Oh, read what you like!

[callmemadam]

Another emailed list from AbeBooks, this time of reasons for not reading a book. I'm always surprised when one of the reasons given is, 'it's long' but then, I personally love Dickens and reading him is no hardship. Have a look at the list of twenty five books people have in the TBR pile but don't actually read. I've read five of them, started and failed to finish a sixth and feel no guilt at all about not having read the rest. Never even heard of some of them and so wot?



A striking illustration of a good example: another book purge. More to go, especially as a person might be stuck indoors for a fortnight with time to tidy up.

That fiendish normblog quiz: update. The answers are here. I got 40/50 and I'm absolutely kicking myself except over a couple of authors I'd never heard of. Anyone else going to own up?

Comments

[lethe1]

I own and have read The Unbearable Lightness, I own Don Quixote, but have not read it yet, and I can see myself reading Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi and some of the classics mentioned, but the other books do not interest me. Non-fiction will always be very low on my priorities list, unless it is literary, like diaries and letters.

I only got 19/50. #6 was clever!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Cloud Atlas was the one I started and couldn't finish. Don't let that put you off; my daughter loved it and I liked Black Swan Green.

#6 Curses! Dashed clever! And obvious once you've thought of it.

[(Anonymous)]

I've no shame whatsoever about books I haven't read or don't want to read. Doesn't it just amaze you that people put such energy into this stuff.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

It was quite amusingly done.
You'd have to pay me to read a book by Al Gore.

[gghost.livejournal.com]

LOL! The fact that a book is long is usually an endorsement for me.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Me too! I like to live inside it for a while.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I LOLed at reason 7. 3 gets me a lot, too.

Of their list, I have read three and thought they were all fantastic but have no desire to read any of the others (except the two Robert Heinleins, maybe).

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

#7. I thought of you! Right up your street.