The Dark Tower - Stephen King

OK, so it's not on my lists below but it had to be read

And well worth the wait it was.
He's a bit cavalier with his heroes (or is he?) and the "Deus Ex Machina" gag was quite a twist but it did manage to awaken the feel of the original four books which the latter two (The Wolves of Calla & Song of Susannah) seemed to miss. In fact those two had the impression of padding: just to make up the number of volumes - he said 7 so he was going to make 7. They were even printed on thicker paper & in larger font just to make sure they took up the right amount of space on the shelf - shame on you Stevie ! ;-)

I'm not sure how long ago I first started the series but the whole feel of the story & narrative matched what I was looking for at the time and I was feeling that after that much of a gap I'd not feel the same way. Sort of, I was right in that but it didnt spoil the enjoyment. Sure I did approach the latter two with a sort of feeling of "duty" and of getting the job done but the final one (I'm assuming) did the job right.

And when he warns you not to read the really final chapter, take heed. Tho you won't take any notice anyway.
And like me, you'll probably wonder why you chose to, after all . . .

I'm going to miss them

The ones I meant

So here are the books I meant before I thought about it:

Title	Author	Read
1984	George Orwell	Y
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY	John Irving	Y
A TOWN LIKE ALICE	Nevil Shute
ANIMAL FARM	George Orwell	Y
BRAVE NEW WORLD	Aldous Huxley	Y
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED	Evelyn Waugh
CATCH-22	Joseph Heller	Y
DUNE	Frank Herbert	Y
GONE WITH THE WIND	Margaret Mitchell
LORD OF THE FLIES	William Golding	Y
ON THE ROAD	Jack Kerouac
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE	JD Salinger
THE GRAPES OF WRATH	John Steinbeck
THE GREAT GATSBY	F Scott Fitzgerald
THE LORD OF THE RINGS	J.R.R. Tolkien	Y
THE MAGUS	John Fowles	Y
THE STAND	Stephen King	Y
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	Harper Lee	Y
WATERSHIP DOWN	Richard Adams

- which leaves me only 7 to get through - hardly I challenge so I'll stick with my original (or second original) list of choices.
So long as I'm allowed to leave out most of Terry Pratchett's output. Why so many of his? All on the BBC list I'm sad to say. I expect it's more a reflection of the type of people who fill in surveys rather than his true worth.
And I suppose the same can be said for the U.S selection of Robert Heinlein - tho havng read him I'd say is more suited to being on this list than our own T.P.

Booklist

So, in the 1C1 in 1K1 list, #90 is: "Read all books common to BBC's Good Read & Random House's list" - which, I realise now, I'm not going to do as I've filtered the lists the wrong way & included ALL books from both lists - I've just removed the duplications instead of selected just those (D'Uh!). Pillock!

So now I've got 247 books (I used the Board list & the Reader's list from RH) instead of 53 . . .
Luckily, I've read some of them already.

Own	Author	TITLE	Read
-	Douglas Adams	HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY	Y
-	Douglas Adams	THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
-	Richard Adams	WATERSHIP DOWN
-	Louisa May Alcott	LITTLE WOMEN
-	Sherwood Anderson	WINESBURG, OHIO
-	Jeffrey Archer	KANE AND ABEL
-	Margaret Atwood	THE HANDMAID'S TALE
-	Jean M Auel	THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
-	Jane Austen	EMMA
-	Jane Austen	PERSUASION
-	Jane Austen	PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
-	Richard Bach	ILLUSIONS
-	James Baldwin	GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
-	Max Beerbohm	ZULEIKA DOBSON
-	Saul Bellow	HENDERSON THE RAIN KING
-	Saul Bellow	THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH
-	Arnold Bennett	THE OLD WIVES' TALE
Y	Louis de Bernieres	CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN
-	Malorie Blackman	NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
-	Enid Blyton	THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE
-	Elizabeth Bowen	THE DEATH OF THE HEART
-	Paul Bowles	THE SHELTERING SKY
-	Ray Bradbury	FARENHEIT 451	Y
-	Ray Bradbury	SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
-	Charlotte Bronte	JANE EYRE	Y
-	Emily Bronte	WUTHERING HEIGHTS
-	Anthony Burgess	A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
-	Frances Hodgson Burnett	THE SECRET GARDEN
-	William S. Burroughs	NAKED LUNCH
-	Samuel Butler	THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
-	Meg Cabot	THE PRINCESS DIARIES
-	James M. Cain	THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
-	Erskine Caldwell	TOBACCO ROAD
-	Orson Scott Card	ENDER'S GAME
Y	Lewis Carroll	ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND	Y
-	Willa Cather	MY ANTONIA
-	Willa Cather	DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
-	John Cheever	THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES
-	Tom Clancy	THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER	Y
-	Paul Coelho	THE ALCHEMIST
-	Eoin Colfer	ARTEMIS FOWL
-	Wilkie Collins	THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Y	Joseph Conrad	HEART OF DARKNESS
-	Joseph Conrad	LORD JIM
-	Joseph Conrad	NOSTROMO
Y	Joseph Conrad	THE SECRET AGENT	Y
-	Roald Dahl	CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
-	Roald Dahl	MATILDA
-	Roald Dahl	THE BFG
-	Roald Dahl	THE TWITS
-	Robertson Davies	FIFTH BUSINESS
-	Robertson Davies	THE CUNNING MAN
Y ?	Charles Dickens	A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Y ?	Charles Dickens	A TALE OF TWO CITIES	Y
Y ?	Charles Dickens	BLEAK HOUSE
Y ?	Charles Dickens	DAVID COPPERFIELD
Y ?	Charles Dickens	GREAT EXPECTATIONS
-	James Dickey	DELIVERANCE
-	E.L. Doctorow	RAGTIME
-	J.P. Donleavy	THE GINGER MAN
-	Fyoder Dostoyevsky	CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
-	Theodore Dreiser	AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
-	Theodore Dreiser	SISTER CARRIE
-	Alexander Dumas	THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
-	Lawrence Durell	THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
-	E.R. Eddison	THE WORM OUROBOROS
-	George Elliot	MIDDLEMARCH
-	Ralph Ellison	INVISIBLE MAN
-	James T. Farrell	THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY
-	William Faulkner	ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
-	William Faulkner	AS I LAY DYING
-	William Faulkner	LIGHT IN AUGUST
-	William Faulkner	THE SOUND AND THE FURY
-	Sebastian Faulks	BIRDSONG
-	Raymond E Feist	MAGICIAN
-	Helen Fielding	BRIDGET JONES' DIARY
-	F Scott Fitzgerald	THE GREAT GATSBY
-	F. Scott Fitzgerald	TENDER IS THE NIGHT
-	Ken Follett	THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
-	Ford Madox Ford	PARADE'S END
-	Ford Madox Ford	THE GOOD SOLDIER
-	E.M. Forster	A PASSAGE TO INDIA
-	E.M. Forster	A ROOM WITH A VIEW
-	E.M. Forster	HOWARDS END
Y	John Fowles	THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN	Y
-	John Fowles	THE MAGUS	Y
-	William Gaddis	THE RECOGNITIONS
-	Stella Gibbons	COLD COMFORT FARM
-	Arthur Golden	MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
-	William Golding	LORD OF THE FLIES	Y
-	Kenneth Grahame	THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS	Y
Y	Robert Graves	I, CLAUDIUS	Y
-	Henry Green	LOVING
-	Graham Greene	THE HEART OF THE MATTER
-	Laurell K. Hamilton	GUILTY PLEASURES
-	Dashiell Hammett	THE MALTESE FALCON
-	Thomas Hardy	FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
-	Thomas Hardy	TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
-	Robert Heinlein	CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY
-	Robert Heinlein	DOUBLE STAR
-	Robert Heinlein	STARSHIP TROOPERS
-	Robert Heinlein	STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND	Y
-	Robert Heinlein	THE DOOR INTO SUMMER
-	Robert Heinlein	THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
-	Robert Heinlein	THE PUPPET MASTERS
Y	Joseph L Heller	CATCH 22	Y
-	Ernest Hemingway	A FAREWELL TO ARMS
-	Ernest Hemingway	THE SUN ALSO RISES
Y	Frank Herbert	DUNE	Y
-	Robert Holdstock	MYTHAGO WOOD
-	L. Ron Hubbard	BATTLEFIELD EARTH
-	L. Ron Hubbard	FEAR
-	L. Ron Hubbard	MISSION EARTH
-	Richard Hughes	A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
-	Aldous Huxley	BRAVE NEW WORLD	Y
-	Aldous Huxley	POINT COUNTER POINT
Y	John Irving	A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY	Y
Y	John Irving	THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP	Y
-	Shirley Jackson	THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
-	Henry James	THE AMBASSADORS
-	Henry James	THE GOLDEN BOWL
-	Henry James	THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
-	James Jones	FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Y	James Joyce	ULYSSES
-	James Joyce	A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
-	James Joyce	FINNEGANS WAKE
-	William Kennedy	IRONWEED
-	Jack Kerouac	ON THE ROAD
-	Ken Kesey	ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST	Y
-	Ken Kesey	SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
Y	Stephen King	IT	Y
Y	Stephen King	THE STAND	Y
-	Rudyard Kipling	KIM
-	Arthur Koestler	DARKNESS AT NOON
-	D.H. Lawrence	SONS AND LOVERS
-	D.H. Lawrence	THE RAINBOW
-	D.H. Lawrence	WOMEN IN LOVE
-	Harper Lee	TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	Y
-	CS Lewis	THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE	Y
-	Sinclair Lewis	ARROWSMITH
-	Sinclair Lewis	MAIN STREET
-	Charles de Lint	GREENMANTLE
-	Charles de Lint	MEMORY AND DREAM
-	Charles de Lint	MOONHEART
-	Charles de Lint	MULENGRO
-	Charles de Lint	SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING
-	Charles de Lint	THE LITTLE COUNTRY
-	Charles de Lint	TRADER
-	Charles de Lint	YARROW
-	Jack London	THE CALL OF THE WILD
-	H.P. Lovecraft	AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
-	Malcolm Lowry	UNDER THE VOLCANO
-	Michelle Magorian	GOODNIGHT MR TOM
-	Norman Mailer	THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
-	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
-	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
-	W. Somerset Maugham	OF HUMAN BONDAGE
-	Daphne du Maurier	REBECCA
-	Cormac McCarthy	BLOOD MERIDIAN
-	Cormac McCarthy	SUTTREE
-	Colleen McCollough	THE THORN BIRDS
-	Carson McCullers	THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
Y	Henry Miller	TROPIC OF CANCER
Y	AA Milne	WINNIE THE POOH
-	Margaret Mitchell	GONE WITH THE WIND
-	LM Montgomery	ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
-	Toni Morrison	BELOVED
-	Iris Murdoch	UNDER THE NET
-	Vladimir Nabokov	LOLITA
-	Vladimir Nabokov	PALE FIRE
-	V.S. Naipaul	A BEND IN THE RIVER
-	V.S. Naipaul	A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS
-	Flann O'Brien	AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS
-	Flannery O'Connor	WISE BLOOD
-	John O'Hara	APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
-	George Orwell	1984	Y
-	George Orwell	ANIMAL FARM	Y
-	John Dos Passos	U.S.A. (TRILOGY)
Y	Mervyn Peak	GORMENGHAST	Y
-	Walker Percy	THE MOVIEGOER
-	Rosamund Pilcher	THE SHELL SEEKERS
Y	Robert Pirsig	ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE	Y
-	Anthony Powell	A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (SERIES)
-	Terry Pratchett	GUARDS! GUARDS!
-	Terry Pratchett	MORT
-	Terry Pratchett	NIGHTWATCH
-	Terry Pratchett	THE COLOUR OF MAGIC
-	Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman	GOOD OMENS
-	Philip Pullman	HIS DARK MATERIALS
-	Mario Puzo	THE GODFATHER
Y	Thomas Pynchon	GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
-	Thomas Pynchon	V.
-	Ayn Rand	ANTHEM
-	Ayn Rand	ATLAS SHRUGGED
-	Ayn Rand	THE FOUNTAINHEAD
-	Ayn Rand	WE THE LIVING
-	Arthur Ransome	SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS	Y
-	Jean Rhys	WIDE SARGASSO SEA
-	Philip Roth	PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT	Y
-	JK Rowling	HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
-	JK Rowling	HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
-	JK Rowling	HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
-	JK Rowling	HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
-	Arundhati Roy	THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
-	Salman Rushdie	MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
Y	Salman Rushdie	THE SATANIC VERSES
-	Louis Sacher	HOLES
-	JD Salinger	THE CATCHER IN THE RYE	Y
-	Jack Schaefer	SHANE
-	Vikram Seth	A SUITABLE BOY
-	Anya Seton	KATHERINE
-	Anna Sewell	BLACK BEAUTY	Y
-	Nevil Shute	A TOWN LIKE ALICE
-	Nevil Shute	ON THE BEACH
-	Nevil Shute	TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM
-	Dodie Smith	I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
-	Muriel Spark	THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
-	Mickey Spillane	ONE LONELY NIGHT
-	Wallace Stegner	ANGLE OF REPOSE
-	John Steinbeck	OF MICE AND MEN
-	John Steinbeck	THE GRAPES OF WRATH
-	Robert Louis Stevenson	TREASURE ISLAND	Y
-	William Styron	SOPHIE'S CHOICE
-	Patrick Suskind	PERFUME
-	Booth Tarkington	THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
-	Donna Tart	THE SECRET HISTORY
Y	JRR Tolkien	THE HOBBIT	Y
Y	JRR Tolkien	THE LORD OF THE RINGS	Y
-	Leo Tolstoy	ANNA KARENINA
-	Leo Tolstoy	WAR AND PEACE
-	Robert Tressell	THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS
-	Kurt Vonnegut	SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE	Y
-	Robert Penn Warren	ALL THE KING'S MEN
-	Evelyn Waugh	BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
-	Evelyn Waugh	A HANDFUL OF DUST
-	Evelyn Waugh	SCOOP
-	Nathanael West	THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
-	Edith Wharton	THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
-	Edith Wharton	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
-	Thornton Wilder	THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
-	Jacqueline Wilson	DOUBLE ACT
-	Jacqueline Wilson	GIRLS IN LOVE
-	Jacqueline Wilson	THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER
-	Jacqueline Wilson	VICKY ANGEL
-	Terri Windling	THE WOOD WIFE
-	Virginia Woolf	TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
-	Richard Wright	NATIVE SON