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[Jul. 2nd, 2008|05:09 pm] |
By your command... not as impressive on the hit count (34 if I have counted correctly) as Cathy but that is mainly from my own reading point of view the list is not to my taste (I have not interest in the British "classics").
It's also quite typical of these lists where current books which prove popular are on it despite the fact that they will clearly not last the test of time. Heck it hasn't even got anywhere near Iain Banks (or Iain M Banks) best novels just his mildly controversial first!
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) 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
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 - CS Lewis (Not really sure why this is here as it's part of 33...)
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 Surely the Famous Five should be on here????
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
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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| BSG Season 3 |
[Apr. 27th, 2007|01:43 pm] |
Finally got around to watching most of season 3 (episodes 7 to 20) of BSG.
What can I say.... the best TV series ever just keeps on getting better. As the last episode unfolds you end up in as much shock as 4 of the characters given the revelations. I for one would never have predicted that my favourite character Tigh was a Cylon, let alone the Chief. Given the other Cylons revealed you've got to imagine that it will be one of the main's (Adama's, Rosalyn, Starbuck, Baltar) however it could just be the Imperious Leader!
But then again it could be a red herring and we could find out the 4 are actually related to the 13th Colony and how to find it. Let's face it we sent images & music into space to communicate who we are so it might be that the reverse where Starbuck (images) and the 4 (music) are the cues to getting back.
Lots of good plot threads for next (possibly the final season) with Earth being referenced, a second Cylon - Human child (the Chief's), what will the Cylon's 'Plan' turn out to be, are the Cylons really just looking for Earth all along, will the Cylon 'God' appear and the other biggy of who the 5th (12th) Cylon is. |
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| I love Merseyside. |
[Dec. 1st, 2006|08:25 am] |
Part 1
Yesterday evening the local teenagers thought it would be a hilarious laugh to dismantle (read tear apart) the gate to the alleyway that runs along the back or our house. they then also thought it be hilarious to then try and break-in to our neighbours and our gardens. Unfortunately for them they hadn't banked on me actually tunring up and chasing them off. No doubt we'll get a hilarious repeat offence over the weekend when they invariable a) trach our gardens b) attempt to break-in.
Part 2
So I drive in to work reasonably early every morning (leaving at 6.10am this morning). Due to the time the traffic is not particularly heavy however it still did not stop 2 people, through bad driving, almost causing accidents with me in the space of 5 minutes. If it wasn't for me taking evasive action I'd probably have been dead given the speed involved. In both instances I was almost run off road for the sake of the couple of extra minutes it would save these people on their journeys. Driving in the North West is worse than a Mad Max movie, in fact of all the areas I lived in the UK it is by far the worst. And given that I used to live in London you know it's got to be bad!
So to return to my subject.... I really, really, really love Merseyside. The panacea of caring, friendly, loving people. |
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| Excitement, no really! |
[Nov. 10th, 2006|12:24 pm] |
Nizzod is excited. Why I hear no one asking? Well it's not just the fact that Mrs Nizzod is going out tonight and Nizzod can reassert his dominion over the TV (until about 11:30pm when Mrs Nizzod returns. No it's due to the fact that for only the 2nd time in Nizzod's life time Killie actually have have a chance of winning something decent!
It's a sad life really but at least it's a life. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 8th, 2006|12:36 pm] |
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Watched the League of Gentlemen: Apocalypse movie last night. Very enjoyable if you watched the TV series however probably not as enjoyable if you didn't. I also managed to lose count on how many other films were referenced, in particular a nice reference to Ray Harryhausen at the end.
My choice of literature "Genocide: A complete introduction" started a bit of a debate at work... mainly the why I would want to read it. It seems as though understanding is not rated to highly around here (though for some reason this doesn't come as a surprise). Hopefully next week I will make a bit of progress with people and actuall get them to discuss some of the underlying issues. |
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| 2nd attempt |
[Sep. 7th, 2006|12:18 pm] |
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| | First it Giveth by Queens of the Stone Age | ] |
Well this is my second go at this.... hopefully this time I'll actually remember to regularly update this or just even remember the password.
So why the 2nd go, well despite living round the corner (just now) from Mr & Mrs Rakshasa I never actually go round to see them (oh the shame). Due to this I've been using live journal to find out what is going on with them, Mrs R's for the fact and Mr R's for the fiction.
Anyway on to the blog....
have began reading an excellent academic text book on Genocide (let's not start with any of my more ephemeral interests such as comics or computer games). Not exactly the cheeriest of subjects however I believe essential when it comes to understanding the human condition. Not only do you get historical facts however you also get political, social and psychological insight into why one group of people can attempt to eradicate another. Hopefully by better understanding why this happens can we ensure it does not happen again in the future.
One of the more saddening things I've read is that the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1917 has still not been officially recognised by either Turkey, who were responsible for this as the dwindling Ottoman Empire, or the US, despite the latters ambassadors at the time being one of the groups who made numerous efforts to highlight this tragedy to the world.
Any way take it easy.
BCing you. |
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