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soderbergh

"The Great Read"

Feb 24, 2009 14:46

From a friend of mine "The Great Read is apparently all scandalized that most Canadians have only read six of these books." I, like her, don't really understand why these books are the ones they've chosen. I hardly think that reading the daVinci code makes you a reader -- aren't most serious readers too embarrassed to read that? Plus, half of these ( Read more... )

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on 'literacy' dustyasymptotes February 25 2009, 08:12:18 UTC

this thing has been going around forever. haven't actually found the actual BBC report ( ... )

cont'd dustyasymptotes February 25 2009, 08:12:41 UTC

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( ... )

Re: cont'd soderbergh February 25 2009, 18:40:06 UTC

But I love Great Expectations! I think I read the Giraffe the Pelly and Me though I'm missing all the same ones as you are (and possibly a few more: re: Roald Dahl -- e.g. I never bothered with James and the Giant Peach as like a conscious choice).

There's a severe absence of Virginia Woolf on this list.

Also, I c/p'ed from a friend of mine so...woops! I forgot to change the Three Musketeers listing; I have not read any Dumas because I'm convinced I should read it in the original French, which I'm just so not up to doing yet.

Thanks for agreeing with me about Joyce.
Re: Rohinton Mistry: you liked the "first" one you read best? and then the later ones less and less? His wife worked at my high school. We didn't get along swell though because she didn't like my shoes.

How come you haven't read any Austen?!?!?!

Do you love the Laurence boy?

Re: cont'd soderbergh February 25 2009, 18:46:11 UTC

PS have you heard the newest Devendra Banhart album? "Shabop Shalom" has got to be my new favourite song.

Also, I'm spreading the Devendra Banhart love. I feel like I've been doing a lot of spreading of the "things Jiayi loves and then spread to me and that I must now spread to the world" stuff lately.