The BBC reckons the average person has only read 6 from this list of 100 books. I'd read 27 apparently! BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books... - How many have you read?
37. But these are all works of fiction, and some of them are not even very good. Surely reading non-fiction books is more significant?
Whether they are works of fiction or not, or whether they are very good or not is not the question. It's just how many have you read.
one. but i don't watch eastenders, corrie or strictly ether. i am much more of a Shakespeare kind of guy.:wink:
35 started, around 18 finished. Some of those books are tat, unreadable unless you are a woman , a closet cross dresser or a librarian with a penchant for one-upmanship.
10...and not counted the bible as I've never got 3/4 of the way thru. Now if it was self-help, diet, exercise, business, project, planning, MBA, NLP, sales..etc etc books, it would be hundreds.
I thought it was going to be none until I got down to Lord of the Flies and I had to read that for english 'O' level some 45 years ago. Does that really that make me not well read ? In my time I have read more penny dreadfuls than I care to remember, in excess of some 5000 science fiction novels and novellas, horror, fantasy, fiction, historical, war and a huge amount of crap. Then again I enjoy an active work and social life so don't have time to read any more and I don't think that makes me a bad person. Hey, I've been riding motorcycles for 47 years so I can't be all that bad. :biggrin: Andy
It was the Dandy I'll have you know and I wish I still had my Marvel comics, they'd be worth a fortune. Andy
9 for me. 6 at primary school and the other 3 for O level English. I agree with Pete, and consider that reading Fiction is a waste of my time.
20 over the years Shakespeare, lord of the flies, To kill a mockingbird, were the books of the day when at school studying English Mice and men I read with my son as his latest English reading just now Many others were books at home bought for me.
Of that list I've read 4, all while still at school. I'm not a book reader, but does that make me ill-read? My knowledge base has expanded so much since the advent of the interweb it's amazing I don't explode with know-all-ness. Fact is I spend more time reading now than I have ever done in my life. None of it fiction though. I can pick up on any amount of drama, humour or news right here at my desk. The only thing I miss out on by not reading books is writing style. Hey, there are more important things in life.
I like a good read too, just not books. Magazines and the internet are enough for me. Trouble with books is I can't put them down, once I start reading I have to finish the book, and that kinda screws the day up.
16, I was actually surprised I had read so many. Mainly the science fiction and fantasy books. Seeing Dune on there makes me want to read it again
