As you long time readers know i hate memes. I have never swiped a meme nor have i ever let a meme i've been slapped with go by unscathed from my particular brand of fuckitupedness. Until now. Time being nonexistent i realized this one would take me all of five minutes to do plus i ADORE books. LURV them. Collect them. Sometimes even drool on them. So I stole this from Gaddy who is also suffering through an nth level of work purgatory.
1) Bold those books you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (since i can't fucking find an underline feature in blogger - i guess i AM changing the meme a bit and making the books i love RED)
4) Reprint this list in your own blog. (ummm - DUHHHH!!! geez rules are soooo moronic)
okay - i can't resist... books i hated... they'z in blue
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
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 Hardy1
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 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'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 - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
hmmm... there's a whole truckload of incredible books not listed here that were damn spectacular - like hello, where the hell is Vonnegut in this list? And Heinlein? And E.L. Doctrow? And Joyce Carol Oates? And D.H. Lawrence? And Louise Eldrich? And Joseph Campbell? And Neil Gaiman...and... well, it does go on and on doesn't it?
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Gonna do this in a couple of days... keep a look out.
The lack of Hermanne Hesse, Khalil Gibran, and Franz Kafka is regretabble.
Regrettable, even.
It's 1:00AM, my fingers don't work so great at this hour (at least for typing)
You've read the bible?
The whole thing?
Why on earth???
If Heinlein isn't on the list along with about 20 or 30 others I won't do it as it would be meaningless. Wait a minute that wouldn't be any different than it is now.
Some interesting favorites though.
I don't see Nikki Sixx's "The Heroin Diaries" or the "Harley Davidson Customization Catalog."
What kind of list IS THIS?!?
Previous to that, I can't remember the last book I read that didn't have pictures. Shit...both of those books I listed have pictures.
I got nothin'.
Doh....I'm out of luck...there's not a SINGLE Dr. Seuss book on there. Sheesh...there goes my reading list...
wait, did you do this instead of taking a pee again, in the midst of your hellweek? we are blessed again. are your teeth floating yet? get to the bathroom!
thanks girl!
Haha, oh wow. No Vonnegut. I hadn't noticed that before. A friend of mine demanded I read Slaughterhouse-Five before any other books by him, and I'm hopefully starting Cat's Cradle soon.
Ill do it for my Saturday or Sunday post!
No Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment? But they have Enid Blyton? wow that is weird.
Maybe I just missed it.
I have to admitt I have read all of Enid Blyton's books - well almost all of them she was rather prolific...
Hell, i couldn't even hold attention to read the list
much less the books on it
I would have to add to catagories to the meme
which of these books were made into movies and which of those movies did I watch.
But if that were the case, I could safely say I watched the movie version of almost all of these books
If all the books in the past century disappeared and I could choose only one author's works to remain, that one would be Vonnegut.
But I would sadly miss The Princess Bride, by William Goldman.
dune is red for sure.
have you read the prequels?
Since this is sort of a meme post anyways, here's a little something special for you:
http://pessimisticidealist.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/an-award-worth-giving-out/
*Shakes head* No Pratchett either. I *think* this is from Librarythings, and is simply a list of the top 100 books their users report as owned/read or not read. So, naturally, it's not like it's terribly objective. *pft*
I may have to steal this. . .
No Hemingway???
Moby Dick was almost worth reading for that bizarre mind fuck you get when Ishmael does a half page monologue on how wonderful it is to have your hands up to the shoulders in a barrel of sperm.
Of course, he was talking about the special oil from a sperm whale's head -- but it's still really fucking creepy to read LOL
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