well read

[ms_lilith]

There an internet meme thingy going round that says "According to the BBC, most people have only read 6 of the 100 books on this list" I started writing a little one line review of the ones I had read (41 if you care)
Then I looked for the original list to link to. Search the bbc, I don’t where they say this, or where the list comes from.
So this

Comments

[fay_melusine]

I do wonder who makes these lists and the ultimate point in them.

I've read quite a few of the books on the lists going around facebook and the Beeb, but I've read a hell of a lot more and better books that never make it onto these lists because the themes are much more subtle and take more than a quick glance to 'get it'.
Or because the creator of the list has only ever read the books on the list?

It does bother me that Terry Pratchet has to appear several times on the list when other authors who can write (dare I say it?) better than him are still relegated to the bargain bookshelf.

I always enjoy a book more when I've discovered it, or its author myself and I'm not reading it because the BBC thinks it will make me more intellegent or popular.

I have to say, I totally disagree with your assessment of The Wind in the Willows, I grew up with Ratty as my primary male role model! :0)

[dandelionclock]

I have to say, I thought the list was weird.

I really liked 100 Years of Solitude. It's somewhere in my top 10. And Wuthering Heights, well. Really, really, really hated it when I was 19. Liked it when I was 30. No idea why.