, but I doubt I'll have read that many...
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
72 1/2 for me (currently reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
I think the list is flawed as I couldn't help noticing there weren't any Dean Koontz books on it....
had a very quick look but i only noticed about 20 i had readbetter get moving huh....
Dean Koontz ? Who is he going to replace then ? ....but wheres Barbara Cartland ?
Only about 55 for me (do I get extra points for Metamorphoses in Latin and Le Petit Prince in French?) - but to be honest, if I use the majority of those I have read as an example of what most of the books on the list are like, then thanks but no thanks, I don't feel the need to bore myself stupid finishing the list.
Don't get me wrong, there are a few good ones in there, but Tristram Shandy? Pamela? And some of the best books I've ever read, both classics and moderns, aren't on the list (or at least not that I could see). Shame, it's a nice idea, but there is a different ideal list for every individual, and that will probably be the list they complete.
OK, had a quick scan through the list... counted about 40 I'd read. As I said above, Ulysses must be worth extra points (it's a long, difficult read, but very rewarding), but Lanark should be worth even more. It's the most dull, tortuous book I've ever read.I've read Ulysses, and that should count for at least 100 out of the 1001!
I'm not terminally bored enough to go through the whole list tonight, but I doubt I'll have read that many...
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
I only enjoy these lists to pick holes. Some authors I'd definitely consider missing(well I couldn't find them on the list):Here is the list of 1001 books you must read before you die.
If you can bear it, post how many of the books you have read.
I'm at 151.
Chekov (can't say he's not there because he only wrote short stories - Gogol's The Nose is there)
Roddy Doyle
Andrei Platonov
More personal biases: something by Robin Jenkins would have been good. Much under-rated Scottish writer, easily the match for many of those on the list. And some writers are distinctly over-represented. Douglas Adams: are both DG novels really must-reads? I love DNA's stuff but I couldn't be a****d finishing the second one. 10 Charles Dickens? 5 Orwell?
Tried counting last night but fell asleep. Somewhere between 50-100, though if ducasi's counting Ulysses as 100, I'll count Finnegans Wake as 300 and Perec's Life:A User's Manual as 100 so that puts me over 500
And BS's point is a good one - too early to judge most of the stuff from the past decade.
and wheres Dan Brown ?
Fifty six
I'd hope that at least once, you skipped some middle sections and went on to the final "Penelope" section. Overall I've probably read the book twice in total, but some episodes more than others.
Bognor.and wheres Dan Brown ?
77 for me. A lot of others that I started, and have always meant to go back to. Some odd absences as well.
Is that the dirty bit??
Ok I can breathe now..
At first.. after a quick scan I saw.. ZERO books I'd read. but after copying the list into Excel and ticking everyone I'd read line by line I can now breathe a sigh of relief and say that I've read 75 of those books. I would like to thank messers Poe, Dickens, Wells, Swift and Verne for bumping my score somewhat
One of them.Is that the dirty bit??
Tame by later standards though. I think the censors back then had more problems with the scatological stuff much earlier on in the book.
It sounds as though were we to pool our resources we'd be very well read!I would like to thank messers Poe, Dickens, Wells, Swift and Verne for bumping my score somewhat
I am mainly thanking Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureshi and Ian McEwan for my score. And wondering at the number of books that I'd started but never finished, of course.
Stuart - I was trying to be facetious!!
28.
Strange, I've got a lot of books in here.... (to paraphrase)
Guess my reading lists aren't quite the same as whoever compiled that list.
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