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I still have so many books I havne't got around to reading. Everyone was raving about the Harry Potter books so on impulse I brought all four of them in a special deal. Then the first book in the series bored me so much I just dumped them all on the shelf and haven't looked at them since [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] Well it wasn't so much boring, as really uninspired. Made me regret falling for the hype.
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[img]smilies/star.gif[/img] House of Sand and Fog
[img]smilies/star.gif[/img] Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life [img]smilies/star.gif[/img] most of The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems [img]smilies/star.gif[/img] half of Chaplin's autobiography __________________
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I have my "to read" books in two piles. The first pile is the books that I want to read. The second pile is books that I buy from Borders just so the cute guy who works there can ring me up. I never remember which books I actually want to buy when he works there, so I always leave with something that is totally not my taste.
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I have a shelf full of books that I haven't gotten around to reading yet or that I started years ago and haven't picked up since then. Some of them are
[img]smilies/star.gif[/img] The Devil Wears Prada [img]smilies/star.gif[/img] some Charles Dickens books [img]smilies/star.gif[/img] The Lord of the Rings trilogy [img]smilies/star.gif[/img] The Shelters of Stone and some other ones... __________________
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Hahaha, where do I start??
And that is just what I have purhcased in the last month. I have a lot of other books that I am yet to read, but I will never have the time to get to them! __________________
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Okay here's mine.. 1) Z For Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien 2) Written on Glass by Judith Lennox 3) Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright 4) The Ice Child by Elizabeth McGregor 5) The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier 6) The Village By The Sea by Anita Desai 7) Castle In The Air by Diana Wynne Jones Okay that's quite a lot..:embarassed: [ 02-01-2004: Message edited wizard87 ] __________________
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Joined: Oct 2003
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i have a lot of books i never read but i want to .. but i dont have enough time.
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Joined: Apr 2002
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Silmarillion and Bilbo, both by J.R.R Tolkien
I got them last year but I wanted to wait with reading them until I saw Return of the King. I've seen RotK now, but I haven't had time to read them yet. Hopefully I will soon. __________________
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I have a shelf full of books I bought and haven't read, too.
Some of the classics that I have bought and haven't read yet are: The Complete Works of Harold Pinter Exit the King, the Killer, and Macbett: Three Plays by Eugene Ionesco, The Blacks: A Clown Show by Bernard Frechtman Ubo Roi by ALfred Jarry The Ubu Plays by Simon Taylor The Crying Lot of 48, V, and Vineland by Thomas Pynchon I did read Gravity's Rainbow though __________________
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Joined: Oct 2003
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Walter Scott - Waverley
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Joined: Oct 2001
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I think I own literally a couple hundred books that I have never read. I prefer to think of them as "books I have but have not read yet."
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I bought The Fountainhead and started to read it, but I stopped... and then time passed and I'm gonna have to start all over again.
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Joined: Nov 2003
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When I graduated from high school a few years ago, my math teacher gave me Snow Falling on Cedars and I have yet to read it. Lisa |
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Joined: Oct 2003
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I still have The Silmarillion by Tolkien on my shelf for about two years now. I can get past more than 2,000 pages of the trilogy in 2 weeks but I can't seem to get past 5 pages in this one.
The Codex by Douglas Preston is sitting outside on my coffee table and it's only been read a quarter way in. I kind of feel bad for abandoning it. Other books that I bought simply because they're pretty collectors edition with the gold rimmed and ribbon bookmark are Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, and Oliver Twist. They have yet to been touched but i'll get to them someday. At least I don't have a shelf filled with unread books. It would take me a lifetime to catch up. __________________
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