BBC Book Challenge

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

I chose nine because the series jumped the shark somewhere around Marlfox, and without remembering the exact publication order, there was one or two prior that foreshadowed the shark-jumping.

 

The Exitorn Adventures-- doesn't surprise me if no one has heard of them. They are by a Christian author, but when the original publisher gave up the rights, some ultra-conservative Christian publisher ruined them with their editing. (The "Dragators-- basically dragons without wings who live in the moat--were renamed Dinogators, because "dragons" was too secular for them.... *rolls eyes*) It is a six-book series that is clever and fun.

 

 

OH... and I forgot! the Enchanted Forest Chronicles! (Dealing with Dragons is the first one.) Everyone... go read that now!

 

AH! My little brothers have told me to read them, but I haven't had time yet.

[BridMorgan]

Dice...I love it,  *bows to her banded*

 

Who are you rooting for in the super bowl?

[dicetosser1]

 

 

 

 

 

Patriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

i cant BELIEVE how Greenbay screwed themselves outta the superbowl.  Headdesk!

 

 

 

who are u DJ and the lil wolfie going for?

[BridMorgan]

DJ will never ever root for the Pats. I don't care, it'll be Seattle in this house today. Lol

[F Horn of Valere]

DJ will never ever root for the Pats. I don't care, it'll be Seattle in this house today. Lol

 

 

DJ is one smart man!

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

I live in Seattle so there's not a Patriots fan to be seen... 

 

 

GO HAWKS!!!!

[dicetosser1]

and he will never go for Greenbay either lol

 

 

I just cant see the pats losing.  they are too good all over and the seahawks QB was HORRIBLE against greenbay. he does that today its gonna get them flogged.

[Ryrin]

I do not like Steinbeck.  At all.

[dicetosser1]

WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nikonis]

Apparently most people will have only read 6 of these...

 

 

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (some, maybe 5%)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (unfortunately

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adam

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

So I make it that I've read 49 lol (counting series as 1)

 

 

 

At a quick glance I'd say 12 or 13 for sure and a few more I think I read but don't really remember for sure.

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Are you sure the Patriots won? It felt more like we lost to me... 

[dicetosser1]

its all about the scoreline Jak!

 

 

do me a fava and keep me updated on deflate a gate tho wouldja??

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

its all about the scoreline Jak!

 

 

do me a fava and keep me updated on deflate a gate tho wouldja??

 

All about the scoreline?    That's Machiavelli talk. We made a bad playcall at the end of the game and that decided it. Sure the Patriots won the game, but we handed it to them. I couldn't honestly say they they're the better team. That's still up in the air. 

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

And what is deflate a gate? Whose gate are you deflating? 

[dicetosser1]

you're right  your coach cost you the game. give the ball to the Beast and you win.

 

deflate a gate is all that fuss about the colts saying we deflated the balls in the game before Super Bowl

[dawnflower8]

I'm pretty mad that Green Bay didn't get in. I'm a huge fan of them and they could've easily won the game with the Seahawks...

 

 

From this list I've read:

 

1.     Redwall Series (at least 9 of them) - Jaques (I think I've only read Redwall and Mossflower)

2.     Ender’s Game - Card

3.     Ender’s Game sequels (Speaker, Xenocide, Children) - Card

4.     Ender’s Shadow series - Card

5.     Sword of Shanara - Brooks

6.     Chronicles of Narnia - Lewis

7.     Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

8.     The Hobbit - Tolkien

9.     Silmarilion – Tolkien (I've read part of it)

10.  The Exitorn Adventures – Downing (ORIGINAL edition only)

11.  The Wheel of Time – Jordan/Sanderson

12.  Mistborn Trilogy - Sanderson

13.  The Way of Kings - Sanderson

14.  Kingkiller Chronicles – Rothfuss

15.  Jurassic Park – Crighton

16.  The Great Train Robbery – Crighton

17.  Tarzan - Burroughs

18.  My Father’s Dragon – Stiles

19.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

20.  Rainbow Six – Clancy

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

you're right  your coach cost you the game. give the ball to the Beast and you win.

 

deflate a gate is all that fuss about the colts saying we deflated the balls in the game before Super Bowl

 

OH! Yeah, I heard about that. Oh man I'm slow, you were referencing watergate. 

 

Yeah whatever about that. It's not like the Colts would have won anyway. It's much ado about nothing, I say. It is a little slimy if it was done on purpose or something, but if Tom Brady says he didn't know or have anything to do with it, then who am I to say that he did? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. And even if something is turned up in the potential investigation, they aren't going to take the Superbowl away from New England. 

[dicetosser1]

and both teams had to play with it. it makes throwing the ball harder...so why would a team with TOM BRADY on it do that??!!!  makes no sense

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

and both teams had to play with it. it makes throwing the ball harder...so why would a team with TOM BRADY on it do that??!!!  makes no sense

 

Actually no. Each team brings their own balls and it makes the ball lighter to throw, and easier to grip, especially in cold weather. It would be a help, but it was discovered during halftime of the patriots-colts game and the other team still couldn't do anything. No, it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the game, but if it were on purpose it is very slimy and unsportsmanlike. 

[Taymist]

I've read 76 of that original list. Not bad. Strange list though.

[dicetosser1]

Wow!

 

Tay the showoff!!    Well done hun!

[Taymist]

lol not showing off. Literature is my degree subject so between High School and Uni reading lists, I pretty much had to read a lot of the ones on that list. If it's any consolation I've forgotten a great deal about many of them now.

[dicetosser1]

heheh   i forgot that was ure degree.   my bad

[nicana]

I've read 16. But I've read Gone With the Wind at least a hundred times. That is my most favorite book ever!

[jhs36303]

I've read about 20 of the books on this list and started a dozen more which I put down because I wasn't very interested.  The Count of Monte Cristo was probably my favorite off this list.  I have begun to question a lot of the traditional idea of "classics" -- several of the classics  I have read were completely useless with no philosophical value and boring to read.  I could name a few but just in case someone disagrees with me it is not my intent to offfend anyone.