Book Meme

[anchan218]

Taken from [Bad username or site: tsukikage85 @ livejournal]The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? (My note - only 6??? I've read at least 29, with a few more I think I read, but am not 100% certain so I didn't mark them, and parts of a few others. Granted I read most of

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[shinuhana]

I probably agree with the BBC, even though it is not true for me. Most people don't read books AT ALL, so they've only read the 6 on the list they were forced to read in school (if they didn't just read the cliff notes). I've read somewhere in the mid-upper 20's also, but I think the list is skewed to count whole series as only one book. There's a lot of Sherlock Homes and Shakespeare to read.

[gesten]

There's also some weird double-dipping (33 Chronicles of Narnia; 36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe). Like you say, why are Shakespeare's works worth only a single Dickens work? And of course I'd have to complain that they include Harry Potter but not The Wheel of Time on that list. But all in all, fun list.

[anchan218]

Yeah, I agree with you there that it's not a very balanced list. Most of the books are classics, but then you have the odd contemporary book like the Harry Potter series or The Time Traveller's Wife.

Still, I would have thought that 10 would be closer to the mark than 6.

I should up my number to somewhere in the 30s at least. :) I've been meaning to read Hitchhiker's Guide and Middlemarch for quite awhile but haven't gotten around to either yet.