2009-08-10

delphipsmith: (library)
2009-08-10 11:18 pm
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Snobby book meme

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions: Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] ladyoneill for this one.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X) [about a million times]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X) [about a million times]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible ( ) [couldn't make it past the excruciatingly boring 'begats' ?]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (X) [way better than I expected]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ( )

Total so far: 8/10

the other 90, for the book nerds in the audience... )

Total 63/100 -- I am a literary goddess, bow before me!!!!


Update: Apparently there's no proof the BBC actually said this; it's based on a list from The Guardian of the 100 books people said they couldn't live without. Still, an interesting exercise.