~V~ Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 I've copied the list down - I plan to work my way through it. I'll report back when I have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 I have read 32 of them, which is double what I thought it would be. I do have plans to read a lot more of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Have read - 48. Own - 46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I have read a pretty impressive 114 of them: 1 - Cloud Atlas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyanddandy Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 FA, L and V those are impressive figures! oh dear I have only read 8-10 - some of them so long ago I can't remember if I have or not - I have copied the list into a document in order to keep a record. I don't think I will make it before I die!! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I have read 17, again, some a long time ago. Some I have on my shelves, some i want to get, some I have seen the films of, and some are even titles of pieces of music I have played.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Poppy Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I have just used the spreadsheet (fantastic...thank you Arukiyoma). I have read 124, definitly, albeit quite a while back, and ppossibly another ten or fifteen. There are a few on my bookshelves waiting ti be read, and quite a few I have on wish list. I am ashamed though at the number of books and authors I had never heard of. Apparently I have to read 32 books a year (for how many years??) Thanks Kylie and Arukiyoma:friends0: Oh...huge omissions, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, all the poets. It does say books, not fiction! Pp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Apparently I have to read 32 books a year (for how many years??)For the rest of your natural, apparently! I think it calculates the number using the average lifespan of males and females (women have more time to read them as we tend to live longer). I have to read at a very reasonable rate of 19 per year. I think that's do-able! Oh...huge omissions, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, all the poets. It does say books, not fiction!There have been quite a few comments to that effect on LT - it really should be called 1001 novels you should read before you die. I lament the lack of dramatic representation, but not the poetry - I never would have got round to reading them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 It's not just novels, though. There are a few non-fiction books in there - like Primo Levi's If This Is A Man. I can understand omitting Shakespeare, as those are really plays not books, written for the stage. And poetry is rarely originally written in book form, rather it's normally written as individual poems which later get collated. The lack of Chaucer and Milton (although I have struggled with the tiny fractions I've read of both) is a more serious omission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 FA, L and V those are impressive figures! I'm not sure mine is a very impressive figure. And I'm very old so have had heaps of time B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carm Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 those are very impressive numbers fa l and v!!! i've read 26 that i remember reading- there are others that im sure i read but i just cant remember:blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Finally managed to do this Surprisingly, I've read 70!! Or 6.99% to be precise And being 22, to complete the list, I'd have to read 16 a year. Which isn't too bad, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 It goes up very slowly. I'm 22, and have only read 17, but still only have to read 17 year (one up from you having read 70).. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 I think my numbers are heavily skewed by my late-teens reading through the canon of SF, and also by a lot of the 20th century Eastern European stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 It goes up very slowly. I'm 22, and have only read 17, but still only have to read 17 year (one up from you having read 70).. Also, I did literature at Uni. And was an amazingly pretentious teenager (hello Camus etc!) I think it should consider lifestyle factors, like health insurance: Do you smoke, drink a lot alcohol, only eat fried foods etc. It could even combine with that How Long Are You Going To Live For site. Although that would be terrifying... I think my numbers are heavily skewed by my late-teens reading through the canon of SF, and also by a lot of the 20th century Eastern European stuff. Yeah, yeah, Andy. We know you're a well-read boffin No need for false modesty (You know I don't really mean it Andy! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Well, of course I'm a well-read boffin. It's just that I seem better read than I actually am thanks to teenage years of going through the Asimov and Heinlein and Dick and Vonnegut, and reading the entire oeuvre of JG Ballard, and probably having read more Andric and Kadare and Bulgakov and Hasek and Kafka and Pavic and so on than any normal person would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Well, of course I'm a well-read boffin. *Bows* Well, of course sir! It's just that I seem better read than I actually am thanks to teenage years of going through the Asimov and Heinlein and Dick and Vonnegut... I was like that as a teenager. I was obsessed with the Manics so would prance around with lots of beat writers, existential novels, 'challenging' poetry etc. My best mate even lugged The Torture Garden around school for weeks! Ah, happy days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Thinking of beat writers, how can there be all that Burroughs, Kerouac, and even two Brautigan novels, yet no Sombrero Fallout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 It'd be nice if we could somehow do a Top 100 Books list according to this forum. My maths is beyond terrible, but would it be something like everyone on the forum offering up what their Top 10 recommendations would be? I'd like to see that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Poppy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Andy said think my numbers are heavily skewed by my late-teens reading through the canon of SF, and also by a lot of the 20th century Eastern European stuff. Me too! Thats the thing about teens in the sixties! Unfortunately i then had an almost bookfree next twenty years! Pp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 It'd be nice if we could somehow do a Top 100 Books list according to this forum. My maths is beyond terrible, but would it be something like everyone on the forum offering up what their Top 10 recommendations would be? I'd like to see that I think we've done something similar. The trouble is that often it becomes a popularity contest, and this isn't really about which are the most popular books; rather it's more about the ones most highly recommended. There are a lot of "My favourite book" type polls out there, and they'd never include 90% of the books on this list. In the past when I saw those kinds of list they'd always have two or three Jeffrey Archer novels on there. Now, I'm sure, they'd have 6 Harry Potter books on. In a way I'm happy with someone else doing the editorial on this, advising us of books that would be worth our while reading, rather than having a straight popularity contest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 It'd be nice if we could somehow do a Top 100 Books list according to this forum. I'm sure we did a Top 100 favourites at one point. I'll have a look around and see if I can find the thread... Aha! Now, we actually did a Top 10, but the full list ran like this: These were the books that got more than 1 mention: 1st Kelley Armstrong - Bitten / Stolen 2nd A A Milne - The House At Pooh Corner (Winnie The Pooh) Joint 3rd C S Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia Mark Hadden - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl In addition, these authors recieved more than one mention, although for different books each time: Stephen King Juliet Marillier Charlaine Harris Dean Koontz James Herbert Martina Cole Terry Pratchett This was the full list: A A Milne - The House At Pooh Corner A A Milne - Winnie the Pooh Anne Bishop - Daughter of the Blood Anne Rice - Interview With A Vampire Arnold Lobel - The Frog and Toad series Arthur C Clarke - Rama Series Ben Elton - Popcorn Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero C S Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia Caiseal Mor - The Circle & The Cross Charlaine Harris - Dead To The World Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Christopher Brookmyre - The Sacred Art of Stealing CJ Sansom - Dissolution Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace - Are you Dave Gorman? Dean Koontz - Life Expectancy Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham Enid Blyton - St Claire's series Evelyn Waugh - Scoop Fitzroy Maclean - Eastern Approaches Graham Masterton - Devil In Grey H.G.Wells - Time machine Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird Ian Pears - An Instance of the Fingerpost Ivo Andric - The Bridge Over The Drina J D Robb - In Death Series J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye -- by J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter series Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart James Herbert - Fluke James Herbert - The Magic Cottage Jean M Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle : A Memoir Jeffrey Steingarten - The Man Who Ate Everything John Julius Norwich - Byzantium John Lanchester - The Debt to Pleasure Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest Juliet Marillier - The Sevenwaters Triology Juliet Marillier - Wolfskin Kate Forsyth - Witches of Eilanan Kelley Armstrong - Bitten Kelley Armstrong - Bitten/Stolen Kelley Armstrong - DimeStore Magic Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows Laurell K Hamilton - Blue Moon Linda Fairstein - Entombed Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Marion Zimmer Bradley - Mists of Avalon Mark Hadden - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Martina Cole - Faceless Martina Cole - Two Women Matt Ridley - Genome Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita Minette Walters - The Sculptress Monica Dickens - One pair of feet Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer P C Cast - Goddess By Mistake PD James - Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Peter - James Host Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl Primo Levi - If This Is A Man Richard Adams - Watership Down Richard Laymon - Body Rides Simon Scarrow - Books 1-4 of the Eagles series Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep A Secret Spike Milligan - The Book of Milligananimals Stephen King - IT Stephen King - Needful Things Stephen King - The Green Mile Stephen King - The Long Walk Stephen King - The Shining Stephen King - The Stand Steve Harris - Adventureland Sue Townsend - The Queen and I Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising series Tami Hoag - A Thin Dark Line Terry Practchett - The City Watch series Terry Pratchett - Death Trilogy Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy - Tess of the Durbevilles Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly Trudi Canavan - The Black Magicians Triology Wilbur Smith - River God William Golding - Lord Of The Flies William Goldman - The Princess Bride The thread got moved to the archives a while back as it was done ages ago. It's a very different list from Peter Boxall's one and I wonder how different it would be if we tried it again now... We also run the annual awards, which is why keeping a note of the books you read throughout the year is so handy. They get run in January for the previous year's books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Hey! I missed some! I've actually read 75 And I did a column for To Be Read and I have 42... Eek! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I've just gone through the list and I've read 28 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I'm onto my 46th book on the list, so I'm fairly cracking on - that's 6 more than I had when I first looked at the list on 12th May, so little over a month. Pretty good going, methinks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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