those bold few
Taken from several LiveJournal posts to give KMM81 the chance to put this entire list in bold (thus, alleviating her guilt for only having read 32 books in 2005) and to prove I am not nearly as well-read as I ought to be...
Here are the current top 50 books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read, ignore books you have no opinion on. Pass it on.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman... well, i started it; that counts, right?
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott
CardSnow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
Yup, I've never read anything by C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien. And I'm in no particular hurry to do so, either. Does that officially remove me from any hopeful geek status? I lament and apologize. Also, I would never cross out a book.
posted by SR Phoenix @ 1:15 PM
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15 Comments:
Does that officially remove me from any hopeful geek status?
Didn't you ever watch Beat the Geeks on Comedy Central? Being a TV geek STILL makes you a geek. Although a FAR less cool one than if you HAD read any of those things.
TV geeks are only slightly above sports geeks in terms of coolness.
I lament and apologize. Also, I would never cross out a book.
Really? Never cross one out? Even if the authors' names contained something like "Bronte" or "Austen"? Or basically anything written during the Romantic period? I wonder which I detest more... Romantic literature or Romance literature. I think if you combined them I might vomit.
"Oh Heathcliff, I'm so weary of the trevails and hardships of living out here amongst the heath, which I will now describe in detail." Said Catherine as Heathcliff used his disproportionally large biceps to remove her sun dress. He threw his long, blond, sea-drenched hair back over his shoulder. "Would that your lips were as soft and tender as my real mother's kiss at teatime." He said.
Ah! Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is my fav book of all time! Shame on you, anonymous... go check my favorite books on Friendster, again. You should know these things about me.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may
be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well
fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered
the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
"My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you
heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"
.................
I'm sorry, what's that you were saying? I was busy beating my own face in with this acid-covered brick while giving myself paper cuts and swimming in a vat of lemon juice. But do go on.
Haha, don't you mean you fell into cacti, then razor blades, and finally pools of lemon juice?
I did think of some books I would cross off: anything by Candace Bushnell. Then again, I discovered that I would cross them off by starting to read them. I guess I truly don't like to judge a book by its cover. I'd prefer to do so based on at least the first chapter.
ps It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen rules and if you're a guy trying to understand what your code blue crazy girl is talking about, you must read and comprehend Pride and Prejudice.
pps That "ps" was not necessarily directed at "anonymous." To all those who love their ladies, I stronly recommend reading and understanding Pride and Prejudice.
The only thing worth it's salt that's Jane Austen-related is the movie, Clueless.
All you need to know about Code Blue Crazy you can learn from that movie.
1) If she's crushing on another guy, don't worry - he's probably gay.
2) A great way to get a girl in bed is to be there for her when she's really scared - like if she accidentally gets on the freeway while learning to drive.
3) Just because your dad can get a girl concert tickets doesn't mean she has to sleep with you. It just means you're a spoiled prick who will go on to play a crazy photographer who's in love with his sister on HBO's "Six Feet Under."
4) Picking a girl up after she's been attacked and robbed at gunpoint by someone who forced her to ruin her dress, even if you're her brother (by marriage), is a great way to get her to start falling for you.
5) Even unpopular girls like Brittany Murphy may go on to star alongside Ashton Kutcher in such timeless classics as "Just Married."
Okay, so I'm not sure how most of those are supposed to help you deal with code blue crazy girls (read: "girls"), but the point is, Clueless rocks.
Touche. Clueless does rock. I'd like to submit Bridget Jones' Diary as another Jane Austen-related thing you might find worth it's salt then too. Some things you might learn from that movie:
1) Brits can't fight
2) If your girl thinks she's fat, just tell her you like her "wobbly bits" (that's from the second movie actually... and that movie is not worth nothin)
3) You must gain approval from the Urban family
4) Always have vodka in the freezer
5) Make sure the string you use to make celery soup is colorless
6) Guys with British accents are hot
1 - This is true.
2 - Surprisingly unsuccessful. You owe me a steak (to put on my black eye).
4 - Always do. It's frikkin' COLD. Maybe I'll put it on my black eye.
6 - Not to be outdone by girls with accents. I'll avoid mentioning specifics, as I don't want another black eye.
No way! The "wobbly bits" thing is so cute! How could that not work? Perhaps it was in the delivery? Otherwise, you might be dealing with a code yellow. Haha.
If she can crush eyeglasses in her bare hands then she can certainly give me a black eye.
Is it weird that I'm vaguely turned on by the thought of a girl who can do that?
I think what appeals to me about it is not the idea of some hulking she-beast with man hands doing it, but the subtle irony of it being some petite, docile girl who, while not waifish per se, is not the type you'd expect to do such a thing.
Yes Anonymous. It's the irony of it all. You're a literary fetishist. Bravo for you. Do you like the alliteration of sultry, sexy, sorority sisters stripping? If you do, you need to put that thick book down and go watch some TV.
is anonymous, like, your professor or something?
There's only room for one anonymous poster on THIS blog. We'll call me Anonymous A.
AA for short.
SR Phoenix knows all ABOUT AA!
Okay, anonymi. Don't make me change the rules for this blog! I'll do it! I'll turn this blog right around. So, play nice.
Ah, Dune... now THERE'S high literature. Character-driven with a Shakespearean quality.
You want a pseudonym? Hmm...
Ok. I posted with one.
(bow)
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