01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 06 The Bible 07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 09 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 Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveler’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 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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Wow, you are fast! (I hadn't even put in my P.S. before you replied.) Something tells me you must have done this already in your LJ and I missed the entry cuz I was away in some other social network. (You know you belong to too many social networks when you're behind on all of them, especially real life!)
Not only are you a fast replier, but you've finished a lot of the books I've only started or wanted to read! No wonder you're bored. Want some ADHD to help lengthen your To Do list? I've got plenty to spare. :)
Wow, you are fast! (I hadn't even put in my P.S. before you replied.) Something tells me you must have done this already in your LJ and I missed the entry cuz I was away in some other social network.
Someone else on my flist posted the list a few weeks ago. ; )
(You know you belong to too many social networks when you're behind on all of them, especially real life!)
LJ is enough for me. I have a MySpace and a Facebook, but I only use them occasionally.
Not only are you a fast replier, but you've finished a lot of the books I've only started or wanted to read!
There are still quite a few books I feel I need to read. I've been working in Das Kapital for about two months now. It's a pretty slow read, at least for someone who doesn't know much about economics.
Want some ADHD to help lengthen your To Do list? I've got plenty to spare. :)
XD In what format does one transfer ADHD? My mom keeps insisting that I have ADHD, but I think she's full of it.
I've read 15 from the list, assuming that reading the Esperanto translation counts. I'm not counting any that I was SUPPOSED to read in class but didn't.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwe...ll 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (not sure why this is listed separately) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Wow, no unfinished books, eh? Yeah, alternate languages count as far as I'm concerned. (I mean, there are the American versus English versions of the Harry Potter books; I think both of those count.) Although I wonder if something like, say, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would necessarily lose something in the translation since it's so often the wording that makes it funny. (How do you say, "Ode to a Piece of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer's Morning" in Esperanto?)
Hmm, I think I see a pattern in your taste in books! :) As for the ones I was supposed to read but "didn't," I didn't italicize any of those. I at least started and attempted to finish the ones I was supposed to read for school. The class just went too fast for me, and once it was over, I never got back to them. I'd love to read all the works of Dickens someday though. (Much rather have Emlyn Williams read them to me though; alas, he only recorded "excerpts." But he wrote in his liner notes for the first LP that (paraphrasing since that's one of the many
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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 Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 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
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who's started more than one book and not finished it (yet). :)
Speaking of Of Mice and Men, something every good Lost fan should be familiar with (from my favorite episode, well, one of them anyway), I didn't read the book because I saw the movie and ... well, I'm sure you know what scene I'm talking about that I don't like to think about. :(
Say, considering he said that he liked to read the books he used as props on the show, do you think Michael Emerson ever made it through Ulysses? My dad is a James Joyce expert (been studying his work very seriously since he was a teenager!), and he's tried in vain for years to get me to read it. I have read excerpts, but I find it far too impenetrable--it's impossible to understand unless you really study it in depth--or have my dad to guide you through it, lol--which is I why I've never started it. Although maybe I should while I have that chance! (It's actually the sequel to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which is much more accessible and which I
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02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 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 Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’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
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ( ... )
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Not only are you a fast replier, but you've finished a lot of the books I've only started or wanted to read! No wonder you're bored. Want some ADHD to help lengthen your To Do list? I've got plenty to spare. :)
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Someone else on my flist posted the list a few weeks ago. ; )
(You know you belong to too many social networks when you're behind on all of them, especially real life!)
LJ is enough for me. I have a MySpace and a Facebook, but I only use them occasionally.
Not only are you a fast replier, but you've finished a lot of the books I've only started or wanted to read!
There are still quite a few books I feel I need to read. I've been working in Das Kapital for about two months now. It's a pretty slow read, at least for someone who doesn't know much about economics.
Want some ADHD to help lengthen your To Do list? I've got plenty to spare. :)
XD In what format does one transfer ADHD? My mom keeps insisting that I have ADHD, but I think she's full of it.
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I've read 15 from the list, assuming that reading the Esperanto translation counts. I'm not counting any that I was SUPPOSED to read in class but didn't.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwe...ll
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (not sure why this is listed separately)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
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Hmm, I think I see a pattern in your taste in books! :) As for the ones I was supposed to read but "didn't," I didn't italicize any of those. I at least started and attempted to finish the ones I was supposed to read for school. The class just went too fast for me, and once it was over, I never got back to them. I'd love to read all the works of Dickens someday though. (Much rather have Emlyn Williams read them to me though; alas, he only recorded "excerpts." But he wrote in his liner notes for the first LP that (paraphrasing since that's one of the many ( ... )
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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 Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 ( ... )
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Speaking of Of Mice and Men, something every good Lost fan should be familiar with (from my favorite episode, well, one of them anyway), I didn't read the book because I saw the movie and ... well, I'm sure you know what scene I'm talking about that I don't like to think about. :(
Say, considering he said that he liked to read the books he used as props on the show, do you think Michael Emerson ever made it through Ulysses? My dad is a James Joyce expert (been studying his work very seriously since he was a teenager!), and he's tried in vain for years to get me to read it. I have read excerpts, but I find it far too impenetrable--it's impossible to understand unless you really study it in depth--or have my dad to guide you through it, lol--which is I why I've never started it. Although maybe I should while I have that chance! (It's actually the sequel to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which is much more accessible and which I ( ... )
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