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October 21, 2006
What's on Your Reading List?
I was recently engaged in a conversation at work where I was asked "What have you been reading lately?" (I'll admit the questioner was worried because I'd made a comment about having brains sucked out by alien life forms.) That seemingly innocuous question led into the following dialouge:
Q: "What kind of books do you like to read?"
Me: "What kind of books wouldn't I read?"
Q: (shrugging shoulders) "I don't know".
Me: "I don't either".
The truth is my reading list is rather ecclectic, covering every topic from cognitive neuroscience to photovoltaics and I'm always on the lookout for interesting titles. Tonight I discovered via Marginal Revolution a list of "1001 books you must read before you die". The list focuses on novels, which I am not a huge consumer of, but I did better than I'd expected. I can honestly say I've read 11.5 of them and watched movies based on at least 4 of them. I'm not counting ones where I'm fuzzy on whether I actually read the book or am familiar with the story without having read it.
How many books from the list have you read, and if you were writing the list, which books would top it?
Posted by Anna at October 21, 2006 8:53 PM
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