Captain... Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 How many have you read: https://www.tes.co.uk/news/school-news/breaking-news/100-fiction-books-all-children-should-read-leaving-secondary-school-– A fairly disappointing 26 from me, although it classes a song of ice and fire as 1, and the disc World Series as 1 and other trilogies and such like as 1. I'm really lacking in the classics...
Jon the Hat Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 21, which is pretty shit given I read about 2 books a week until I was at university.
David Guiza Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 26 also - started so well with about 80/90% of the first 20 and then downhill from there.
ramboacdc Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 ALL of the sherlock holmes series?! thats going some surely!
RobHawk Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 26 also - started so well with about 80/90% of the first 20 and then downhill from there. 6 - I used to love reading as well but to be fair alot of them were written after i left school and the others always had boring covers!
MikeyT Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 I have read 1! The Hobbit. Never really read at all when I was a kid. It's only since I was about in my late 20's I started reading and now I read as much as I can. 1off that list is appalling though!
Bellend Sebastian Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 6! There'd have been a lot more if they'd had some Garfield books in there
Molly Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 They missed Spot the Dog, the little wooden horse, Spit nolan, stig of the dump and a host of other books that should be read before even making it to secondary school.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 No Hungry Caterpillar? Kind of stupid list is this.
MikeyT Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 All the Roald Dahl books...and not one listed! Where's The Twits!
ozleicester Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 Joke! Any list that doesnt contain Dr Suess is a pointless waste of space. Edit, Oh and Enid Blyton... how can life exist without Enid?
Trav Le Bleu Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 Hmmm, one of these trendy, hipster, lists. Very few books are what would be considered kids books and an awful lot of stuff that kids are forced to read for English Lit. but probably won't appreciate until later life. Listing all Discworld books and Sherlock Holmes as one was very lazy too, especially when you consider that I read War of the Worlds and The Time Machine in one HG Wells omnibus and even together they're shorter than most of the books on there. For the record, I've read 10, would have been 11 if Cloud Atlas hadn't been pretentious guff. I have however seen the majority of them as films, so have no desire to read most of them.
Rincewind Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 The Discworld books can be read seperate or in groups, Nightwatch, Witches Wiards. Not looked at the list yet. Don't read as much as I should. I have the habit of reading 3 or 4 at the same time then forgetting how far I got into them. Also reading makes me tired for some reason. Can't do with the 19th century classics. Nothing wrong with the quality of writing but its the language.Tried reading Moby Dick, only got through a couple of chapters. Not keen on 1st person stories.
oakman Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 46 - a good portion of those I had to read a school though, can't say I enjoyed them all. How Benjamin Zephaniah can appear on that list is beyond me.
Captain... Posted 4 August 2015 Author Posted 4 August 2015 I feel a little better with my score now, there are some odd ones on the list, and the majority of them I read after leaving school.
Stadt Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 5, there was a Roald Dahl book there Mikey because Danny the Champion of the world was on the list. I think I read most of those 5 at school though.
ScouseFox Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 pretty sure ive not read any of them. Mr nice however...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 the list isn't appearing for me, could someone post it and maybe spoiler it so it doesn't clog up the page?
RonnieTodger Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 I had to read 2 books for my AS Level English exam but I only ever read them when I had a shit or actually at school. Only got half-way through both but managed a C.
Wymsey Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 Read a few books at School. Didn't mind it; but what bored me to shreds was watching Of Mice & Men and Romeo & Juliet during the last day of school sat in the classroom for 4 hours, whilst other class years ate sweets and played board games. Felt like leaving the premises continuously on that day.
Jon the Hat Posted 4 August 2015 Posted 4 August 2015 Where's Biff and Chip? I still have worked out which is a boy and which is a girl, and I have read dozens of them with my daughter in the past years. The Discworld books can be read seperate or in groups, Nightwatch, Witches Wiards. Not looked at the list yet. Don't read as much as I should. I have the habit of reading 3 or 4 at the same time then forgetting how far I got into them. Also reading makes me tired for some reason. Can't do with the 19th century classics. Nothing wrong with the quality of writing but its the language.Tried reading Moby Dick, only got through a couple of chapters. Not keen on 1st person stories. Get your eyes tested Ken, and tell them reading makes you tired.
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