'BBC Book List Challenge' on Facebook

2011-03-30 15:07:50

#1

PrivateVendetta: I DEMAND XMAS THEME; +704|6184|Roma

http://apps.facebook.com/booklistchallenge/

Anyone done this? Curious to know your number.

Turned out a lot less 'Classic' than I thought, got 22.

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2011-03-30 15:10:08

#2

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|4961|Dundee, Scotland.

Heh... 4.

To Kill a mockingbird
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Notes from a small island.

inb4 uzique

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-03-30 15:11:51

#3

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

48/100

as with any 'classics' list... very dubious in places. and a lot of over-exposure for certain authors. like a 1/5th of that list are fucking austen books. what?

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2011-03-30 15:13:04

#4

PrivateVendetta: I DEMAND XMAS THEME; +704|6184|Roma

A lot of them were ones my mum had been reading and just gave to me if I needed a book. Didn't love them, but they were good enough to read all the way through.
Like 'A suitable boy'..

2011-03-30 15:16:50

#5

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

oddly enough i got 48/110 on 'the perfect library' list... much wider sample... but serious WTF

has cookbooks and serious academic history books next to each other. lots of classics, too, as well as philosophy and diary/autobiography

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2011-03-30 15:17:18

#6

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6731|Toronto | Canada

why is da vinci code on there

classic?

2011-03-30 15:21:21

#7

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

yeah 'classic' status is a bit of a weird one. either you include a few populist classics as must-have throw to's for the masses or you get an academic to draft up a list of 100 classics that nobody has even heard of, let alone picked up and dared to read. very strange mix across all genres and all sorts of authors- high art and popular culture mixed together. i guess that's kinda more representative; no good only being one type of reader with no exposure to anything outside of your circles or tastes. most of the ones i've never read are the really cliche children's tales like the railway children. saw that on tv as a kid, no way was i reading the fucking thing!

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2011-03-30 15:22:47

#8

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6141|'straya

27.

Could be worse.

2011-03-30 15:23:20

#9

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm: ©; +1,811|5990

Winston_Churchill wrote:
why is da vinci code on there

classic?

I JUST THOUGHT THE SAME THING ^5

2011-03-30 15:23:21

#10

PrivateVendetta: I DEMAND XMAS THEME; +704|6184|Roma

It isn't actually a classics list, that's just what i was expecting

2011-03-30 15:24:12

#11

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

im talking about the 'perfect library' list, too

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2011-03-30 15:24:42

#12

HaiBai: Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me; +304|5477|Bolingbrook, Illinois

18

2011-03-30 15:25:45

#13

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm: ©; +1,811|5990

BBC - 19 Dante is my fav

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2011-03-30 15:26:03

#14

PrivateVendetta: I DEMAND XMAS THEME; +704|6184|Roma

Also, who the hell has read the whole of the Bible, who isn't a Minister or something.

inb4someonesaysshifty

2011-03-30 15:27:00

#15

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5351|London, England

23

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-03-30 15:28:26

#16

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

i actually read the bible when i was about 12-13, in about 3 days straight in bed. i felt it was something i 'had to do'. that's what going up to a posh anglican school does to a boy. i've forgotten mostly all of it and realised that it just started repeating itself after a while. overall the prose style was a little dry and unpleasurably laconic, and the characterisation was a bit shallow and left a little to be desired. i didn't really identify with any of the main characters and i found the love subplot a bit dull. the part where the hero is betrayed by the jew villain is really exciting, though. it all ends a bit abruptly too. maybe the author intended for there to be a sequel but just never got around to it.

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2011-03-30 15:31:49

#17

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5351|London, England

I read the bible through in basic training. It was the only book we were allowed to have.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-03-30 15:32:41

#18

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

jesus christ talk about auspicious reading before you're deployed to the fuckin' middle-east to kill muslims

american crusades

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2011-03-30 15:34:14

#19

lrishpride: Member; +68|5141

0. yep.

2011-03-30 15:34:36

#20

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5351|London, England

Uzique wrote:
jesus christ talk about auspicious reading before you're deployed to the fuckin' middle-east to kill muslims

american crusades

Nah, they stripped us of all personal belongings, right down to our underwear. They couldn't take away religious texts because of freedom of religion and stuff.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-03-30 15:35:34

#21

you have the right to bear underwear and do not taste the apple for it is poison

2011-03-30 15:37:20

#22

Brasso: member; +1,549|6623

18

the da vinci code derp

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2011-03-30 15:43:35

#23

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

everyone is dissing the da vinci code but i bet it was one of your minute fraction . if 1/18th of all the classic literature that you have ever read is dan brown... dare i even venture to guess how much in terms of actual page-proportion... then you need to seriously look at yourself!

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2011-03-30 15:44:21

#24

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6463

lrishpride wrote:
0. yep.

it is inconceivable to me that an irish man would not have at least read some shaw, or yeats, or joyce, or beckett

actually... considering their writing...

it doesn't surprise me at all

fuckin' ingrates!

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2011-03-30 15:59:09

#25

Reddhedd: trolawlawl; +188|6438|EE Chat

43. And about 15 that I always say "I should read that...." and never do

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