The Book Machine
Courtesy of the Great Roscivs, I bring you the latest in blog memes for our neck of the woods--What Have You Read?
The envelope, please:
I have read, for my own amusement: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) The Hobbit (104) Life of Pi : a novel (94) The name of the rose (91) Pride and prejudice (83) Jane Eyre (80) The brothers Karamazov (80) The time traveler's wife (73) Emma (73) The kite runner (71) American gods : a novel (68) Atlas shrugged (67) Quicksilver (66) A portrait of the artist as a young man (63) Brave new world (61) The Fountainhead (61) Anansi boys : a novel (58) The once and future king (57) Dracula (59) 1984 (57) Angels & demons (56) Dune (51) The prince (51) Frankenstein (59) Sense and sensibility (55) Mansfield Park (55) Oliver Twist (54) Les misérables (53) Cryptonomicon (50) Neverwhere (50) Dubliners (50) Slaughterhouse-five (49) The confusion (46)Persuasion (46) Northanger abbey (46) The catcher in the rye (46) Watership Down (44)
I read for school: Crime and punishment (121) One hundred years of solitude (115) Wuthering Heights (110) The Odyssey (83) A tale of two cities (80) Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) Love in the time of cholera (62) The sound and the fury (51) Beloved : a novel (49) The scarlet letter (48) The inferno (56)
Books which I read a significant part of: The Iliad (73) Gulliver's travels (53) Freakonomics(45) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into … (45) The Aeneid (45)
Books which I have started and not finished: Don Quixote (91) Moby Dick (86) Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West … (65) The Canterbury tales (64) A clockwork orange (59) The picture of Dorian Gray (55) One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54) The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel (52) Lolita (46) Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Pu… (48) Catch-22 (117)
Books which I should probably read at some point: Anna Karenina (132) Madame Bovary (83)War and peace (78)Vanity fair (74) Great expectations (70) Middlesex (66) Foucault's pendulum (61) Middlemarch (61) The Count of Monte Cristo (59) The grapes of wrath (57) The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52) A confederacy of dunces (50) The unbearable lightness of being (49) The mists of Avalon (47) The hunchback of Notre Dame (45) Gravity's rainbow (44)
Books I have never heard of: The Blind Assassin (73) Mrs. Dalloway (70) The historian : a novel (63) Oryx and Crake : a novel (47) Cloud atlas : a novel (47)
Books that sound too long to be enjoyable: A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51) A short history of nearly everything (50) Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Books that I do not much expect to read ever: Ulysses (84) A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67) Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66) Memoirs of a Geisha (66) The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) The satanic verses (55) To the lighthouse (54) The corrections (53) Angela's ashes : a memoir (51) The god of small things (51) On the road (46)
The envelope, please:
I have read, for my own amusement: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149) The Hobbit (104) Life of Pi : a novel (94) The name of the rose (91) Pride and prejudice (83) Jane Eyre (80) The brothers Karamazov (80) The time traveler's wife (73) Emma (73) The kite runner (71) American gods : a novel (68) Atlas shrugged (67) Quicksilver (66) A portrait of the artist as a young man (63) Brave new world (61) The Fountainhead (61) Anansi boys : a novel (58) The once and future king (57) Dracula (59) 1984 (57) Angels & demons (56) Dune (51) The prince (51) Frankenstein (59) Sense and sensibility (55) Mansfield Park (55) Oliver Twist (54) Les misérables (53) Cryptonomicon (50) Neverwhere (50) Dubliners (50) Slaughterhouse-five (49) The confusion (46)Persuasion (46) Northanger abbey (46) The catcher in the rye (46) Watership Down (44)
I read for school: Crime and punishment (121) One hundred years of solitude (115) Wuthering Heights (110) The Odyssey (83) A tale of two cities (80) Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) Love in the time of cholera (62) The sound and the fury (51) Beloved : a novel (49) The scarlet letter (48) The inferno (56)
Books which I read a significant part of: The Iliad (73) Gulliver's travels (53) Freakonomics(45) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into … (45) The Aeneid (45)
Books which I have started and not finished: Don Quixote (91) Moby Dick (86) Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West … (65) The Canterbury tales (64) A clockwork orange (59) The picture of Dorian Gray (55) One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54) The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel (52) Lolita (46) Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Pu… (48) Catch-22 (117)
Books which I should probably read at some point: Anna Karenina (132) Madame Bovary (83)War and peace (78)Vanity fair (74) Great expectations (70) Middlesex (66) Foucault's pendulum (61) Middlemarch (61) The Count of Monte Cristo (59) The grapes of wrath (57) The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52) A confederacy of dunces (50) The unbearable lightness of being (49) The mists of Avalon (47) The hunchback of Notre Dame (45) Gravity's rainbow (44)
Books I have never heard of: The Blind Assassin (73) Mrs. Dalloway (70) The historian : a novel (63) Oryx and Crake : a novel (47) Cloud atlas : a novel (47)
Books that sound too long to be enjoyable: A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51) A short history of nearly everything (50) Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)
Books that I do not much expect to read ever: Ulysses (84) A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67) Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66) Memoirs of a Geisha (66) The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57) The satanic verses (55) To the lighthouse (54) The corrections (53) Angela's ashes : a memoir (51) The god of small things (51) On the road (46)
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Monday October 8, 2007 at 4:00pm