MobileRead discussion

As a lot of you know, I'm working on this damn 1001 list. There's actually a pretty big group on goodreads here for it. Anyway, I couldn't figure out what to read next, so I've got a poll going on MR to help me with the next one. But I'm thinking what I'll do is I'll read 5 of these a month, starting with the one with the most votes then go down. Here's the poll:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/show...

Does anyone want to join me in this? Or do something similar? I could use the company :p

Hi Jessica,

I voted for "The Three Musketeers" in the MR poll.

Just checked over there and see that "1984" has passed "Dirk Gently" for most votes--kinda surprises me for some reason....

I voted for 1984. It is a short read.

I periodically check books off the 1001 book list. I think I'm around 40.

RL - it's been beating it for a while. I'm surprised too.

grooks, you're kicking my butt :) I'm only at 29...

I may work on a few more during my cruise next month

grooks wrote: "I may work on a few more during my cruise next month"

oh, sure, rub it in ;-)

where you going?

Grand Cayman, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.

Ooooh nice :)

Ok so here's what the list came out as:

17 votes: 1984 by George Orwell
16 votes: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
12 votes: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
8 votes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6 votes: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
6 votes: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
5 votes: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
5 votes:Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5 votes:Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
5 votes:Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
4 votes: Emma by Jane Austen
4 votes:Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
4 votes:Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
3 votes: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
3 votes:The Jungle The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair
2 votes: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
2 votes: The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
1 vote: Awakening by Kate Chopin
1 vote:A Room With a View by E.M. Forester
1 vote:The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0 votes: Silas Marner by George Eliot

I'll be working my way down, in that order.

Some of those I have read. May try to do a few others on the list very soon.

Let us know if you do :)

I will have to tag the 1001 books in my library so I can keep track of them.

grooks wrote: "Grand Cayman, Honduras, Belize and Mexico. "

wow! sounds great! are you a diver?

Jessica wrote: "Ok so here's what the list came out as:

17 votes: 1984 by George Orwell
16 votes: [b:Dirk Gently's Holis..."

Thanks for the tally. I don't think you could go wrong with any of the books on this list!

I've been diving once. Would like to try it again.

I've already finished 1984, now onto Dirk Gently! Gotta go to the library tomorrow to pick it up.

I'll join you on the ones I can get in eBook formats. Some of these I have already read so I'll tick those off.

I think only four I couldn't get in ebook - Dirk Gently, Things Fall Apart, Rebecca, and the Secret History

You now have a truly great book for the final read. Silas Marner by George Eliot is one of my favorite books. I posted the Sony LRF (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/show...) and Mobipocket PRC (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/show...) versions in September 2007 and the eBookwise IMP version in October 2007 (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/show...)

Then how come you didn't vote for it? :p Thanks for uploading it!

I missed the whole poll. There has been this thing I do called "work" When you are self-employed you take it when it is available.

As pointed out earlier, there are no bad choices in the lot. All that would change is the sequence, not a decision to read|not read.