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What books haven’t you read?
So this was supposed to be a busy week. Went to see Spamalot on Friday night, Young Frankenstein Saturday night (OMG, so great! I’m so lucky it did the pre-Broadway showing nearby), then stay with my parents for a week while preparing to work sell my Otaku Survival Guides at a con next weekend. Then I get it confirmed that my column of the survival guides is going to run on theOtaku.com. Still, life was under control—busy, but under control. So then, yesterday, we find out that my grandmother is on her last days/hours and my mom had to rush back home. And that was just enough to throw off my life.
So, needless to say, the review is going to be up late, if at all this week. I’m hoping to still get it up Wednesday, but I stupidly didn’t save the start of the review that I managed the other night, so I have to retype it. Stardust will be up whenever it is, then hopefully Goose Chase and Golden might follow soon.
In the meantime, I pose the following question to you: What books haven’t you read? And I’m talking, those books that everyone seems shocked that you haven’t read, that you just keep hearing good things about, but haven’t quite managed to read? (Bonus points if you actually bought the book and still haven’t managed. Triple points if you *tell* people you’ve read it.)
I’ll start with four of mine:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – What’s even worse is I took a class where these were assigned books, and I still only got through one and a half. I guess I’m just going to stick to the movies.
Any of the Narnia books – I never was interested in them in as a child (whenever everyone else seems to have read them). Now I know I should read them, but I kind of doubt I ever will.
A Great and Terrible Beauty – I hear mixed things about this book, but I do hear a lot about it and see it around a lot. It’s sitting on my bookcase waiting for me, but when I started it a year or so back, it just didn’t entice me.
Bloody Jack – Like the above, it didn’t catch me when I started it, but I actually have every intention of reading these books someday. I feel like I would really like them, once I actually sat down and decided to read them, instead of just carrying it around in my purse as an emergency book.
I’ve only read one Narnia book: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe… I will try to write a post with the books I haven’t read soon… if I have time in my busy-new-school-schedule…….. And sorry about your grandmother, I hope you’re family is doing okay : )
Thanks… yeah, mom is off with grandma, and the rest of us are watching bad tv together as a family. Been along time since I actually got time with just dad and brother to bum around the house.
I think its always intersting to look at what books you should have read. I’ve got an even longer list of various english classics that I should have been forced to read before they let me have a degree in english.
You have read (for your own pleasure, I hope), Jane Eyre, haven’t you? That’s probably my favorite… and Pride and Prejudice is pretty great, too.
*hides in shame* Nope… though I might have been suppoesd to read Jane Eyre for class once. I really only like books written after about 1920 (and that date is only because I like the Great Gatsby). Really, my reading intersts tend towards 1980 as the cut off year, unless we are talking Heinlein’s books.
Of course, just to be contrary, I absolutly love to read anything thats *set* in the past.
Hmmm… maybe the past can influence your future. Maybe someday you’ll find a copy of Jane Eyre staring at you from the library shelf, begging you to come and read… Or maybe not, but who knows?? And I also like books that are **set** in the past… basically anything that has a good story and is written well.
If you have asked me this two years ago, I would have won for most unread books on a bookshelf! I finally read LotR (I tried twice and always failed at the book and a half point— I made myself finish!) and I went through Narnia, the Earthsea series, Eragon, and Eldest. I’m finally finishing up all of Tamora Pierce’s books (except I am going to stop at Beka Cooper). I picked up all of Juliet Marillier’s books as they came out so those NEVER waited (the only books I will buy in hardcover!). And I have to still read Diane Gabaldon’s Lord Gray books. I finally read the last two installments of her Outlander series. I’ve been reading this for ten years or more (all around 1000 pages!). I also read through all the Anne of Green Gable books and finished the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey— all Christmas gifts! Oh, and Memoirs of a Geisha!
I still have a fair share, I guess. I have Hilary and Bill Clinton’s biographies (they suck the creative energy out of my writing). I keep starting Sylvia Plath’s diaries and become distracted. I have a few poetry books that I read when I need inspiration of beauty (more Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Rumi). I am going to start Philip Pullman’s books next. My husband wants me to read Timecat. I have read The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (for class), but want to read the rest of the series and Diane Duane’s So You Want To Be a Wizard series….
I have to say, since I finished college, my mind has opened up to YA fantasy fiction (since that’s what I write— just sent out my first manuscript!). Your website will help out in my search! Sorry for the long winded entry— bored at work!!! Haha!