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Books You Always Meant to Read.
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Jan 26, 2013 09:49AM
I read To Kill A Mockingbird during English Lit. in High School, but I can barely remember it - our teacher got bored halfway through and just stuck on the movie. So that's currently on my to read shelf, because what I do remember of it, I enjoyed!
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the rest of the blue bloods series and evermore series...oh and moby dick but I can never make it past the first 12 pages :/
Brittany wrote: "Jane Austen's works and Wuthering Heights ... always meant to, just never got around to it."same!
i have no books that i've meant to read........Any book i want i buy or get from my friends.....
The LOTR series/The Hobbit (I tried to read The Hobbit when I was like 11 and I couldn't...now that I'm older I keep trying to tell myself to try again.) The Wizard of Oz, Les Miserables, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.. To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, Little Women, The Catcher in the Rye--a lot of books I thought I'd have to read in school but never had to...haha.
I really wanna try to read Classics. Any Classics. First I wanna start with To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Tale of Two Cities, etc..
Chastine wrote: "I really wanna try to read Classics. Any Classics. First I wanna start with To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Tale of Two Cities, etc.."Pride and Prejuice is an amazing book, i think you are going to like it. And i want to read To Kill a Mockingbird and Tale of Two Cities as soon as i have the time.
I really want to read Gone With the Wind :) Maybe i'll do it when i have finished reading all the other books i'm curently reading.
Anna wrote: "I really want to read Gone With the Wind :) Maybe i'll do it when i have finished reading all the other books i'm curently reading."I read the first page but it was so long that i decided that i would only read it when i have more time because right now i would have to let it unfinished.
The Percy Jackson series, wicked, Anew, Life of Pi, and a lot of others.
Clockwork Angel, Beautiful Creatures, The Iron King, Shiver, Bloodlines, Under the Never Sky, and Daughter of Smoke & Bone.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I thought I was the only one on the Planet who managed to miss that one in high school. Looks like I'm in good company. Would like to read Great Expectations as well
I always wanted to read The I am Number Four books but I have never found enough time for them.
I want to read The Lord Of The Rings but I don't know if I should try... maybe is a book kinda dark?
Kimi wrote: "I read To Kill A Mockingbird during English Lit. in High School, but I can barely remember it - our teacher got bored halfway through and just stuck on the movie. So that's currently on my to read ..."
I read to Kill a Mockingbird when I was about 12 years old and never forgot it. It's a masterpiece.
Tori wrote: "I want to read The Lord Of The Rings but I don't know if I should try... maybe is a book kinda dark?"Read them!! The LOTR trilogy is very good, Tori; I highly recommend them! Though I understand that some people didn't like them as much. It's a great fantasy story.
The classics, namely pride and prejudice, wuthering heights, a Christmas carol and Great expectations.. Every time I pick these up i keep thinking about the other contemporary books I have on my to-read list and then I end up reading them instead.
Haley wrote: "Tori wrote: "I want to read The Lord Of The Rings but I don't know if I should try... maybe is a book kinda dark?"Read them!! The LOTR trilogy is very good, Tori; I highly recommend them! Though ..."
ok I will :)
Sophie wrote: "Mariam wrote: "Harry Potter"HARRY POTTER? YOU'VE NEVER READ HARRY POTTER?!!?
*struggling to control breathing*
Definitely read it. You're literary experience will never be complete if you don't..."
I admit i hadnt read Harry Potter either until recently. I just read the 2nd book in Jan. and definitely plan on reading the rest. From what i hear, they get better and better.
Joyce's Finnegans Wake. I have it on my bookside table since three years ago. Every year I open it, I read the first page and say to myself, "ok, no, you're not ready yet", so I close it and put it down.
I'm currently reading The Catcher in the Rye, finally. So I'll be able to get it crossed off my BIAMTR list!!Has anyone read The Morganville Vampire series? I've had the first two books for years now but keep putting of starting them as I'm worried they'll just end up being too cheesy?
I hate to admit that I too have never read TLOTR series. I read The Hobbit a few years ago and the rest of them just seem so daunting.
Count of Monte Cristo, and The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the rest of Grimm's fairytales.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I keep hearing about it and mean to read it soon but haven't seem to have got around to it yet ...
I have been planning to read Mauricefor the last 5 years, and even bought a hardcover copy, but can't seem to get started. I don't know why, as I LOVE everything else E.M. Forster wrote.
I too have yet to read TLOTR. Oh, and the Game of Thrones series. I started that one but there was SO MUCH to keep up with, and I was reading two other books at the time. I think in order to read GoT I'll have to set aside some time to devote to it.
I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower while sitting at a B&N one time on vacation. Fortunately I didn't purchase the book, just didn't care for it. But, I do recommend reading it as one of those "coming of age" books. Perhaps I was just too old when I finally did crack it open.
Pretty much ANY book someone recommends to me. lol I have no idea why. I respect very few peoples choice in literature so when someone I do respect suggests something to me I'm automatically interested but just NEVER seem to get around to it! Hahaha, my reading list is LONGGGG. I have like a SCHEDULE. Ah well. Oh and just for the record The Great Gatsby is probably the only north american so-called "classic" novel I ever enjoyed. DEFINiTELY check that out. For some reason the main character reminds me of an english Proust.
i always thought' Hey!! that book sounds good im going to read it next'......hundreds of books later....Ill read it next, then i saw this post and it kinda brought all my promises to myself back
I always meant to read the Left Behind series. I read the first one (after putting it down for months, quite a few times before finishing it), and I absolutely love it every time I pick it up, but I just can't bring myself to read the others even though I have the entire series (my old English teacher gave them to me)
Tried to read The Infernal Devices series, but couldn't get into them despite how well I enjoyed The Mortal Instruments. I wanted to read Life of Pi, but it was too slow-paced after just having read the movie (I would've liked it if it weren't for the movie)
I want to read Les Miserables, but I don't know if I will be interested since I only saw the musical.
I want to read Water for Elephants because of how well I enjoyed the movie to that one.
I plan to read The Da Vinci Code because I adored Angels & Demons.
I wanted to read The Lord of the Rings, but I couldn't get past the dialect of the first chapter.
And the rest are books I wanted to read, but likely won't because they were series books and I lost interest in the series sometime between the finishing of one book and the release of the next. These are:
The House of Night
The Mortal Instruments
Gone
Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles)
The Nick Chronicles
Darkest Powers
and I'm sure there are more.. I read too many series X)
Alejandra wrote: "I still have to read the LOTR trilogy, and all the books related to it, but I don't intend to do it until I can get my hands on a printed version, bought with my own money. I'm just weird like that..."LOTR trilogy is actually better listened to than reading it yourself. I wouldn't say that about many books.
well let's start this long list: Battle royale, Rot and ruin, Glitch, The maze runner, city of glass and just about a billion more. I will pick up one book and before I ever start it buy another.... :)
I have a few books that I have wanted to read and I just haven't gotten around to it...like The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Giver, and A Mid-Summer Nights Dream. I still can't believe I haven't read any of these yet.
Kimi wrote: "You know, there are some book that you always meant to read, yet for some reason or another, you've not gotten round to it yet!List them here, and maybe it might give you a little inspiration to f..."
You'll love Stardusts, although the movie didn't do the book near enough justice. It became a love story in the movie, not so much in the book.
The lord of the rings! I have wanted to finish it for like, three years and never could
Dracula by Bram Stoker; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (technically the whole series).I've got them all on my shelf just never picked them up!
Bianca wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (technically the whole series).I've got them all on my shelf just never picked them up!"
Dracula is a fantastic story - I couldn't put it down when I finally relented and bought myself a copy a few years ago - in fact - I may give it another read later in the year. Every time I read it I discover something new.
This year I'm determined to read (and re-read some) Jane Austen Novels. Pride and Prejudice is one that I never made it all the way through many years ago so I may move it up my list!
TheCuriousDeer wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (technically the whole series).I've got them all on my shelf just never picked them u..."
Maybe I should bump Dracula up on my to-read list, then. I've always wanted to read it and I have a really cool copy, other books just always seem to come first (and I've been feeling a little vampired-out lately, even though I know Dracula is the classic).
DraculaGrimm's Fairy tales
Lolita
Alice in Wonderland
Lord Of the Rings
Sherlock Holmes
The tales of Beedle the Bard
The Infernal devices
The Diaries of a Wimpy kid
Wicked
so much more
For me it also have been the classics.I'm working on that though!
Lord of the Rings,
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Les Misérables
Jeckyll and Hide
Frankenstein
Sherlock Holmes
etc.
And actually all the books I have at home which I have not read yet and which I'm not going to mention here.
I have the Hobbit on paperback. it's a good read. Not dark or anything. I haven't read the Lord of the Rings, I watched the movie when I was 13 and couldn't make sense of it, I suppose that made me biased toward the whole thing.
I would want to read AS You Like It by Shakespeare though I know that's a play. I saw it in the bookstore years ago and loved the plot.
the origin of species, its been on my reading list for years and i even have a really nice copy of it but i never seem to be in the right "reading mood" so to speak Hopefully one day i will read it :)
Everything on my Kindle*, save for 14 books.*Kindle Touch, and it's full.
The Picture of Dorian GrayThe Count of Monte Cristo
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
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To Kill a Mockingbird - don't know how I managed to get through high school, without that one! It may be one of those books that I skimmed through for class, but I'd like to actually read it.
There are many others I've never gotten to too.
I started with LOTR and it kept on dragging so much with explanation about dwarves that I got very bored! Dunno whether it's any good as every body claims it to be. Any suggestions guyz??
I found it quite difficult to read lotr to be honest, very long with descriptions of everything and not quite what I was expecting. think I got to the end of two towers and just couldn't read any more, think I was about 16/17 so might be different now
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