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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Don't think I've ever heard of it.
Anna Karenina: Daunting. Yes, it's a fine fine example of why I say you should never read russian literature.
Crime and Punishment: Nope.
Catch-22: Yes
Wuthering Heights: ...I think so, but I honestly can't remember.
The Silmarillion: Yes, it suffers from the fact that Tolkien died before finishing it...the same way that the Dune books suffer from Herberts death.
Life of Pi : a novel: I don't think I've ever heard of it.
The Name of the Rose: Yes
Don Quixote: Yes
Moby Dick: Yes
Ulysses: ...(groan)...yes.
Madame Bovary: Nope.
The Odyssey: Yes...the first epic poem I ever read, and a fine fine example of why I dislike epic poetry.
Pride and Prejudice: Yes
Jane Eyre: Yes
A Tale of Two Cities: I lurve Dickens :)
The Brothers Karamazov: More Russian Lit....but yes.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies: Nope.
War and Peace: THE EPITOME OF RUSSIAN CRAP LITERATURE!
Vanity Fair: Nope
The Time Traveler's Wife: Nope
The Iliad: Yes
Emma: Never heard of it.
The Blind Assassin: Nope.
The Kite Runner: Nope.
Mrs. Dalloway: Nope
Great Expectations: More Dickens.
American Gods: It's on Sammys list of top ten greatest reads EVAH!
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Nope.
Atlas Shrugged: I used to be an Ayn Rand freak...
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books: No
Memoirs of a Geisha: Yes
Middlesex: No
Quicksilver: No
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West: I liked this a lot more then I kind of thought I would.
The Canterbury Tales: I'm sure that I've read it....but I've lost that memory.
The Historian : a Novel: No.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: No
Love in the Time of Cholera: No
Brave New World: Surprisingly, Yes...I like dystopian futures ;P
The Fountainhead: Incredible.
Foucault's Pendulum: No.
Middlemarch: No.
Frankenstein: Classic
The Count of Monte Cristo: Another Classic
Dracula: Yet another classic.
A Clockwork Orange: Shoot me if you will, but actually I have not.
Anansi Boys: Yes
The Once and Future King: ...ugh....yes
The Grapes of Wrath: I didn't like it as much some other people did...I just wasn't into it, but I understood it.
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel: Nope.
1984: Well, of course.
Angels & Demons: Awsome
The Inferno: Yes.
The Satanic Verses: Actually, another one to shoot me over, but no...I've never read anything of his.
Sense and Sensibility: Yes
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Loved it.
Mansfield Park: Nope
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Yes
To the Lighthouse: No
Tess of the D’Urbervilles: No.
Oliver Twist: Yes
Gulliver’s Travels: Yes
Les Misérables: There are times I could say the same thing about French Literature as I do about Russian Literature, but I loved it.
The Corrections: No
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Never heard of it.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Huh???
Dune: RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my favs! ;)
The Prince: Shares my bookshelf with The Art Of War :P
The Sound and the Fury: No.
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir: Yes
The God of Small Things: No.
A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present: No
Cryptonomicon: No
Neverwhere: It's on my currently very short list.
A Confederacy of Dunces: Nope.
A Short History of Nearly Everything: For some reason the title reminds me The Decline and Fall of practically everybody....but that would be a no.
Dubliners: No.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: No.
Beloved: ...yea, not into Toni Morrison so much :)
Slaughterhouse-Five: Classic
The Scarlet Letter: Doesn't everybody HAVE to read this in school?
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: Nope.
The Mists of Avalon ****: Yes
Oryx and Crake : a novel: No
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed: No
Cloud Atlas: No
The Confusion: No
Lolita: Yes, it's not that good....more russian crap :P
Persuasion: No
Northanger Abbey: No
The Catcher in the Rye: Yes, still don't see what the fuss is about.
On the Road: No
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Yes.
Freakonomics: Yes
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values: I read it when it was the thing to read.
The Aeneid: After The Illiad and The Odyssey I was put off from epic greek shit.
Watership Down: Yes
Gravity’s Rainbow: No
The Hobbit: A LOT
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences: Another of Sammys Top Ten reads :)
White Teeth: Wow, I almost wanna know what this ones about.
Treasure Island: Every kid should read it :P
David Copperfield: ...uhm, okay....if Charles Dickens wrote it, I read it :P
The Three Musketeers: Yep...loved it ;)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Don't think I've ever heard of it.
Anna Karenina: Daunting. Yes, it's a fine fine example of why I say you should never read russian literature.
Crime and Punishment: Nope.
Catch-22: Yes
Wuthering Heights: ...I think so, but I honestly can't remember.
The Silmarillion: Yes, it suffers from the fact that Tolkien died before finishing it...the same way that the Dune books suffer from Herberts death.
Life of Pi : a novel: I don't think I've ever heard of it.
The Name of the Rose: Yes
Don Quixote: Yes
Moby Dick: Yes
Ulysses: ...(groan)...yes.
Madame Bovary: Nope.
The Odyssey: Yes...the first epic poem I ever read, and a fine fine example of why I dislike epic poetry.
Pride and Prejudice: Yes
Jane Eyre: Yes
A Tale of Two Cities: I lurve Dickens :)
The Brothers Karamazov: More Russian Lit....but yes.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies: Nope.
War and Peace: THE EPITOME OF RUSSIAN CRAP LITERATURE!
Vanity Fair: Nope
The Time Traveler's Wife: Nope
The Iliad: Yes
Emma: Never heard of it.
The Blind Assassin: Nope.
The Kite Runner: Nope.
Mrs. Dalloway: Nope
Great Expectations: More Dickens.
American Gods: It's on Sammys list of top ten greatest reads EVAH!
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Nope.
Atlas Shrugged: I used to be an Ayn Rand freak...
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books: No
Memoirs of a Geisha: Yes
Middlesex: No
Quicksilver: No
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West: I liked this a lot more then I kind of thought I would.
The Canterbury Tales: I'm sure that I've read it....but I've lost that memory.
The Historian : a Novel: No.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: No
Love in the Time of Cholera: No
Brave New World: Surprisingly, Yes...I like dystopian futures ;P
The Fountainhead: Incredible.
Foucault's Pendulum: No.
Middlemarch: No.
Frankenstein: Classic
The Count of Monte Cristo: Another Classic
Dracula: Yet another classic.
A Clockwork Orange: Shoot me if you will, but actually I have not.
Anansi Boys: Yes
The Once and Future King: ...ugh....yes
The Grapes of Wrath: I didn't like it as much some other people did...I just wasn't into it, but I understood it.
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel: Nope.
1984: Well, of course.
Angels & Demons: Awsome
The Inferno: Yes.
The Satanic Verses: Actually, another one to shoot me over, but no...I've never read anything of his.
Sense and Sensibility: Yes
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Loved it.
Mansfield Park: Nope
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Yes
To the Lighthouse: No
Tess of the D’Urbervilles: No.
Oliver Twist: Yes
Gulliver’s Travels: Yes
Les Misérables: There are times I could say the same thing about French Literature as I do about Russian Literature, but I loved it.
The Corrections: No
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Never heard of it.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Huh???
Dune: RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my favs! ;)
The Prince: Shares my bookshelf with The Art Of War :P
The Sound and the Fury: No.
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir: Yes
The God of Small Things: No.
A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present: No
Cryptonomicon: No
Neverwhere: It's on my currently very short list.
A Confederacy of Dunces: Nope.
A Short History of Nearly Everything: For some reason the title reminds me The Decline and Fall of practically everybody....but that would be a no.
Dubliners: No.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: No.
Beloved: ...yea, not into Toni Morrison so much :)
Slaughterhouse-Five: Classic
The Scarlet Letter: Doesn't everybody HAVE to read this in school?
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: Nope.
The Mists of Avalon ****: Yes
Oryx and Crake : a novel: No
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed: No
Cloud Atlas: No
The Confusion: No
Lolita: Yes, it's not that good....more russian crap :P
Persuasion: No
Northanger Abbey: No
The Catcher in the Rye: Yes, still don't see what the fuss is about.
On the Road: No
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Yes.
Freakonomics: Yes
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values: I read it when it was the thing to read.
The Aeneid: After The Illiad and The Odyssey I was put off from epic greek shit.
Watership Down: Yes
Gravity’s Rainbow: No
The Hobbit: A LOT
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences: Another of Sammys Top Ten reads :)
White Teeth: Wow, I almost wanna know what this ones about.
Treasure Island: Every kid should read it :P
David Copperfield: ...uhm, okay....if Charles Dickens wrote it, I read it :P
The Three Musketeers: Yep...loved it ;)