6 thoughts on “Stolen meme”

1. malixe 27/04/2008 at 00:52

   book list

   I have pretty much always only read for the simple entertainment value of reading, and for whatever reason, never wound up in too many classes that had assigned books. The ones that did were frequently books I had already read and liked anyway. So I wound up evading a lot of the classics unless they sounded like something I already wanted to read.

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   1. malixe 27/04/2008 at 00:53

      Re: book list

      went over the ‘character limit’ for a comment, so I split the list off into a second comment…

      Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (This actually counts as an ‘unread’ for me as well, because I got tired of waiting for anything to actually happen and threw it aside in disgust somewhere around 350 pages in. The author goes 250 pages before even introducing the second main character! Laaaaame.)

      Anna Karenina
      Crime and Punishment
      Catch-22
      One Hundred Years of Solitude
      Wuthering Heights
      The Silmarillion
      Life of Pi : a novel
      The Name of the Rose
      Don Quixote (My great grandma had this… I *think* I read it, but I honestly can’t remember. I know what it’s about and the main characters and all, but that could be cultural osmosis. I would have been pretty young anyway.)
      Moby Dick (Picked it up on my own. Put it down on my own too…)
      Ulysses
      Madame Bovary
      The Odyssey
      Pride and Prejudice
      Jane Eyre
      The Tale of Two Cities (Went on a Dickens kick for a while and I think this was one of the handful that I read. Long time ago…)
      The Brothers Karamazov
      Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies ** (On my wanna-read list too)
      War and Peace
      Vanity Fair
      The Time Traveler’s Wife
      The Iliad
      Emma
      The Blind Assassin
      The Kite Runner
      Mrs. Dalloway
      Great Expectations
      American Gods People don’t *finish* Gaiman? What the hell is wrong with them?
      A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
      Atlas Shrugged (I went on an Ayn Rand kick for a while too. Very inspirational, but collapses under any kind of critical thinking. Libertarians love the stuff, but it’s fantasy.)
      Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
      Memoirs of a Geisha
      Middlesex
      Quicksilver (Started this, but it was someone elses’ and had to give it back before I could finish… plan to buy the whole cycle eventually)
      Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
      The Canterbury Tales
      The Historian : a novel
      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      Love in the Time of Cholera
      Brave New World
      The Fountainhead (see above, re: Rand)
      Foucault’s Pendulum
      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
      The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
      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 (See Don Quixote– pretty much the same story. In great grandma’s library and I remember it, but if I read it it was so long ago that it’s only a vague memory at best)
      Les Misérables
      The Corrections
      The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
      The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
      Dune
      The Prince
      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* (What a great book!)
      Cryptonomicon
      Neverwhere
      A Confederacy of Dunces (A girl I had a crush on claimed this as her favorite book. Read it. Didn’t like it.)
      A Short History of Nearly Everything
      Dubliners
      The Unbearable Lightness of Being
      Beloved
      Slaughterhouse-five (My first Vonnegut!)
      The Scarlet Letter
      Eats, Shoots & Leaves
      The Mists of Avalon
      Oryx and Crake : a novel
      Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (Also on my ‘wanna-read’)
      Cloud Atlas
      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
      The Aeneid
      Watership Down
      Gravity’s Rainbow
      The Hobbit
      In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (My best friend in high school and I went on a mass-murderer literary kick together. For a short while we were experts on Perry Smith and Charlie Manson…)
      White Teeth
      Treasure Island
      David Copperfield
      The Three Musketeers

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2. japlady 27/04/2008 at 06:22

   I ganked the list, so you can see it there.

   I TRIED to read the Ann Ryand stuff but really didn’t get what all the fuss was about.
   I LOVE anything by Jane austen and read much of her stuff repeatedly

   A lot of the “classics”: count of monti Cristo, Les Miserables, Don quihote, all of dickens, etc., you might have seen on the porch at my dad’s house under my doll collection. Mom bought whole collections of leather bound classics of the “things to line your book shelves to make you look good but you’ll never read” variety very cheap at house sales, and as kid my folks basically handed me one after the other till I’d worked through them all at which point they got me a library card.

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3. katharos 27/04/2008 at 23:05

   Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
   Anna Karenina
   Crime and Punishment
   Catch-22
   One Hundred Years of Solitude
   Wuthering Heights
   The Silmarillion
   Life of Pi : a novel
   The Name of the Rose
   Don Quixote
   Moby Dick
   Ulysses
   Madame Bovary

   The Odyssey

   Pride and Prejudice *
   Jane Eyre

   The Tale of Two Cities

   The Brothers Karamazov
   Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
   War and Peace
   Vanity Fair
   The Time Traveler’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
   Memoirs of a Geisha **
   Middlesex
   Quicksilver
   Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West **

   The Canterbury Tales

   The Historian : a novel
   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
   Love in the Time of Cholera
   Brave New World
   The Fountainhead
   Foucault’s Pendulum *
   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
   The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
   The Satanic Verses
   Sense and Sensibility* (This was one of my favorite books when I was in college, I have it in a cute little antique leather bound mini-paperback.)
   The Picture of Dorian Gray
   Mansfield Park
   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest * (Read it to teach it)
   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 (although I started and didn’t finish the sequels.)
   The Prince
   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
   Neverwhere *
   A Confederacy of Dunces
   A Short History of Nearly Everything
   Dubliners
   The Unbearable Lightness of Being
   Beloved
   Slaughterhouse-five

   The Scarlet Letter

   Eats, Shoots & Leaves
   The Mists of Avalon
   Oryx and Crake : a novel
   Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
   Cloud Atlas
   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 (I decided about 2/3 of the way through that the narrator was a unforgivable twit.)
   The Aeneid
   Watership Down*
   Gravity’s Rainbow
   The Hobbit *
   In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
   White Teeth
   Treasure Island
   David Copperfield
   The Three Musketeers

   We had old bible-paper complete works of lots of people that I read growing up, most of Shakespeare, Poe, all of Doyle, and I love everything by Jane Austin. This seemed like a pretty funny list. Where is Portrait of a Lady? Oh I hated that book, I don’t know why I finished it, other than being stubborn. It did have one good quote, one of my favorites too,
   …” You ‘re too fond of your own
   ways.”
   “Yes, I think I’m very fond of them. But I always
   want to know the things one should n’t do.”
   “So as to do them ?” asked her aunt.
   “So as to choose,” said Isabel.

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   1. katharos 27/04/2008 at 23:10

      Oh, I must have missed a tag. Oops.
      Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
      Anna Karenina
      Crime and Punishment
      Catch-22
      One Hundred Years of Solitude
      Wuthering Heights
      The Silmarillion
      Life of Pi : a novel
      The Name of the Rose
      Don Quixote
      Moby Dick
      Ulysses
      Madame Bovary
      The Odyssey
      Pride and Prejudice *
      Jane Eyre
      The Tale of Two Cities
      The Brothers Karamazov
      Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
      War and Peace
      Vanity Fair
      The Time Traveler’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
      Memoirs of a Geisha **
      Middlesex
      Quicksilver
      Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West **
      The Canterbury Tales
      The Historian : a novel
      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      Love in the Time of Cholera
      Brave New World
      The Fountainhead
      Foucault’s Pendulum *
      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
      The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
      The Satanic Verses
      Sense and Sensibility* (This was one of my favorite books when I was in college, I have it in a cute little antique leather bound mini-paperback.)
      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 (although I started and didn’t finish the sequels.)
      The Prince
      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
      Neverwhere *
      A Confederacy of Dunces
      A Short History of Nearly Everything
      Dubliners
      The Unbearable Lightness of Being
      Beloved
      Slaughterhouse-five (But I have read Ice Nine, and quite liked that, so I probably should…)
      The Scarlet Letter
      Eats, Shoots & Leaves
      The Mists of Avalon
      Oryx and Crake : a novel
      Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
      Cloud Atlas
      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 (I decided about 2/3 of the way through that the narrator was a unforgivable twit.)
      The Aeneid
      Watership Down*
      Gravity’s Rainbow
      The Hobbit *
      In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
      White Teeth
      Treasure Island
      David Copperfield
      The Three Musketeers

      We had old bible-paper complete works of lots of people that I read growing up, most of Shakespeare, Poe, all of Doyle, and I love everything by Jane Austin. This seemed like a pretty funny list. Where is Portrait of a Lady? Oh I hated that book, I don’t know why I finished it, other than being stubborn. It did have one good quote, one of my favorites too,
      …” You ‘re too fond of your own
      ways.”
      “Yes, I think I’m very fond of them. But I always
      want to know the things one should n’t do.”
      “So as to do them ?” asked her aunt.
      “So as to choose,” said Isabel.

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4. noirem 28/04/2008 at 00:43

   I don’t think they sit on your shelf to make you look well-read. I think they’re things you’ve picked up along the way and haven’t gotten around to reading yet.

   Also, that’s just one label for books that haven’t been read yet (I know To Be Read or TBR is also popular) and I would be curious to see how the lists differ and what that says about the people who use those tags.

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