I had a mate called Joe who started reading The Hobbit when we were seven and is 3/4 of the way through it now – we are 21! hahaha, gotta love the boy for not giving up, haven’t you…perseverance…
Paradise Lost. The Silmarillion. Anything by Bill Bryson with the exception of ‘A short history of Everything’. All personal mountains that I will some day climb (except the Bill Bryson books).
I got halfway through Ulysses, liked it but understood very little, and figured I should read The Odyssey before starting again. That was a couple of years ago. I’m excited about Ulysses; it’s the Odyssey that puts me off.
Dante, Ayn Rand is incredibly repetetive. You could read every tenth page and be fine. OR you could read “Sewer, Gas, and Electric” by Matt Ruff and get a fine cliffs notes version PLUS a mutant great white shark living in the sewers of New York…
this is why i havn’t tried to read anything written before 1100 A.D. And Bill Bryson is surmountable, give yourself eight months and 1/3 of your spare time
LOL I think I was 12 when I read The Silmarillion for the first time…but I cannot get through Infinite Jest, as much as I would love to. The footnotes are just too distracting.
August 19, 2009
This one made me smile.
October 4, 2009
5 years and she’s on the eighth page.
Haha, I love this comic.
February 21, 2010
I had a mate called Joe who started reading The Hobbit when we were seven and is 3/4 of the way through it now – we are 21! hahaha, gotta love the boy for not giving up, haven’t you…perseverance…
August 17, 2010
Paradise Lost. The Silmarillion. Anything by Bill Bryson with the exception of ‘A short history of Everything’. All personal mountains that I will some day climb (except the Bill Bryson books).
August 27, 2010
I started Tolkein’s Lost Tales eight years ago. ._.
I should finish that…
October 4, 2010
I started War and Peace and got to page ninety eight in like three days. Then I gave up. It’s still there by my bedside.
November 18, 2010
i’m only on the second panel of this strip…
December 15, 2010
I got halfway through Ulysses, liked it but understood very little, and figured I should read The Odyssey before starting again. That was a couple of years ago. I’m excited about Ulysses; it’s the Odyssey that puts me off.
January 12, 2011
I’m at about the same place with Atlas Shrugged.
February 2, 2011
Dante, Ayn Rand is incredibly repetetive. You could read every tenth page and be fine. OR you could read “Sewer, Gas, and Electric” by Matt Ruff and get a fine cliffs notes version PLUS a mutant great white shark living in the sewers of New York…
March 1, 2011
Funny thing about the posters for my school’s choir concert: they’re made by one of the art students.
July 5, 2011
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings took me litteraly 6 months for getting to the end
July 10, 2011
this is why i havn’t tried to read anything written before 1100 A.D. And Bill Bryson is surmountable, give yourself eight months and 1/3 of your spare time
December 13, 2011
in my year 11 and 12 english classes we had to read michael ondaatje books. the whole class read about ten pages and used an enotes summary
February 21, 2015
Finally finished reading the strip!
August 30, 2017
LOL I think I was 12 when I read The Silmarillion for the first time…but I cannot get through Infinite Jest, as much as I would love to. The footnotes are just too distracting.