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BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of these Books

Bagpuss
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Just 22 for me, so far. Have ten more unread on my bookshelf though.0
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36 - most of the rest are Jane Austin!0
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14 for me. Must do better.0
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Only 18 for me, surprise as I read a lot, but obviously not the right ones.0
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44 for me.0
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35, although a lot of the classics I read at school.0
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20 for me0
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26 - but funnily enough two on the list (Woman in White and Tale of Two Cities) I've read since Christmas. ...0
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A mere 31, and I'm an English graduate. A few of them are on my 'to do' list mind...0
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49 most that I missed were Jane Austen and the Brontes. I read a load of them with/for my kids though.0
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43 for me - I'm glad that 'A fine balance' got in the list, great book.0
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Read 9; left 4 unfinished. I read more factual books though.0
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7, I did read all 32 volumes of Janet and John but they weren't listed.0
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23 - s'pose years at sea is the reason
The Little Prince is a wonderful book if you know what a hat doesn't look like.0 -
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Surprised its that many to be honest.0 -
Started 2, both for school, but don't think I completed either
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16 .. who drew up this list ? .. no more than 2 would make my personal top 1000
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"The Da Vinci Code" should be worth -ve points.Lincsaddick said:16 .. who drew up this list ? .. no more than 2 would make my personal top 100
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Have started about 25 and finished about 6.
I've never really been enthused by fiction - probably not imaginative or maybe empathetic enough.
Alan Curbishley's autobiography however.....1 -
after 53 pages of the DV Code I gave up .. what a load of old rubbish .. sold trillions though .. does that make it a 'great book'? ... an 'essential read' ? .. does it f***Bagpuss said:
"The Da Vinci Code" should be worth -ve points.Lincsaddick said:16 .. who drew up this list ? .. no more than 2 would make my personal top 100
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(My excuse for only reading 31 is that since discovering Thomas Pynchon, literally nothing else measures up. CL Gravity's Rainbow book club anyone?
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14, most of which were childhood, but then it was virtually all classic fiction, hardly any biographies, sport, travel, music etc0
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52 but I teach English! So many of them I have always intended to read...0
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I have actually read 6 of them. although 3 others unfinished and i own almost all of them. I am only 23 though.0
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53! That's what an English degree does to your social life.0
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1. The Harry Potter Series..
Not read anything since I was a kid.0