never knows best

asaki i stole this from joo

2008-11-07T14:49:40Z

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) 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
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 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 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
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
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 (but it doesn't belong on this list. piece of shit.)
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 (i've only actually read "under the greenwood tree." gotta love his elegy references, though <3)
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (another one that doesn't belong on this list)
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 (neither does this one)
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' 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

49. I feel positively literate. But I read more than 6 of these in highschool English, so I don't believe the introductory paragraph.

plasmolysis @ 2008-07-05T18:27:00

2008-07-05T22:28:01Z

no one still writes in livejournals have we all grown up? dizzam

plasmolysis @ 2006-08-10T07:20:00

2006-08-10T11:21:03Z

morning.

plasmolysis @ 2006-04-21T06:59:00

2006-04-21T11:00:16Z

i agree.

plasmolysis @ 2006-03-22T23:52:00

2006-03-23T04:58:05Z

i'm going to make clear my express wishes to you all right now and if it comes down to it, i expect you all to testify for me:

if something happens to me within the next ten years or whatever (kidnapping, murder, etc), I do NOT want the media hogs getting hold of anything on this livejournal. if they find my okcupid or my other livejournal or my forums accounts or ANYTHING, try to figure out which password i used (there's only three or four) and shut it down for me. cnn, crimelibrary, fuck off.

i've been reading www.mydeathspace.com and it seems extremely ignorant to me that so many times the mass media talks about TROUBLESOME TEENS and IF SOMEONE ONLY KNEW

well, a lot of people know. nobody DOES anything about it, and most teenagers deal with the same shit on a daily basis anyway.

so if i'm murdered or kidnapped or shot or raped or i commit suicide (or attempt autoerotic asphyxiation and fail), then it's your job to sue the hell out of the media if they publicize this.

thx.

because i want a copy of it on this journal

2006-03-06T06:33:54Z

i embark on a moral mission today, which i hope will affect the world.

as many of you know, some of the biggest games on the market today belong to the "Pokémon" group. I find these games heinous, disgusting, and a bad influence.

So today I make a mark. I take a stand.

Step one: Find an Unenlightened One (UO for short), aka a Pokémon trainer.

Ah, perfect, a target!

Oh, what an adorable little Pocket Monster. It's a pity that such cute things are forced into battle and inhumanely treated, after which they're stuffed into a little ball. Why do children find this game so appealing?

Step two: Use Ultra Super Secret Weapon to enable the rescue of the poor dear

here it goes..

yes..yes..

YES! HOORAY!

Step 3: Salvation!

Almost there...

Humm..

Another Pokémon saved!

I've saved at least ten to date. What a wonderful way to work against animal cruelty! I invite you all, nay, I encourage you, to free the Pokémon! Help our children see what a barbarous game this is. Boycott Pokémon! Put this banner on your webpage or userinfo!

I trust you'll all give me your loving support.

Peace out, my fellow men.

plasmolysis @ 2005-03-14T00:42:00

2005-03-14T05:42:25Z

i am so fly