But hey, we love them anyway.
Hokay, so basically, we have two memes thus far (and I promise you, it's early). This first one I stole from a new haunt of mine, Christians and Writers and Queers, Oh My! and the second I ganked from good ol' Coffeepastor. Big surprise there. Both are moderately entertaining, the first in a pathetic way (a lover of books has read so seemingly few), the second in an absurd way (a few deep thoughts here and there seem to be taken off their pedestals by the first lines...). Anyway. Enjoy and take part, should the spirit move you.
What we have below is a list of the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing users. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. (I'm also asterisking the ones I'd like to read at some point.)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel*
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote*
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities*
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies*
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha*
Middlesex*
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (twice. fail.)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera*
Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum*
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (love in a book.)
The Count of Monte Cristo*
Dracula*
A Clockwork Orange*
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist*
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Miserables*
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
Dune
The Prince*
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present*
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter*
Eats, Shoots & Leaves*
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island (i think, anyway, i can't remember.)
David Copperfield*
The Three Musketeers*
And now, Meme #2. (Not to be confused with Mambo #5.)
For this all you do is go through your archive, pulling out the first line of the first entry every month. I had to fudge a few, either because it was a playlist or the fragment didn't add anything special (with some tweaks, this could be pretty hilarious).
So my other blog is basically going under.
Yeah. I think I was drunk too.
Moving is a bitch.
I gotted my schedule.
This is the second time today I've had the urge to update this silly thing, so I figured I should.
Seems a downright shame how short life can be, and how unexpected the end often is.
Heh.
So maybe I like this guy more than I give myself credit for.
The reading can wait, says I.
There are so many things I want to tell you...but I can't.
Yup.
Change is good.
So, uh...there it is.
If I run across any more random things I'll add 'em on.
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