I snatched this book meme from
kitkii on facebook. I really wanted to do it, but I hate being active on facebook, so I'm posting it here! :D
The BBC thinks folks may have read only 6 of the following 100 books. Betcha we can beat that! Copy this list to your "Notes" section. Bold the titles you've read. Italicize the titles you've read parts of or
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2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (holy shit, took me like... 3 or 4 months.)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (started on the 1st book... and quickly remembered why i prefer movies)
6 The Bible (again... thank school...though when i was little, i was kind of interested in the bible... idk why. strange child, i guess. up until i was about 6 or 7, dad used to pray with me every night before bed. yeah, that whole Our Father, who art in heaven etc.)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (just snippets... sigh. i fail)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (pretty sure it was the whole thing, when i was little)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (sis owns the book so... yeah.)
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i've only made it through the first two books for harry potter (i didn't really like them to be honest...), but i really want to finish them all...eventually. everyone says once you get through the first two they are really good.
the bible...oh man. i was the same. it was so interesting to me..ideky now. i only ever read the devastating parts of the bible, or the parts about love. 8|
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I would say 3/5 people I work with don't read actual books.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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yeah, most of those are books we were made to read in school...but i'm really glad for it. i may not have given them another thought if it wasn't required. just because of the rep they get from the majority who don't like to read. although, Little Women i could have done without. i became a huge Shakespeare fan because of school, when we read our first play by him.
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I had my momma to help me on the Shakespeare frontXD She went to England to study Shakespeare when she was in uni, so she started passing on the love when I was young^^;
I don't usually care to read what most people consider "classics" because that means "boring" to me... But I'm glad for having read many of them in school because for the most part I did end up enjoying them. (Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men being two examples.)
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i saw the complete works of shakespeare in a bookstore up here and i want the entire set but it's so old and that it's an insane amount of money but, i want it. i want to read everything. i can't believe ppl don't read more in america. i want to kick myself for not reading as much as i should ;____;
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ooooh~ totally stealing this as well~~~
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