I dunno who made this silly list but I just copy-pasted it off a friend's journal. It's a rough list but whatever, I'm bored.XP

Instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

Them Silly List of Books

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Now where did I place my copy?)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (Just The Fellowship of the Ring. Horribly tormenting read.)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (My emotional apocalypse, this I ABHOR, but was required in literature class.)
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Har! I've read them alls!XD)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (In my shelf. Had started reading it but the blah tone puts me off.)
6. The Bible (For its mythology. I particularly like the Old Testament, specifically The Book of Wisdom, where a Goddess creates the universe with God.:P)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I hates them Brontes.)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (My #1 book of all time! The rest of my fav books follows from thee.:P)
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Far better off than all them three LOTRs combined, really.)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (And his two other books of fiction.:P)
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Why isn't The Brothers Karamazov in this list??)
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (This author eludes me.)
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Seen the film.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Seen the film.)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (Seen the film.)
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Before the media picked it up, it was notorious. Now it's just blah pop culture. Thankyouveryfuckingmuch, Ron Howard. Not that I like the book, understand.)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
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
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
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I've been looking for this forever!XP)
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Read it when I was 11.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Read it when I was 11.)
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce (Can't effin finishet.)
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (WTF is this doing here?? I hate this author but I've read all his books. Harhar!XD)
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-Exupéry
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 (Seen the film.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Seen the film.)

Summary: I've read 23 books in this list (not bad.:P), loved 4, and intend to read 21.

So effing huwhaaat.XP

Word Up

Lyn
15.05.09 - 12:44

these better be gr8 books! coz imma refer to em once i get my hands on amazon's kindle 2! lolz good heavens it's the smartest gadget in the world! >:D

Tobey
16.05.09 - 01:08

This list isn't reliable.

Well shit. Those books on Kindle still aren't for free. I'd rather buy a PDA and plug in some pirated ebooks.:P hurts the eyes, besides. There's nothing like a good old fashioned paperback.

Jev
16.05.09 - 07:48

ung brothers karamazov diba required reading sa philo1 ba un? wehehe

Jev
16.05.09 - 07:51

btw tobeyuuuum your submit button in this comment page
<http://wordgasm.com/blog/them-so-called-literature-#comment>
isn't really working. i have to click preview first then hit submit from there.. hehe

Tobey
16.05.09 - 16:04

Talagang ganon, pang anti-spamsterzz.:D

jeeper
16.05.09 - 16:55

Yup. The Hobbit was really nice, it's so different from LOTR.

I found a copy of Lolita when I was in college in Powerbooks (back when they still sell quality books). I dunno, it was romantic, funny and empathic in a very twisted kind of way.

seb
22.05.09 - 22:57

Whoever made that list:
1. Likes light reading
2. Doesn't like Sci Fi
3. Forgot Don Quixote (and a bunch of others)

Fun though. I only saw Lolita once in Powerbooks, I bought one of the few copies, then I lost it.

Jev
25.05.09 - 14:19

hahaha. sabi ko nga. oist school ka ba this sem? ojt ako dito sa libis.. kakastart ko lang last week. hehe.

Tobey
25.05.09 - 22:50

Yep. 1.5 years pa ata ako sa kolehiyo.o_0 What kind of work?

Jev
26.05.09 - 07:38

naman. tagal naman. magka-age lang ba tayo? overtime na tayo. lagpas ka pa sakin ng .5 haha! course-related naman ojt namin. computer science ako so.. testing and reqts analysis ako dito. hehe. kelan pasok niyo? 9 pa daw? kita tayo bwahahaha

Jev
28.05.09 - 14:40

oi tobeyum. dami mo post sa multip ah. di ko pa natitignan.. hehe

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