Oct 05, 2007 17:27
Ok, fine, I'll do the stupid meme :-)
To recap, bold = finished, italics = started but not finished, strikethrough = finished and loathed.
I think I lose. Unless you count plays and movies...then I'm good.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment (I've had it sitting on my shelf for over 5 years...does that count?)
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude (I loathe, despise, detest, and abhor this book)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The name of the rose (seen the movie)
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A 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 (I think we read from both this and The Odyssey in class)
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (wasn't all it was cracked up to be but I didn't loathe it)
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 (seen the play)
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 (seen the movie)
A clockwork orange (seen and LOVE the movie)
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno (LOVE it)
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility (seen the movie)
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist (seen the play)
Gulliver's Travels
Les misérables (seen and LOVE the play)
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
Cryptonomicon (I only read a chapter, but I'm counting it)
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
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 (I've eaten the candy bar...)
ok, I actually didn't lose...cool