Poll of Books Read in 2008

[quietprofanity]

It went OK this year. Still haven't cracked "50 without pictures" or "100 in general" but I did better than last year, and I can't complain about that. Wish I had reached my "Read the Nevi'im" goal, too, but can't have everything.


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ETA: Oh shit, first question should say "Books without pictures." Bah. Whatever, I'm not doing the whole poll again.

Comments

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Interesting how twice as many people have each read Alice in Wonderland and Prince Caspian than have read the books of the Bible.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that as well. (And I wonder if Peter Pan would be higher if I hadn't combined it with its sequels.) I'm also wondering how many people read which books of the Bible.

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

I've read the thing cover to cover, but I don't think I've read Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, or Micah. Maybe I just don't recall those names, though? It is funny how people have read some books of the Bible, but not all. IMHO, everyone should read Revelations and Leviticus, just for the LOLZ.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Those are the super-short prophets. (Obadiah is only one chapter long.) I keep telling myself I should write a list on how to remember them and post it on LJ. Like "Hosea - The one married to a prostitute," "Obadiah - The one from Esau," "Amos - says rich people suck."

ETA: Oh, and my "Read for the LOLZ" book is totally the Book of Samuel. (I think it's the best, anyway.) Mostly because David/Jonathan is total OTP.

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I have read them, then. Yeah, if they were actually listed on LT, you could tag them or put comments like that as memory jogs. I usually make comments like that to keep track of series... which the books of the Bible kind of are.

Samuel, eh? As in 'Samuel and the Lion's Den'?

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Daniel is in the Lion's Den. :-) I haven't gotten that far yet.

No, Samuel is this big, sprawling epic that encompasses well, Samuel being the child of this beloved but formerly barren woman (as always in the Bible, no?). Then he rises to prominence as an awesome priest, and he's tasked with finding the people a king. So first he picks Saul, who is a prophesied to be a shitty king and, of course, is. So Samuel then picks David. Then David kills Goliath. Then Saul tries to kill David while Jonathan tries to get into David's pants. And then Saul dies and David rules but it's not all fun and games because he steals someone's wife, his daughter gets raped by his son and his son Absalom betrays him and eventually David dies of old age.

IT IS FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Oops. Shows how much Bible study actually sunk in, eh? ;]

Wheeee! It's like an amusement park!

[thescrappycat.livejournal.com]

Okay, icon-love -- imaybe1

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :D

I can't claim orginality of the statement, but I do live by it.

[thescrappycat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! I hadn't seen this one before. It's fun! It's educational! *snerk*

I've bookmarked it for later when I have more time. Thanks again.