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We did quite a bit of reading on the trip and never pass up an oppurtunity to generate a few stats. Those who find the idea of someone wishing Gulliver's Travels was 100 pages longer to improve their "pages read per day" average should look away now...

Vic Stats

  • Vic read 81 books
  • A total of 29,764 pages
  • An average of 63.73 pages per day
  • Vic's books averaged 367.46 pages
  • and took 5 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes to read

  • Vic's highest rated books (9 out of 10) were
    • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    • The Best Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
    • The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
    • The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
    • Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
    • The Quiet American by Graham Greene
    • Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome
    • Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
    • Holy Cow by Sarah McDonald
    • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffnegger
    • Ruined City by Neville Shute
    • Sophie's Choice by William Styron
    • Riding The Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
    • In Siberia by Colin Thubron


Banz Stats

  • Banz 76 books
  • A total of 29,615 pages
  • An average of 63.42 pages per day
  • Banz's books averaged 389.67 pages
  • and took 6 days, 3 hours, 22 minutes to read
  • Banz's top rated books (9 out of 10) were
    • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    • The Best Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
    • The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
    • The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
    • Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
    • The Quiet American by Graham Greene
    • The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    • Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
    • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffnegger
    • Ruined City by Neville Shute
    • Sophie's Choice by William Styron
    • In Siberia by Colin Thubron
    • Very Good, Jeeves! by PG Wodehouse

The most popular author title was shared between Laura Lippman (for her Tess Monaghan books) and Alexander McCall Smith (for his Mma Ramotswe series) with 6 books read by each.

Most prolific author was Peter Robinson (2,114 pages, 5 books) although in our hearts the award goes to Dumas with a whopping 1,915 pages in 3 books.

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