| survey? |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|11:39 am] |
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [I didn't read through Return of the King all the way through]
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [Wouldn't this be included in the Chronicles?]
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [I am reading this right now.]
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - R. Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [I read one of the abridged versions for class in high school. The real version is probably around 10 billion pages.]
The italicized are ones that I've heard of or have on my shelf, or are planning to buy in the near future; it doesn't mean that I'm not planning to read them ever. Also, the underlined ones are ones that I have absolutely loved, often to the point of rereading. Some of them I liked, although I didn't LOVE them. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2008|11:16 pm] |
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| recluse rant |
[Jun. 21st, 2008|09:45 pm] |
I think that I've just been...not interested this week. I haven't really hung out with anyone outside of work or class, except Andy, and even then, I didn't hang out with him as much. Classes are winding down, so that's nice, but I have to find the will to finish my final projects. When my professor doesn't care about showing up, I don't really care about completing her assignments. The 8 o'clock class makes me cynical and doubting my career choice. I wish they would give you that kind of class as a freshman so that you can bail out early enough to not have spent thousands of dollars on schooling in case you made the wrong choice. I have an entire week off of work next week, so I suppose if anyone wants to have lunch or breakfast in between 9:45 and 12:30, then that would be cool. I haven't had a lot of sleep. Because of this 8 o'clock class every day, I've been wired to wake up around 6:30 in the morning, and I've been staying up late doing homework and reading. I keep falling asleep in the coffee shop. Right after I drink a cup of coffee. I don't understand that. I wake up all flustered, thinking that someone stole my things. No one ever has; I wish I didn't have that paranoia that everyone and everything is going to fuck me over the second I close my eyes. I applied to the Appalachian as a photographer on a whim. I haven't heard back. So chances are, I won't be able to do it because of my course load in the fall. I've been wandering around campus and downtown, trying to walk. I tried wearing sensible shoes according to my Dad's advice, and they gave me blisters around my heels, even though the bottom of my feet felt better. So now I have to wear shoes that are open in the heels, but then the bottom of my feet hurt, and the slightest rub on the blister sends pain shooting around my foot. I only went swimming once this week, so I felt like making up for it by walking home instead of Appalcarting. I used my locker room flip-flops. I found out that Jon Dehen and Aaron Shuford are going to be my neighbors next year. They live in the house in front of my apartment. I miss my family. I've been talking to them more lately. There's a validation from them that I miss from my daily life. I remember when it used to be the other way around. I'm probably lonely, but I don't like to think about it for too long, because then I just get incredibly bitter. I'm really sore just from sleeping a few hours. I don't understand the amount of stress that my body is having when I'm asleep so that I wake up feeling like every muscle in my body has stiffened and become granite. I won't be paid until the 30th because Financial Aid and Student Employment fucked up, so I didn't even tempt myself to go to the Farmer's Market this morning. I want to be able to make better food.
I spent most of the day watching Gone With the Wind because I've never seen it. I like that Scarlet gets fucked over. She's a total bitch. I'm not just saying that because she's a strong female figure for the most part; I'm saying that because she did mean, under-handed things for her own gain, screwing over her sister and marrying her dude to keep the farm, and she had this simpering devotion to Ashley that drove me nuts when Rhett Butler was totally way cooler. Even if he was a total drunken misogynist, he had a great judge of character, except with Scarlet, until he totally realized that she sucked. I also liked how good of a father he was, maybe to the point of indulgence, but he wanted her to have everything. The indulgence karma bit him in the ass though, which really sucked that it had to go to that level.
Anyway, my hair is too long, now. It's taking every bit of me to not take kitchen scissors and just cut off the ponytail. Andy wants a haircut too. Lela, He asked if maybe you could cut his hair? I think you've gained a positive reputation.
I've been listening to Chuck Berry. Next on the movie watching is probably going to be The Maltese Falcon. I think I've almost beat Katamari Damacy. |
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