Books you still haven’t read

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I still haven’t read “A Confederacy of Dunces” and the way things are going, I may never get around to it.

Yours?

[avebury]

1. The Unconquered by Ben Ames Williams.

I re-read House Divided last winter (1540 pages) but have not made it thru the sequel yet. I read House Divided back in High School and am glad that I read it again as my perception of it changed over time. The first book is set during the Civil War and focuses on a southern family that finds out they have ties to Lincoln. It is really interesting I thought, as I read it, that some things have not changed.

I am an emedia (ebooks and audiobook) hoarder so I have lost of books that i have not made it through yet including Ken Follett's Century Trilogy and the Pillars of the Earth series. I also have Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit, No Ordinary Time, and Team of Rivals in the wings.

I really need to just get rid of my TV if I have any hope of making a dent in my reading backlog.

[OriginalGeek]

2. Except for a few essays in magazines

I haven't read any Kurt Vonnegut.

I really need to fix that.

[steve2470]

3. The Bible and all of Shakespeare, was never mandatory reading in my schools, sadly nt

[First Speaker]

4. Don Quixote

...made two attempts in college, and gave it up. But people kept saying it was a book for your old age, so maybe I'll give it a try again, now that--ulp--I'm qualified... ...

[hifiguy]

5. I have GOT to read that someday.

Considering I read 15-20 books per month these days.

[LynneSin]

6. Anything by Ayn Rand

Why bother?

[Glorfindel]

7. For some reason, I have never read anything by John Updike

I keep meaning to, but never have. I keep a copy of "A Confederacy of Dunces" on hand to read when I need a really good laugh.

[OriginalGeek]

14. I loved Witches of Eastwick

but that's the only Updike I've read I think. I probably should read more.

[ballardgirl]

8. You're covered

I read it twice!

[rug]

9. That is the funniest book I ever read, next to The Sot-Weed Factor.

[RiffRandell]

10. Every Twilight book and no plans to.

Never sat through more than 5 minutes of the movies.

To each their own; I'm not a literary snob but once I skimmed through the first one in Target I was like, so not happening.

I've got books on my Kindle and in my shelf that I haven't read, mags to catch up on (just got a thick Vanity Fair in the mail today) but have been lazy and catching up on shows.

That's bad since I lecture our son about Lord of the Flies as he's been on it for about 2 weeks and I'm all, I finished that in 3 days! He's too involved in Minecraft and Team Fortress.

[cemaphonic]

11. A couple Faulkner - "The Unvanquished" and "Sanctuary"

Started both several times, and was interested, but put them down for long enough to have to start over.

"A Confederacy of Dunces" is very funny, but you have to have the right sense of humor. My wife would hate it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Been sitting on Letters from the Earth, Travels with Charley, and It Can't Happen Here

... for years!

[applegrove]

13. I never read it. Also another book on WWI, I had it for years but couldn't

get into it. I threw it out. Then it appeared on my pile of books to read. Don't know how it got there. And I'm not in the mood to read it.