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pen_gruntSince about a half-dozen people on my f-list have done this meme, I must now jump on the bandwagon. *Jump!*
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of Sunday). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book. Bonus: I have commentary! (Maybe that's not a bonus, come to think of it...)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132) But can I just say that I hated Anna? I did.
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84) Can I just say, NO one doing this meme has finished this one yet. Hey Joyce? Fail.
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80) I didn't finish it because I was in college...and was rapidly assigned some non-pleasure reading that had to take its place.
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67) I honestly don't remember reading this, but Derrick SWEARS that he saw me with it in college. Figures.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : a Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63) Oh. My. Yuck.
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57) Another "supposed to read" for school, and I ran out of time.
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) I kind of hated this...but not enough to strikethrough.
1984 (57) I read this in the same weekend as Brave New World. I have to say, I liked this much better, though that was one freaky distopian weekend.
Angels & Demons (56) Yeah, I'm a sucker for stuff that everyone's talking about. I didn't like this, but not enough hate to strikethrough...just a general unimpressed-ness.
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (52)
Dune (51) Gotta be honest. For a sci-fi fan? Kinda meh.
The Prince (51) Or maybe I just read excerpts.
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes : a memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) Looove...though my perception is skewed by memory, I'm sure.
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47) Why haven't I read this yet? I own it for christssake.
Oryx and Crake : a Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46) Couldn't finish. Sorry Jack.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry Into Values (45) Found something more compelling at the time, I think.
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44) Just thinking about reading this book makes me happy.
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
My learning point? I haven't read NEARLY enough Old English Ladies (Bronte and Austin etc.) and while I OWN most of the books on the list, I really need to get around to reading them (Confederacy of Dunces, Three Musketeers, and many, many more).
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of Sunday). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book. Bonus: I have commentary! (Maybe that's not a bonus, come to think of it...)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132) But can I just say that I hated Anna? I did.
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84) Can I just say, NO one doing this meme has finished this one yet. Hey Joyce? Fail.
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80) I didn't finish it because I was in college...and was rapidly assigned some non-pleasure reading that had to take its place.
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67) I honestly don't remember reading this, but Derrick SWEARS that he saw me with it in college. Figures.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : a Novel (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57) Another "supposed to read" for school, and I ran out of time.
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) I kind of hated this...but not enough to strikethrough.
1984 (57) I read this in the same weekend as Brave New World. I have to say, I liked this much better, though that was one freaky distopian weekend.
Angels & Demons (56) Yeah, I'm a sucker for stuff that everyone's talking about. I didn't like this, but not enough hate to strikethrough...just a general unimpressed-ness.
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (52)
Dune (51) Gotta be honest. For a sci-fi fan? Kinda meh.
The Prince (51) Or maybe I just read excerpts.
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes : a memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (49) Looove...though my perception is skewed by memory, I'm sure.
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47) Why haven't I read this yet? I own it for christssake.
Oryx and Crake : a Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46) Couldn't finish. Sorry Jack.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry Into Values (45) Found something more compelling at the time, I think.
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44) Just thinking about reading this book makes me happy.
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44)
My learning point? I haven't read NEARLY enough Old English Ladies (Bronte and Austin etc.) and while I OWN most of the books on the list, I really need to get around to reading them (Confederacy of Dunces, Three Musketeers, and many, many more).
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Date: 2007-10-10 05:46 pm (UTC)Allow me to sum it up for you as best as I remember from when I read it at age 17.
*ahem*
Thinly-veiled wicca
Arthurian legend
Arthurian legend
Thinly-veiled wicca
porn
Action sequence
more porn
And a little more wicca, just for good measure
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Date: 2007-10-10 06:44 pm (UTC)Not that I'm opposed to porn, but there's a difference between plot porn and gratuitous porn. The latter? Not so engaging.