Confession time. What have you not read?

I’ve not read the whole Bible.

“Eat Pray Love”. But are you asking what it is that we intend to read?

Lord of the rings.

I have not read War and Peace or Anna Karenina. Or Moby Dick.

@stanleybmanly No, I am only asking what we might be surprised to learn you haven’t read. I haven’t read Eat, Pray, Love either, nor do I intend to read it. I might, but I have no intention. I would more likely be surprised to learn you had not read any Henry James. You strike me as a cerebral type who would enjoy James.

@RedDeerGuy1 I highly recommend Lord of the Rings.

@zenvelo I only read half of Moby Dick. I do want to finish it, but let’s not get hasty.

@Dutchess_III I’m with you, too.

I’ve been meaning to read “One Hundred Years of Solitude” for, I kid you not, almost 50 years now. Someone recommended it to me as they thought I would like it.

@flutherother It’s good. Read it. Seriously.

@flutherother oh that book is so good.

I have also not read any Jane Austen, though I’ve tried to several times. I found the first 10 pages of Pride and Prejudice to boring to keep reading.

I have not read all the Psalms.

@cinnamonk I suspect I will like it. I’m a fan of 19th Century English literature for the most part.

@Hawaii_Jake @cinnamonk Thanks for your comments. I have downloaded the book to my kindle. I can’t delay any longer.

Stranger in a Strange Land. I’m actually way behind on my Heinlein.

Hegel.

^^Me either. I’ve read more than my share of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Rousseau, Hobbes, Sartre, and quite a few others, but no Hegel.

I can not read.

I made a run at War and Peace may times over 20 years. I finally sat down and read it, damn it! Well, the peace parts, anyway.

I rarely read the TOS for anything.

Ok – I confess it, beat me with a rubber hose. I’ve never read Anne of Green Gables.

@ragingloli Don’t you mean in English? I’m sure your Romulin is fluent.
@RedDeerGuy1 What’s TOS?
@janbb I haven’t read that either. Nor Little Women. (I’m not sure why I think of them together.)

@Hawaii_Jake Terms of Service.

Neither Harry Potter nor any Bible.

@Pachy Harry Potter is quite good. It’s not fine literary fiction, but it’s very enjoyable.

@SavoirFaire Noooo…

No Harry Potter (Or much fantasy for that matter.)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (I try and try, but I just can’t finish it.)
Old Man and the Sea

The Hobbit.

I have not read any of the Game of Thrones series. This surprises many people, considering my love for Tolkien, but I’m really not much into fantasy.

@tinyfaery I have read only a bit of Hemingway. I’m more a Faulkner fan. Have you heard of Terry Pratchett? If you like fantasy at all, he’s brilliant. Good satirist.
@Cruiser That’s the only Tolkien I’ve read.
@Darth_Algar I’ve read only The Hobbit. I’m not much of a fantasy reader, except for Terry Pratchett.

Gone With the Wind—never intend to.

I have yet to read Moby Dick, War and Peace and a few other classics. I own copies, I’ll get around to it eventually. I don’t have a lot of free time to sit and read for leisure right now.

Eh, The Hobbit is a bit different from the rest of his Middle-Earth corpus (which, to me, read more like history/mythology than fantasy, some might argue that there’s little difference, but there is to me). It wasn’t intended to be part of a larger body in the first place, but kinda got swept up in it later on. In terms of style, his two other major works (The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion) are much darker, much more mature in tone (hell, The Silmarillion has an incest sub-plot).

@MooCows I read that eons ago and enjoyed it.
@ARE_you_kidding_me The half of Moby Dick I read was good.

@Hawaii_Jake I loved, loved, loved the whaling descriptions in Moby Dick.

Terms and conditions
Just agree & move on

I don’t think anyone, other than company lawyers, has read the terms of service/terms and conditions on any product ever.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Moby Dick is a phenomenal read. In my top 10 list.

I set aside six books to read this year, and I haven’t even opened any of the books.
First one is supposed to be Plath’s The Bell Jar.

I rarely read books. Maybe two a year. Some years I bet it has been zero. So, there is a very long list of what I haven’t read.

I haven’t read any J. R. R. Tolkien novels. I started The Lord of the Rings long ago but after mere pages gave up. I find his faux-medieval style of writing something I can’t digest.

There’s so much classic literature I haven’t read. Just because I love books doesn’t mean I have to read every godamn thing that’s considered a must.

@tinyfaery I know, I know. The only class my undergrad program offered on Hegel conflicted with a required course, and no one teaches Hegel where I am now. So I’ve read a bunch of stuff about Hegel (including a few summaries), but I haven’t actually read Hegel himself. It’s on my post-dissertation to-do list, though.

@ucme “Just agree & move on”

The same way most people treat scripture.

Never read The Great Gatsby. It seems to be very popular.

I haven’t read any Harry Potter. My kids just weren’t into it. My little one when though a faze with the neighbour kids pointing wands at each other and chasing each other, but I don’t think he’s ever watched a movie through or read the book his grandmother sent. I tried to read it, but so much of the material was stolen (not attributed) to ancient myths I got pissed off.

I could not read through any Jane Austin. I read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and it was was published in 1792, almost 20 years before Austen’s first novel, so I just could not digest Austin at all.

I read quite a few “classics” in high school and college because of motivated literature teachers thankfully. But on my own, I’m similar to @JLeslie. Maybe 2–3 books a year. Maybe.

I’m more likely to watch a film or listen to a non-fiction audio book. The only thing I read regularly are comics.

As a librarian, I, of course, have read all the books

@Stinley Well, that’s what we do all day, right?

I never did.

I haven’t read Harry Potter.

More than half the books on my bookshelves, sad to say. If they ever stop making print books, I should still be good. And the sad thing is that I am rereading a couple of books that I read about 30 years ago.

I did buy Treasure Island. Both Espiritus_Corvus and Zenvelo told me it was good, and I like pirates, so…

There’s a lot I haven’t read.
But two popular series I’ve never read are: The Harry Potter series & The Hunger Game series.

Save yourself from the Hunger Games series, unless you are a 12 year old girl. I thought it was a real dystopian novel after I heard about the first movie. Man, was I disappointed. I didn’t finish the book.