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Two book memes from memeswhores
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) (I added this one) Strike books you tried to read but couldn't.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. 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 Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
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 Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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 - CS 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 Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
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 Nighttime - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
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 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
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 - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
27 Random Book Questions.
1) What Author Do You Own The Most Books By?
Stephen King, by far. I inhereted a lot of my books from my Mom and she had a ton of his books, and I got hooked from hers and started buying more.
2) What Book Do You Own The Most Copies Of?
I think I just own the one copy of each book, but I do need new copies of some. They're starting to wear out on me.
3) What Fictional Character Are You Secretly In Love With?
Randal P. McMurphy, and it's not a secret. He's the smartass conman from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey). Jack Nicholson did a great job in the movie but I've always imagined him as John C. McGinley.
4) What Book Have You Read More Than Any Other?
Bridge To Terrabithia (Katherine Patterson) and it makes me cry every time.
5) What Was Your Favorite Book When You Were 10-Years-Old?
Probably the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (Ann Brasheres) or the Harry Potter series (J K Rowling), but I don't really remember.
6) What Is The Worst Book You've Read In The Past Year?
I really, really disliked Catcher in the Rye (JD Sallinger). The writing style was just wonky and cluttered, I could not get into it at all.
7) What Is The Best Book You've Read In The Past Year?
I've read a lot of good books this year, but hands down the best was The Dark Tower, the last book in the Dark Tower series (Stephen King). It's a seven book series with around 1000 pages per book, and the writing isn't always easy to get through, but it is so worth it. It will change the way you think and, if you don't want to get all deep, is also just a really exiciting story. If you have the time go read it. It starts with The Gunslinger.
8) If You Could Tell Everyone You Know To Read One Book, What Would It Be?
... I think I just did, whoops. Yeah, the Dark Tower series again. Also I Am The Messenger (Markus Zusak). It makes you think, while being funny and sweet at the same time.
9) What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read?
Difficult as in what? The language on quite a few books I've read has been difficult, but especially in Anne Rice. Her premises and characters are fabulous but her language is just plain thick and old fashioned. I still haven't finished Talto,s even though I love what I have read, for that reason.
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn), on the other hand, is incredibly easy to read, but difficult to wrap your mind around. The whole concept takes our society and breaks it down into simplistic parts that take a while to click in your brain.
10) Do You Prefer The French Or The Russians?
Idk? I don't go for authors, I go for premise.
11) Shakespeare, Milton Or Chaucer?
Milton. Religeous poetry is fascinating, though Shakespear is also pretty cool.
12) Austen Or Eliot?
Have read neither.
13) What Is The Biggest Or Most Embarrassing Gap In Your Reading?
... The last three questions?
14) What Is Your Favorite Novel?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I read it to both cheer myself up, put problems in prespective and marvel at Kesey's trippy stream of consciousness.
15) Play?
I haven't read enough plays to have a favorite, sorry.
16) Poem?
The Oddesy, because it is epic and unintentionally hilarious at times.
17) Essay?
... Yeah, no. I'm more of a fiction reader.
18) Short Story?
Golden City Far by Gene Wolfe. God, I wish it was a full length novel.
19) Non-Fiction?
I don't read non-fiction for the most part.
20) Graphic Novel?
Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi.
21) Memoir?
Okay, this one's embarrassing. Bruce Campbell's autobiography
22) History?
Idk.
23) Mystery Or Noir?
Mysteries were never really my bag. I lean more towards horror.
24) Science Fiction?
The Artemis Fowl series (Eion Colfer), but those could also be Fantasy, depending on how you look at them.
25) Who Is Your Favorite Writer?
Stephen King.
26) Who Is The Most Overrated Writer Alive Today?
Stephanie Meyer. I cannot be the only one to say this.
27) What Are You Reading Right Now?
Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite, a real gorey, sexy vampire story like I've been craving. Thanks Brandy!