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I'm a bit bored, and I was curious about this list of books.  So, here goes (I have no idea why the font is wonky):

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Put an asterick next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

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 (sort of – a version of the new testament)
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 (I have it on my Nook, so maybe)
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (I will never read all of this)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I can’t believe I haven’t read this, but I don’t think so)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (If you’ve read #33, this is a given)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
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 (I don’t think so, but I might have)
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
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I think I actually read this in Spanish)
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 (I did not enjoy it)
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
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom*
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I’ve read some, at least)
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 (given to me in the 5^th grade by my ES principal; I don’t know why)
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
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

6 books?  Did all these people not take English classes in school, because that alone would get me 6 books.  There are probably many other books on this list that I will never read, but I don't feel strongly about them either way.  There are others that I think I might have read, but I don't know if that is real, or just some sort of cultural osmosis.  Huh.

I've seen this on my flist, but it takes me a while to actually sit down and do it.  But here it is:

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Well, that was fun.  Maybe not for anyone else.... 

You know what’s coming up? October 3rd. Are you doing anything special to mark the one seven eight year anniversary of Lilly Kane’s murder?

When you see this on your flist, quote Veronica Mars.

Logan:  "Annoy tiny blond one.  Annoy like the wind."

A meme from afrocurl :

Comment with “SHOWTIME!” and I will give you ten actors and ten actresses. Then post in your Livejournal with your favorite films of theirs.

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Tomorrow is the last day of our last summer vacation.  Not to neglect the fact that I am headed to Colorado soon for my cousin's wedding, but school for the boys starts on Monday, so summer is over, it seems.  Kind of sad.  But we have had a pretty good trip.  Maybe pictures once I get home and can download the pics.

Anyway, a little bit ago, froxyn tagged me for a meme which I have been horrible at responding to.  But here it is:

If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own lj and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.
Tag eleven people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

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And so now, I tag you, my flist (excluding froxyn of course), since it is possible there are 11 of you.  Maybe.  Who are actually still reading your LJ?  Maybe not.  If you have some time, and want to meme, I'd love to read it.

So, a meme from my new friend mag1 .  I don't do these often, and so I apologize for the spamming, but I actually had the time.  So here it is (although not thrilling):

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Gakked (I still have no idea why that is the word) from afrocurl :

What was the #1 song the day you were born? Search the date and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!

So, to show how old school I am -- Roberta Flack -- Killing Me Softly with His Song.

I do not know how to embed YouTube videos, so here is the link for Roberta singing the song many years after my birthday:

Well.  That made me feel old.  Off to watch some TV!!  In a minute.  Warning -- spam coming your way.

I haven't ever done one of these music shuffle meme things because I haven't had all that many songs on my MP3, but I suppose I have more now, and I am tired and I should be reading fic to vote in an awards thing and I am just tired of reading fic.  Which is wrong.  Anyway, gakked from lit_chick08 (she included some lyrics, so I did too, although that's not in the instructions...):


IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

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Several of these made me laugh as they are so not in line with the scene.  This list of songs does make it seem like I don't listen to current music much.  More likely is that I am incredibly slow to put current music on the MP3.  I guess it's not a bad way to waste some time....

wily_one24 posted this meme, didn't tag anyone and left it open.  Since I am bored and resisting going to bed for no good reason, I decided to do it.  20 Questions.  If you don't like one, change it.  So, here it is:

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I don't like to tag people either, and as I said, I was bored.  If you are also bored and so inclined, have at it my friends.

Gakked from afrocurl :

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now consider yourself obligated (even if we don't speak often or ever) then you should post a comment with a completely made up, fictional memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - but it has to be fake.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ saying who you snagged it from and see what your friends come up with.