Memes, mostly.
Meme stolen from Kat:
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) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline those you LOVE.
4) Put two plus signs next to the ones that you've tried to read and then gave up on.
5) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather die than read (or read again).
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I don't particularly like Jane Austen, but neither do I hate her to the degree that some people seem to. I find the extremism re: her work to be a bit strange.)
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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 (Well, most of them.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (I'm not underlining, because I didn't love it, but it was one of the few had-to-read-for-school books I actually sort of liked.)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (And hated it, but I need to reread it because I don't know if I hated it because I actually hated it, or if I hated it because I had to read it for class in 8th grade and thus was kind of a stupid 8th grader.)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger* (Fuck Holden Caulfield.)
19. There is no nineteen, apparently. (Strange!)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell++ (I should probably try again...)
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I put both because I am actually currently in the middle of reading it.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Hence the Chronicles of Narnia...)
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
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery* (Bored me to tears.)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
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 (When I was eight! Thank you, Wishbone.)
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. The 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++ (Another one I shoudl re-try.)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Also thanks to Wishbone.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ("I like A Little Princess more, personally." <--I'm with Kat.)
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 - A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (And The Muppet Christmas Carol is still my favorite adaptation.)
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 - E.B. White (Who hasn't?)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom* (Ugh, I don't even know why I did.)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I will...eventually...)
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 (Another point for Wishbone.)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Oh, Hamlet, you douche. I kinda prefer the slashy parody IDK my BFF Abigail wrote for it. XD)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Certain characters (LARRY) need to not suddenly pipe up (LARRY) when I'm trying to get certain other characters (SAM) to talk to me. Why do characters suck, seriously.
I also need to not get random snippets of various AUs that could definitely be fleshed out into long fics. MAYBE YOU WILL BE USEFUL FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF SFBB, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW.
I would, however, like for my original characters to come back from their little hiatus. That's a bit annoying.
And, lastly, another meme stolen from Kat, since it's been awhile. You guys get my QBB playlist, since that's the one I had up. (Don't worry, there's plenty of variety, it's 170 songs long.)
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few a couple lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up that do not give away the name. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless internet denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like canon characters when your Mary Sue takes over, the points don't matter.
1. Urban hipster, the new gangster, frontin' by the club / New wave mannequins packin' haircuts, instead of packin' guns
2. A little bit bad at being good / We'll grow old but we don't wanna have to grow up
3. Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down / Whether or not you ever show up? Not a Pretty Girl, Ani DiFranco, guessed by
bookblather
4. How can I still avow and depend upon a state / That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare, or fate?
5. I can sit and listen / Or I can make you scream / Kiss it and make it better / Just put your trust in me
6. Well, listen very closely you can hear the sound / Of a love that makes my heart beat and my head spin 'round
7. I like music that's loud and lights down low / I like driving my car too fast and dancing slow
8. But action is no gift from some covert and lofty god / It's dependant and weighty all the same
9. Intoxicated eyes, no longer live that life / You should have learned by now, I'll burn this whole world down
10. This is the life, you see / The Devil tips his hat to me When You're Evil, Voltaire, guessed by
subluxate
11. A guy like you / Should wear a warning / It’s dangerous / I’m fallin' Toxic, Britney Spears, guessed by
bookblather
12. I won’t stop / I won’t say I’ve had enough / Tonight, I start the fire / Tonight, I break away
13. And you're stuck between the past and the present tense / You said you've been waging a war against so many years of lies
14. I'll be back with my Superman action / And I’m off to save the world Capital H, Motion City Soundtrack, guessed by
bookblather
15. We just drag them down / We just drag them down / Until they're just like us
16. We could grab a coffee and sit / Impress each other with our clever wit
17. I'm spelling it out, it's not written in code / I want you so much I think I'm gonna explode
18. You tried to take me / But I knew all along / You can't take me / For a ride
19. She's the symbol / Of resistance / And she's holding on my heart like a hand grenade She's a Rebel, Green Day, guessed by
bookblather
20. Killed the boy inside the man / The holy water in his hands / Can never wash away his sins
21. I'll be standing by your back door / Reaching for the knife in my coat
22. Can I get a Thank God Hallelujah / You finally saw what she was doing to ya
23. Hard days made me, hard nights shaped me / I don't know, they somehow saved me The Young and the Hopeless, Good Charlotte, guessed by
bookblather
24. The man is tall, mad, mean, and good-lookin' / And he's got me in his eye Big Bad Handsome Man, Imelda May, guessed by
subluxate
25. Maybe / It's a vicious little word that can slay me / Keep me when I'm hurting, you make me / Hang from your hands
26. Who said life was easy / The job is never through / It'll run us 'til we're ragged
27. Bet you think that everything good is gone / Think you left me broken down
28. She keeps her secrets / In her eyes / She wraps the truth / Inside her lies
29. I always knew you were a bad boy / I used to think that it was cool
30. Wish I would have noticed sooner / All that crazy in your eyes / Do you practice in the mirror / On that tempting crooked smile?
All right. Writing now. I hope.
This entry was originally posted at http://sarcasticsra.dreamwidth.org/322764.html. Please comment there.
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) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline those you LOVE.
4) Put two plus signs next to the ones that you've tried to read and then gave up on.
5) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather die than read (or read again).
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I don't particularly like Jane Austen, but neither do I hate her to the degree that some people seem to. I find the extremism re: her work to be a bit strange.)
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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 (Well, most of them.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (I'm not underlining, because I didn't love it, but it was one of the few had-to-read-for-school books I actually sort of liked.)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (And hated it, but I need to reread it because I don't know if I hated it because I actually hated it, or if I hated it because I had to read it for class in 8th grade and thus was kind of a stupid 8th grader.)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger* (Fuck Holden Caulfield.)
19. There is no nineteen, apparently. (Strange!)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell++ (I should probably try again...)
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I put both because I am actually currently in the middle of reading it.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Hence the Chronicles of Narnia...)
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
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery* (Bored me to tears.)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
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 (When I was eight! Thank you, Wishbone.)
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. The 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++ (Another one I shoudl re-try.)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Also thanks to Wishbone.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ("I like A Little Princess more, personally." <--I'm with Kat.)
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 - A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (And The Muppet Christmas Carol is still my favorite adaptation.)
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 - E.B. White (Who hasn't?)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom* (Ugh, I don't even know why I did.)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I will...eventually...)
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 (Another point for Wishbone.)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Oh, Hamlet, you douche. I kinda prefer the slashy parody IDK my BFF Abigail wrote for it. XD)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Certain characters (LARRY) need to not suddenly pipe up (LARRY) when I'm trying to get certain other characters (SAM) to talk to me. Why do characters suck, seriously.
I also need to not get random snippets of various AUs that could definitely be fleshed out into long fics. MAYBE YOU WILL BE USEFUL FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF SFBB, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW.
I would, however, like for my original characters to come back from their little hiatus. That's a bit annoying.
And, lastly, another meme stolen from Kat, since it's been awhile. You guys get my QBB playlist, since that's the one I had up. (Don't worry, there's plenty of variety, it's 170 songs long.)
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few a couple lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up that do not give away the name. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless internet denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like canon characters when your Mary Sue takes over, the points don't matter.
1. Urban hipster, the new gangster, frontin' by the club / New wave mannequins packin' haircuts, instead of packin' guns
2. A little bit bad at being good / We'll grow old but we don't wanna have to grow up
3. Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down / Whether or not you ever show up? Not a Pretty Girl, Ani DiFranco, guessed by
bookblather
4. How can I still avow and depend upon a state / That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare, or fate?
5. I can sit and listen / Or I can make you scream / Kiss it and make it better / Just put your trust in me
6. Well, listen very closely you can hear the sound / Of a love that makes my heart beat and my head spin 'round
7. I like music that's loud and lights down low / I like driving my car too fast and dancing slow
8. But action is no gift from some covert and lofty god / It's dependant and weighty all the same
9. Intoxicated eyes, no longer live that life / You should have learned by now, I'll burn this whole world down
10. This is the life, you see / The Devil tips his hat to me When You're Evil, Voltaire, guessed by
subluxate
11. A guy like you / Should wear a warning / It’s dangerous / I’m fallin' Toxic, Britney Spears, guessed by
bookblather
12. I won’t stop / I won’t say I’ve had enough / Tonight, I start the fire / Tonight, I break away
13. And you're stuck between the past and the present tense / You said you've been waging a war against so many years of lies
14. I'll be back with my Superman action / And I’m off to save the world Capital H, Motion City Soundtrack, guessed by
bookblather
15. We just drag them down / We just drag them down / Until they're just like us
16. We could grab a coffee and sit / Impress each other with our clever wit
17. I'm spelling it out, it's not written in code / I want you so much I think I'm gonna explode
18. You tried to take me / But I knew all along / You can't take me / For a ride
19. She's the symbol / Of resistance / And she's holding on my heart like a hand grenade She's a Rebel, Green Day, guessed by
bookblather
20. Killed the boy inside the man / The holy water in his hands / Can never wash away his sins
21. I'll be standing by your back door / Reaching for the knife in my coat
22. Can I get a Thank God Hallelujah / You finally saw what she was doing to ya
23. Hard days made me, hard nights shaped me / I don't know, they somehow saved me The Young and the Hopeless, Good Charlotte, guessed by
bookblather
24. The man is tall, mad, mean, and good-lookin' / And he's got me in his eye Big Bad Handsome Man, Imelda May, guessed by
subluxate
25. Maybe / It's a vicious little word that can slay me / Keep me when I'm hurting, you make me / Hang from your hands
26. Who said life was easy / The job is never through / It'll run us 'til we're ragged
27. Bet you think that everything good is gone / Think you left me broken down
28. She keeps her secrets / In her eyes / She wraps the truth / Inside her lies
29. I always knew you were a bad boy / I used to think that it was cool
30. Wish I would have noticed sooner / All that crazy in your eyes / Do you practice in the mirror / On that tempting crooked smile?
All right. Writing now. I hope.
This entry was originally posted at http://sarcasticsra.dreamwidth.org/322764.html. Please comment there.