Reading Quiz

[katiebgood]

To save time and sanity, I'm marking everything I've read enough of to get a real feel for with an X as well (half ish, or less but couldn't bear to read more without my brain exploding).  I will not be marking those I read children's versions of with an X.

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading

Comments

[bellisaurius]

I've read about ten of them, but I'd note that there's not even one science book in there, not even Flatland. Then again, it looks like it's a fiction list, so I guess I shouldn;t be too surprised, and I guess I'd rather meet someone who was part of at least one of the Two Cultures (lecture series by CP Snow about the distance between humanities and Science folks).

[katiebgood]

I figure I got jilted on a couple of these- it only took me five pages of "Tess" to figure out I never wanted to read any more of it, so I didn't think I could check it. And I've read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson but haven't even heard of this other book on the list. And Narnia and LW&W are listed separately, which seems ridiculous- but then Hamlet and Shakespeare's Works are too. I was thrilled to see Dune on it, though. :)