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>BBC meme on books

27 Feb 2009 3 Comments

by sunshinescreations in book, rant

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

Instructions (if you want to play): Look at the list and put an ‘X’ after those you have read once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something. (Make sure you delete my X’s!) When you’ve finished put your total at the bottom.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen, (only watched in movie form, haven’t read, yet)
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien, parts of it (watched the movies a few times)
   
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling, X yep, twice (and watched tons of times in movie form)
   
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee, X yep, a few times; too many to remember (watched the movie, too)
   
6. The Bible, yep
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte, parts of it
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell, X yep, a few times
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens, X yep, a few times (watched a few versions of it in movie form)
    
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott, X a few times (and watched movie of it a few times)
    
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller, parts of it
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare, X yep, a lot of times
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien, X yep, (watched the movie too)
    
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger, part of it
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell, (nope, but watched the movie tons of times)
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald, (nope, saw the movie)
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy, (parts of it)
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams, X (a few times)
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck, X (a few times; it is about the part of California where I grew up. I knew all the places they talked about in the book and watched the movie)
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, X (a few times, and the movie tons of times)
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame, X yep, (the movie tons of times)
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens, X yep (the movie a few times)
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis, X yep, (re-reading right now) (watched both British and American versions of most of these books, too)
    
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis, X yep, a few times and watched the movies, too (this is stupid, it is part of no. 33!)
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden, (nope, but saw the movie)
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne, X (yep, have an old edition of it)(and have a ton of Disney movies on it, too)
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell, X Yep, a few times
42. The Da Vinci Code
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery, X Yep, a few times (and the movies, too, over a doz times)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding, X Yep (the movie a few of times)
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert, X yep (and saw the movie)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zifon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens, X yep
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck, X yep
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas, parts of it
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville, X yep
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens, X yep
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker, X yep (love vampire stories; read it, watched it) (the movies tons of times)
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett, X yep
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Inferno – Dante, X yes, a few times
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, X yep (and own about 7 versions of it in movie form)
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker, no but watched it three times
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White, X yep, a few times (and watched it tons of times)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, X yep
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery, X yep
    
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams, X yep, a few times and watched the movie a few times, too
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas, X yep, and watched many a movie based on it
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare, X yep, a few times (the movie a few times)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy – Roald Dahl, X yep (and have both versions of it in movie form )
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo, X yep, love the movies, too

You will discover that I like reading books a few times and then I like to compare them to their movie counter parts just to see someone else’s point of view on a story; it is interesting to me.
My tallies are
read: 34
read parts of only: 6
read all or part of and watched in movie form: 23
only seen in movie form:5

So, I guess I have read more than I have watched. they didn’t want to know the movie part; I was just curious.

Currently I am reading the Cronicals of Narnia and the Ink Heart series, all three books. I want to read them all before I watch the movie (Inkheart) because the movie looks to be parts of book 1 and 2 so far, and I am curious about that.