What book do you keep meaning to read but never get round to?

Question

I keep meaning to read Wicked by Greogory Maguire. It's been under my bed waiting to be read for ages, but I never quite get round to it. Every couple of weeks I think,oh yeah, I must read that, but then I get distracted by reading something bizarre instead (Currently the world according to Clarkson)

Answer 1

I have a whole bookshelf full of books I have bought and still haven't managed to read. I've just been so busy with work and studying and partying that I never seem to get round to it.

There are the following books on the shelf at the moment: -

Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park (really need to read this because I'll be studying it soon)
Alan Bennett - Untold Stories
Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Ewan McGregar and Charlie Boorman - The Long Way Round
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Stephen Fry - Making History
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Graham Greene - Travels with my Aunt


And those are just the ones I can think of. But at the moment I'm reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera which has been sat on my shelf for about two years, but it's very good.

Answer 2

I went on about a book after seeing the author interviewed a year last Christmas it's called UGLY a true story and have been told it's very good only just haven't got round to reading it yet. I would need about 2 days free cause once I start reading I hate to put the book down till finished.

Answer 3

The Chronicles of Narnia (in total about 4 or 5 books). I started reading the first book called The Magician's Nephew and was going to start with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, but I just left it in my bedside table and each time it seems heavier!

Answer 4

Lord Of The Rings - must have picked it up at least twice a year in the last 20 years and never got past the first chapter. Then they went and made the movies, which were great and inspired me to read them, but have I got around to it? Noooooooo!

Answer 5

That's a very interesting question. Hmmm... I know when I was back in school I wanted to read all kinds of classics like Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, Iliad, Odyssey, etc. etc.

My friend has been trying to get me to read works by Orson Scott Card, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

I want to read everything. I want to be a wealth of knowledge.

;-)

Answer 6

The children at school read a few extracts from HOLES by Louis Sachar.

Apparently it was made into a disney film, but I have never seen it. The first few pages grip me every time they read them to use as examples in literacy, but I never get chance to grab a copy for myself.

Answer 7

i keep on meaning to read Dan Brown's Deception Point but the intros sooooooooo boring i keep on going to sleep

p.s. Clarksons books are hilarious he writes in the same style as he speaks.

Answer 8

Books that I was forced to read at school but didn't understand like, To Kill a Mockingbird and Jane Austen. Will probably never get round to it now.

Answer 9

Ive always wanted to read "The Little Puppy Who Lost His Way" and figure out how it relates to the Industrial Revolution. Anyone have a copy I can borrow?? C.

Answer 10

I have lots of books I need to get around to reading!! Wicked is one of them!! Also need to read Memory of Running, Time Traveller's Wife, SelleVision, Pig Island, Coatliners, and many more. I buy more books than I have time to read!! I intend to read them though!!