Re PSD's comment in the Knickers thread, I thought we could start a game of humiliation. (From Small World by David Lodge.) You name a book which you haven't read and get points for everyone else who's read it. Hence to win, you have to humiliate yourself by admitting having not read a famous book that everyone else has read.

In Small World, one of the characters who's mega competitive has the dilemma. Admit he hasn't read Hamlet - in which case he'll win the game but will not get his promotion.

Anyway, that's a long rambling introduction to my admission that I've never read Jane Eyre.

Dammit, that's one point from over here. And I would have got away with it if it wasn't for that pesky Thursday Next.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Um, I've never actually /finished/ Jane Eyre .... does that count?



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

easy. I've not read:
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Anything by anyone called 'Bronte'
Anything by anyone called 'Dickens'
Anything you can get in penguin books for a quid.

i don't think i've actually read anything by Dickens.
Read Jane Eyre though.

Haven't read "Emma" either... or "War and Peace"


I'd be better in a game like this with films, heven't seen Independence Day, Armageddon, or any of those we American are so good films.

Do I get a point as I actually own a copy of War & Peace, and have read the first couple of pages, oooh, at least twice.

And I've never finished "Ulysses" or even tried Finnegans Wake!

Rob and I went boozing in Dublin, where Ulysses was set, does that count?

I wouldn't have thought so. I'm sure more people have been boozing in Dublin than have read Ulysses.

I haven't read it. Is it by Homer?



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Simpson ?? I'm sure he could do a day in the life of a chap going round the bars in Dublin...

(In case it was a genuine question, James Joyce.)

What? Like -

Stately, plump Homer Simpson came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl on which a knife and fork lay crossed. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

--- D'oh!

(compare and contrast - [ccat.sas.upenn.edu] )



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Let's see: one point from me for anyone who hasn't read the following (that's one point for each book):

Jane Eyre
Everything by Jane Austen apart from Mansfield Park
The Pickwick Papers
Ulysses (yes, I ploughed through the whole damned lot just to see if it ever got any better)
Everything by Shakespeare (though some of it was a long time ago)
The Pilgrim's Progress
Morte d'Arthur
Three Men in a Boat
Three Men on the Bummel (lesser-known Jerome K Jerome)
Wuthering Heights
Doctor Zhivago (wow, that was boring!)
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
Sylvie and Bruno
La Peste (original)
L'Etranger (original)
Most of C P Snow's work (does that count?)
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss (current reading - nearly finished)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The Color Purple
Diary of a Nobody
Everything by P G Wodehouse I've been able to get my hands on

On the other hand, I claim a point from anyone who has read:

Everything else by Dickens
Everything else by the Bronte sisters (though I have just bought The Professor and Agnes Grey)
War and Peace (which I have no intention of ever reading)
Crime and Punishment (just bought, will read soon)
Vanity Fair (ditto)
Eugene Onegin
Lolita (another one I'm not going to read)
The Catcher in the Rye (flipped through it once, didn't like look of it)
Catch-22

The really difficult thing here is to decide exactly what counts - if I listed everything I've ever read, I'd be sitting here all night! There may well be edits.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

I haven't read "A Wind in the Willows" or "The Red Badge of Courage" or "Watership Down" (and those are BIG things here on this side of the pond...every kid reads them in school...except kids who went to my school, which apparently was lacking!)

I've read LOTR and Name of the Rose (which I found incredibly hard going, but ultimately worthwhile. Books about books. Grand stuff)

So that's two points off you.

But you get a point back as I've read Catch-22..

For Sarah
Have a point from me, i haven't read:

Three Men in a Boat
Three Men on the Bummel
Doctor Zhivago
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Sylvie and Bruno
La Peste (original)
L'Etranger (original)
Most of C P Snow's work
The Mill on the Floss (current reading - nearly finished)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The Color Purple
Diary of a Nobody
Everything by P G Wodehouse

But i've read:

Catcher in the Rye
The Professor

Sarah, points here - I haven't read;

Everything by Jane Austen
The Pickwick Papers
The Pilgrim's Progress
Morte d'Arthur
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Tale of Two Cities
Sylvie and Bruno
La Peste
L'Etranger
Most of C P Snow's work
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss
The Color Purple

I have read

Everything else by the Bronte sisters
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I get a million points off you all because I haven't read anything (well not strictly true, but ask our Jon he'll confirm my lack of reading).


PS: I have read Catch22 so 1 point for sarah.

So does Adam win then?

Probably (sigh). Unless we count comics and car magazines, anyway.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty