| The Big Read Meme |
[Jan. 27th, 2009|11:07 am] |
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
3.5) Strike through the books that you HATE
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 and then ask what better books they have read instead.
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Jane Eyre
4. Harry Potter Series
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. The Bible - various authors
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Ninteen Eighty-Four
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullmen
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles -Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
16. The Hobbit
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 Hitchhiker'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
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
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' 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
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 Heavan - 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. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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 - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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[Sep. 4th, 2008|02:04 pm] |
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God-fucking-damn, why is this house so cold? I know I weigh like, thirty pounds less than anyone else here, but seriously, it's still summer, and it's fucking cold! |
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[Aug. 25th, 2008|10:51 am] |
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I so totally stood right over a dead mouse in the kitchen for five minutes before noticing it.
EEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And why the fuck did it have to curl up and die in the middle of my kitchen floor? Seriously. It's like ten feet to the door to outside. What the fuck? Aren't animals supposed to go find quiet places to die in? Or is that only cats?
Second dead fucking mouse that I've found in my apartment in the past three years. Not nice!!! And the first one was when I was living alone! (Rob dealt with this one.)
Plus I've been really sick to my stomach one and a half times in the past two days. Although the first time really counted for three. The half time was half because Rob and I were on a picnic and when I'd gone over to the bushes feeling sick I noticed a security guard talking to him so I came back because I was worried. I felt better pretty quickly, but seriously, kind of unnerving. I'm never sick. |
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[Jul. 16th, 2008|11:39 am] |
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YAH ROB GOT INTO GRAD SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN!!!!!!!!! SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET |
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| Book meme |
[Jun. 29th, 2008|07:43 pm] |
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, or strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (once the new translation comes out)
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce (currently reading)
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls in Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 2nd, 2008|06:33 pm] |
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
Bold the ones you've read,
Underline the ones you read for school,
Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. (Italicize and underline the ones you mean to finish)
add * beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place.
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods *
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina ***
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales *
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon **********************************************************
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune *
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things *
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 8
The Historian: a novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad ******
In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno *
Jane Eyre ***
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi: a novel
Lolita *
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey *
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice *
The Prince *
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse *
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace (waiting for the new translation to come out in paperback)
Watership Down *
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
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| fuck i want a cigarette. |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|11:29 pm] |
I'm tipsy right now, so this wouldn't be so polemical otherwise. Take all the superlatives and make them comparatives and it's probably more like it.
It really pisses me off that Rob is so against smoking. What the fuck is one or two cigarettes every five months? Seriously. This is the end of my undergrad. I'm currently writing my last paper as an undergrad ever. I would like to have a cigarette while writing it. Is that really such a big deal? No. But of course he has empirical evidence that it's bad for you, never mind the medical evidence that two or less cigarettes a day and the doctors don't consider you a smoker.
He has no idea what I've been through in the past five years, and I'm not about to bring that up as a reason for me having a cigarette that he just can't understand. If that doesn't make sense, I'm not going to bring up that he can't understand my reasons for wanting one so he isn't allowed to judge them. I'm really pissed off right now. I didn't want that second glass of red wine, it just got handed to me. |
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[Aug. 17th, 2007|11:41 am] |
Your Score: A White Bishop You scored 1 Power-Finesse, 3 Leader-Follower, 3 Unique-Ordinary, and 3 Offense-Defense!
Despite your unusual talents, you are often overlooked by your opponent. You are content to stay off to one side, allowing the bloodbath to ensue. Occasionally however, you end up in the scrum yourself, slaughtering the unbelievers. After all, what are the sheep for if not to be shorn? You don't last long when you do that, though. One unfortunate fact: No matter how hard you try, you can only reach half the squares on the board.
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| The awesomeness |
[Aug. 11th, 2007|08:45 pm] |
http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki. Doubleday. Challenged at the Plymouth-Canton school system in Canton, Mich. (1987) because "this book details the teachings of the religion of Buddhism in such a way that the reader could very likely embrace its teachings and choose this as his religion." The last thing we need are a bunch of peaceful Buddhists running around. The horror. (Purchase) |
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[Jul. 27th, 2007|09:33 pm] |
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It is ninety-four degrees in Halifax, Canada. I came home today overheated and dehydrated. It is still ninety-four degrees in my house, even though it's now eighty degrees outside. It is ninety-four degrees today in Halifax, Canada, and I'm so worn out I don't even want to sleep. |
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[Apr. 11th, 2007|09:23 pm] |
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I'm really thinking of stopping to use Livejournal. I just don't like the way the internet is going, in terms of affecting how I live my life. I'm losing my vocabulary, and emoticons are part of my mental dictionary now. That's not acceptable. So, I'll keep the account, so that I can read all of your posts, but other than that I will be subsuming this journal. |
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[Mar. 31st, 2007|11:00 pm] |
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So I totally just won 300$. American. Which is like, almost 400 Canadian. |
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[Mar. 23rd, 2007|04:53 pm] |
I think I just died. Or at least laughed my heart out.
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[Mar. 10th, 2007|06:50 pm] |
| [ | auditory stimulus |
| | Rufus Wainwright - Tower of Learning | ] |
| Personality Inventory | | | | Emotional (78%) | [....||||||..........] | Logical (22%) | | Concerned about self (57%) | [.........|..........] | Concerned about others (43%) | | Atheist (87%) | [...|||||||..........] | Religious (13%) | | Loner (53%) | [.........|..........] | Dependent (47%) | | Laid-back (8%) | [..........||||||||..] | Driven (92%) | | Traditional (83%) | [...|||||||..........] | Rebel (17%) | | Impetuous (100%) | [||||||||||..........] | Organized (0%) | | Engineering mind (33%) | [..........|||.......] | Artistic mind (67%) | | Cynical (20%) | [..........||||||....] | Idealist (80%) | | Follower (57%) | [.........|..........] | Leader (43%) | | Introverted (37%) | [..........|||.......] | Extroverted (63%) | | Conservative (26%) | [..........|||||.....] | Liberal (74%) | | Logical (43%) | [..........|.........] | Romantic (57%) | | Uninterested (21%) | [..........||||||....] | Sexual (79%) | | Insecure (32%) | [..........||||......] | Confident (68%) | | | Take the test!
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[Mar. 3rd, 2007|01:28 pm] |
| [ | current psyche |
| | downtrodden | ] |
| [ | auditory stimulus |
| | Aimee Mann - Little Bombs | ] |
I just broke the
Rob gave me for Valentine's Day.
Also, is Rob and I at YAS Ball. (Please excuse his 'picture-face'.)
My favourite mug broke a couple months ago. It was funny, because everybody in my house knows 'no touching' -- except apparently our new roommate (on exchange last semestre; old roommate's on exchange this one), and a friend visiting her had picked it up to use it and was walking to my roommates room and I was like 'don't use that mug!' And then, the next night, when I poured tea into it from the teapot, tea came pouring out the side. There was a crack in a straight line from the centre of the bottom all up the side.
Then, when roommate two was emptying the dishrack, the bowl someone gave me when I was born fell out and broke. No one in our entire house had used it until new roommate moved in.
(Not blaming new roommate.)
Then, I had the beautiful, gorgeous mug Rob gave me, that had perfect balance, and placed absolutely no strain on the fingers when it was full it was so well balanced, on the counter, and we have our cutting boards upright behind the canola and olive oils. I picked up the canola oil, and the olive oil (though 80% full), apparently was not sufficiently placed to hold the cutting boards up, and they fell. And -- flying mug.
It really hurts. I'm not like, depressed about it or anything, just really cut and upset.
I'm gonna go to the Clay Cafe a couple blocks away and see what they say. Rob's maybe gonna go to the store again. |
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[Feb. 1st, 2007|03:08 pm] |
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| | Juli - Du Nimmst Mir die Sicht | ] |
I emailed my sister over a week ago, sent her a picture of me and Rob at the YAS Ball. I know that we're always bad at communication; I mean, we didn't even know I was gonna have a nephew until I already had one (half-sister; same father). I know it doesn't work like this, but I mean, if you're gonna be in contact, be in fucking contact. If you're going to let it drop, drop it all the way. Don't leave me wandering around outside without knowing if the door's booby-trapped or not. |
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[Jan. 15th, 2007|12:20 pm] |
| [ | current psyche |
| |  happy | ] |
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| | The Organ - Love Love Love | ] |
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