Tell it like it is...
Mythologies - Roland Barthes (half read)
Poetics - Aristotle (read most of it. It's good stuff actually, why didn't I finish it?)
History of Western Philosophy - Betrand Russell (got as far as Anaxi-someoneorother)
Collins Complete DIY Manual (sadly neglected)
Ah ha, what you need to do is have a book buying amnesty, until you've ready all of the unread books on your shelf. Have finally got round to reading 'Fast Food Nation' at last...
Didn't you take that? I'm sure I don't have it anymore. Or do I.... Lordy
1.Bless you for putting me on to Magnus Mills...four and counting.
2. I always buy my Korans online to aid government tracking. If it isn't too academic, which translation didja buy? A lovely translation of several short suras, along with a CD of recitation is Michael Sells' "Approaching the Qur'an".
And check out this multimedia fun courtesy of the BL:
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/
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Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) - for exactly the same reasons you state. Have read some of it but not all.
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon) - not actually unread, but still in the process of reading. After several years. It's very difficult, honest.
Middlemarch (George Eliot) - a set text at Uni. I had to do a seminar on this. I read the introduction and skimmed a book on the main characters and plot from the library. I got away with it because only three people had read it. I'm not going to read the rest of it because it's dullness is proportional to its length. It's enormous. Actually my American Lit lecturer said no-one under the age of 30 should be forced to read it. I say no-one under 130.
I have a stack several high but I'm usually fairly good and will almost certainly read them...
Don't know about this Magnus Mills chap though. Whohellhe?
Lordy. I finally went through and donated all mine last year to the used book shop. But for years I thought I'd eventually get around to William Faulkner's The Power And The Glory. No. Never. Tried the first chapter and just couldn't do it. This is why an undergrad minor in literature did me a world of good - forced me through a whole wop of classics so I never have to take them on by myself. I've actually read The Odyssey, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, etc. Not that I remember much of anything from them, but I did honestly read them. Really. I did.
Ian - it's the N.J.Dawood Penguin Classics edition of the Koran
Don Quixote and Ulysses.
Might I recommend the Penguin Great Ideas series? Lots of clever people like Hobbes. Not very many pages. £3.99 each.
Great ideas? Not many pages? Mmmm, nice. Thanks for the tip
Mr JJ, sir! Hello, old boy. The Consolation is rather good (especially considering what happened to old Boetius). And did you know that the Koran is only truly the Koran if it's in Arabic (all translations are seen merely as aids to understanding God's word). My, how boring I am!
Dazza! Great to hear from you. I got sent a Ducktastic promotional offer today - when do you go?
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