That book meme thing?

[binidj]

I'm not doing it.

The list is pretty rubbish. Whichever genius thought that having "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" as two options whilst "the Bible" was one, should really reconsider their career choice. I've read a lot of the Bible but by no means all of it, likewise I've read a great many of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets but not all of them (and why does "Hamlet" have its own entry?). Furthermore there was no option for "started to read this but got bored/decided it was shit and stopped reading it" which covers pretty much all of the 19th century literature on the list for me. Also, who felt that it was reasonable to exclude the significant body of literature from the ancient world? Gods know how much tat from Dickens made it onto the list (did I mention¹ my dislike of 19th century literature?) but nothing by Homer or Virgil or Sophocles ... WTF?

I'm actually quite cross about it.

It's only a meme, calm down.

¹ *Glares at Clawbeast*

Comments

[hortorum.livejournal.com]

I thought the list looked a bit ropey.

Mind you, I hate memes. Someone wants to know something about me or my tastes, they can ask :-)

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

See my comment, or more relevantly, JFS' post which followed. The more I edited the post, the more suspicious I became of the arbitrary nature of the list.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

I too, shared a similar sentiment.

Top 100 as judged by who, I wonder. Some random meme-starter on the internet, methinks.

[clawbeast.livejournal.com]

'ention' whats an 'ention'

:D Wind it up and let it free :D

[mr-jam.livejournal.com]

I think whats bugging me most is I have several not behind LJ cuts, meaning endless scrolling to see if anyone's posted anything interesting today.