Banned book meme, in fact.
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Right. Bold out the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you’ve not finished, and ** the ones you own, but haven’t started on yet.
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
** #4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
** #7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccol
You own a copy of the Koran? Wait, you own a copy of the Bible? Should I feel guilty for not owning either? I think I read most of the Bible in some form or other in school. Perhaps I should read the Koran for comparison…
Well, it’s sort of a cheat, I subscribe to a series called “the holy texts of the world” (literally translated) – I suspect I might own the Talmud, to, actually. I was meaning to read parts of the Koran, too, though – but then I was meaning to read most of the books in that series (which, incidentally, is why I own Popol Vuh also), and I haven’t really doen much more than glance at them so far. But they’re very pretty books and look good on the shelf, that’s something, I suppose ;)
I think I have at least 5 bibles, though – they tend to accumulate, I find, but it might just be me…