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Book meme.....Doubly stolen

  • Jun. 25th, 2008 at 6:40 PM

 

I should probably stop haunting my friends page.

Got this meme from

The Big read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they have printed here.  

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
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 
The Bible 
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four- George Orwell
9.His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great expectations- Charles Dickens 
11Little Women-Louisa M Alcott 
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
11 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 - Margret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fizgerald 
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 Stienbeck 
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 - C.S. 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 Women 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 Atonment - Ian McEwan 
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 
52 Dune - Frak Hurbert 
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 Stienbeck 
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 Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
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- Alexander Dumas 
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo




Classics and I are definately not friends it seems. Very sad considering i work at the library. Very sad indeed.

 

 

 


 

[info]devo79

So.....

  • Apr. 30th, 2008 at 7:29 PM

Seeing the "Recent Entry 47 weeks ago" post has gotten old.
I never say anything.. just lurking for lurkdoms sake....
If Lurking was actually a kingdom I'd probably be a fief possibly a duke.
The duke of lurk?!?
Or would that be duchess?
Hmmm I should never attempt to write lj entries while suffering from sleep deprivation.... Ever.

two entries in a month...boy howdy

  • Jun. 5th, 2007 at 6:18 PM

Your Deadly Sins

Wrath: 80%

Envy: 40%

Lust: 40%

Pride: 40%

Sloth: 40%

Gluttony: 20%

Greed: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 37%

You will die, after conquering the world as an evil dictator.

No more teachers ...no more tests...

  • May. 29th, 2007 at 11:36 PM
Smile
School has been out for a week and I can finally get back to live journal. Although I never say anything on here but random comments I think its still kind of weird to drop off the face of the site for 5 months. Oh well.... This is the first entry in how many months??? It's a terrible shame really.

Today... no. tomorrow...No soon... yeah soon!

  • Jan. 10th, 2007 at 12:42 PM

As soon as I stop being lazy I 'm going to get around to actually fixing this livejournal up. I haven't in the erm 6 or so months I've been here, but I will..... Eventually... most likely... Er..

My New years Resolution

  • Dec. 30th, 2006 at 9:59 PM

In 2007, Delectiscent resolves to...
Keep my labyrinth clean.
Go to the purplefeens every month.
Ask my boss for a sexymermaid.
Be nicer to nwhepcat.
Backup my lit_gal regularly.
Eat more ladycat777s.
Get your own New Year's Resolutions:



Hmmmm.... no comment

Long time gone...

  • Jul. 20th, 2006 at 9:46 PM

Ack its been forever sense I've been on livejournal. Not that I actually right "entries" but I'm generally lurking about obsessively hitting refresh and popping up with the odd comments here and there. But my stupid computer has been going back and forth to Compaq for almost a month so I'm waaaayyyy out of the loop. But at least I have loads of backed up stories to read. That is a perk....

Strides and such

  • Jun. 19th, 2006 at 5:56 PM
Dance to your own music
Yay I completed my first story rec. I did it for [info]jans_intentions's Spawn story Forbidden at the Rerun Awards.



It has me wanting to kick Xander's ass and thats a new experiance for me. I never want to kick Xander' ass. More like rub....or manybe even spank....but kicking?? NEVER!

Oh and I've come to the conclusion that reading BTVS slash has finally warped my mind. The reason I now realize this is because yesterday when I was watching Buffy (on FX of course) and Dracula made Xander one of his minions I went off on these weird snicker like tantrums every time the he would say "Master" *shakes head ashamedly*. The shame.... ehh I've been cutting dowen on the BDSM stuff anyway so my sanity may still be intact...maybe. But my foray into Buffy slash has now officially gone up there with my obsession with Harry Potter and Boyband Slash. Thank GOD Smallville never managed to get that far, I'd never be able to watch Sorority Boys again.

Ohhhh did you notice my little LJ cuts? I'm learning...its not hard... I'm just too lazy to take the effort.

*ehem*

  • Jun. 3rd, 2006 at 5:52 PM

Yeah I have no idea how to work livejournal. I'm starting to feel my around but as of right now the only real features I know how to work are the friends page thing. And I'm probably doing that wrong too.Sad I know. But hey I have 2 other perfectly respectable blogs that took forever to learn how to decipher, but I did and now I'm a myspacing xanga having queen *smiles brightly* so I'll get around to taming this beastie too. Seeing as how I never write squat, of the fiction variety I mean, I'll prolly turn this into a rec page. Where I can find all the stories of everybody who actually posts. Would save me loads of scanning and back tracking and what have you Ahh summertime goals.... Now the hard part is figuring out how to do that. ehhh welll....

Hiya......

  • May. 23rd, 2006 at 11:42 PM

Wow hmmm so now I have 3 blogs. There probably should be a limit for these things but eh *waves madly*. Kay more later.

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