Reading Meme

[bethzebra]

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[queenmabwords]

The average is pathetic!
I loved Watership Down. I've read it several times. Anna loves the movie and we watch it often. Despite it not being very kid friendly.

[bethzebra]

That movie was on a list I saw this week of 26 Most Traumatic Kids' Films. :-)

Found it! I think....

[queenmabwords]

http://www.bettyconfidential.com/ar/h/a/a01092.html

[avidbeader]

Hee. I think you're the first person who's read more books than I have, of the participants I've seen so far.

[bethzebra]

That's weird, I don't see your comment. Nevertheless, I fixed it.

[michaelsullivan]

Odd that, I have read the same number exactly.

Very different choices on the love front, but we agree on Watership Down. And I never read it as a kid, only as an adult.

And I wish there was a category for "Do not belong on any such list, an affront to the rest of these classics"

It's also weird having both sets and novels that are in the set as separate items.

I treated the set as read only if I had read the whole thing. Which yes, *did* count both complete works of Shakespeare (at least everything that's in the 1980s Riverside) and the Bible as read for me.

For the few stinkers, even though I actually did read mine through, do you think it counts if you merely read enough to know they were trash (88 and 42 were mine)?

[bethzebra]

Yes, I have to admit that a few of the choices seemed like an affront to the rest of the whole exercise - even the Bryson, which I loved, doesn't exactly seem to belong on a list with the big dogs.

[bethzebra]

I just noticed you actually said which were your bottom-feeders, and I agree those were the ones. I actually did read a few pages of _Da Vinci Code_ but there is no way I'm putting it on a public list as a book I've read! The very idea!