tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27479087.post8726169609416273835..comments2018-11-16T08:53:35.792+00:00Comments on Diary of a Wordsmith: My Big ReadAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575696613288942467noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27479087.post-40103590359011270712008-07-18T19:38:00.000+01:002008-07-18T19:38:00.000+01:00Chris, thanks for the fascinating background to th...Chris, thanks for the fascinating background to the meme. Very interesting. In a way, it's kind of irrelevant, though - for me the intrigue was the "set list" of books and seeing how many I'd read (I'd already noted the inconsistencies) compared with other people I know. I try to track my reading anyway, ever since my spell at uni obliged us to hand over our reading lists to a tutor every term. So I like these sorts of things (normally, I avoid memes like the plague!), especially when so many on the list are classics that we are supposed to have read or feel we ought to read.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575696613288942467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27479087.post-19812802522808884562008-07-18T18:42:00.000+01:002008-07-18T18:42:00.000+01:00Number 51 is Yann Martell's "Life of Pi". The list...Number 51 is Yann Martell's "Life of Pi". The list isn't quite what it seems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27479087.post-38440738128872387332008-07-04T17:52:00.000+01:002008-07-04T17:52:00.000+01:00Too many Hardys, too many Austens... I did Victori...Too many Hardys, too many Austens... I did Victorian industrial literature at uni - so read a lot of Dickens (Hard Times) and Gaskell (Mary Barton) among others. And why Blyton but not Agatha Christie? Surely one of the most widely read authors on the planet... <BR/><BR/>Many of my reading choices would never make it on to a list as I tend to choose crime fic and popular culture for leisure reading (especially biographies of ageing rock stars). <BR/><BR/>Still an interesting exercise though.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575696613288942467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27479087.post-75971534461066066952008-07-04T16:20:00.000+01:002008-07-04T16:20:00.000+01:00yes so many Hardy's - which if I had not HAD to re...yes so many Hardy's - which if I had not HAD to read for my studies I would not have read. Many authors are conspicuous by their absence but I couldn't even begin to write my own top 100.<BR/>Perhaps I should write a list of books that I have WAITING to be read instead :-)dougalfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10322144426681391257noreply@blogger.com