BBC.com Top 200 books...

[thepixieinside]

I have marked through the books that I have already read and bolded the ones that I want to read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper

Comments

[black_raven135]

I notice that Lord of the Rings has not been one you have read nor is it bolded.
I would highly recommend it be placed in your
'to be read' category.
Trust me when I say, much better than the films.
I am rereading them for the second time and it is like reading them for the first time.
All that said, forget The Hobbit and just read FOTR, TT, and ROTK.

[thepixieinside]

OOPS! I meant to mark it! I have picked it up and read some of it several times. I love the movies, so I DEF. should read the books...Thanks! :D

[black_raven135]

I know you will.......
They are so wonderful....
Jackson rewrote so much that should
have been left alone.....
e.g. in TT they are at Isengarde and
Treebeard is addressing Legolas. I love
what he says to him and Legolas' reply how he wants to visit Fangorn later if he survives
but then notes he would bring Gimli with him who uses his axe not on trees but on orcs.....
Wonderful stuff.
All left out of the film to include other stuff that was never in Tolkien's books.
Do yourself a favor and begin with FOTR
Spare yourself The Hobbit.

[thepixieinside]

OOH! I will remember to start with FOTR...thank you! :D

[jesser1975]

The War of the Worlds is a goooooood read. Read that one four times as a freshman in high school. I still go back for it every couple of years.

[thepixieinside]

OOOH! AWESOME! It is sitting on my shelf and I shall read it soon then....thank you so much! :D

[soapnut]

I would definitely skip Dracula. It's not worth it. Good story, but pretty poorly written, which gets REALLY distracting!

[thepixieinside]

Yeah, see, I like the movies, but I have tried to read the book like 2-3 times, and it's SLOW AS HECK!!!! Thank you!

[soapnut]

LOL, I had to read it for a class. Wrote two papers on it, too. And it took me FOREVER to read, however, writing about it wasn't too bad. Kinda interesting themes are brushed upon by Stoker...LOL, though, I'm sure he didn't mean to address such issues! ;)

[thepixieinside]

HAHA! Sometimes writing the papers are more interesting than the actual book! ;)

[icynn]

Weren't a lot of these books on the banned list too ? LOL

There's a lot there I want to read too ... but I'm impatiently waiting for the last Harry Potter book !!

[thepixieinside]

HAHAHA! I do believe so!

OOOH! I am waiting for it too! *squirms*

[icynn]

I think all the popular books get banned because everyone likes them except for a few people who make such a big deal of it that its just easier to ban them then deal with those few people. Like all the people who were all "OMG Harry Potter is teh evil witchcraft !!" like Wry's mom. Haha.

[thepixieinside]

HAHAHAHAHAH! This is true! Someone has to find something wrong with EVERYTHING! It's so weird!

[jayne_190]

Stupid question: How do you strike through a section of text? I have wanted to do that, but always end up deleating whatever I was going to say.

[thepixieinside]

(without the " " s) <"strike"><"/strike">

[icynn]

you can do it with just the "s" instead of typing out "strike"

see ? I just did the

Just like when you do italics or underline.

=D !

[thepixieinside]

OOH! I didn't know that!!! *squees*