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[urbanhaiku]

So,

I did this whole books thing. It's under a cut. Because cuts are cool. That sounded well lame.

Book meme: Top 100 books
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

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)

Comments

[atomicduck]

Oh, thank god I'm not the only one who doesn't think wonders of the Time Traveller's Wife. It seems all the girls I know are wild about it. I couldn't even get through the second chapter because so many things about the first turned me off.

On the other hand, am halfway through 100 Years of Solitude and it's great... crazy but great. :)

[urbanhaiku]

it's a lot like those supermarket novels (you know, with pictures of buxom lasses and strapping lads on the cover), but without all the porn. And it's written with housewives in mind, I'm sure.

I'm also a bit put off by the fact that they struck Raymond E. Feist from the list and replaced him with Niefenegger (surely a made-up surname) and, pardon the french, sodding Memoirs of a SODDING Geisha. Poorly written trash, really. And I should know, I read a lot of science fiction (I read a book that consequently had the main character's name spelt wrong. He started off as Arthur, ended up as Atruth).

100 years is pretty good, but a bit of a mouthful at times. I generally find those kind of books a bit... well, I'm not a fan of fiction set in real-life, seemingly. I fell asleep trying to read all those classics so many times. I managed to chew my way through the Catcher in the Rye, but that's about it. Modern classics haven't got enough swords, dragons and/or laser guns :D

[atomicduck]

Man, I'd rather have the porn. At least that's honest about what it is. Don't even get me started on Memoirs. skdjglksjdgds!

LOL, Atruth. He should've stuck with that from the beginning. It's kind of neat.

100 Years is pretty interesting... in that it's more or less believable, but then a dead gypsy ghost will turn up somewhere out of the blue. I like the approach it takes to itself. There are times it reminds me of ADA by Nabokov. I loved Catcher btw, haha. Laser guns and dragons don't always guarantee a good read!

[urbanhaiku]

I've only read Despair by Nabokov, and that was alright I guess. Didn't really strike me in the way that it possibly should have, but then again I had a massive crush on Camus at the time. I used to sit in bed all night reading The Outsider again and again.

As for Catcher I never really got the big woowoo about it (woowoo is a real word!). It's alright, but I don't think I'd read it again. Not enough laser guns :P

Have you read anything by Dave Gorman? If not, you should. I guarantee you that you'll love every second of his books.