Books you haven't read -- and it always shocks people when they find out- Page 2

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:39am

The Da Vinci Code

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:46am

A Confederacy of Dunces. People have done double-takes when they've heard I haven't read that book - but not having read it, I haven't the faintest idea why. Given the frequency of that one, I'll be reading it about five years before Hitchhiker's Guide.

[DG]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:47am

Most fiction, whether classic or modern. My reading time is taken up by other things. Other people's made up stories, no matter how compelling, don't interest me as much as real life, especially my own.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:47am

Ivanhoe
The Scarlet Letter

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:52am

I had some neo-Beatnik "intellectual" get snotty with me once for not having read Ulysses. Sorry, doll. That will never happen. Never never never happen.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:56am

DG, you are missing out on a lot of great literature......most written to define, or even explain the times they were written, usually written to allow later generations know how life was, why things happened how they did, and how people coped.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 5:57am

I agree, DG and Lizzy. I prefer to read non-fiction, i.e. biographies, memoirs and historical books. My mom read THE DA VINCI CODE a few years ago and she highly recommended it to me. I gave it a try, but after the first chapter I stopped. Novels just aren't my thing. Instead, I read a book (can't remember the title) in regards to the Da Vinci code theory and enjoyed it better. However, I do have a spot for juvenile literature, such as THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB series, the Judy Blume books, and NANCY DREW. i consider them light reading and can breeze through one in one sitting -- either at the beach or inside in my warm bed while it's pouring rain outside.

Other books I haven't read (pretty much all the classics):
HUCKLEBERRY FINN

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (one kid I knew thought it was a bird hunting guide book)

All the Jane Austen, Charles Dickens novels

I attempted to read the Bible when I was 17, but gave it up after only a few verses. There was no way in hell (no pun intended) I was going to torture myself like that. Kudos to Fiction Write and Goth (several times? Wow!) who managed to pull it off.

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 5:39pm

DaVinci Code, Pride and Prejudice, 5 People You meet in Heaven

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 6:08pm

None of the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings books. Fantasy doesn't appeal to me.

I just got around to starting Da Vinci this weekend.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 6:27pm

For some reason, I don't count Harry Potter to be "fantasy". I think of it more as a coming-of-age, with magic. Now, I have never read the Lord of the Rings.

And the first time I read To Kill a Mockingbird, my brother thought it was a hunting book too.

And I loved the Leonardo Code!

[Millie42]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 7:41pm

"Every time I say that I've never read The DaVinci Code, people say "YOU MUST READ IT". Which just makes me want to read it less and less...and less."

THANK YOU. I have that same stubborn mentality.
Hence, why I have not read:

The Da Vinci Code
Lord of the Rings series


As far as classic lit goes (I read the most in this genre):

The Catcher in the Rye

[Marlene]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 8:20pm

The DaVinci Code, Narnia, LoTR (Actually I read like the first half of the Fellowship, but just couldn't finish it.)

[Mythus]

Posted: 6/19/06 at 8:27pm

Wonderwaiter, this is a little off-topic but I seriously thought I was the weirdest person in the world for getting so mad and defensive when people suggest books for me to read. I never knew anyone else was like that. I don't even know why I get like that.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:16am

Da Vinci Code