[How did you find the forum?]

I found it just searchin google, it's a good place. I take the posters opinions here seriously.

[Olympic Reading, 2012 edition]

Well I noticed this a while back and have decided to give it a go. I started about 3 weeks ago and like my progress. 180 countries in 4 years? I'm in!

Excited to find reads that without this challenge i would have remained ignorant. I'll use a similar format as many others, with red = read and green = intending to read.

Here's the list :

Afghanistan - Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Albania

Algeria - The Fall - Albert Camus

American Samoa

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Aruba

Australia My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bermuda

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

British Virgin Islands

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

Cape Verde

Cayman Islands

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China - Soul Mountain - Gao Xinjiang

Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)

Colombia

Comoros

Congo DR

Congo Republic

Cook Islands

Costa Rica

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[The most disturbing work of fiction that you have ever read]

Hmm, Most disturbing read must have been 'The Collector' By John Fowles. I remember feeling dirty by the end of the book, and the feeling of it wouldn't leave me for some days.

Another one that really stuck me was 'Disgrace' By J.M. Coatzee, both of these books left a cloud over my head. Still though, both of them are some of my favorites, as well as 1984.

A friend of mine just lent me The Collected Works of Marquis de Sade; not by request mind you. But i haven't had the nerve to begin reading any of it. I'm not sure how much moral depravity i want to submit myself to.