brlb21's challenge

Philosophy/Theory
1. Thus spoke zarathustra
2. sacred canopy
3. untimely meditations *
4. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
5. Bakhtin Reader
6. Marxism and Literature
7. Against Method
8. Distinction

"Classics"
1. Don Quixote
2. The Reivers
3. Satanic Verses
4. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
5. As I Lay Dying
6. The Sound and the Fury
7. Age of Innocence
8. War and Peace

Books from my brother
1. Principles of Psychology
2. Society Against the State
3. Untimely Meditations *
4. Technicians of the Sacred
5. Ashes of Waco
6. Divine Horsemen
7. The Invasion Within
8. Decolonizing the Mind

Russian/Ukraine
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. The Possessed
3. The Idiot
4. Notes From Underground
5. Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai
6. Doctor Zhivago
7. The Word and Wax
8. A Short History of Tractors

Religion and Folklore
1. Paradise Lost
2. City of God
3. Confessions of Saint Augustine
4. Popol Vuh
5. The Apocrypha
6. The Nag Hammadi Library
7. The Ramayana
8. Monkey: Folk Novel of China

Anthropology
1. Death Without Weeping
2. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism
3. High Religion by Ortner, Sherry
4. Naven
5. The Serpent and the Rainbow
6. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
8. Writing Women's Worlds

New Authors
1. The Gift
2. Mystic and Rider
3. When True Night Falls
4. Aegypt
5. The Club Dumas
6. The Stolen Child
7. Shutter Island
8. City of Saints and Madmen

Group Reads
1. Midnight's Children
2. Age of Innocence
3. Bleak House
4. Devlin's Luck
5. Spirit Gate
6. Lies of Locke Lamora
7. Assassin's Apprentice
8. Name of the Wind

I guess posting a message of utter lack of progress isn't particularly a good thing, but thats all I have to say. I have finished lots of other books, but none on this list. I wonder why that is??...

Why don't you delete some books that you've listed and haven't read and then add some you've already read?!

seems oddly like cheating myself somehow. and because those are books that I really really want to read, but not things that I can read in a day (like some of the other ones I have finished already though not for this list). Your idea does make an awful lot of sense though.

Well, I just find that the 888 challenge is much more fun if I can change the books as time goes by. I'm forever changing my mind about the particular books I want to read, but I do know the broad categories of books in which I'm interested.

The 888 challenge should be as much fun as it can. It shouldn't be like a homework assignment! :(

I think it's entirely OK to have one or two categories that are 'just for fun'.

well there is the last category "group reads" those tend to be fantasy, I just haven't put any actual titles there yet. maybe I will think about revising things a bit over the weekend, when I supposedly have free time.

Finished one, hurray! Writing Women's Worlds It was very interesting, definitely a different way of writing ethnography. I think Lila Abu-Lughod is an awesome writer, and one day I will get around to finishing Veiled Sentiments.

So I finally finished reading As I Lay Dying last night. I'm not so sure what to make of it. I liked the book, but I am a little bit confused by the rather abrupt ending.

So, I revised my list. I finally added all the group reads, that I have been reading, but didn't put here. Added a different category - the other was Misc. and rather useless - which was New Authors, b/c I have been recently wandering around the library finding books by people I have never heard of.

Which means all together now I've read 9. Not such a great number, so maybe this will be a 2 year challenge :)