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[pook41]

I also  stole it from shayenne

Apparently the BBC believes that the average person will only have read six of these.

How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4

Comments

[pook41]

Glad to be of help. I liked that book a great deal and actually read most of the series. But my CRAFT means that I don't remember much except for giant sand worms [I think] and spice

[kim_j_8472]

I dunno, pook. There's no Stephen King's "The Stand" on this list. Not holding much water for me... ;-)

[pook41]

Yeah ... you're right. Oh well. We know its the best though.

[shayenne]

I think the list is rather weighted to Brit-fic and books that were popular in Britain, seeing as how it's a BBC poll. The only Aussie author I see there is Neville Shute (I think)... and you haven't read it! LOL

[pook41]

Too right. Most of the books remind me of my high school English book lists. I saw the movie of 'A town like Alice' with Peter Finch. Does that count? LOL

[shayenne]

That'll do. And at least A Town Called Alice isn't as depressing as "On the Beach". I feel like taking the cyanide pills along with every single character in the book when I read that one.

[audabee]

I've only just seen this - I've bolded 21 & italicised about 10. However,if I've read Pride & Prejudice 50 times, does that count as 71 bold?

[pook41]

That counts. LOL