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| spud (profile) wrote, on 8-11-2009 at 2:13pm | |
| The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? [] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [X] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (way better than the movies) [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [X] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Hellz yes!) [X] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (too autobiographical for Lee to make a career of it...) [] The Bible (never got through all of it. kinda big.) [] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [X] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (just turn the fucking telescreens off, already. and quit drinking gasoline.) [X] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (i LOVE this universe. so vivid.) []Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [] Complete Works of Shakespeare [] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [X] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (i wish they'd make a movie of this one.) [] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [] Middlemarch - George Eliot [] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [X] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (live fast, die young) [] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [X] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (don't trust mice anymore.) [] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [X] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (allegory, anyone?) [] Emma - Jane Austen [] Persuasion - Jane Austen [X] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (totally redundant) [] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (might have... can't remember) [] Animal Farm - George Orwell [X] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (and angels and demons) [] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [X] Lord of the Flies - William Golding (totally fucked up) [] Atonement - Ian McEwan [] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [] Dune - Frank Herbert [] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [X] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (leave it to the french to kill my favorite character...) [X] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (nothing brave about test-tube babies) [] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [] On The Road - Jack Kerouac [] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [X] Moby Dick - Herman Melville (sean connery is still my favorite ishmael) [] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [] Dracula - Bram Stoker [] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (think i read this one too.) [] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [] Ulysses - James Joyce [] The Inferno – Dante [] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [] Germinal - Emile Zola [] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [] Possession - AS Byatt [] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [X] Charlotte’s Web - EB White (been a LOOONG time) [X] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (depressing) [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [X] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (good companion piece for lord of the flies. reeks of symbolism.) [] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [] Watership Down - Richard Adams [] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [X] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo My total: 19 Unforgivable omissions from this list: A Separate Peace - John Knowles The Trumpet of the Swan - EB White Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Odyssey - Homer A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Candide - Francois Voltaire The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Stranger - Albert Camus Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Walden - Henry David Thoreau The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (others might say War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, or The Island of Doctor Moreau, but i have not read those yet) Mark Twain (c'mon, he couldn't even make the list?) same for Edgar Allen Poe Man, I really need to get a life. I can't belive i've actually read that many books. ah, well. at least they're good ones. |
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mothman | 08-11-09 3:18pm They're making The Hobbit into two movies. Unfortunately, Peter Jackson wont be directing; however, he will be one of the writers. Filming should start in 2010. I'm so stoked! |
spud | Re: , 08-11-09 3:36pm yeah, they've been talking about it for a long time. pretty much since return of the king came out. so, we'll see what happens. i can imagine pre-production is kind of tough, given what imdb claims they have taken on in incorporating other parts of the story (aragorn's travels, and dol guldur, for example). it would take a while to figure out how to tie that all together nicely. although, the tolkien family seems to have done most of the legwork, or so you would think.
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phil-himself | 08-11-09 3:56pm I like how they have the Harry Potter books on there but NOTHING by Ernest Hemmingway. Really? Are you shitting me? |
liz | 08-12-09 7:26pm Like 45 minutes ago I looked up the 100 books everyone should read, I figured why the hell not make it a goal to read them all, I also found the 50 Banned Books everyone should read-also a good list
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tabletop | 08-13-09 4:31pm There is a hobbit animated film, I watched it when I was a kid. |