Book reading

[Guinness]

Picked up on a friends facebook post earlier today....

BBC reckon the average person has only read about six of these books.

I score 22...considering that I avoid Austen, Bronte and the other associated 'chick books' like the plague, I gave up on my attempt to read the Bible in my twenties halfway through Numbers (begat, begat and more begats), and I was forced to read the god awful Wind in the Willows hogwash at school for English Lit...I don't think I did too bad.

So literary geniuses (or should that be genii?..'pass me the Websters Igor')..how did you do?

BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books... - How many have you read?

[Eric]

I got 68 ... one more and I would have got my favorite no.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Well, I am an avid reader. I have read hundreds and hundreds of books.....but from that list I can only tick 34. I avoid the Bronte sisters, and Charles Dickens....although I did read 'Oliver Twist' at school.....and I also read ' A Christmas Carol'.
I started reading War and Peace....But never completed it....so I didn't tick that one.
I'm not on Facebook so no one will be able to compete with me on there.

[Less]

33 surprised how many children's books I've read must have read them to my own kids. As for Harry Potter, I ticked that as yes though I've only read one and a half, by the time I got half way through the second I concluded that if you've read one of them, you've read them all.

[AccyMad]

I figured I'd read 23 from that list - no mention of any of my favourite Catherine Cookson novels though

[cashman]

Bet not many of yeh can beat my ZERO?

[Retlaw]

Nearly Cashy.
Only got one. Dune.
Some of them I think were made into films, I know Sherlock has been done over & over, so no need to read the books. A lot of them titles and covers made me think it would be more pleasurable watching paint dry.

[shillelagh]

i got 12 when I did it ... can remember charlottes web .. reading it in the first year at hassy high ... gave it out in class ... and id read the whole book by the following week. We were only supposed to read it in class ... best was they gave us homework .. we had only read the first chapter in class .. and our homework was to write what we thought would happen in the next 5 chapters ... id already read the whole book ... wrote exactly what happened ... and teacher asked if id already read the book ... and I said yes I read it that week ... thing is .. teacher was the head teacher .. and good friends with my sisters soon to be mother in law (also one of my teachers ) guess who was in trouble and wasn't in trouble at school ... it got to my mother ...

[gpick24]

Originally Posted by cashman

Bet not many of yeh can beat my ZERO?

Can`t beat it, but I can match it.

[MargaretR]

I scored 22 due mainly to Austin and Dickens.
I prefer to read non fiction.

[flashy]

i got 9, like margaret i am not a big fan of fiction

[Turtle]

Hmmm.. 22 but several of them I read because I had to, at school. Most of these I didn't finish, just reading enough to get the gist and pass the course.

I don't read books as often as I'd like to these days, I've just gotten out of the habit I guess. I still love books, as opposed to reading from a tablet, and I've kept many old favourites (most aren't on this list) just in case I want to revisit them.

I first read Swallows and Amazons when I was at the old Springhill school in the early 60s. The class was marched up into the library which was in a dusty old tower as I recall. We would sit on the bare floorboards and read to our heart's content.

[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Hmmm.. 22 but several of them I read because I had to, at school. Most of these I didn't finish, just reading enough to get the gist and pass the course.

I don't read books as often as I'd like to these days, I've just gotten out of the habit I guess. I still love books, as opposed to reading from a tablet, and I've kept many old favourites (most aren't on this list) just in case I want to revisit them.

I first read Swallows and Amazons when I was at the old Springhill school in the early 60s. The class was marched up into the library which was in a dusty old tower as I recall. We would sit on the bare floorboards and read to our heart's content.

Clearly, Turtle is living in her shell, as shown by her use of the olde English phrase/ word 'gotten', with which Shakespeare would be familiar - or maybe she is imitating the Bard after reading his works.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

Clearly, Turtle is living in her shell, as shown by her use of the olde English phrase/ word 'gotten', with which Shakespeare would be familiar - or maybe she is imitating the Bard after reading his works.

No, I think it's probably a Canadianism. I've been over here too long I guess!

[Stevie R]

I scored 7,my other book was not on the list..