Hmm

[rebness]

I really need to write about my travails in Scotland, France, Germany and Switzerland, but every time I go to write, I think 'nah, maybe tomorrow.' So instead, I'll do this meme first. It'll help me settle back into eljay land:

Book meme, ganked from kyuuketsukirui
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish.

A lot of these books will never be read by me. Some of them are just not classics or worthy of 7.99, I'm afraid. How does Dan Brown make me look smart? Also, most of the books I studied for university are marked as unfinished as I either only read a few pertinent chapters or stopped when the assignment was due. I was reading a lot in those days and still didn't have the time necessary to devote to Ulysses.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina (I'm currently reading this)
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 (only because I lost the book)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (I really, really disliked this book. A good idea let down by the stupid fact that dozens of characters have the same name!)
Wuthering Heights (I adore you, bb)
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
Don Quixote (It's waiting on the shelf for the day I pick it up again)
The Name of the Rose (I got two pages in and then was distracted by something else)
Moby Dick
Ulysses (I pretended I had read it when it was a set text for Modernism class. I, er, didn't.)
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice (I know, right!)
Jane Eyre 
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov (Amazing)
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace (Waiting on the shelf)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin (I forgot to return this to the university library and had to pay for it as a fine. Resented it since)
The Kite Runner (Starts off very good, but descends into absolutely ridiculous farce)
Mrs. Dalloway (Still not finished D:)
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (Simply marvellous)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons (Haha, no.)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels (Read it as a child. Obviously, the political and social satire went over my head somewhat)
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes (I just don't like tales of poverty)
The God of Small Things (I don't understand why this book doesn't get more recognition)
A People’s History of the United States (I studied American history at college)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners (I still maintain that The Dead is one of the most profound and moving stories I have ever read)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five (Excellent)
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (I bought this, but then grew angry at the author making up her own rules on a couple of things)
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas (I HATED THIS)
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (Underlined because I chose to study it for a university credit, although I had already read it a few times)
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I really enjoyed this)
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid (This, though, was the prose version)
Watership Down  (Read it as a child. I still adore this book)
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth (This portrayed an England I don't know, so it was very hard for me to relate or really get behind, though it was well-written)
Treasure Island (I was a child when I read this)
David Copperfield (And this!)

Comments

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

I may or may not have a LibraryThing account. It seemed like a good idea for about three minutes. But also! I only put books on my shelf that I'd read. You can only have like 200 books, so why waste space on crappy ones? WHY?

Also, they never had the covers that I liked.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Those 200 books should be things of wit and beauty.

(I had this same conundrum with Facebook - I had to search through titles to get the covers I really liked. It's important! D:)

[palelaura.livejournal.com]

I used to have a librarything...and then I switched to having a goodreads because it had a widget. I like widgets. :/

I don't think I'll do this meme. I've read exactly 10 of those books and 2 of them were by Neil Gaiman. :/

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Ha, well, at least you're reading, right? ;)

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

I totally own you. I finished Dracula and Angelas Ashes (and Tis!) Also finished the book on Jimmy's Dad. Clearly I have a higher thresold of pain.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you read at preternatural Armand speed and then can recite what you've read like that guy out of Batteries Not Included.

*in awe*