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03.10.2010, 17:36 quote

whysoserious1983
whysoserious1983 Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 3629 Location: United Kingdom, England, Gloucestershire
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lovoftching wrote:
I have read only 18 of them, all the Jane Austin books!

you poor, poor lady! I can't imagine the horror you've had to endure.
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03.10.2010, 17:53 quote

70

Wow....surprised myself there with 31...... does that mean I need to get out more????

 

03.10.2010, 18:09 quote

whysoserious1983
whysoserious1983 Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 3629 Location: United Kingdom, England, Gloucestershire
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Gods no! It means you've got 69 more to go. I can read about four books a week.
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03.10.2010, 19:19 quote

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s6boystu Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 3089 Location: United Kingdom, England, Essex
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12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

So i've read 16 out of that 100, however that 100 books doesn't really cover my taste in reading material as most of those, i read at school.
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03.10.2010, 19:38 quote

baggiebhoy
baggiebhoy Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6029 Location: United Kingdom, England, West Midlands
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Off that list, I've only read 1 so far: Nineteen Eighty-Four.

I do want to read a couple of others though.

I'm suprised about the omission of a couple of classics I have read though; namely Frankenstein and Dorian Gray.
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12.11.2010, 18:51 quote

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Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 9 Location: United Kingdom, England, Hertfordshire
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22... the best one is The Wasp Factory... respect for it being in that list!

 
 
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