Wow. It's been 11 weeks since my last entry...
Well that's about to change! I hope, anyway. I have some real life (ooh) plans that I want to turn into a series of LJ entries. Not to mention my long over due responses to Kokoro, American Psycho and Rebecca. And whatever else follows. So yay. All... uh... one of you... can read my future posts! w00t! CELEBRATION TIME!
For now, I've seen this thing going around Facebook for a little while now, and I figured I would show that I obviously read books less often than I watch movies (which is actually not true, but according to these little "If you've seen 900 of these 23,876 movies, you have no life" type things, it is). So without further ado...
The Supposed List of BBC Selected Books of Which "Most People" Will Have Only Read 6!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Add a '-' to the ones you HATE. <--- I added this because Nancy said she wished there had been this instruction. Ta-da!
4) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.
1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen -- X+
2. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien -- X (Shouldn't credit be given for 3 books here? Although... I suppose not, since they were written as six books in one... confusing to dissect it.)
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte -- X
4. Harry Potter series, JK Rowling -- X+ (Shouldn't credit be given for 7 books here?)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee -- X
6. The Bible - X
7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte -- *
8. Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell -- *
9. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman -- * (In progress: I've read the first)
10. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens -- *
11. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott -- *
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy -- *
13. Catch 22, Joseph Heller -- *
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -- * (I've read some, but certainly not *all*... I definitely fail in the Shakespeare category)
15. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier -- X
16. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien -- X+
17. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulk -- *
18. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger -- X
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 -- X-
23. Bleak House, Charles Dickens -- *
24. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy -- *
25. The Hitchhiker’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 -- X
30. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame -- *
31. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy -- *
32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens -- *
33. Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis -- X+ (Again, seven books counted here as one... what gives?)
34. Emma, Jane Austen -- *
35. Persuasion, Jane Austen -- * (I was about half finished, which is a habit of mine, when I started reading something else.)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis -- X+ (uhhh... this is part of The Chronicles of Narnia, so you're an idiot, writer of this 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, AA Milne -- *
41. Animal Farm, George Orwell -- *
42. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown -- X
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 -- X+
47. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy -- *
48. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood -- *
49. Lord of the Flies, William Golding -- X
50. Atonement, Ian McEwan -- * (Nearly finished, really. I started reading it before I saw the movie, got to the point where the movie starts to become unbearably depressing and had to put the book down. I'll finish it soon, I swear.)
51. Life of Pi, Yann Martel -- *
52. Dune, Frank Herbert -- *
53. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons -- *
54. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen -- X+
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth -- *
56. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon -- *
57. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens -- X+
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 -- X
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 -- X
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 -- X
74. Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson -- X+
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 -- X
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 -- * (Got half-way through and set it down to read something else. Don't remember what that w
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 -- X+ (Again! With the singular book out of a collection already mentioned. SLACKERS!)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl -- X
100. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo -- *
Read = 25
Loved reading = 9
Hated reading = 1
Want to read = 75
Well, the "Want to read" part was easy to figure out, since it was everything on the list that I hadn't read. I really need to read more. Yeesh. Okay! That settles it! From now on, I'm going to spend my free time drinking tea and reading books. Sounds like fun!
For now, I've seen this thing going around Facebook for a little while now, and I figured I would show that I obviously read books less often than I watch movies (which is actually not true, but according to these little "If you've seen 900 of these 23,876 movies, you have no life" type things, it is). So without further ado...
The Supposed List of BBC Selected Books of Which "Most People" Will Have Only Read 6!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Add a '-' to the ones you HATE. <--- I added this because Nancy said she wished there had been this instruction. Ta-da!
4) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.
1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen -- X+
2. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien -- X (Shouldn't credit be given for 3 books here? Although... I suppose not, since they were written as six books in one... confusing to dissect it.)
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte -- X
4. Harry Potter series, JK Rowling -- X+ (Shouldn't credit be given for 7 books here?)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee -- X
6. The Bible - X
7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte -- *
8. Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell -- *
9. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman -- * (In progress: I've read the first)
10. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens -- *
11. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott -- *
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy -- *
13. Catch 22, Joseph Heller -- *
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -- * (I've read some, but certainly not *all*... I definitely fail in the Shakespeare category)
15. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier -- X
16. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien -- X+
17. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulk -- *
18. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger -- X
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 -- X-
23. Bleak House, Charles Dickens -- *
24. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy -- *
25. The Hitchhiker’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 -- X
30. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame -- *
31. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy -- *
32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens -- *
33. Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis -- X+ (Again, seven books counted here as one... what gives?)
34. Emma, Jane Austen -- *
35. Persuasion, Jane Austen -- * (I was about half finished, which is a habit of mine, when I started reading something else.)
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis -- X+ (uhhh... this is part of The Chronicles of Narnia, so you're an idiot, writer of this 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, AA Milne -- *
41. Animal Farm, George Orwell -- *
42. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown -- X
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 -- X+
47. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy -- *
48. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood -- *
49. Lord of the Flies, William Golding -- X
50. Atonement, Ian McEwan -- * (Nearly finished, really. I started reading it before I saw the movie, got to the point where the movie starts to become unbearably depressing and had to put the book down. I'll finish it soon, I swear.)
51. Life of Pi, Yann Martel -- *
52. Dune, Frank Herbert -- *
53. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons -- *
54. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen -- X+
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth -- *
56. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon -- *
57. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens -- X+
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 -- X
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 -- X
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 -- X
74. Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson -- X+
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 -- X
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 -- * (Got half-way through and set it down to read something else. Don't remember what that w
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 -- X+ (Again! With the singular book out of a collection already mentioned. SLACKERS!)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl -- X
100. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo -- *
Read = 25
Loved reading = 9
Hated reading = 1
Want to read = 75
Well, the "Want to read" part was easy to figure out, since it was everything on the list that I hadn't read. I really need to read more. Yeesh. Okay! That settles it! From now on, I'm going to spend my free time drinking tea and reading books. Sounds like fun!