Ding! Ding! Ding!

Well upon further review I can officially cross The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle off the list. I thought I had read them but I just got around to checking my The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol I (which seems odd because I'd think that if it was "The complete" there wouldn't be any reason for a Vol II but I digress) and sure enough it consists of both works.

Plus technically I'm also finished with Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel, though I will probably go ahead and read the remaining books in the anthology. Thats the benefit of being on a quest that you'll never be able to finish. It really doesn't matter if you take a little sidetrack every now and then.

Another on down!

I just finished reading A Thousand and One Nights! Next up is one I've never heard of aptly titled Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel. Should be interesting. I do really enjoy short stories. I mean its amazing for the an author to construct a really good short story and get a truly good flow without feeling like theres a ton of holes in the narrative.

Another one down!

I just finished The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas! Next up The Thousand and One Nights by anonymous. I knew the basic premise of The Count and had watched the recent movie with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce (but really watching that movie doesn't give the story justice).

Books I've Read.

To begin this quest, I perused the list and scratched off the ones which I've already read. Surprisingly, I only found twelve:

1. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
2. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
3. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
4. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
5. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
7. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
8. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
9. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
10.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
11.Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
12. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
13. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
14 A Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
17. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel

Okay well that just leaves 984 more to go. Perhaps I'll inspire my nieces and nephews to finish my quest. One final act of remembrance for their spinster uncle.

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! I'm a guy who likes a challenge so at the ripe age of 30 I'm setting out on this quest of great significance......okay its this quest of little to no significance of reading every book in one of those 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die or You Totally Suck list. Now the list I chose isn't necessarily a definitive list or anything I just type in "1001 books you must read" into Google and this is what I found. Why am I doing this you may ask. I say why not. "C'mon Keith! Give us a reason," you respond. Okay if I must have a reason. I'd say that I'm doing this to give myself something to strive for without being too dramatic something to live for. I really don't believe I'll every be able to finish this list but I intend to give it my level best effort. Anything less wouldn't be worthy of such a quest, it wouldn't be worthy of being something that Keith Adams puts in his mind to achieve. After perusing the list I noticed that several of the selections were assigned for me to read at various points in my school days (ex. Old Man and the Sea, The Great Gatsby, Tess of the d'urbevilles, etc.) and of course I never then so I didn't read them. So here I go. I will probably update tomorrow with the list of books off the list which I have already read. Also I will be choosing my selections via a random number generator and if I've never heard of the book I will not read a synopsis.