over the cliff, onto the rocks.: I've been neglecting my education

Sunday, September 27, 2009

I've been neglecting my education

I see that I've read only 23 of the top 100 Banned Books.

8 comments:

Keifus said...: 22, dammit.; Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:45:00 AM
hipparchia said...: ha!

probably that makes us even though [and the game still works too].

we could do the karl rove / george bush thing and see who makes it through the rest of the list first.; Thursday, October 01, 2009 7:29:00 PM
Keifus said...: I'm not reading even one Ayn Rand, so I think I concede in advance.; Friday, October 02, 2009 10:33:00 AM
hipparchia said...: we could agree to cross ayn rand off the list and go from there.

back in college some of my friends convinced me to read atlas shrugged. i didn't get very far into it before deciding i would rather scrub the bathroom floor with a toothbrush in my spare time.; Saturday, October 03, 2009 7:27:00 PM
cat said...: I'm embarrassed to even post here -I've only read 12½* of the 40-some books listed there.

*I tried to read Hemingway, and yawned too much; Sunday, October 04, 2009 12:09:00 PM
Keifus said...: I considered teaming up with twif (we seem to split the difference of non-sf). You started a small meme, or propagated one. (Also I'm down to only 21--didn't read Grapes of Wrath.)

I'm thinking about it--it'd take me two years to read 80 books, but there are a bunch in there I wanna. Can we make it a friendly bet, lazily monitored? Can I skip Tom Wolfe too? (Thomas is still okay.); Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:16:00 PM
hipparchia said...: cat, you lofty soul, you! too well-behaved to read the dangerous books?

i went through a hemingway phase some years ago and read practically every word he ever wrote, but i'm not sure i'd be as enthusiastic now. you can leave those for last if you want to.; Wednesday, October 07, 2009 8:46:00 PM
hipparchia said...: ok, keifus, i'll take all y'all on. i say we start with the 'bad' books, we can always expand to the entire list of 100 later [most of the books i want to read are on the not-banned list].; Wednesday, October 07, 2009 8:50:00 PM