Bonus: Play it with your dog in the room. If yours is like mine, she will follow the dogs across the TV, and even check behind to find out where those crazy puppies are coming from :).
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
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) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) 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.
Am I the only one who just doesn't like literature all that much? I prefer a little more propaganda in my reading material. I imagine 99% of the stuff on this list would bore me to tears.
Also, while it is not on the list, allow me to add "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" to the list of books I'd rather shove hot pokers in my eyes than read. I wasted precious hours of my life reading it. If you enjoy this book, would you please tell me what I just don't "get" about it?? I have never had such a bad reaction to a book!
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 Hitchhiker'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
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 DaVinci 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's 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 - 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
Woo-hoo, I have an internship! I will get to do legal work this summer! I am not unemployable! !!!
"Mr. Wilson was not surprised that those who say that a minority is more than the majority should say that the minority is stronger than the majority. He supposed the next assertion will be that they are richer also; though he hardly expected it would be persisted in when the States shall be called on for taxes & troops-"
Nothing like some 18th century snark to liven up your exam period!
I love it
The president gives a press conference to blame Congress for the economy
really
I don't know why this is mind-blowing, he has only been in office 7 years now
What's your morning beverage of choice? Coffee, tea, juice? Homemade or store-bought?
Grapefruit juice, inhuman amounts of coffee and hopelessness.
Legal writing can die in a fire, I miss sleep :(.
Ahahahah, this is the nastiest debate ever
seconds away from a smackdown
Nothing is worse than stopping on your way in to class to get a nice black coffee, and opening it up when you get there to find it is a godforsaken latte. ad;fl asdf
Who the hell drinks a latte at 6am
What do you think about Ryan Seacrest being chosen to host tonight's Primetime Emmy Awards?
I think that Ryan Seacrest is my secret TV boyfriend and I am going to be happily listening to him yammer on all evening while I ignore my property assignment. Lalala, I don't care about adverse possession~~~
I can't be the only one who thinks it's adorable that he played football and did student government and watched Oprah everyday in high school, okay, and he has a really nice voice and boyfriend ENUNCIATES! Love love love. Also he is the Richard Feynman of celeb news.
Can't wait to watch the Emmys, I want to watch Boston Legal win everything and Mr. Shatner deserves all the awards in the WORLD.
Speaking of TV, I saw Grey's Anatomy season 3 at the store for $30 the other day- seriously, I love the show, but who would actually pay to watch that season over again? It hurt so much. Target should pay me to take it home. Stupid addiction. Why must it conflict with The Office? And why do I continue to inflict this show upon myself?
Can I go ahead and say he is super popular here and has a good chance of winning? Or is it too early?
Pls put up your website right now so that I can volunteer, I am waiting (and conveniently ignoring my legal writing assignment, ewpz)
Edit: Maybe I should add I wished he would run for president, then governor again, but I think this is O.K. with me.
MARK WARNERRRRR
