Comments on: Tuesday Thingers - Popularity Contest

By: Amie

Amie — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:00:36 +0000

I really enjoy Austen, but I must admit, that I love listening to P&P on audiobooks more than I like to sit and read the words on the page… SHOCKING I know… I think it’s because I have watched the BBC and new release versions of the movie so many times, that I like the auditory stimulus it provides (hows that for some big words, LOL)

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:28:51 +0000

You just picked up Austen? I don’t know why it always seems so odd to me when I stumble across those who haven’t read her before…. P&P is one of my all time favorite books!

By: Literate Housewife

Literate Housewife — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:15:56 +0000

I’m back - finally!!!

I think that the LOTR series is going to make my Never TBR pile. I tried reading The Hobbit about 10 years ago and just couldn’t. I love the movies, though.

Austen is just wonderful. I love all of her books.

By: Traci

Traci — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:24:41 +0000

Well, I had the LOTR books on my TBR list (I’m honestly not sure why), but after reading your post, they may just get bumped. I read The Hobbit a few years ago, and it was really all I could do to finally finish the excruitiatingly boring and confusing (My God, could he have added more characters?!?) thing. I don’t give up on books as a rule, but I was awfully close on that one. So, hearing that it’s the ‘more accessible’ of the bunch doesn’t leave me wanting to read the others.

By: devourerofbooks

devourerofbooks — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:41:45 +0000

What are the monkeys?

By: The Kool-Aid Mom

The Kool-Aid Mom — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:35:36 +0000

Interesting approach to the question. I agree with you that the top five books are boring (as a list) and don’t say much about us as LTers. Everyone has them, it’s like white walls in a new apartment.

I don’t remember the sex in 1984… It goes straight to the top of the ToBeReRead pile! I just remember the mortifying thought someone could be watching me in the bathroom stall.

I’m with you on P&P… I’d love to have my Jane-a-thon, but Gargoyles, cymbal-clapping monkeys, and a Plum stand in the way (not to mention all the ARCs… you know…)