Jacob Christensen

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Say, Have You Read…?

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I’m a little late here but back in January (!) Berlingske Tidende published the all-time list of books, people claim to have read even though they haven’t.

So, how did I do?

  1. J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Yes
  2. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace: No
  3. John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: 5 pages, then rolling on the floor laughing
  4. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights: No (No Jane Austen, either)
  5. James Joyce – Ulysses: Yes. Three times, actually.
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment: No (Russians are not for me. Sorry)
  7. George Orwell – 1984: Yes
  8. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations: No
  9. Anne Frank – Anne Frank’s Diary: Yes
  10. Franz Kafka: The Process: Yes (But I’m stuck in “The Castle”)
  11. Johannes V. Jensen – Kongens Fald: No (But I have read “Den lange rejse” and chunks of his poetry)
  12. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby: Yes
  13. John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath: Yes

I might add that I own a copy of “The da Vinci Code”. I managed one chapter, then decided that the writing was hopeless.

Oh, and by the way: Here’s an earlier post.

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October 17th, 2007 at 6:11 am

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