Occupational Hazards
What can I say ... I'm bored, my boyfriend is thousands of miles away, and I feel like a giant uterus. Memes fit the bill.
The rules of the game:
The Big Read [who, exactly, might this be??] reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've [uh ... again, who?] printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Put ** for ones you own
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 ;-)
5)Annotate at will (note those partially read?)
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.
6 The Bible. ** Owned in multiple editions, but only bits of it read.
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. Again, portions read.
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 - 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.**
30 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 - CS Lewis.** Someone made a bad list ...
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 - A. A. Milne.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
45 The Woman 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.** LOVE!
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan. Wonderful!
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 Night-time - 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's 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. Minus the poetry, love it.
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.** - again, redundant
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo.
Total Read to completion: 30/100
The rules of the game:
The Big Read [who, exactly, might this be??] reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've [uh ... again, who?] printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Put ** for ones you own
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 ;-)
5)Annotate at will (note those partially read?)
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.
6 The Bible. ** Owned in multiple editions, but only bits of it read.
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. Again, portions read.
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 - 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.**
30 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 - CS Lewis.** Someone made a bad list ...
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 - A. A. Milne.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
45 The Woman 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.** LOVE!
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan. Wonderful!
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 Night-time - 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's 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. Minus the poetry, love it.
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.** - again, redundant
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo.
Total Read to completion: 30/100