Reply With QuoteWait till you hit gone with the wind! Love that book
Well the Woman in White in which I am currently reading is 800 pages long !! I have just gone past half way. LOL. I don't think I have EVER read a book with so many pages hahahaha.
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Wait till you hit gone with the wind! Love that book
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i got..... 98
no no jk... but i dont think anyone would have believed me if i said 100 hahaha.
TBH.. i havnt even looked at the list lol
Anna Karenina is an AWESOME book - it did take me a few attempts too though
Life of Pi has to be THE best book I've ever read. It blew me away.
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I've heard that. I have that one on the shelf too...I couldn't really get into it! Another one to try again.
The first third of the book is HARD WORK but the ending blew. me. away. Soooo good.
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I got 49... and started but not finished another 13 of them for one reason or another. Some of them I really want to read.... others I think I would prefer to stick bamboo shoots under my fingernails (Ulysses anyone? James Joyce totally does my head in). The Bible I have read the New Testament but not the Old one... or the other way around, I can't remember I was only 12 at the time. There was a lot of begetting anyway
I would really like to read To Kill a Mockingbird, A Fine Balance, Shadow of the Wind and a Suitable Boy.... so they might go on the list for this year.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
I think I got about 34. Are they all supposed to be classics? What's the deal?
There were a few on there (can't remember which ones tho) that I wouldn't read with a gun to my head.
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Oh yay! It was my news years resolution to not read any more light reading chick lit books, so was going to start with some on this list that i haven't read! I scored 31, and had another 16 that i had started but not finished!
Anyone interested in a book swap? I can have a look and see which titles i still have and would recommend reading?
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
That's right - I'm sure there was another list that went around earlier and it had quite a few books that were more modern bestseller types that I had no interest in EVER reading.
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I was happy with my score on that booklist - it was in the 70's from memory. To be fair - ALOT of the books on that list were absolutely crappy reads (classic literature or not: I mean Wuthering Heights just plain sucked). Alot of them I could attribut to high school english - I used to read the perscribed novels overnight, so my teachers took to assigning me a list of different novels to read while everyone else was catching up. (And then when I had read ALL the books in the school library I was allowed to bring in my own from homeI think my english teachers sometimes ran out of things to do with me, and I drove them a bit nuts).
Much rather read sci-fi fantasy anyday.
Should I put names in the first post of who definitely wants in? Then we can all check in with each other to see how we are going?
So who is definitely in?
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Yep! I'm in
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I have kind of been doing this for a while (I think thats why I got a high score). I downloaded a free i-phone app that has heaps of classics so I was working my way through it. A lot of them are on that FB list.
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I got 41/100 when I did that a while back. I credit it to year 11 and 12 3unit English LOL. I'd love to join in too but I already have a mountain of books that I haven't read yet that aren't even on that list. And that's not even including all the textbooks I need to read this year either.
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Count me in too! From memory I think I got 30 something as well....
Not much reading has been done around here in the last 8 months, lol.
But Mr C is sleeping a little better so I've started to get back into normal routine again
Pixie, A Fine Balance is one of the best books I've ever read! Also loved loved loved Shadow Of The Wind too!
I have a huge amount of the books here on my bookshelf, so if you guys want to post which ones you'd like to borrow, I'm happy to lend mine as long as you don't mind returning it when you're done
Yeah, I'd like to join. Will start one of them when I finish Buddhism for Mothers
I finished Woman in White today. YAY. It is I guess you'd say a "mystery" book. Can get long winded in spots, but was okay enough to keep me going. At one point in reading it yesterday I even said to myself "what no way" LMAO.
This afternoon I downloaded Alice in Wonderland as an e-book. I have probably read it many moons ago and know all the movies lol, but couldn't actually remember reading the book. Reading the 51 pages of Alice in Wonderland was a breeze compared to the 800 pages of Woman in White.
So I have now ticked an extra 3 off from the 100 list. Up to 14 read. YAY. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes is waiting for me to collect from the library, so that will be next
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