Another Book Meme

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:09:19 GMT

Pinched from Speedicut's page, the top 106 books marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish [or that I'm still reading, albeit infrequently]:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - (need to get a copy of it so I can finish it)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude - (want to read!)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose - (Daddy has a couple of copies and loved it, so I may be pilfering that one for a while ^_^)
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary - (due to finish reading after Spirit Walker, we have both French and English at home - I'm reading the English)
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov - (was reading but then moved away from where the book was and haven't yet bought one of my own. I think we might have a copy in Russian somewhere in the house though :S it's hard to keep track)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West - (have been told to read this and think I shall take up the challenge)
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera - (Probably won't read. In biology about 150 of us were told to read this by our lecturer who tried to persuade us by saying "you'll all like it: it's got bonking in it". I don't think I've seen anybody talk themselves out of a sale quite so confidently)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum - (want to read)
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons - (awful waste of time and brain-space, the only good thing is that it could double up as toilet roll)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince - (if it's the one I'm thinking of I've read some of it in a library but had to leave the book behind when I left (had taken too many out))
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon - (want to read)
Neverwhere - (want to read)
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything - (again left behind after reading it in a library for quite a while. Can't decide whether to read it properly or not)
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - (want to read)
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon - (really really want to read)
Oryx and Crake : a novel - (really want to read)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas - (have been told I have to read this)
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values - (would love to read, not least because my uncle (called Zen) loves motorcycles)
The Aeneid
Watership Down - (will NEVER read! :( I'm a poor and sensitive soul. Something about bunny massacres just gets to me)
Gravity’s Rainbow - (want to read)
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

I'm ashamed to say that there are loads of these I've not read ;_; woe is Alfirin. I'm not going to have time to read them for a while either (I suppose that's the downside of having a pile of books to work my way through).

P.S. I've only finished forty-six of these books :( that leaves sixty, SIXTY books to go (well, fifty-nine when you consider Watership Down). I'm going to embrace my sour-grapyness and say that anybody who has read more than fifty from this list has no life (and I hate them and love them at the same time ^_^).

P.P.S. I'm female and sleepy, therefore I am permitted to be crazy and contradictory. Now I think I shall eat some strawberry pocky and sulk that Wigan have drawn with Liverpool. Really though, Benitez took Gerrard and Torres off when there was nothing arong with them, and yet again poor Keane only came on at 84 minutes :( Grrrrr. I think I should go to bed...

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:46:58 GMT

I'm friends locking my journal because it's easier than going through posts individually, and I can't remember half of what I wrote anyway. In the future I might make a few of the entries public again, but that won't be happening for a while. Probably if/when I add future entries I'll make them visible here for a little while but then friends lock them again.

If you're not already on my friends list and want to be added then just comment here (with an LJ accont, obviously ^_^) and I'll almost certainl;y add you as a friend; it just might take a little time since I don't check here too much any more. At some point later I'll probably expand this post just to give people an idea of who I am, but in the meantime you can look at my about page at my cool blog of prettyness: alfirin.com. The username there is Alfirin, as it would have been here if someone who loved the name as much as I do hadn't beaten me to it :D

Considering some entries are likely to be public here again, albeit temporarily, it seems a little more appropriate to put this banner here instead ^_^

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