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blue_barretteThis sort of meme comes up occasionally and I usually do it and then never post it.
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) Italicise 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 (I want to re-read this now.)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (They're good, though I love the Hobbit more.)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I started reading it, but I... have never finished. This happens a lot.)
6 The Bible (Same.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (In all honesty, I'm not sure if this book was good or not.)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I wasn't in pain reading it. I guess.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (I LOVE the first book. The rest suck.)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (ARGH)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (♥)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (HAHAHA no. I've read... about ten. I think.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (LOVE LOVE LOVE)
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 (I didn't feel like stabbing either myself or the author while reading it!)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (The first book is really good! The second is pretty nifty too, though not as good as the first! After that, skip the rest of the series and go straight to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency!)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (And Through the Looking Glass, which I personally liked better.)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (They're pretty hit and miss! Different people really like different books in the series. I've already talked about my favorites!)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (This is a miss!)
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 (I liked this considerably better than 1984!)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (This book was pretty terrible!)
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 (I was nothing like Anne when I was little. But I wanted to be =__=)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Good.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (I think I've rented this book three times or so? I'll get around to reading it eventually.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (It was all right.)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (There's a lot of Jane Austen on this list.)
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 (AUGH)
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 (Surprisingly more interesting than I was expecting!)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (Mmm. Pulpy.)
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 (I HATE THIS BOOK.)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I LOVE THIS BOOK.)
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 (Surprisingly unlike Redwall, despite the talking animals.)
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 (My favorite Shakespeare play.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
28/100, hah. Not even a third. Also I got bored and didn't underline my favorites. Oh well!
If I were going to push off six books on everyone, they'd probably be... The Hobbit, The Golden Compass, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Catch 22, Hamlet. Yes, two of those are kid's books, I don't care. The Hobbit is superior in every way to dreck like The Da Vinci Code.
Apparently I'm going to get my wisdom teeth out within the next couple of months. GUH. Just getting a cavity freaks me out. I'm not sure how I'll handle the wisdom teeth thing. I mean, they hurt pretty much constantly, so I need to get them out soon. But... but... UGH. Just the idea of getting them out makes me queasy. I've had teeth pulled before. The thought of them doing that with my back teeth, when they haven't even broken through the skin, is just so incredibly nausea-inducing I don't know what to do!
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) Italicise 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 (I want to re-read this now.)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (They're good, though I love the Hobbit more.)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I started reading it, but I... have never finished. This happens a lot.)
6 The Bible (Same.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (In all honesty, I'm not sure if this book was good or not.)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I wasn't in pain reading it. I guess.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (I LOVE the first book. The rest suck.)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (ARGH)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (♥)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (HAHAHA no. I've read... about ten. I think.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (LOVE LOVE LOVE)
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 (I didn't feel like stabbing either myself or the author while reading it!)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (The first book is really good! The second is pretty nifty too, though not as good as the first! After that, skip the rest of the series and go straight to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency!)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (And Through the Looking Glass, which I personally liked better.)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (They're pretty hit and miss! Different people really like different books in the series. I've already talked about my favorites!)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (This is a miss!)
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 (I liked this considerably better than 1984!)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (This book was pretty terrible!)
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 (I was nothing like Anne when I was little. But I wanted to be =__=)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Good.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (I think I've rented this book three times or so? I'll get around to reading it eventually.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (It was all right.)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (There's a lot of Jane Austen on this list.)
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 (AUGH)
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 (Surprisingly more interesting than I was expecting!)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (Mmm. Pulpy.)
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 (I HATE THIS BOOK.)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I LOVE THIS BOOK.)
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 (Surprisingly unlike Redwall, despite the talking animals.)
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 (My favorite Shakespeare play.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
28/100, hah. Not even a third. Also I got bored and didn't underline my favorites. Oh well!
If I were going to push off six books on everyone, they'd probably be... The Hobbit, The Golden Compass, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Catch 22, Hamlet. Yes, two of those are kid's books, I don't care. The Hobbit is superior in every way to dreck like The Da Vinci Code.
Apparently I'm going to get my wisdom teeth out within the next couple of months. GUH. Just getting a cavity freaks me out. I'm not sure how I'll handle the wisdom teeth thing. I mean, they hurt pretty much constantly, so I need to get them out soon. But... but... UGH. Just the idea of getting them out makes me queasy. I've had teeth pulled before. The thought of them doing that with my back teeth, when they haven't even broken through the skin, is just so incredibly nausea-inducing I don't know what to do!
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Date: 2008-06-25 05:59 am (UTC)Mine don't even hurt me, and I'm getting all four out on Tuesday. Seriously, I don't even feel them. One isn't even a real tooth, it has no roots developed, and none have broken through the bone let alone the gum.
So it should be a party. I'm a nervous wreck over it.
We can be pitiful and scared together.
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Date: 2008-06-26 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 06:28 pm (UTC)I think I'll have to post that list. And we should both read War & Peace at the same time. I've always wanted to read it, but I don't know if I can get through it without some motivation.