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What Book Do You Think You Should Read But Keep Putting Off?
In a similar vein to barry's book question, do you have a book that sits on the shelf taunting you? "Come on read me, you know you want to"? Mine is Don Quixote - Cervantes. There are 768 pages and the print is so small I'd need the bins!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've a few on my shelf unread, among them 'This Sceptred Isle' by Christopher Lee (I don't think he's that Christopher Lee). That one taunts me.
A couple more that I should have read in my student days nagged me for ages - so I've remedied that within the past few years. 'The Catcher in the Rye' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Both great books.
Actually, it's a book Naomi has mentioned several times...including on Barry's book thread.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón...and the 3 books that make up the series. All on my kindle...waiting.
Also most of Dickens...read Great Expectations in High school. That and Jane Austen can be hard going for a 16yr old.
I did read Ulysses but it was quite hard work; I won't be bothering with Finnegans Wake.
I'm okay with early Dickens but later books are so long and involved; if I was going to read 900 pages I'd need to be on a beach somewhere. I read War and Peace, long ago while the TV series with Anthony Hopkins was still fresh in my mind.
There's a Hawking Index here (beats me how people don't read The Great Gatsby, it takes less time than it does to watch any of the movies made from it).
I haven't got such a book, but I've got a DVD of Die Nibelungen – Siegfried. 1924. - (Sigfried and the Nibelungen). A famous silent film of early German cinema by Fritz Lang. Its five hours long, I bought it ages ago, but I can't see me ever watching it, unless God forbid I end up one day in a care home.
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