*mostly friends only*
because everyone's doing it ;)
Well, I've read a few, but to be honest I disliked most of them and wouldn't recommend reading them... oh, and my I take the oppotrunity and stress how much I hate Charles Dickens? :P I tried Hard Times and made it to page 20 or something, but then I had to give up... ugh! :P And Jane Austen, well.. you know one of her novels, you know them all, right? ;)
my favourites off this list are Tolkien, Nabokov and Caroll's Alice ^^
The BBC believes that out of the following 100 classics, most people will only have read an average of six. Bold the ones you've read, italicize those you've dabbled with (read a portion/watched a film rendition/read an abridged version).
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 - Ive only read the 1st part...
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 - almost there! I still need to read a few of the comedies...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
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
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
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
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
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
my favourites off this list are Tolkien, Nabokov and Caroll's Alice ^^
The BBC believes that out of the following 100 classics, most people will only have read an average of six. Bold the ones you've read, italicize those you've dabbled with (read a portion/watched a film rendition/read an abridged version).
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 - Ive only read the 1st part...
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 - almost there! I still need to read a few of the comedies...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Your rainbow is shaded violet.
What is says about you: You are a creative person. You appreciate beauty and craftsmanship. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it.
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Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.
Writer's Block: Seasons in the sun
How do the seasons impact your moods? Do you take any measures to ward off depression? Would you ever consider moving to a different climate?
well yes, the climate does affect my mood. I can't really deal with extreme climate in any way, I'm neither a huge fan of summer nor winter. I don't like it when the weather keeps switching a lot - which it surely DOES in Germany grrr... I hate that, it makes me feel tired and worn out all the time, my skin is being a huge bitch, and basically my body and mind just can't handle it, it's awful.
I would totally move to the UK, somewhere near the sea that is, because the climate is a whole lot more constant there... and well, having a beach handy can't be wrong either, can it ;)
eye candy ^^
ouh gawd!! TEH hotness ^^
this is an entirely useless post, I know and I sincerely apologize! ;)
it's Izzy Stradlin from Guns 'n' Roses btw ^^
...................okay whatever.......... back to work :P
this is an entirely useless post, I know and I sincerely apologize! ;)
it's Izzy Stradlin from Guns 'n' Roses btw ^^
...................okay whatever.......... back to work :P
woohooo...
I'm off to the Summerbreeze festival!!!
dirt, sweat, mud & heavy metal - I'm coming ^^
http://www.summer-breeze.de/site.p…
if I survive I'll be back hopefully bearing loads of pictures! have a wonderful time everyone ^^
dirt, sweat, mud & heavy metal - I'm coming ^^
http://www.summer-breeze.de/site.p…
if I survive I'll be back hopefully bearing loads of pictures! have a wonderful time everyone ^^
How Scary Are You?
Writer's Block: Heart to Heart
Valentine's Day: love it or hate it?
GAWSHHHHH just in case I never mentioned how much I think this day sucks...:
I think Valentine's day sucks biiig time, no matter whether I'm single or not, it's just a bunch of commercial superficial crap and it gets on my nerves beyond words!!!
jeeeeeeez
book-meme
hardback or paperback?
I absolutely prefer paperback - lighter, handier, cheaper :P
Amazon or bookshop?
both, it really depends. but I'm a HUGE fan of Amazon in any case!!!
bookmark or dog-ear?
again: depends! to mark where I stopped reading I always use bookmarks, but to mark certain pages or passages I liked I sometimes make dog-ears if I don't have a pen handy
keep, throw away or sell?
depends, hehe :) if I liked it I'll keep it of course. otherwise I'd try selling I guess
keep bookjacket or throw it away?
keep it - why would anyone throw it away???
read with bookjacket or without?
with, and use it as a bookmark :)
short story or novel?
well, poetry if I have the choice!!!
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
um, who? O_O
stop reading when you're tired or after finishing a chapter?
after finishing a chapter - you can't just stop anywhere, can you!
“the night was cold and stormy” or “once upoan a time”?
once upon a time ^^
buy or borrow?
hehe, it depends :D I borrow books quite often
new or used?
both! there's an awesome 2nd-hand bookstore here in Augsburg that I'm totally addicted to, they got amazing stuff and it's realllllly cheap too
deciding what you buy: bestseller list, reviews, recommendations...?
um, mostly recommendations and reviews I'd say...
closed end or Cliffhanger?
it always depends on how it's written. if it's good, I'll like it ;D
do you read in the morning, at noon or at night?
basically always!
odd volume or series?
odd volume
fave series?
well, LotR if you consider it a series - which it actually isn't, ask Tolkien!!!
fave book of the ones you read last year?
tough one... "Written on the body" by Jeanette Winterson I guess. it's mind-blowing!!!
what book are you currently reading?
"Kafka on the shore" by Murakami, and a poetry volume
fave book of all times?
"Lolita" by Nabokov, "Malina" by Bachmann
fave authors?
novelists: Nabokov, Winterson, Murakami
Poets: Else Lasker-Schüler, Sarah Kirsch, Günter Kunert, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Claire Goll, Dylan Thomas, e e cummings, Sylvia Plath
I absolutely prefer paperback - lighter, handier, cheaper :P
Amazon or bookshop?
both, it really depends. but I'm a HUGE fan of Amazon in any case!!!
bookmark or dog-ear?
again: depends! to mark where I stopped reading I always use bookmarks, but to mark certain pages or passages I liked I sometimes make dog-ears if I don't have a pen handy
keep, throw away or sell?
depends, hehe :) if I liked it I'll keep it of course. otherwise I'd try selling I guess
keep bookjacket or throw it away?
keep it - why would anyone throw it away???
read with bookjacket or without?
with, and use it as a bookmark :)
short story or novel?
well, poetry if I have the choice!!!
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
um, who? O_O
stop reading when you're tired or after finishing a chapter?
after finishing a chapter - you can't just stop anywhere, can you!
“the night was cold and stormy” or “once upoan a time”?
once upon a time ^^
buy or borrow?
hehe, it depends :D I borrow books quite often
new or used?
both! there's an awesome 2nd-hand bookstore here in Augsburg that I'm totally addicted to, they got amazing stuff and it's realllllly cheap too
deciding what you buy: bestseller list, reviews, recommendations...?
um, mostly recommendations and reviews I'd say...
closed end or Cliffhanger?
it always depends on how it's written. if it's good, I'll like it ;D
do you read in the morning, at noon or at night?
basically always!
odd volume or series?
odd volume
fave series?
well, LotR if you consider it a series - which it actually isn't, ask Tolkien!!!
fave book of the ones you read last year?
tough one... "Written on the body" by Jeanette Winterson I guess. it's mind-blowing!!!
what book are you currently reading?
"Kafka on the shore" by Murakami, and a poetry volume
fave book of all times?
"Lolita" by Nabokov, "Malina" by Bachmann
fave authors?
novelists: Nabokov, Winterson, Murakami
Poets: Else Lasker-Schüler, Sarah Kirsch, Günter Kunert, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Claire Goll, Dylan Thomas, e e cummings, Sylvia Plath
more bloody silliness!!!
hahaha, love it!
:D
:D