Comments | alissabobissa: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

alissabobissa

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Sep 30, 2010 18:08

Since it's Banned Books Week a meme is going around. Cross out the ones you've read, if you read it in school bold it first.

( because I'm bored and want to prove I'm at least a fraction as well-read as cynthia_arrow )

books, tvd

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spinkkitty October 1 2010, 02:49:17 UTC

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather

i have started reading several of these but was not able to finish including franny and zooey, cat's cradle, and heart of darkness despite the fact its about 30 pages long. fail.
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

alissabobissa October 1 2010, 07:37:50 UTC

Heart of Darkness was hard to get through, if I recall correctly, but I had to write an eight page paper about it so I had no choice. Yay college!

I am very glad to see you read The Sun Also Rises. I adore Hemingway and that is definitely my fave of old Ernie's. :)

spinkkitty October 1 2010, 02:51:26 UTC

apparently i also fail at posting comments.

not quite sure how i managed to get my closing statement in the middle of the list.

i should also add that most of those were forced upon me by university.

spinkkitty October 1 2010, 02:54:49 UTC

oh and shelly and damon night is always exciting! even though technically its shelly and damon saturday morning for me. its a great start to my day. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

alissabobissa October 1 2010, 07:38:29 UTC

Shelly and Damon Night! Geez, Thursdays are fun now. :D

elzed October 1 2010, 07:19:46 UTC

You read Finnegan's Wake???? For reals?

51 or so. Just over half... and I am a bit appalled at the ones I realised I hadn't read even though I've been meaning to...

alissabobissa October 1 2010, 07:42:24 UTC

Yep, I did, for reals and for fun when I was 17... right after I read Portrait of the Artist. I wish I could blame school or drugs or SOMETHING, but I was just bookish and weird.

Agh, I am appalled as well! It's utterly shameful the amount of these I feel like I've read but just never actually got around to picking up. I should really watch less television. :)

elzed October 1 2010, 07:58:24 UTC

I used to read obsessively when i was a teenager too - lots of serious novels, etc... and as I grow older I spend most of my spare time either watching tv series or reading fanfic. Hah. Must be the declining braincells...

But I am impressed about the FW. Must have been quite an endeavour! I nver quite finished Ulysses (although I wrote a stonking essay on it for my college finals)

alissabobissa October 1 2010, 23:22:52 UTC

Haha! I never tackled Ulysses. In fact I especially avoided the class at university that covered it. But I hear you about the tv and fanfic. Lately it's been young adult novels, if anything, when I read. Ahhh, old age. :)