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November 8, 2006

List Mongering

Now reading Monkey Beach, which I am just starting to get into. I also took Tristram Shandy out of the library, as I’ve never read it and from all accounts this has been a grave error on my part. I am going to try to read more classics, as I’m quite deficient in that department. I used the spreadsheet from this site to find out how many of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die I’ve read. 116 in case you wondered. My total would be shorter if the list was called 1001 Books You Didn’t Have to Read for Your BA, or 1001 Books You Read When You Didn’t Have Amnesia (hello The Body Artist by Don DeLillo which was bought and read at an airport in 2002 but disappeared into that black hole that was my life then). Lists are lame, but I like them. And what I’ve learned from this one is that I’ve got gaps to fill, and so classics it is. (thanks to this site for the link to the spreadsheet.)

2 thoughts on “List Mongering”

  1. dj cayenne says:

    Hi there. Thanks for the link to our spreadsheet. We’ve been having lots of fun with it.

  2. The Chapatikid says:

    135. Although when reading the list, I noticed how many Drabbles there were on there! And Haruki Murakami. I wonder how this list was made… I guess it’s more world lit. I have to thank my high school library back home for all the books I’ve read…

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