| Author | Message | ||
     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
...my 'to-be-read' pile, that is. Ninety-seven books. Bloody hell, how did that happen? Note to self - stop getting involved in life and read more. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Mine's bigger than that - and it goes back about 15 years. In fact, almost my whole book collection is a TBR pile! | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 91.111.9.47 |
Crikey you pair, that's insane. Mine consists of three books! | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
I'd say a good third of my collection is one vast TBR pile - and that's a lot of books, believe me. It puts me in mind of a non-fiction piece Peter Crowther did for The Third Alternative a number of years ago, in which he estimated he'd get through all his unread books and comics around the time of his 150th birthday. Then again, (to borrow from a Harlan Ellison short story), what's the point of a library full of books you've already read? | ||
| Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
I'm with Zed & Mick on this one Coral... cheers for the chapbook too Zed:-] | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
97???? I have about 6 to read -I blame that Curtis geezer..  Actually, it's good because I hate a pile of unread books and it has stirred me into a rate of reading I haven't had for a good few years. gcw | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.112 |
No kidding, I have a loft full of unread books (around 300 I'd estimate), and about 10-15 in my bedside cabinet, which are next on the list. For the past few years the books I've picked up at Fantasycons have lasted me most of the reading year. I suspect that if I never bought another book in my life (God forbid), I'd still have enough to see me through to the end. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
Just found another twenty but new total of 117 is still way behind yours, Steve! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Over 300 at last count. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
Ooh, and another 14, bringing my total to a rubbish (in comparison to others on here) 131... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.111.176 |
OMG Mick - you will never get to mine :>( | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
I don't care if he reads mine as long as he's bought it. I can't count my TBR pile because I have a time-limit a book may remain on the pile. If it's not read by then, it gets put into the library and quiet suffocated under all the other tomes. There was a time, about seven years ago, when I'd read everything I bought. Those days are gone now, as my free time has been consumed with writing. This year I've made a concerted effort to read more, but I'm still painfully behind in clearing the backlog. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
I don't care if he reads mine as long as he's bought it. That's not what you told me whilst we were cuddled up at FCon... | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
That wasn't no book I was talking about. Oo-er! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.132 |
My last count was 200 but that was a few years ago |