Have You Actually Read Any of These?

Steve West | September 5, 2010
The Huffington Post online had a recent article on books people claim to have read - but have not. The poll only allows one vote so pick the one you read (if any) and liked most.

Erik Bates | September 5, 2010
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Steve West | September 5, 2010
Good for you... And Happy Birthday! I've read three others and most of a fourth. The one I mostly read (Chaucer) I've probably claimed to have read.

Tony Peters | September 5, 2010
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

however I will admit that I didn't understand much of Hawking

Aaron Shurtleff | September 6, 2010
Don Quixote and Moby Dick are all that I have read.

I assume on The Canterbury Tales, you are asking if someone has read what is widely considered to be the entirety of them, since I recall some controversy as to what we have today is actually the whole of what existed. Or, I am talking out my butt. Also possible.

Amy Austin | September 6, 2010
Oh, shit... I was supposed to pick what I liked most?? Hm... scratch As I Lay Dying (sick, sick story) and pencil me in for A Christmas Carol.

Matthew Preston | September 6, 2010
Hmmm... too bad Kathy Griffin's autobiography isn't on that list, otherwise I could have voted.

I started to read Hawking's book back in college, thinking I was smart enough to understand it. Nope. Made it a few pages in, gave up, and read Ender's Game instead.

I was hoping at least one of the classic's I've read would be on there (Of Mice and Men, Slaughterhouse Five, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye). Of course those are examples of books people actually have read, thanks to high school.

Steve West | September 6, 2010
Exactly, Matt. And Amy, I would have listed all of Faulkner up there if the list were original to me.

Jackie Mason | September 12, 2010
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