The BBC estimates most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.


Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x+
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x +
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x +
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x +
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x +
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
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 x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving x +
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 x +
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 x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x +
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas *
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *, I own it so I should probably read it
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 x +
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 x +
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x +
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
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 x
100 Les Miserables - Hugo

TOTAL (x) I have read= 38 of 100
TOTAL (+) I love= 10 of 38

I have been so antisocial these past few months, and I think it's finally over. I can tell by the fact that I miss my friends intensely. I cried this morning for the first time in a long time. I feel so alone now. I can only hope my antisocial streak will not make it impossible to regain my friendships.

White men want their greasy little hands in everything. They are not satisfied with being the group dominating American society, and various other societies of the world. They are not happy with the majority of our high paid, high status positions. They are not happy being just our doctors, politicians, department chairs, administrators, or various other ruling parties. They also need to head the Women's Studies department, and the Ethnic Studies department. They must lead the group that fights for Native American rights, the group that fights for equal pay for equal work. They are not happy with having basically everything. They must really have everything.

When you tell a white man that he cannot identify with your cause because he has never been othered, you infuriate him. He wants so desperately to have all doors open to him, the fact that you're shutting one in his face is unbelievable. I'm not saying feminist, queer, or other minority movements should block men from participating. It is a sad truth that the most effective feminists are male, for it is their voice that is heard. It was the white abolitionists that freed slaves because only whites had a voice. However, white men are not granted access to our souls, our pain as the other. White men are not discriminated against on an everyday basis for something they have no control over, and therefore cannot identify with our movements. They can understand discrimination and see it in themselves and their peers, but they can never identify with it. They can go on leading our revolutions (Which they will if that's what they want to do), but there will always be a piece they cannot have. And this kills them.

*Acceptance is a good thing. Do not think I am trying to spew anti-white male rhetoric. I accept white men in all of their flaws and evils. My acceptance however cannot allow them into a sector they cannot possibly gain access to in this reality.

Hey, get off the bandwagon, fuckface.

This is why I read Aljazeera:

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272619647.shtml

I have a couple of things to say, but first a quote from our 43rd president.

"We have captured or killed thousands of extremists in Iraq, including hundreads of key al-Qaeda leaders and operatives."

When a piece of propaganda stops being believable, don't you find another one that is more effective? This is why I think Kevin Barrett (if you don't know, search) was dead wrong. Bush is nothing like Hitler. Or if he is, this is where the comparison breaks down. No one knew how to control the beliefs of his people like Hitler did. Bush cannot even spell propaganda.

And now, an open (to my LJ friends at least) letter to the Connection:

Dear the Connection,

I understand and appreciate the fact that you let your employees choose what music to play on their shifts. It's nice to hear a variety of music when I come into work, instead of some playlist playing over and over again like most music playing businesses. I enjoy a lot of your employees' taste, and can stand most others (even the guy who likes the listen to one band for 5 hours at a time). With this said I have only one request-- fire the guy who listens to only screamo, Irish punk, and ska. I enjoy only one of these genres, and sparingly. If you do not fire him, I may just end up saying something about his horrible taste one day, forever damaging his delicate self-esteem and ruining his love for Flogging Molly and Underoath. If you find it impossible to part with such a loyal employee, may I suggest forcing him to play Modest Mouse at least once an hour to break up the skanko(the only appropriate term for his lousy taste) block?

Sincerely,

Your over-Skanko'd neighbor to the North.

"To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss."

Why don't people talk about this?

Heath Ledger is dead. My cat is dead.

I like the view from where I'm sitting. A symbol of my contentment. Knock on wood. You might get this.

I'm very excited for this year to be over. 2007 has shit on me more than enough times, and I want 2008 desperately. I know it will better, and I am still knocking on wood. I know it will be better because I feel ready, for the first time in a long time, to let myself be happy. So many good things have happened to me this year (many more than the bad things, really), and I have found ways to turn them bad. I am too good at being unhappy. 2008 will change this. Knocking on wood, again.

I saw Iron & Wine last night and am still reeling. Maybe that's why I'm so happy?

Work is boring, and I feel sick. Now that I've whined to my heart's content...

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/26/has-anyone-seen-mah-staplr/

I haven't been this happy in a long time.

All we have now are our secrets. There's no love or even caring between us. Not even mutual respect. Only these stupid secrets that I've been keeping for you, because the respect is still unilateral at least. They are crushing me. They're killing me. I can't talk about them to anyone, because I can't talk to you, and no one else can know. Nothing is wrong with my life but you and these secrets.

(Directed at new person)

Your words hurt me. I'm sure it's not your intention, but I'm sure you wouldn't be sorry to hear it.

I got a B in economics! YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes. I thought it was impossible. I got 100% on my final.

And I am officially out of Fort Collins forever! Well, until I go back to get the rest of my stuff. And I never have to see Ludmila ever, ever, ever again. That makes me happier than I could ever express.

I told myself that as soon as I had looked at everything I needed to look at online I'd start studying for my philosophy final. But instead I looked at everything, and I'm still not studying. I'm posting pictures on livejournal, which is extremely addicting.
If you haven't been trapped by it yet, don't start. It makes you want to update your journal three times a day. And that's no good.

I'm posting my cousin's cartoons to persuade her to do more of them, damnit! Also I think they're hilarious. They are currently cheering me up/keeping me from studying for the final I have in an hour.




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