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26.6.08

in no particular order (a meme collection)

books i have read over and over and over and would wholeheartedly recommend to anybody:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez;

books i have read over and over and over and would wholeheartedly recommend, but not to just anybody:
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner; Ulysses, James Joyce;

books i have read over and over and over, because i was going through a phase: Catcher in the Rye; The Chronicles of Narnia; Stranger in a Strange Land; Winnie the Pooh;

books i have read and would recommend:
Catch-22; A Clockwork Orange (including the last edited-out chapter); Collapse; The Count of Monte Cristo; Dracula; Dune; Freakonomics; The Historian; The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Pride and Prejudice (is there a decent movie of this i should know about?); Slaughterhouse-five; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance;

books i have read and actively disliked:
Angels & Demons; The Fountainhead; The Great Gatsby (i was expecting it to be much better); Lord of the Flies (which i read when i was ten or eleven and had nightmares for weeks); Wicked (though i can see how it would be a good musical);

books i have read:
1984; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Aeneid; Alice in Wonderland; Animal Farm; Anne of Green Gables; Beloved; The Bible (which i didn't finish); The Blind Assassin; Brave New World; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Charlotte’s Web; A Christmas Carol; The Color Purple; A Confederacy of Dunces; The Da Vinci Code; Mrs. Dalloway; Emma; Frankenstein; Guns, Germs, and Steel; Hamlet; The Handmaid’s Tale; Harry Potter; Heart of Darkness; The Hobbit; The Iliad; Jane Eyre; The Little Prince; Little Women; The Lord of the Rings; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Lovely Bones; The Mists of Avalon; The Name of the Rose; The Odyssey; Oliver Twist; On the Road; Persuasion; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Poisonwood Bible; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; The Prince; The Secret Garden; Sense and Sensibility; The Silmarillion; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; To the Lighthouse; Treasure Island; The Wind in the Willows; Wuthering Heights;

books i have not read, but plan on reading in the very near future as i have copies on deck:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; The Time Traveler's Wife;

books i have not read, but vaguely plan on reading at some point and may as well have a list:
American Gods; Atonement; The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; Dubliners; The Grapes of Wrath; Gravity’s Rainbow; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; His Dark Materials; The Kite Runner; Les Miserables; Reading Lolita in Tehran; The Three Musketeers; To Kill a Mockingbird; Vanity Fair; War and Peace; Watership Down;

books i have not read, and do not specifically plan to:
Anansi Boys; Angela’s Ashes; Anna Karenina; The Bell Jar; Birdsong; Bleak House; Brideshead Revisited; Bridget Jones’s Diary; The Canterbury Tales; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin; Cloud Atlas; Cold Comfort Farm; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; David Copperfield; Don Quixote; Far From The Madding Crowd; Foucault’s Pendulum; The God of Small Things; Gone With The Wind; Great Expectations; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Life of Pi; Lolita; Madame Bovary; Mansfield Park; Memoirs of a Geisha; Middlemarch; Middlesex; Moby Dick; Of Mice and Men; The Once and Future King; Possession; A Prayer for Owen Meaney; Quicksilver; Rebecca; The Remains of the Day; The Satanic Verses; The Scarlet Letter; A Tale of Two Cities; The Unbearable Lightness of Being;

books i specifically want to avoid:
Atlas Shrugged; The Five People You Meet In Heaven; Eats, Shoots & Leaves;

books i have never heard of, why are they on this list?:
The Confusion; Cryptonomicon; In Cold Blood; The Faraway Tree Collection; A Fine Balance; Germinal; Inferno; Jude the Obscure; Midnight’s Children; Neverwhere; Notes From A Small Island; Northanger Abbey; Oryx and Crake; A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present; The Secret History; The Shadow of the Wind; A Short History of Nearly Everything; A Suitable Boy; Swallows and Amazons; A Town Like Alice; The Wasp Factory; White Teeth; The Woman in White;

PS. I hit 51/100 on the Annika Meme. The others had no particular scores or percentage points and i'm too lazy to count. But if i wasn't too lazy, i'd say Ulysses counted for two. And also after i finish the two i've got, and possibly also read Catch-22 again, i think next i should read the Lord of the Rings, but in German. I know it well enough and it seems like German ought to go well with dwarves. We were at an Irish pub on Fathers' Day and guess what - it comes in pints! (Instead of half liters, see?) I am a huge nerd.

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