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I've had 'Memoirs of a Geisha' a while and haven't read it -- Since I use the library a lot and moved around a bit, I don't have TOO many super old books that I've owned a long time. That makes 'Memoirs' it for me. :)

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North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

 

It was recommended to me by my GCSE english teacher and then again two years later by my A Level english teacher so that time I did go out and buy it, I was 18. I thought I had given it away and decided to get another copy and then bizzarly went to put the second copy right next to my original copy of the shelf :doh: so 16 years later I now have two copies neither of them read by me.

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North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

 

It was recommended to me by my GCSE english teacher and then again two years later by my A Level english teacher so that time I did go out and buy it, I was 18. I thought I had given it away and decided to get another copy and then bizzarly went to put the second copy right next to my original copy of the shelf :doh: so 16 years later I now have two copies neither of them read by me.

 

 

Hope you eventually get round to reading it Easy Reader as it's a good book :)

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The only book that comes to mind, (but I am sure there would be some older), is a copy of dune that a friend gave me about 7 years or so ago. Still have not read it.... yet.

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Mine is The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)...I just can't get past the first chapter!!

 

Andie P x

 

Oh, and most of the Jane Austen books.....Collecting dust on my shelf!

 

Andie P x

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Having now finally read Heart of Darkness, the unread book that I've owned the longest is Max Lundgren's 21 nästan sanna berättelser, which I bought in 2002 for uni. It's a collection of short stories and I've read at least half of them, and I've really enjoyed some of them, but I've never managed to actually finish the whole book. Maybe I should do it this year. It would probably be a good way to refresh my Swedish skills as well.

 

I've now read 21 nästan sanna berättelser, so I had to check which book is now the oldest unread book in my library. And I can't believe the book dates from 2006, only six years ago! It's An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan (the Pride & Prejudice story written from the point-of-view of Darcy)

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The Lord of The Rings... The film came out when I had just reached half way, and I just couldn't bring myself to continue it after!

 

Snap! That's it for me too! If we're talking about my own books, not those owned by my parents.

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Mine's probably Robert Jordan's Eye of the World and The Great Hunt. Someone gave them to me about 12 years ago and I still haven't come close to reading them.

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The Bible. A childrens version with illustrations. Got it for just being born or was it christened?? I think every kid got it, from I have absolutely no idea. At least I know nobody bought it for me, it came in the mail.

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Light in August by William Faulkner. The books belonged to my mother. I tried reading it as a teeneager but never succeded. Tried again years later...another fail. Tried last year - epic fail :P

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