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Are there any books you have been meaning to read for a long time and just haven't got to? Why not?Just about everything on my bookshelves...and in the boxes in the closet...and in the piles on the desk. :) I have about 300 unread books. Too many books, not enough time!
Are there any books it seems everyone has read but you?
Oodles! The first ones to come to mind: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, and The Hunger Games.
I wish I could say I only had 300 unread books. MY true tbr list is about 2000 books or so deep.Here are some of the biggies that come to mind that it seems everone else has read and I can't believe I still haven't (I have all but one of them sitting in my bookcases):
Gone With the Wind
Lolita
Slaughterhouse-Five
Outlander
The Bell Jar
In Cold Blood
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Princess Bride (One of my all-time favorite movies)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Handmaid's Tale
Brave New World
The Host
For me it's The Lord of the Rings (everyone has read it and now that I've seen the movies I am not sure if I will get around to it) and War and Peace (been meaning to get around to this for a long time).
Tammy wrote: "Kind of embarrassing1984
Frankenstein
Dracula
Sense and Sensibility
And most Dickens"
I just rea both Dracula, Frankenstein, and Great Expectations for the first time last year, so you aren't alone.
mstan wrote: "For me it's The Lord of the Rings (everyone has read it and now that I've seen the movies I am not sure if I will get around to it) and War and Peace (been meaning to get aroun..."Ah yes, War and Peace, another one to add to my list.
Gone with the Wind is also one of mine along with all the books I have ever bought and haven't read!
from books i've heard about a lot this past year - A Discovery of Witches but one of my groups is doing it for a GR in February, so I might actually get it done finallypretty much any classic with the exception of Jane Eyre (loved it); Wuthering Heights (hated it) and a few austen (P&P; S&S) and that's about it.
Dee wrote: "from books i've heard about a lot this past year - A Discovery of Witches but one of my groups is doing it for a GR in February, so I might actually get it done finallypretty much ..."
I really want to read Discovery of Witches, too. My neighborhood book club read it when it first came out. I ended up not reading it then, because I was unable to get it from the library in time and I didn't want to buy a new hardcover. I'll read it eventually.
Oh goodness, if we're going to talk classics and 2011 releases, there are heaps and heaps of books I've missed out on! ;)Diane, you mentioned "A Princess Bride." Be warned that it is very different from the movie. (Supposedly. I haven't read it but that's what everyone says.) My niece-in-law says she actually prefers the book to the movie, though.
i actually prefered the movie to the book, i read the 25th anniversary edition, so Idon't know if it was different to the original...but for me, if you'd seen the movie, then you knew what was going to happen in the book
The movie was so amazing, it would be really hard to top. There are very few movies that I have felt were better than the books on which they were based, though.
the movie is still amazing now as an adult...lol! a month or so ago they had the remaining cast on good morning america (you can probably find it on youtube)...I never realized that Billy Crystal was Max...
I have several bestsellers that I haven't gotten to yet ......The Da Vinci Code
Eat, Pray, Love
Little Women
Jane Eyre
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Clash of Kings
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Water for Elephants
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Golden Compass
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Joy Luck Club
and
Sense and Sensibility
Although I'm planning to read Sense and Sensibility this month or maybe next month
Deedee wrote: "I have several bestsellers that I haven't gotten to yet ......The Da Vinci Code
Eat, Pray, Love
Little Women
Jane Eyre
[book:Memoirs of a Geisha|3..."
You have some of my all time favorites on your list! Memoirs of a Geisha, Water for Elephants, Sense & Sensibility, & The Joy Luck Club are all in my top 20, if not top 10. I highly recommend them all. I want to re-read Jane Eyre becuase I read it a very long time ago, same with Little Women.
i'm planning on listening to water for elephants after I finish up Daughter of Smoke and Bone
I know! They are all "bestsellers" and supposed to be really really good. And I have copies (thanks library sales!) right here. But then ... I get distracted ... I'm reading Bleak House now; and I'm a big science fiction/fantasy fan, so I'll pick up a book like Firebird or Fortress in the Eye of Time or Ships of Merior and veer off with those books instead.
just because they are best sellers...lol! i normally avoid them when they are in best seller status because I don't want to deal with the sometimes hype that comes along...and the accusations of if you like a book (that someone else doesn't like), then apparently you are just falling for the hype (which was on a discussion about the girl with the dragon tattoo...which I loved)
Ulysses by Joyce. And Moby Dick - which I'm a little intimidated to even start.UlyssesMoby-DickSorry if my linking of the books doesn`t work...first post!
Amer wrote: "Ulysses by Joyce. And Moby Dick - which I'm a little intimidated to even start.UlyssesMoby-DickSorry if my linking of the books doesn`t work...first post!"
Welcome to the group, Amer! I haven't read either of those, either. I really want to read Ulysses soon. It is definitely intimidating.
Her Royal Orangeness wrote: "Oh goodness, if we're going to talk classics and 2011 releases, there are heaps and heaps of books I've missed out on! ;)Diane, you mentioned "A Princess Bride." Be warned that it is very differe..."
I didn't think they were that different. I did feel it was an extremely rare case where the movie was better, but the book had some cool tidbits in it.
I wouldn't worry too much if "everyone" has read it...that's probably not true! There are simply too many books out there for everyone to read them all! Each of us has probably read lots of books that others haven't, so between our group, we've read everything! :)
I quit counting my tbr list. Used to take it to the library with me, but never could match it with the books on the shelves, or I get distracted by some book calling my name. So I quit worrying about it--I read what I read, and if it matches the tbr, good-I get to scratch it off. If it doesn't, I can usually add it to one of my challenge lists.
I'm more embarrassed about the books I started but couldn't get into - Lord of the Rings, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dracula, anything Austen (blushes)
Amanda wrote: "Anything by Jane Austen! I have all her books and still haven't read them :/"Ha ha - me too.
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Are there any books it seems everyone has read but you?