The return of the random meme post
An update, because I'm online, and who knows how long that'll last?
Say it with me? We do not get mini-crushes on people fresh out of LTRs.
I so need a new prescription. These glass don't do jack, anymore.
Apparently I live at richarddawkins.net, now. Still reading "The God Delusion", and anticipating "The Blind Watchmaker".
And Squishy, that judo-loving rat bastid, got me hooked on these Tea Tree oil-flavored toothpicks, and I'm not the only one. So last night, we went to see "Get Smart": four of us, bopping around the mall looking like scumbags, toothpicks lodged in the corners of our mouths, mumbling mono-syllables, and saying "mmhmm", like an episode of "King Of The Hill".
"Get Smart"? Funny and fun. And Steve Carrell lays a wet one on The Rock . . . not remotely hot, but seriously hilarious. Mmhmm.
::chews on toothpick::
Stole this from tabaqui and, like her, added comments where I thought appropriate. Bolding the ones I've read, italicizing the ones I haven't finished. Either way, there won't be much, alas.
Book Meme
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Meh.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Made. Of fucking. Win
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Decent. A tad melodramatic, and stretched bounds of credulity several times, but. . . .
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible Stopped at Leviticus. I can't deal with bastard!God.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Meh, Creepy. Uncomfortable.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Beyond words. Read it if you haven't, and if you have.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Couldn't finish, was too busy slitting my wrists.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Boring. Lots of knitting, or darning, or whatever they called it back then. I heard one of the chicks dies at the end, but even that silver-lining couldn't get me more than a quarter of the way through.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of The Shrew, A Midsummernight's Dream, etc.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Read about a billion times when I was sixteen. Fucking hated when I tried to reread at twenty, twenty-two, tweny-five--you get the jist. Holden was an utter shit.
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 Less than twenty pages. That book is made of Sominex.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I know, I know--I suck. Can't finish it, for some reason. And we're talking home-stretch put down. Hanging out with Slartibartfast putting down.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Creepy.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Not nearly as interesting as the BBC television miniseries.
34 Emma - Jane Austen Double meh.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha
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 Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Got two-thirds through the series and burntout
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding Creepy. Awesome.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel Unimpressive, after all the hype.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert "And how can this be? For he is the Quisatz Haderach!"
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 Either boring, or over my head. Or both.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon !!!!! READ IT!
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Okay.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Depressing as fuck, but good. It's Dumas.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Aptly titled.
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Meh. Van Helsing was creepy and annoying, and his accent pissed me off. I was not sorry Lucy died, and only wished she'd taken the rest with her.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Sweet, cool.
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 Good. Bring a hankie. And some whiskey.
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Not his best, but good.
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White ::sniffs:: ::wibbles::
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I can't stand him . . . he's an elitist coke-head.
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 I just--they're animals. I don't care. The writing was really nice, though, else I wouldn't have made it halfway through.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A few people have told me I am the protagonist, down to the crappy way I dress and the way I talk when I'm offended. I would have finished this, but I really don't wanna lose friends over a book. Still though. Entertaining . . . if you haven't been compared to the protag.
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Best intrigue/adventure story ever.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare The coolest loser ever.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Again . . . aptly titled.
Say it with me? We do not get mini-crushes on people fresh out of LTRs.
I so need a new prescription. These glass don't do jack, anymore.
Apparently I live at richarddawkins.net, now. Still reading "The God Delusion", and anticipating "The Blind Watchmaker".
And Squishy, that judo-loving rat bastid, got me hooked on these Tea Tree oil-flavored toothpicks, and I'm not the only one. So last night, we went to see "Get Smart": four of us, bopping around the mall looking like scumbags, toothpicks lodged in the corners of our mouths, mumbling mono-syllables, and saying "mmhmm", like an episode of "King Of The Hill".
"Get Smart"? Funny and fun. And Steve Carrell lays a wet one on The Rock . . . not remotely hot, but seriously hilarious. Mmhmm.
::chews on toothpick::
Stole this from tabaqui and, like her, added comments where I thought appropriate. Bolding the ones I've read, italicizing the ones I haven't finished. Either way, there won't be much, alas.
Book Meme
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Meh.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Made. Of fucking. Win
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Decent. A tad melodramatic, and stretched bounds of credulity several times, but. . . .
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible Stopped at Leviticus. I can't deal with bastard!God.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Meh, Creepy. Uncomfortable.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Beyond words. Read it if you haven't, and if you have.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Couldn't finish, was too busy slitting my wrists.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Boring. Lots of knitting, or darning, or whatever they called it back then. I heard one of the chicks dies at the end, but even that silver-lining couldn't get me more than a quarter of the way through.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of The Shrew, A Midsummernight's Dream, etc.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Read about a billion times when I was sixteen. Fucking hated when I tried to reread at twenty, twenty-two, tweny-five--you get the jist. Holden was an utter shit.
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 Less than twenty pages. That book is made of Sominex.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I know, I know--I suck. Can't finish it, for some reason. And we're talking home-stretch put down. Hanging out with Slartibartfast putting down.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Creepy.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Not nearly as interesting as the BBC television miniseries.
34 Emma - Jane Austen Double meh.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha
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 Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Got two-thirds through the series and burntout
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding Creepy. Awesome.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel Unimpressive, after all the hype.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert "And how can this be? For he is the Quisatz Haderach!"
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 Either boring, or over my head. Or both.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon !!!!! READ IT!
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Okay.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Depressing as fuck, but good. It's Dumas.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Aptly titled.
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Meh. Van Helsing was creepy and annoying, and his accent pissed me off. I was not sorry Lucy died, and only wished she'd taken the rest with her.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Sweet, cool.
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 Good. Bring a hankie. And some whiskey.
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Not his best, but good.
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White ::sniffs:: ::wibbles::
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I can't stand him . . . he's an elitist coke-head.
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 I just--they're animals. I don't care. The writing was really nice, though, else I wouldn't have made it halfway through.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A few people have told me I am the protagonist, down to the crappy way I dress and the way I talk when I'm offended. I would have finished this, but I really don't wanna lose friends over a book. Still though. Entertaining . . . if you haven't been compared to the protag.
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Best intrigue/adventure story ever.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare The coolest loser ever.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Again . . . aptly titled.