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Urrgh. Head hurts. Body hurts. Psyche hurts. Short-tempered. Moods all over the place. I have decreed that today does not exist. I shall stay in and read 'Watchmen' instead of trying to get anything done. But I'm starting to take control of my life again, so I'm optimistic.
- Books I've read
- Books I've read part of
- Books I plan to read
- Books I haven't read
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (number 4), JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (Number 1), JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (number 2), JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (number 3), JK Rowling
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
- The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus, John Fowles
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- Perfume, Patrick Süskind
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- Magician, Raymond E Feist
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
36/100... hmm... I blame the Victorians for my poor performance. Bloody Victorians. Who needs 'em?
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You've been Garfield Mondayed...
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Still, am not planning to leave the house.
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Urgh, my head.
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Shall fold up the rainbow and put it in the fridge with the moonbeams and shooting stars.
Cheers. 8^)
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reading is a personal choice and as long as you are doing some form of reading then it's all good. There are a few books that I am really surprised are not on that list and some which I think shouldn't be on there.
for instance BJ's diary - the second novel is actually better than the first!
but might have a look at a few of the ones i haven't read... (only got 24/100 actually read)
hugs Suzi
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AIUI, this was a list compiled by the public with 'popular votes', hence a prevalence of Rowling and Fielding. And for that matter Tolkien. But it's a fairly good list.
> for instance BJ's diary - the second novel is actually better than the first!
Gah! No! Completely... no!
First one actually had a point, while the second was crap and directionless and given to cheap situational humour! 8^P
In my humble opinion.
> but might have a look at a few of the ones i haven't read...
I'd recommend any of the bold entries on this list, really. I can lend you Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Alice in Wonderland, and/or Gormenghast.
Actually, start with Gormenghast. Is good! Everybody must read! 8^)
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really wanna read return of the King again but got rid of my copy eons ago.
you get my mail? if so sorry about the heavy subject matter
big hugs suzi
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The 1963 version's better, but I still recommend the book far above either. It's pure genius; a very accessible, readable yarn, yet extremely deep if you read between the lines. I had a brilliant GCSE English Lit. teacher who could enthuse about the book seemingly for hours; I suppose a little of that rubbed off on me. Anyway, I shall lend it to you; see what you think.
I did get your mail. Did you get the reply? I'm never quite sure if your rabid mail filter's going to eat my emails up and forget to tell me... 8^S
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Will happily loan the book and see whatall the fuss is about.
Suppose a good post would be to see if anyone had read any of the books I have.
Bet there is at least one I have read that no one on my LJ friends have. Off the top of my head I can think of Lucy; the origins of humankind by Don Johanson. F'king fantastic! wanna copy but it is now out of print.
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MoominMormon Bible on my shelves, mainly for the insanity factor). Then people reply, bolding the ones they've read, italicising ones they've partly read, and underlining ones they plan to read. Then they put a list on their journal, and the meme spreads its festering tentacles. Mwahahahahaha!I'd do it now, but I'm out of the house.
Re: Lucy: Amazon have it in a variety of places. If you get it, I'll lend out The Descent of Woman in return... 8^]
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