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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed...

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Science Fiction Wrtier Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

31. I expected to have read less than that!

Met Joseph & his friend Gladys. Went for a meal & a good chat in a restaurant. Stomach complaining the whole time. Went back through security & am now waiting to board our flight.

Because we're both ill, Dad is coming to Heathrow to pick us up. This is an amazing thing to do - he has to leave Leeds at 1am to get down in time. We really appreciate it, as we're both feeling ill & wiped out.

And off the plane again. Arrived in Nairobi safely. Stomach doing better than expected, though still not great.

On the plane at last. Still feeling well rough. Just had some Orange Juice, a beef pie and a chocolate cake - my stomach has something to work on, at least. The last few meals have led to severe pain - we shall see how this one does. ETA in Nairobi is about 35 mins.

Well, this is probably my last entry whilst in Tanzania. Sitting in Dar Es Salaam airport, waiting to board our flight - all the way through security, at least! Had a wonderful time - stomach troubles notwithstanding...

What a horrible night. Stomach ache & diahorrea all night - 3 Immodium didn't touch it... Maybe got 4 hours sleep, if that... Now sat waiting for our taxi, feeling very uncomfortable & sorry for myself, and very weak... Oh well. Guess it had to happen some time.

Typical, just typical. No stomach problems for 2 weeks then on the last night it all goes a bit wrong. I had a lovely T-bone steak at the restaurant we went to in Dar, as well. Maybe that was it - too much meat... Or maybe it was the calamari...

Luther house, the guesthouse we're staying in, is clean, cheap & cheerful - with aircon! (a must in Dar) sadly this is too noisy & too cold to run all night. Never mind! Bed soon, & hopefully I will feel better by the morning.

Driving through the outskirts of Dar. Hot. Sweaty. Noisy.

Been on the bus nearly 3 hours now. Stopped once to use the loo & buy some ridiculously overpriced biscuits. Gone through the mountains national park. Seen lots of baboons. It's getting very hot! 5 hours to go.

Penultimate day of this trip. Long travel ahead of us - 8 hours to Dar on the bus. Should be fun!

Last night in Iringa. One night in Dar left before we fly home. Up at 6:30 tomorrow. Exhausted. Goodnight!

Argh! In an attempt to move it, Sally just flicked a spider at me! *deals with spider*

Really bedtime now! Goodnight!

Frogs!

Because we had some rain we now have a nigh-on biblical plague of frogs!

I'm exaggerating, of course. We just had one in our tent & three outside it just now...

Back at our campsite. Today was amazing - from the early morning start to the hippos & crocodiles in the river, to seeing a cheetah sunning itself - simply amazing! Exhausted now, though. Just had a shower, and getting ready for dinner at half 6.

Early start tomorrow for the last day of our trip.

Seen on Safari Day 2

Hippos
Crocodile
Rock-hyrax
Grasshopper
Baboons
Tsetse flies
LIONS!
Zebras
Giraffes
Jackal
One big ELEPHANT!
A larger crocodile
Ostrich
Grant's Gazelle
CHEETAH!

We are the only people here at the River Lodge... This makes me feel a little guilty - but also luxurious - there are at least ten staff on site who are here solely for our needs! :)

Outside on the sun deck watching dawn over the river. Amazing... There are a pair of mountains to the right of my view and it looks like the sun is coming up behind those - the early morning air is carrying a smell eerily reminiscent of TCP, and I can hear birds flying over the water, their plaintive cries echoing. Writing this down is causing flies, attracted by the light, to bounce off my face. I love it. (not the flies, the place!)

Have woken up early & can't get back to sleep - crickets too noisy, even through earplugs! Going to watch the sun rise over the river. Our lodge is literally feet from the water's edge, during the night you can hear hippos grumbling and the frogs burping away. Horrible insects stopped after a few minutes with the light off, but it was swelteringly hot last night. Didn't need my fleece!

Today we are aiming at being up at 6, breakfast at 7 & back on the road in the park at 7:30 - hopefully see some morning animals!

Just finished my first day on Safari. It was ace. Full list of what I've seen below - but the highlight was seeing 2 lions on the other side of a dry riverbed (500 yards) & feeling very lucky that we'd seen lions - then coming round a bend in the Land Rover and seeing two lions in the road at a distance of about ten feet. Then seeing three more later. Excellent. Will try to write more tomorrow - being eaten alive by bugs!

Seen on Safari:
Monkeys!
Stray dog
Chicken (crossing the road)
GIRAFFES!
ZEBRA
Tortoise
Impala
Hippo
Crocodile
Dikdik
ELEPHANTS!
Egyptian goose
LIONS!
Bustard
Roller
Grouse
Guineau fowl
Many bugs!
Jackals
Plover
Rock Hyrax

Arrived at Iringa just after 13:00, after a 45 minute wait whilst the bus drivers turned the wheel brace the wrong way, tightening the nuts onto the wheel rather than loosening them... Eventually all fixed & back on the road. Met Miriam & Andrew, a couple of missionaries in Iringa, & had lunch with them, before going shopping for trinkets, then for ice-cream, then going to the campsite.

In a tent. Scared of biting creatures - Sally and Anna both got munched on by ants... Not sure how I'm going to sleep...

Dinner was nice, & after I got to chat to people here who are doing the language course & prepping to work for SIL. Interesting! Safari starts tomorrow, looking forwards to that, too. Hope I'll sleep tonight!

Sat on a coach, waiting whilst the drivers change the burst tyre. Been on the coach since 6:45 - public transport starts *early* here! Hopefully another hour and a half or so to go. Thirsty and hungry, but don't want to drink anything as the coach doesn't stop for loo breaks!

Yesterday was really nice. We drove up to the World's End Viewpoint - ten minutes on the tarmac, forty minutes of dirt track & ten minutes of proper offroading - even had to engage low range once! Al drove well, as usual!

We had a picnic, then came back down - packed for an hour, then went for a Chinese, went home, & watched "Robots". Bed about 11, then up at 5:30(!)

Busy morning - went into town, waited whilst Anna paid the rent, then to a different bank to get money out, then went and got my suit & the mat we ordered, then went home. Went to Chai to say goodbye to Al's boss, then back home to pack before tomorrow...

Picnic lunch on '"World's end view" to come.