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When am I *ever* getting to those?

Dogmatix : It is an illustration of the Crimson King. The Crimson King is the main villian in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Roland, the main character (the good guy), must destroy the Crimson King in order to reach his objective- the dark tower.
 
Laugh. I forgot about this post, and looking back, those books are *still* on my TBR pile! :)

Worse, my list of Bujold is pretty much pushing everything back, and there is a *lot* of Bujold. :)

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There's really too many to name for me as well. It's almost shameful how many books that I own and have not finished reading yet. I keep checking books out from the library, but I've managed to ween myself from that habit except for Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

I had planned on finishing a small stack of Nancy Drew mysteries that I purchased at $1 each, but I've only managed to complete one of the five titles. I don't feel like mystery at the moment, but I'm not sure what I wish to read.
 
I would be better suited to answer the question "Which Books of yours have you actually read?"! It would be quicker. My TBR list would pretty much comprise my entire library!! LoL...shameful, I agree. I have made small dents here and there, reading The Golden Compass by Pullman, only just 2 weeks ago, so there is hope!
 
Bluraven said:
I would be better suited to answer the question "Which Books of yours have you actually read?"! It would be quicker. My TBR list would pretty much comprise my entire library!! LoL...shameful, I agree. I have made small dents here and there, reading The Golden Compass by Pullman, only just 2 weeks ago, so there is hope!
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I'm kind of glad that I'm not the only one like this.
 
Yeah I have thousands of books that are on my Must-Read list, but usually I get distracted for something else and end up reading books that have never been on any list. Oh well... I'll get to them someday!
 
I've got 50-60 books waiting to be read on my shelves but I'm also quite shocked at my list of books I still want to buy! I have book tokens that I *still* haven't used from August because I can't choose which books to get and my list of wanted books is over 250 now. :eek:

A few of the books sitting on my shelves that I really want to read but never seem to get to are:

The rest of Anne Rice's vampire books (don't have them all but I've got 3 sitting on my TBR shelves)
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Theres probably a lot more but thinking about it will just distract from the book I'm reading right now and I'll never get to them then!
 
My "to read" list:

1. The Once and Future King, TH White
2. Through Wolf's Eyes, Jane Lindskold
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown

Hmm..I can't remember the rest of them.
 
Well i have around 64 books on my bookshelf that are my TBR pile. They change order almost daily. It seems like i always pick up on something that someone else tells me will be good and never get to the others i want to read...LOL:rolleyes:
 
I stopped buying new books once I realised that I had about 40 unread books on my bookshelf :eek: A few that seem to have been sitting there forever are:
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Communion by Whitely Streiber
Eldest by Christopher Paolini

I've whittled the unread list down to about 20 now, so I should start visiting the library more after that.
 
I've got 36 waiting on my shelf...

Here's some highlights, including a few that I gave a start and couldn't get into immediately... got to give 'em a second chance.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Libra by Don DeLillo
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

Those are my major concerns, at the very least. Once I get those 15 done, I'll be pretty happy.
 
*types list of twenty books which she accidentally deletes*

yes, i totally know what you mean!! i have so meany books on shelves and in piles and simply on my to be read list!! and more coming out every week-eek!
 
I have books that I've purchased back from 2002 that I still haven't read. And some books that I purchase that I only buy because they look nice and nothing else. I have a problem, I really do.
 
unKeMPt said:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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I'm here to help you bump some books up your pile. :)

Cloud Atlas is, in a word, brilliant. In two words, bloody brilliant. 7 layered stories in one novel, set from older times to far flung future with an interconnected thread going through them all. And the writing is wonderful - the writing follows the setting of each individual story - Mitchell adjusts his writing style accordingly, and he makes it seem quite easy.

My wife read Kafka, and she loved it. "Like an anime" is how she put it. I'm going to read it for sure.

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I have a list as well, and have found that I'm getting farther and farther behind on them. I do have a list, but then I find one or two other books and on the spur of the moment, I purchase those instead. Oh well, another day, another book.:cool:
 
Indeed I have many I really want to get to that I've had for a while. There are just as many I want to get to that I haven't bought yet as well. Sometimes others come up, sometimes it's not the right time for that book and it gets pushed back.

Some highlights that I want to read that I own include:

Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Ulysses by Joyce
Demons, The Adolescent and The Idiot by Dostoevsky
The New York Trilogy by Auster
 
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