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Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Add a '-' to the ones you HATE. (I added this because I have a lot of hatred I'd like to express)
4) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen...X...+
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien...X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte...X...-
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ...X(first one)...- (why is this book on this list, gtfo)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ...x
6 The Bible…??
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ...X...-
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ...X...-
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman...
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens...X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott...X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles...
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller... *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare...X (I mean, except the histories, but who the fuck reads those?)...+
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ... *
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien...
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks....
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ...X
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...X...-(though it is hilarious)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens...
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ...X...+
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...X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy...
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens...X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ...
34 Emma - Jane Austen...X...+
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen...* (just to have read them all)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis...X...-
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden...X
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...X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth...
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon...
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens...X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley...
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddo...
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 ...X... - (asinine)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn...
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...X...+
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 ...x...+
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ...x...+
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo...X...- (fucking sewers)
TOTAL READ: 25
TOTAL LOVED: 7
TOTAL PLAN TO READ: 9 (although let's face it, I'm not really)
What kind of list is this anyways? It's half classics and half fucking retarded (when I say that, I mainly refer to Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter) pop best seller books, so what is it trying to prove? I don't get it.
Do little things annoy you? How about big things, like when a mother seats her presumably coked up 4 year old on the subway seat next to me and has to go as far as holding her down to keep her from kicking me in the fucking shins, or when a coworker asks to borrow a computer and proceeds to send emails and print documents for 20 minutes while I'm squished in a corner?
Sorry. I had to watch The Hours today, so if I sound a little irritable, you can probably understand why.