Book Meme

May. 1st, 2008 09:57 am
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Gakked from Nmissi:


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (I've thought about reading it, does that count?)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (three or four times, actually)
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey

Pride and Prejudice (several times)
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods (I've considered reading it more than once.  Just haven't gotten around to it).
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books 
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver (?)
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (I've picked it up, but reading parts of it, have never felt compelled to read the whole thing)
The Canterbury Tales (Whan that aprill with his shoures soote; The droghte of march hath perced to the roote...  The things we memorize in High School English Lit stay with us forever, don't they?  And, yeah.  Read the whole thing.  Had to memorize the intro.)
The Historian : a novel (Hated it!  Let me repeat HATED IT!  Damn you, Dracula, couldn't you have killed every character in the whole damn book then killed yourself to finish the job? Everyone in the story deserved to die for boring the shit out of me!)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
(It was like it was required reading in Architecture School.  And I hated it.) 
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula

A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys 
(This one was fun.  I liked it). 
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath

The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons (I've had people suggest I read it, but I have little interest in doing so)
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles  (Most optimistic thing to say about it is that it isn't as awful as Jude the Obscure -- the most depressing book ever in the history of humanity!)
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere (Less than a year ago, and quite enjoyable even if it meanders a bit) 
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything (twice) 
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed- this sounds interesting
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
(recently, actually.  Very funny, though the heroine is quite dim.  Austen is brilliant, though)
The Catcher in the Rye (overrated)
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
 
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