22nd Apr 2009 at 3:33 pm
Grog me.
I'm trying to read my way through the top 100 books from here. So far I've only got 18 that I've finished*; and I'm reading Heart of Darkness at the moment (I'm not doing them in any particular order).
I seem to remember that the average British adult has only read 7 of the 100. How many have you all read?
22nd Apr 2009 at 3:41 pm
Grog me.
22nd Apr 2009 at 4:21 pm
River Phoenix
22nd Apr 2009 at 4:25 pm
Technically sexy.
22nd Apr 2009 at 4:37 pm
River Phoenix
22nd Apr 2009 at 4:49 pm
Technically sexy.
22nd Apr 2009 at 6:23 pm
Grog me.
Was Nineteen Eighty Four any good?
22nd Apr 2009 at 6:28 pm
Technically sexy.
22nd Apr 2009 at 7:24 pm
22nd Apr 2009 at 9:13 pm
I aim to misbehave
22nd Apr 2009 at 9:36 pm
River Phoenix
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte*
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
6 The Bible - Chuck Norris*
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*
8= Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
8= His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles d*ckens*
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott*
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy*
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller*
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare*
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier*
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks*
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot*
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell*
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
23 Bleak House - Charles d*ckens*
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy*
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck*
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame*
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy*
32 David Copperfield - Charles d*ckens*
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini*
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins*
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy*
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood*
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon*
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles d*ckens*
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov*
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt*
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas*
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac*
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy*
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby d*ck - Herman Melville*
71 Oliver Twist - Charles d*ckens*
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker*
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce*
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath*
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola*
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles d*ckens *
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker*
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro(*)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert*
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad*
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks*
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare*
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I did The Remains of the Day for A-level, but I never actually read it :-[
Out of interest, I wonder why Hamlet is included seperately from the Complete Works of Shakespeare...........?
22nd Apr 2009 at 10:41 pm
River Phoenix
23rd Apr 2009 at 8:20 am
23rd Apr 2009 at 8:54 am
I aim to misbehave
23rd Apr 2009 at 9:26 am
River Phoenix
wow, I have read so very few books. Apart from a book called "The Machine Gunners" (can't remember who wrote it) which I read for school, I can't think of any other books I've read, apart from the collective works of Karl Pilkington.
Ah f*ck it, prefer DVDs anyway. Get with the times people!
23rd Apr 2009 at 11:11 am
Grog me.
The Da Vinci Code is a terribly written book... I'm not sure why it receives so much hype. A guy I used to know recommended it to me and said it had changed his perspective on a lot of things. So I bought a copy, got half way through, stuck it on my book shelf and thought, "That guy needs to read to more"!
23rd Apr 2009 at 3:14 pm
23rd Apr 2009 at 3:31 pm
Quote: Paddy_Irishmanwow, I have read so very few books. Apart from a book called "The Machine Gunners" (can't remember who wrote it) which I read for school, I can't think of any other books I've read, apart from the collective works of Karl Pilkington.
Ah f*ck it, prefer DVDs anyway. Get with the times people!
The Machine Gunners is by Robert Westall.
23rd Apr 2009 at 3:54 pm
24th Apr 2009 at 11:18 am
Hope is important.
24th Apr 2009 at 11:51 am
Hope is important.
24th Apr 2009 at 7:01 pm
Technically sexy.
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I thought the lovely bones was total sh*te.
You're dead inside.
It was one of the most over-hyped books I've ever read. An ok story, completely unworthy of the utter praise it got. And it was too schmaltzy at times.
Also, and the icicle thing? Stupid, stupid moral in a story.
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