Book Meme...stolen from Deena!
Because I'm having bad luck with my strike-through and underline functions (for some reason they won't show up), I'm just going to list my thoughts, book by book. Interestingly enough, I've read a ton of these books - having an english teacher for a Mother does that to you, I guess - but I'd only count a slim few as books that had a great impact upon my life.
Anybody have any good books to recommend?
The original meme is as follows:
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicise that you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina - read, enjoyed.
Crime and Punishment - read.
Catch-22 - read, LOVED. This book had a huge impact upon me as a 14 year old.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - started, never finished.
Wuthering Heights - read a gajillion times for classes, meh.
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi - read, enjoyed
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - read
Moby Dick - read, meh.
Ulysses - read on multiple occasions, enjoyed.
Madame Bovary - read, loved!
The Odyssey - read over and over and still re-read for fun, LOVED!
Pride and Prejudice - read, the book and the play
Jane Eyre - read
A Tale of Two Cities - read
The Brothers Karamazov - read
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - on my "to-read" list
War and Peace - read while living in Japan. Desperate.
Vanity Fair - read, enjoyed....they saw the film and was pissed!
The Time Traveler's Wife - on my "to-read" list
The Iliad - read a million times
Emma - read...but I don't remember if I finished it.
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway - read, enjoyed.
Great Expectations - read, HATED! DIAF!
American Gods - read, enjoyed
Atlas Shrugged - read, enjoyed-ish
Reading Lolita in Tehran - borrowed from Lucas, still on my "to-read" list
Memoirs of a Geisha - read several times, meh.
Middlesex - read, fucking loved! Brilliant!
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - "To-read" list
The Canterbury Tales - read a squillion times for various classes. Why won't cannonized literature die?!
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - read, don't think I finished it.
Love in the Time of Cholera - sounds interesting...may end upon the "to-read"
Brave New World - read
The Fountainhead - read, enjoyed
Foucault's Pendulum - read
Middlemarch - read
Frankenstein - read, cried, meh.
The Count of Monte Cristo - read
Dracula - read, enjoyed as an angsty teen...now, meh.
A Clockwork Orange - read, LOVED.
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King - read
The Grapes of Wrath - read, enjoying being in the play
The Poisonwood Bible - read, meh.
1984 - read, LOVED.
Angels & Demons - read
The Inferno - read, loved.
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - read, yawned.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park - read, actually enjoyed the film
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - read a quintrillian times for classes, meh.
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Read and strangely enjoyed.
Oliver Twist - read a half dozen times in elementary school. I think my mom was trying to teach me about classisim or something...
Gulliver's Travels - read
Les Misérables - read, cried.
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune - read, what self-respecting geek hasn't?
The Prince - read, loved and still re-read from time to time.
The Sound and the Fury - own, but have never actually read
Angela's Ashes - read, get over it, Oprah.
The God of Small Things - On my "to-read" list since Lauren won't shuttp about it.
A People's History of the United States:1492-Present
Cryptonomicon - Read, plan to steal E's copy and re-read
Neverwhere - Read, loved...I wish to marry Neil Gaimen
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - read
Beloved - read a dozen times (my exgirlfriend's favorite book)
Slaughterhouse-Five - read, LOVED.
The Scarlet Letter - read, had first stirring of feminism at the tender age of 13.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - read, cute
The Mists of Avalon - read
Oryx and Crake - read, LOVED. Still kicking around my bookshelves someplace
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita - read, LOVED, still re-read.
Persuasion
Northhanger Abbey
The Catcher In the Rye - read, still wish to kill H. Caulfied.
On the Road - read, own.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - read
Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - on my "to-read" list, thanks to E/
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:An Inquiry Into Values - "to read"
The Aeneid
Watership Down - started, don't think I finished
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit - read, own.
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and It's Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island - read
David Copperfield - read
The Three Musketeers - read
Anybody have any good books to recommend?
The original meme is as follows:
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicise that you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina - read, enjoyed.
Crime and Punishment - read.
Catch-22 - read, LOVED. This book had a huge impact upon me as a 14 year old.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - started, never finished.
Wuthering Heights - read a gajillion times for classes, meh.
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi - read, enjoyed
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote - read
Moby Dick - read, meh.
Ulysses - read on multiple occasions, enjoyed.
Madame Bovary - read, loved!
The Odyssey - read over and over and still re-read for fun, LOVED!
Pride and Prejudice - read, the book and the play
Jane Eyre - read
A Tale of Two Cities - read
The Brothers Karamazov - read
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - on my "to-read" list
War and Peace - read while living in Japan. Desperate.
Vanity Fair - read, enjoyed....they saw the film and was pissed!
The Time Traveler's Wife - on my "to-read" list
The Iliad - read a million times
Emma - read...but I don't remember if I finished it.
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway - read, enjoyed.
Great Expectations - read, HATED! DIAF!
American Gods - read, enjoyed
Atlas Shrugged - read, enjoyed-ish
Reading Lolita in Tehran - borrowed from Lucas, still on my "to-read" list
Memoirs of a Geisha - read several times, meh.
Middlesex - read, fucking loved! Brilliant!
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - "To-read" list
The Canterbury Tales - read a squillion times for various classes. Why won't cannonized literature die?!
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - read, don't think I finished it.
Love in the Time of Cholera - sounds interesting...may end upon the "to-read"
Brave New World - read
The Fountainhead - read, enjoyed
Foucault's Pendulum - read
Middlemarch - read
Frankenstein - read, cried, meh.
The Count of Monte Cristo - read
Dracula - read, enjoyed as an angsty teen...now, meh.
A Clockwork Orange - read, LOVED.
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King - read
The Grapes of Wrath - read, enjoying being in the play
The Poisonwood Bible - read, meh.
1984 - read, LOVED.
Angels & Demons - read
The Inferno - read, loved.
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility - read, yawned.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park - read, actually enjoyed the film
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - read a quintrillian times for classes, meh.
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Read and strangely enjoyed.
Oliver Twist - read a half dozen times in elementary school. I think my mom was trying to teach me about classisim or something...
Gulliver's Travels - read
Les Misérables - read, cried.
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune - read, what self-respecting geek hasn't?
The Prince - read, loved and still re-read from time to time.
The Sound and the Fury - own, but have never actually read
Angela's Ashes - read, get over it, Oprah.
The God of Small Things - On my "to-read" list since Lauren won't shuttp about it.
A People's History of the United States:1492-Present
Cryptonomicon - Read, plan to steal E's copy and re-read
Neverwhere - Read, loved...I wish to marry Neil Gaimen
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - read
Beloved - read a dozen times (my exgirlfriend's favorite book)
Slaughterhouse-Five - read, LOVED.
The Scarlet Letter - read, had first stirring of feminism at the tender age of 13.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - read, cute
The Mists of Avalon - read
Oryx and Crake - read, LOVED. Still kicking around my bookshelves someplace
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita - read, LOVED, still re-read.
Persuasion
Northhanger Abbey
The Catcher In the Rye - read, still wish to kill H. Caulfied.
On the Road - read, own.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - read
Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - on my "to-read" list, thanks to E/
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:An Inquiry Into Values - "to read"
The Aeneid
Watership Down - started, don't think I finished
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit - read, own.
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and It's Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island - read
David Copperfield - read
The Three Musketeers - read