Sunday, August 31, 2014

How Many Of These Authors' First Novels Have You Read

How Many Of These Authors' First Novels Have You Read

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

25.


Jeff

mybillcrider said...

27 for me.

Deb said...

25 for me too. I feel as if I should have read more of them, but the idea of trying to read Ayn Rand's or Herman Melville's first novel just makes me want to take a nap.

mybillcrider said...

TYPEE is one of those I've read, and it's about as different from MOBY DICK as it can be. You'd probably enjoy it.

Tom Johnson said...

Oops, only four or five.

Jerry House said...

Well, at least I beat Tom. Ten for me.

Todd Mason said...

More of some of them than I care to. And, of course, it's cute to refer to Lee's first book...as well as off-point to not credit NORTHANGER ABBEY as Austen's first completed novel, we understand...even if last published through no fault of her own.

mybillcrider said...

I'd get credit for that one, too.

George said...

41 for me. And many of these books hold zero interest for me.

mybillcrider said...

George, I'm surprised you haven't read all of them.

Todd Mason said...

And I'm surprised you didn't bail, as I did, on the likes of BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. Or ANTHEM, for that matter (I started skimming 20pp in, and eventually gave that up).

Todd Mason said...

Oh, I forgot, they think WE, THE LIVING is Rand's first novel. Wonder what they think Plath's second one is.

mybillcrider said...

I never started ANTHEM or WE, THE LIVING. I did make it all the way through BRIGHT LIGHTS, though.

Cap'n Bob said...

Ten, and of the ones I didn't read I wouldn't bother with many of those authors anyway.