And Then What Happened?

In The Daily Mail yesterday, "According to a survey, Britons spend an average of £4,000 on books during their lifetime, but fail to finish almost half of them."

The novel that topped the poll of book the British buy but don't read/finish is DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. (Check out John Crace's hilarious synopses of some of the books, in  The Guardian Unlimited's The Digested Read.)

Have a look at the full lists (fiction and non-fiction) and see if they match yours.

My list includes Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and Diana Wynne Jones's Dalemark Quartet.

I don't think I'll ever read Proust's seven-volume novel. (Actually, I'm on the verge of selling the four volumes I own. I am suddenly unsure if I should though. )

I recently started Cart and Cwidder (the first Dalemark book), again (probably the sixth time in as many years), and would have continued had I not been distracted by Terry Pratchett and Death.

One of my reading resolutions for 2007 is to read it. And The Wizard of Earthsea.

Comments

[marineko]

the Dalemark Quartet is still one of my favorite works by Diana Wynne Jones! (The absolute favorite would have to be "Fire & Hemlock")

and "A Wizard of Earthsea" has been on my TBR list for... actually, i lost count for how many years. i need to get started on that, but at the moment i'm distracted by Nancy Farmer's "Sea of Trolls", which makes me want to try to pick up Beowulf again...