Icecream Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Very good Kell! OH has just exclaimed how slow I am at reading because I have only read 3 chapters of 1984 ( I did remind him I have a baby:lol:). Maybe it is time I read faster again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Has anyone actually read Jude the Obscure? Does anyone plan on actually doing it? Does anyone know why it is on the list? Just asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Has anyone actually read Jude the Obscure?Does anyone plan on actually doing it? I've not read it, but I have it waiting on my shelf. my sister (who is a non-reader) read it twice for Higher English and says she really enjoyed it. As i say, I've not read it yet, but I definitely plan to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I've not read it, but I have it waiting on my shelf. my sister (who is a non-reader) read it twice for Higher English and says she really enjoyed it. As i say, I've not read it yet, but I definitely plan to. Well, then, that counts as a recommendation! I've always been intrigued by its obscurity. Some day, we'll compare notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Has anyone actually read Jude the Obscure?Does anyone plan on actually doing it? My mother has read it (possibly twice) and recommended it to me. She really enjoyed it (even though it isn't exactly a rib-tickler of a book), so I think I will give it a go at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Ah, my estimation is coming up. Glad I asked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 It's one of my all time favourites - I must have read it 3 or 4 times. Be prepared for some emotional scenes!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Has anyone actually read Jude the Obscure?Does anyone plan on actually doing it? Does anyone know why it is on the list? Just asking. I've read Jude the Obscure - it's sad but good. My personal favourite is Far From the Madding Crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Jude the Obscure is on my to-read list. Another one that I want to finish is Middlemarch. I started that about three years ago, but for some reason, I just couldn't finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Another one that I want to finish is Middlemarch. I started that about three years ago, but for some reason, I just couldn't finish it. That's on my 'books I feel guilty about' list. I abandoned it during my degree (it was possible to do that with a couple of the books on the reading list) and declared it my nemisis. However years later, I used to help a retired vicar and he explained about Middlemarch to me (he had no idea that I'd once tried to read it, it was just coincidence) and then I felt instantly guilty about the novel - but it's sooo long and I've sooo many books to read . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 That's on my 'books I feel guilty about' list. I abandoned it during my degree (it was possible to do that with a couple of the books on the reading list) and declared it my nemisis. I'm entering my junior year this fall as an English Major, and two of the classes I'm taking are English Romantic Literature and The American Novel to 1900. My reading lists are so HUGE, I'm not going to be able to get to my own to-read list. I'm trying to cram as much as possible in this summer! Good luck with yours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I'll be starting my 48th book from this list next - The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy - I've borrowed it from Purple Poppy (you're so kind, PP!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteffieB Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Wow, have I really read 92 of these?? I think so, but I didn't count any Heinleins or Asimov, because I know I went through a phase way back somewhere in my later youth, but I couldn't remember which ones I really read, etc....anyway, somewhere around 92:), although my Doctor Faustus was the Marlowe version. Wow, this is a great list for reminding one what should be read and for patting oneself on the back for having read some seriously good books, even if I wasn't the biggest fan of The Secret History:blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esiotrot Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Great download thanks! I am ashamed to say after having a quick scan I have only read a few of the books listed but have loads on my tbr pile so will set about increasing my number! Kx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Just thought I'd update and say that when I picked up on this challenge on 12 May, I had read 39 books(and left a 40th unfinished). At this point, I've now read 52 books from the list, so I think I'm adding to my "read" pile at quite a fair pace, considering I'm doing this challenge along-side several others. I'd like to have finished another half a dozen by the end of the year - i think that's a fair expectation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Three months ago I'd read 28 books, with 32 on my shelf to be read and a further 97 that I want to read. As of today, I've read 35, with 56 on my shelf to be read (looks like I've been buying a lot of books!) and a further 130 that I would like to read. Do you intend on completing the whole list one day Kell? I don't have any particular target in mind, although those figures above seem to add up to around 20%, and I'd be happy with that as a goal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I actually have the book "1001 Books", I got it as a christmas present once (then didn't take my nose out of it for the remaining holidays!) I haven't taken te toll yet as I'm feeling lazy, and not in the mood to wonder over translations. One of the downsides of reading on several different languages. Let's just let the record show that there's (embarrasingly) few books read, plenty on the TBR piles and even more on the "I can't possibly buy this 'cause I have just huge TBR piles already and no place for more books in my flat unless I do major renovations" -list. I'll get around my accurate numbers at some point, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Do you intend on completing the whole list one day Kell? I don't have any particular target in mind, although those figures above seem to add up to around 20%, and I'd be happy with that as a goal There are some I have no interest in whatsoever, and I've already decided that if I read one book by an author mentioned on the list and don't enjoy it, I shall not pressure myself to read the other books by the same author that might be there (personally, I find it weird that there are multiple entries for authors - although it would be difficult to narrow it down to just one in some cases, I agree!). I'd like to think I'll try most of them though, and I am trying to read at least one from the list each month, although if I can combine them with some of my other challenges (classics/modern classics/Olympic), it means I might get through more of them than otherwise. I'd like to read at least another 4 by the end of the year, and seeing as how I have almost 20 of them waiting already, that shouldn't prove too difficult! Let's just let the record show that there's (embarrasingly) few books read, plenty on the TBR piles and even more on the "I can't possibly buy this 'cause I have just huge TBR piles already and no place for more books in my flat unless I do major renovations" -list. I'll get around my accurate numbers at some point, though. I think you'll find many of us here are in the same situation! :eek2: My husband has effectively banned me from buying any more till I've whittled down my TBR pile a little, but it doesn't seem to stop me from acquiring books anyway! I think the only reason I get away with it as that I sell on, swap or pass on through mooches, many of the books I've read, so they don't end up staying in the flat and taking up more space (although they build up more quickly than I get rid of them, i'll admit!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proserpina Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I've got the 1001 list bookmarked but haven't bought the book, I'd rather spend the money on books to read. I totted up the list a couple of weeks ago and I have read about 95 of the books on the list. I decided this year that I would try and read 25 books from the list, or more if I could manage it. I have read 16 so far and have 19 on my TBR list and I think that will be more than enough for 2007. I'm not forcing myself to read all of them, there are some I know I would have to force myself to read but it has given me some great ideas for more modern literature to try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 (although they build up more quickly than I get rid of them, i'll admit!). They do! I think they reproduce. You look under the bed or behind the sofa and there's little book babies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValenCina Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Here are the ones I've read: 1. Fury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValenCina Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 If you don't mind me saying, ValenCina - you're very well read! You've read most of the novels that are on my to-be-read pile! I don't mind at all, I'm very flattered actually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlligator Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Heres my list. Have read more than I thought. Don Quixote - Cervantes Candide - Voltaire Danerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Jane A Emma - Jane A Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Oliver Twist - Dickens Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit - Dickens The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Vanity Fair - William M. thackeray Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte David Copperfield - Dickens Hard Times - Dickens Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert The Woman in white - Wilkie Collins The Mill on the Floss - George Elliot Great Expectations - Dickens Silas Marner - George Elliot Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Theresa Raquin - Emile Zola Little Women - Louisa May alcott the Moonstone - Wilkie Collins Around the World in 80 days - Jules Verne Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Anna Karenina - tolstoy Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy Nana - Emile Zola the Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Tess of the d'Urbervilles - thomas Hardy The Time Machne - H G Wells The Forstye Saga - John Galsworthy The Old Wives Tale - Arnold Bennett A Room with a view - E M Forster Howards End - E M Forster Sons & Lovers - D H Lawrence Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham Women in Love - D H Lawrence The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton A Passage to India - E M Forster The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fiztgerald Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Thank you Jeeves - P G Wodehouse Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald A handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh Gond with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Razors Edge - Somerset Maugham Animal Farm - George Orwell Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 1984 - George Orwell Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham The Lord of the Rings - Tolkein The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndhamn Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey The Collector - John Fowles In cold Blood - Truman Capote The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov 100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan Schindlers Ark - Thomas Keneally The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Perfume - Patrick Suskind The Handmails Tail - Margaret Atwood Oranges are not the only fruit - Jeanette Winterson Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro London Fields - Martin Amis A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Possession - A S Byatt Wild Swans - Jung Chang Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud The Crow Road - Iain banks The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwod The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks The Shipping News - Annie Proulx Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry The Reader - Bernhard Schlink The Unconsolved - Kazuo Ishiguro American Pastorl - Philip Roth Enduring Love - Ian McEwan Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden The God of Small Thngs - Arundhati Roy Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho The Hours - Michael Cunningham Amsterdam - Ian McEwan The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood Under their Skin - Michael Faber White Teeth - Zadie Smith The Devil & Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen Atonement - Ian McEwan Dead Air - Iain Banks Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Unless - Carol Shields Fingersmith - Sarah Walters The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark haddon The Colour - Rose Tremain On Beauty - Zadie Smith Saturday - Ian McEwan Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirstykat Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 O'h my goodness! What horror!!! I thought that I was relatively well read (although I want to read more classics), but you all seem to have read so much more than me..... I am going to work out exactly how many of these that I have read and then start reading from the list. I know that quite of few of my TBR books at home will match up with the list of TBRs from this list. I had better get a move on...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Here's what I have read: A Prayer for Owen Meany Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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