Proserpina ([info]queenofhell) wrote,
@ 2008-06-24 22:42:00
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who can resist a book meme!
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
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
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 (next on my list!)
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
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

I'm not doing the underlining because I love too many of them, but I will tell you that Jude the Obscure is one of the only books I've ever considered destroying. I hate that book like crazy, oh my god. If you want to ask my opinion about any of the books I've read, go ahead, I have a fairly good memory of most books.

Also, this list is weird--it has The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; and it has the complete works of Shakespeare and Hamlet. And it's a bizarre mix of classics, newer best sellers, and some stuff I've never even heard of. Bizarre.

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[info]hateable
2008-06-25 06:09 am UTC (link)
I hated Jude the Obscure, too. At first I didn't mind it, but then I wanted to punch Susan (and, um, everyone) in the face. I can't believe you haven't read On the Road! Have you read any other Kerouac yet?

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[info]queenofhell
2008-06-25 06:13 am UTC (link)
The problem is, Hardy totally can't write characters convincingly at all. All of his characters, every single one, is irritating and unlikeable and perpetually teenaged-seeming, and it is so. irritating that I just wanted them to die. Any book that makes you happy that children die, because at least they got to escape the depressing plot, is a bad book.

I've read some of Kerouac's poetry and really enjoyed it, but every time I pick up On The Road I'm just never in the mood for it. I'm much more into Burroughs and Ginsberg (even though it took me, no lie, four seperate tries to read Naked Lunch in its entirety).

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[info]hateable
2008-06-25 06:24 am UTC (link)
I'm always afraid to rec Kerouac to anyone, because while I love most of his stuff to pieces people tend to a) love him or b) bitch endlessly about him. Lonesome Traveller even got on my nerves, but On the Road is love. I'm starting to get into Ginsberg, and I like Burroughs a lot, but Naked Lunch disappointed me for some reason.

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[info]queenofhell
2008-06-25 07:17 am UTC (link)
Well, he wrote it on heroin, so. :/ There are a lot of really fascinating passages, though, and his descriptions are amazing. Someday I have to read his later cut-up stuff, I'll bet it's either infuriating or awesome.

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[info]magdalyna
2008-06-25 06:35 am UTC (link)
Plath has a way of sticking in your head and not letting go. I'll play!

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[info]queenofhell
2008-06-25 07:15 am UTC (link)
Her poetry is so much better than her prose, though, especially since she gave up on prose relatively early. But yeah, there are parts of The Bell Jar that stick in my head even though I haven't read it in years.

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[info]magdalyna
2008-06-25 08:09 am UTC (link)
Yes, infinetly better.

Something like that happened to me with Exquiste Corpse by Poppy Z Brite. Like, it could have been less ... it, but it still wormed its way in and won't let go.

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[info]paperbackpocket
2008-06-25 06:35 am UTC (link)
Hah! Yeahh... it's lists like this that make me feel like I haven't read very much. A sizeable handful or two, but that's about all. Always said I need to sit down and get to the classics. Guess this just reaffirms that.

How'd the pull music from your pod onto your computer program work for ya?

Oh, also, the band I was thinking of when I was talking about one that sounded like The Killers was another band called, The Cloud Room. Unexpectedly, I was in my car driving to work when on shuffle The Cab came up. So yes, I do have and know The Cab. I like their stuff.

Sadly though I can't listen to Charlotte Sometimes' album because it is "not registered to play on my computer." (sighs) Ah well. Thanks anyway though. I'm gonna see if I can find another copy online.

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[info]queenofhell
2008-06-25 07:14 am UTC (link)
Eh, lots of classics are overrated. The way I figure it is, you only have so much time to read, so you should read stuff you enjoy, not stuff you think you have to read. On the other hand, though, there are a lot of classics which are wonderful and amazing and my favorite books ever (though ymmv, of course) that I definately think you're missing out on.

The program you recommended to me cost money, so instead I used one I found here. It worked really well! And I'm glad you like the Cab, from the look on your face when you played then at the concert it seemed like you didn't. :) I can see if I can burn Charlotte Sometimes for you? Tell me if you can't find a copy to download. It's, like, the one album I actually bought off itunes, so that's probably why it wouldn't play on yours. Suck.

So what do you want to do Thursday? Interiors?

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[info]paperbackpocket
2008-06-25 05:00 pm UTC (link)
(nods) This is far from a classic (penguin or otherwise) but I just picked up the young adult book, Speak. T'has won some awards and has been said to be fantastic, so I'm a-givin' it a go. 'Ave you read it?

(grins) When I first read this post, I was laughing to myself when you began talking about Jude the Obscure because I remember you telling me just how much you love that book. Classic-wise the books that come to mind that I've always wanted to read are Moby Dick and Oliver Twist.

Oh dude, that program cost money. Sorry 'bout that. Glad you found one that works though.

If I could get a burned copy of Sometimes that'd be extra awe-some. Definitely Interiors for Thurs. I'm hyper curious about the flick. Also I was wondering if there're any cds you wanted that you don't have. I can see if I can get them. I got a bunch of new cds yesterday so if you wanna watch the flick at my house so you can have free-cd-range, you're more than welcome.

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[info]queenofhell
2008-06-26 12:11 am UTC (link)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson? Yes, I love that book! I have the sequel Catalyst as well, if you want to read it after. Right now I'm trying to read One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I've only read a chapter or so. It's been so long since I've read a book for pleasure that wasn't just to take my mind off being on a bus or something. I'm trying to get back into the brain space of reading but as you can see, I've succumbed to the lure of the internet.

...No, I've definately never told you that I love Jude the Obscure, because I never read it before last month, and I hated it as soon as I started reading it. You must be thinking of somebody else. Or possibly you're being ironic and I'm having a problem reading tone on the internet. :D I hate Hardy in general, really--the other novel I've read by him is Tess of D'Ubervilles, and it has the exact same problems as Jude The Obscure--it's depressing as hell, all the characters are juvenile and unconvincing and I just wanted them all to die. Dickens, I think, also has the same sort of problem with characters, especially women--they're just ultimately unconvincing as people. To be fair, though, I've only read Great Expectations, but I had to read it twice and that poisoned me against Dickens for a good long while.

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[info]soshina
2008-06-26 02:20 am UTC (link)
So I'm too lazy to go through that list and I haven't posted on LJ in like years anyway but I noticed the same thing about the collective work and then single books from them on the list. I also thought it weird that you were supposed to have read all the Harry Potter books but only the first Anne of Green Gables book when there are like nine total. It's hard to get into reading some of the so-called classics but I was a bit suprised not to see Hunter S. Thompson or Kurt Vonnegut on the list. It looks mostly like required reading for English class. It might actually be more interesting to make a list of books that I've read an see how many people have read them or intend to...
On a side note we need to hang out some time soon! You and Shaunna and I need to go for Japanese Crepes because they look oh so tasty and I haven't had a desert one yet. Also, I can't insist that people watch Spiral until I get it back from you.

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[info]queenofhell
2008-06-26 05:47 am UTC (link)
We definately need to hang out soon! I'm out of school now so I'm free pretty much whenever. Call or text me, dude, I miss you. *hugs*

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