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I'm not sure I understand why the books on this page were chosen, but I've read 18 of them.

http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismin ... -challenge

What about you?

If I change it to "Films I've seen" it's 32!

I've read 4. Not enough books about video games.

32 - quite a lot I read a long time ago though

13. Aided by being forced to read them for school. (Although I do believe I only read 50 pages of Wuthering heights before I refused to read any more from it being irredeemably boring shit*.

So 12.2.

(GCSE projects bases on books you haven't read are fun. Certainly more so than Wuthering heights. Although I think I aged my English teacher a few years in the process)

25.

I have repeatedly failed to get into 'A Tale of Two Cities', though at my last attempt I got as far as page 50.

27.

11. Although there are a lot there I wouldn't be interested in and I have little time to read these days.

6. the BBC were spot on in my case.

13. I think.

I have read 27.

Might have to read more of the classics

22. But why have The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion the witch and the wardrobe separate?

See also: hamlet and the complete works of Shakespeare

Oh and thanks for reminding me about Jane eyre, you Bastard

33 here, but also most of them along time back

25, with some questions over whether I read the Count of Monte Cristo or not. I am sure I read it when I was younger. There are about 10 others I started and gave up on. And there are number I don't even plan on starting, Da Vinci Code?

21 for me

12 for me. There's only about another 10 on there that I'd be interested in.

The only conclusion I can draw from these emerging statistics is that books are bad for you. I certainly shan't be reading any more of them.

13.



But i really question this selection, as there are so many shit or non essential books there.

Da Vinci Code?? The Hobbit??

Also i never understood what's so special about Dune. Once i had to stay on month in Mozambique for work and that's the book i was stuck with.

I read the da vinci code.

It was shit.

But not as bad as Wuthering heights.

Oh, I saw this earlier on Facebook. I've read 31 of that lot. A few of those I wish I hadn't read. It's a very odd collection of titles as well. The complete works of Shakespeare and Hamlet as separate entries?

Depends where you stand on the 'Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare' argument.

I have Wuthering heights somewhere on the shelf. I was thinking about reading it in the summer since it's lightweight to take to the beach.

I don't have any stance or opinion on this

I believe Robin Hood wrote Shakespeare.

26, but it's a weird selection. I didn't chose the bible because I don't think I've read that edition of it although I have read the bible. There were also a few I thought I had read but couldn't remember. Don't understand why Dan Brown is on there, or narnia and Shakespeare are there twice when there are plenty of other good books they could have used.
It's almost like it's not scientific!

Where is this list actually sourced from? Googling for a BBC book list challenge only seems to bring up this list which is from 2003 and doesn't include the fucking Da Vinci code. I mention that one specifically as I'm amazed to see it any list of books apart from "Stuff you should avoid reading unless you're looking to be both depressed and amused in equal measure."

It's a very silly list. While The Hobbit and Dan Brown are there, where is "The Brothers Karamazov" and "The Sound and the Fury"?

Also, there's an absence of relevant contemporary authors like Cormac McCarthy, Phillip Roth or José Saramago.

There are also many other Sci-Fi books that could have been chosen instead.

28 (that I remember)

Malc

You may like it.

Somebody has to. (unless GCSE English literature actually is designed to stop people reading)

Sounds like he's trying to hide something! He probably did it!

The book selection is probably the middle bit of a distribution curve, or chosen to put readers roughly into part of a curve based on what they read.

That reads like a competition entry to write a sentence that sounds like it should make sense but, on close examination, is gibberish.

18

Also 52 of Terry Pratchett's books (most of them that he's written except for the 'specials' like The Science of Discworld, and none of the very recent ones).

http://www.listchallenges.com/books-by-terry-pratchett

60 on the Pterry ones for me (should be 61 but I've not yet read Raising Steam)

27 of the books in the OP. That said, there are a lot of crappy girly ones on that list, so it was never going to be that high a score.

Which one should you have read but haven't?

For me it's 'To kill a mockingbird'. Been sitting on my shelf for years.

Just ten for me.

31, and I'm not that well read, just seemed to be a lot of kids books or ones I read at school.

This is a bit more like it!

http://www.listchallenges.com/75-of-the ... ?ref=share

73/75 for me.

33

72!

62.

For the record, I hadn't seen:

The Outsiders
Schindler's List (I know!)
The Elephant Man

Yeah, I don;t score terribly much on that one either. Same digits as GJ. Not quite the same order.

(Although it wouldn't surprise me if I had seen more and just don't recognise the name or remember)

74 - I've not seen The Outsiders

I've read 35 of the books on the first list, 56 of the Pratchett books and watched 64 of the films.

(Can you tell I'm bored? And on a Saturday night too. The shame)

Me too (plus Wall Street and toy soldiers)