establishments like a laugh
My Chinese feed of the football (I was doing things here and didn't care enough to go downstairs to watch it) played Salt-n-Pepa over video highlights while the live video of the game was offline. It was slightly bizarre.
I'm a bit peeved about the result since I still hate Michael Ballack but apart from that I really have nothing against the Germans and I'm secretly fond of Jens Lehmann, especially when he's being crap (because I'm horrible. look, it's funny!), so I don't mind them getting to the final really. I'm cheering for Russia tomorrow because they managed to be endearing even when they were tearing my adopted team to shreds, but I won't mind horribly if the Spaniards get it either, so... ehh.
Blahblah books meme that you've seen everywhere.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
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) 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.
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 (yes, seriously flawed in a number of ways, but I still love them)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I love books with small children as narrators that aren't aimed at small children)
6. The Bible (though I've read bits and pieces obviously)
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 (I started it once and couldn't get more than a few pages in because I wanted to STRANGLE him but I still want to read it all eventually just for the sake of it.)
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 (I need to download the TV serial)
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (probably responsible for my enduring love of good nonsense.)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (started this once as a kid and hated it because I couldn't stand animal books where they don't act like animals. >( Needless to say I had problems with Redwall.)
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 (from when I was tiny - I wonder if I've still got this somewhere?)
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 (wasn't my thing, but then I was, like, eight, so I might dig this up again at some point)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (LOVED this)
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (this too. I adore stories about humanity being horrid.)
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 Night-time - Mark Haddon (haha, I once found a list of ~*footballers' favourite books*~ in an attempt to get little kids to read. This was about the only one listed that wasn't a crappy sports autobiography. Thank you, David James. Oh, and Smudger listed Kestrel for a Knave but that's because he's ridiculously Yorkshire. His other book was about bikes.)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (LOVELOVELOVE)
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 (Christopher Eccleston was in the movie of this! I've not seen it but I should because I l0ff Eccles and his silly ears.)
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Actually, I might have read this? But it was probably one of those horrible adaptations of classics they make for children.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I preferred A Little Princess more when I was small, though I'd probably like this more now)
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (I flove 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 (This made me cry when I was little. But I couldn't tolerate any of his other stuff for reasons like LADIES DON'T GIVE BIRTH TO MICE UNLESS THEY'RE LADY MICE, MISTER!! Actually, that still bothers me, because what the hell?)
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 (I was pretty much the only person in my grade 12 English class who liked this)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Read it in French an' all :D)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (ADORE this)
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 (More or less. Never read it cover-to-cover but I studied it in school for ages and I sat through the unabridged movie, which COUNTS because it's a PLAY so it's meant to be watched! I also sat through the Mel Gibson version, but that wasn't so bad because Helena Bonham Carter's Crazy Ophelia was ace.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I'm not entirely sure how someone could have only read six of those. Most of what I've read on that list I read in school or as a little kid! You suck, Average Adult, and I say that as someone who hasn't finished a good-sized book in months. (Getting there though. The Children of Men is GREAT, and much much better than the movie.)
I'm a bit peeved about the result since I still hate Michael Ballack but apart from that I really have nothing against the Germans and I'm secretly fond of Jens Lehmann, especially when he's being crap (because I'm horrible. look, it's funny!), so I don't mind them getting to the final really. I'm cheering for Russia tomorrow because they managed to be endearing even when they were tearing my adopted team to shreds, but I won't mind horribly if the Spaniards get it either, so... ehh.
Blahblah books meme that you've seen everywhere.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
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) 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.
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 (yes, seriously flawed in a number of ways, but I still love them)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I love books with small children as narrators that aren't aimed at small children)
6. The Bible (though I've read bits and pieces obviously)
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 (I started it once and couldn't get more than a few pages in because I wanted to STRANGLE him but I still want to read it all eventually just for the sake of it.)
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 (I need to download the TV serial)
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (probably responsible for my enduring love of good nonsense.)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (started this once as a kid and hated it because I couldn't stand animal books where they don't act like animals. >( Needless to say I had problems with Redwall.)
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 (from when I was tiny - I wonder if I've still got this somewhere?)
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 (wasn't my thing, but then I was, like, eight, so I might dig this up again at some point)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (LOVED this)
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (this too. I adore stories about humanity being horrid.)
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 Night-time - Mark Haddon (haha, I once found a list of ~*footballers' favourite books*~ in an attempt to get little kids to read. This was about the only one listed that wasn't a crappy sports autobiography. Thank you, David James. Oh, and Smudger listed Kestrel for a Knave but that's because he's ridiculously Yorkshire. His other book was about bikes.)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (LOVELOVELOVE)
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 (Christopher Eccleston was in the movie of this! I've not seen it but I should because I l0ff Eccles and his silly ears.)
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Actually, I might have read this? But it was probably one of those horrible adaptations of classics they make for children.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I preferred A Little Princess more when I was small, though I'd probably like this more now)
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (I flove 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 (This made me cry when I was little. But I couldn't tolerate any of his other stuff for reasons like LADIES DON'T GIVE BIRTH TO MICE UNLESS THEY'RE LADY MICE, MISTER!! Actually, that still bothers me, because what the hell?)
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 (I was pretty much the only person in my grade 12 English class who liked this)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Read it in French an' all :D)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (ADORE this)
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 (More or less. Never read it cover-to-cover but I studied it in school for ages and I sat through the unabridged movie, which COUNTS because it's a PLAY so it's meant to be watched! I also sat through the Mel Gibson version, but that wasn't so bad because Helena Bonham Carter's Crazy Ophelia was ace.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I'm not entirely sure how someone could have only read six of those. Most of what I've read on that list I read in school or as a little kid! You suck, Average Adult, and I say that as someone who hasn't finished a good-sized book in months. (Getting there though. The Children of Men is GREAT, and much much better than the movie.)