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elance. 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) Italicize 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.
And I'm adding:
5) Score through ones you did not like/could not finish
Note: I'm only counting as read the ones I can distinctly remember reading. I'm sure I've read some of the ones I haven't marked, but no clear memories of it.
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
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
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
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
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 – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. 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
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
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
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. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
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
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 – 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
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 (Le Petit 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
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
[* Read both the original and the translation.]
elance. 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) Italicize 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.
And I'm adding:
5) Score through ones you did not like/could not finish
Note: I'm only counting as read the ones I can distinctly remember reading. I'm sure I've read some of the ones I haven't marked, but no clear memories of it.
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
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
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
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
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 – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
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
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
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
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. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
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
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 – 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
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 (Le Petit 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
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
[* Read both the original and the translation.]
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:11 pm (UTC)And as I scroll down, it's news to me that The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is a totally separate book to the rest of the Narnia series all of a sudden. Still doesn't save it from getting a metaphorical line through it; can't stand Lewis's ham-fisted, moralising Christian allegories.
Very middlebrow, middle England selection here, and a hell of a lot of children's books in the list. Typical BBC.
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:22 pm (UTC)The double Lewis entries (and note Hamlet gets a separate entry to the Complete Works of Shakespeare too) was something I commented on in her LJ: as
I think your comments on the list are spot on.
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:13 pm (UTC)I count twelve or thirteen, myself. Sadly, I am not all that fast a reader...
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:33 pm (UTC)How are you, BTW? What with my health problems and my father's, I have not properly kept up with LJ at all in recent weeks.
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Date: 2009-01-26 07:12 pm (UTC)Things here are going quite well, really! Much better than at the same point in 2008! Which is a relief! I just got back from a trip to Japan, which was great. Before that, I was in the States for an amazing holiday trip -- friends, family, adventures, and I got to spend time with five of my partners[*]. So, yes, life has been treating me pretty well!
Have to run now -- ice skating lesson in half an hour! But I'd love to chat and catch up at some point. Will you be at Brighton BiFest in a few weeks?
[*] Because, for some reason, even though I have lived in the UK for three years now, I still have many more partners on that side of the pond than on this one. Go figure!
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Date: 2009-01-26 07:38 pm (UTC)I don't think I shall make it to the Brighton BiFest (pity). Should be at Picocon, don't know if that would be something on your schedule. I will be in London in a week or so but some of my time is spoken for already (not a complaint...) and I have a horrible feeling much of the rest shall have to be spent resting, otherwise I'd suggest trying to meet for a drink and chat.
Obviously, you're not really trying WRT partners this side of the pond. ;)
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Date: 2009-01-26 09:30 pm (UTC)I hadn't been there for over five years until this trip. However, since my new experiment is there, I should be making a few trips per year. Next one scheduled is in May. (So if you want anything brought back, you have a couple of months to let me know!)
Sorry to hear you won't be at Brighton BiFest. What and when is Picocon. Sounds very small! ;-) Sorry we keep missing each other; it would be good to see you again! Ah well, it shall happen!
As for the geographic distribution of partners? I don't really get it. I wouldn't say that I'm ever really trying to add partners. It just happens when it does. Maybe it's just that American women fancy me more than Brits do? Who knows? Either way, I can't really complain. I do have two very wonderful partners here in Merry Olde Englande, so I don't feel lonely or deprived. What I may lack in quantity here, I make up for with quality! *grin*
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Date: 2009-01-26 10:35 pm (UTC)And I can't talk - I keep meeting wonderful people who live nowhere near me. :)
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Date: 2009-01-27 12:33 am (UTC)As for getting the name -- guilty as charged. In 2005, back when my primary residence was the Event Horizon[*], we dug up the backyard to plant a garden. I decided that the garden should be named "Nanofarms". My dear friend and housemate
[*] That's the name of the house that I own in the Chicago area.
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Date: 2009-01-27 05:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:16 pm (UTC)Which, considering how much I read, is abysmal.
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:19 pm (UTC)I promise you, I have read every word Shakespeare's ever written, including all the sonnets!
"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate"
So, which sonnet is that? :)
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 07:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 06:21 pm (UTC)Ooooh, don't read Sylvia Plath, SO DEPRESSING, try the Color Purple instead.
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Date: 2009-01-26 06:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 08:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 10:38 pm (UTC)There are certainly some on that list I would rather eat than read.
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Date: 2009-01-27 09:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 05:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 09:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 10:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 11:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 11:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 12:06 am (UTC)I musta bin a miserable lonely loveless adolescent, or somethin'...
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Date: 2009-01-27 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 05:00 pm (UTC)PS I'm glad they had separate entries for The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as that, and The horse and his boy ar ehte only ones I've read out of the series
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Date: 2009-01-27 05:53 pm (UTC)