Got this from Bobgirrl, but it's everywhere. Here's the drill: Take the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick: I know it's a work of genius and all, but I never would have finished this unless it was required for school.
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
20. War and Peace
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler’s Wife
23. The Iliad
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway
28. Great Expectations I read it in school, but I've also read it many times since. A personal favorite.
29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Do reviews count?
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
37. The Canterbury Tales
38. The Historian: a novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault’s Pendulum
44. Middlemarch
45. Frankenstein
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. Anansi Boys
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
53. 1984
54. Angels & Demons
55. The Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
61. To the Lighthouse
62. Tess of the D’Urbervilles: I swore off Hardy after The Mayor of Casterbridge. Can't stand all those yokels speaking in yokelish.
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver’s Travels
65. Les Misérables
66. The Corrections
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved
82. Slaughterhouse-Five At least I don't think I finished it.
83. The Scarlet Letter
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake
87. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
88. Cloud Atlas
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. On the Road
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values
98. The Aeneid
99. Watership Down Don’t think I’ve read.
100. Gravity’s Rainbow
101. The Hobbit
102. In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers
Read on my own and finished: 38
Read in school: 16
Started but didn’t finish: 6
Never read: 46
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Top 106 books tagged unread on LibraryThing
Brevity is the soul of wit
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Which is which?
Top secret blogger meeting with Jonathan from ChicagoBoyz, fellow Boy David Foster, who also posts at Photon Courier and gentleman blogger Eric Scheie of Classical Values. If I revealed anymore, I'd have to kill you.
(Photo by Jonathan)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
I'm so confused
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You are smart, a real thinker. Every situation is approached with a plan. You are very healthy in mind and body. You don't take crap from anyone. You have only a couple of individuals that you consider "real friends". You teach strong family values. Keep your feet planted in them, but don't overlook a bad situation when it does happen.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Loathsome--definitely, but a Federal offense?
Internet asshole Lori Drew has been indicted by a federal grand jury for fraudulently opening a MySpace account and "for accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress."
Drew is the 49-year-old woman who who posed as a teenage boy on MySpace in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier. Meier committed suicide after Drew's alter ego told her the world would be a better place without her.
Lori Drew is a despicable individual; every time I hear about this case, I am newly infuriated by her behavior. But I just cannot agree with this indictment. It stinks for several reasons:
- It's an encroachment on free speech.
- The indictment was brought before a grand jury by Los Angeles US Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien; Drew lives in Missouri and the local US Attorney declined to press charges. O'Brien, clearly a self-serving glory hound a la Eliot Spitzer,"saw a Los Angeles nexus because MySpace Inc. is a local company." O'Brien just had to hold a press conference announcing the indictment as the first of its kind in the nation.
- This case, and others like it that the media has blown way out of proportion, has created a new, phony industry with its own set of charlatans, like Parry Aftab, who told Meredith Vieira this morning on "Today" that she was going to hold the first ever cyberbullying conference this fall. Personally, I can't wait.
My heart goes out to Tina and Ron Meier, Megan's parents. No parent should have to go through that and no adult should behave the way Lori Drew did. I can't imagine what it must be like to see that woman going on with her life. But this indictment isn't the answer; it just breeds more bottom feeders.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
One of these days
I'll get around to actual blogging
In the meantime, there's shoes. Very, very high shoes. Perhaps too high?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Me. elsewhere
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Is To Kill a Mockingbird a cult book?
I'm sure some are cultishly devoted to it as are many of Catcher in the Rye's devotees; but is either one a cult novel? I'd also question whether Rousseau's Confessions qualifies.
That said, I'm not sure I know what a cult novel is. When I think of cult fiction I always think of works that a) are science fiction-y or supernatural; b)spout some kind of pseudo-philosophic; and/or c) supposedly "speak to an entire generation" like Kerouac with On The Road. Also, works that inspire hosts of people to dress up like the main characters and quote whole passages to one another.
I've only read 12 of the 50 listed here. How about you?
Via Chai-Rista.
Cinderella story
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The moral of the tale: Your shoes can make you or break you.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Miscellany
The fun is over for conservatives.
Zero emissions acting: What movies stars don't do.
"Raw sex and superior architecture": Christian Louboutin shoes.
Vanishing act: Doris Day.
No so: Shoes are the enemy.
