BOOK MEME (SWIPED FROM JEN)
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) Made it to "The renowned" and threw it away.
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Girls like this stuff because to them the whole world is nothing but sex, status, and money. Guys want to be loved for themselves.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Once. Okay, okay, it says "I seed that black nigger over yonder ruttin' on my Mayella." That must have been pretty outrageous back in 1960.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Once. Out loud with my girlfriend in days of hippiedom. The story seemed so...so real! Of course so did the landscapes that kept appearing on the rug.
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) Same.
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) Same. Frodo and I ditched rings about the same time.
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) There's too much girl stuff on this damn list.
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) I think Rowling deserves her billions because she gets kids right. But I don't read her.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Want to
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) I've read a lot of King but not this one.
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) I'd read this if there were some guy stuff in it such as a really, really big explosion.
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) I think this is better than his other stuff so I read it twice.
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Read this so many times it permanently warped my speech patterns. I still say stuff like "It's raining like a bastard."
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) They tried to force me when I was 8 but I kept my honor.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Look, I'm sorry for what happened to Sebold but I don't like reading about it. Sue me.
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) I'm reading this now and it is terrific.
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) My son loves it. I tried it. Meh.
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) I'll read this when someone tells me how to wuther.
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Twice. I love C.S. Lewis.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Nobody has to wipe Morrie's butt or suction his saliva. Which is what you do for people with ALS. Grow up, Mitch.
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) Tried. Sorry.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) I missed the window of opportunity for reading Ayn Rand, which is from the time you're twelve to the time you're fourteen.
34. 1984 (Orwell) No! Make Julia read it, not me!
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) –
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Tried. It's a really awful book.
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) Guess what about a shopaholic? I. Don't Give. A flying. Rusty. Rat. Fuck.
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) I started it. It was actually intriguing. If it had been more intriguing, I'd have finished it.
45. The Bible. Only the good parts.
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) What Jen said: I will never fucking read Anna Karenina and you can stop trying to make me feel guilty about it right now.
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Yeah, yeah, one of these days.
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)--Next
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) --They cain't never stop makin' folks try to read this shit, Pa, 'cause we're the people.
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) Don't talk to me about Dickens. I have spent the last 20 months reading Dickens. I am taking a break from Dickens. Because he makes everybody else look stupid.
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Look, let's just clear this one up right now. I AM NOT GOING TO READ GATSBY. I DON'T CARE ABOUT GATSBY. OR DAISY. OR ANY OF THEM. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR BIG HOUSES OR THEIR MONEY OR THEIR COLORFUL DRESSES OR THE WAY THEIR FUCKING CURTAINS BLOW IN THE BREEZE. OKAY? I JUST DON'T. AND NOBODY CAN MAKE ME.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) My absolute favorite trashy novel. At least three times.
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) Very subtle. I've said this before, but I always want to push one of Margaret Atwoods' paragraphs over a cliff so I can hear all the delicate little glass things break.
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) In high school. I remember I sort of identified with Raskolnikov, or went around saying I did in order to seem cool.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace I tried. I really tried. I will try again. I suspect I am not worthy.
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) God what a wonderful first chapter. Someday I'll read the second.
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Repeatedly.
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Repeatedly. But long ago.
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding) Read – hysterical
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) Once. It was fun, only my wife didn't like being called "woman."
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) They forced me to read Little Lord Fauntleroy in the fifth grade. It traumatized me so I can't read Burnett.
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)--Twice. Excellent stuff.
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) It would take a heart of stone to read the death of Charlotte without laughing. Just kidding! I love this book and if you count reading it to my children have read it 101001018 times.
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)--I always thought this was a pretty twisted book to be assigning to eighth graders. I'd give them something relatively straightforward, such as Naked Lunch.
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) A nice little book about bunnies. I have read it a whole bunch of times.
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) Long ago. And I'm still glad I'm not a Beta.
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)9
2. Lord of the Flies (Golding) Long ago. Repeatedly. Okay, I had a weird phase.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) Long ago. I still wonder about the evil eye.
4. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) –
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) First rate.
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)9
9. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) I have read this repeatedly. I understand it all, too, including the Greek and all the classical allusions. I have also read its satellite volumes, including Finnegan's Wake, again and again, with great enjoyment. [Weird snorting sound that comes from trying not to laugh]
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Girls like this stuff because to them the whole world is nothing but sex, status, and money. Guys want to be loved for themselves.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Once. Okay, okay, it says "I seed that black nigger over yonder ruttin' on my Mayella." That must have been pretty outrageous back in 1960.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Once. Out loud with my girlfriend in days of hippiedom. The story seemed so...so real! Of course so did the landscapes that kept appearing on the rug.
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) Same.
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) Same. Frodo and I ditched rings about the same time.
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) There's too much girl stuff on this damn list.
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) I think Rowling deserves her billions because she gets kids right. But I don't read her.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Want to
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) I've read a lot of King but not this one.
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) I'd read this if there were some guy stuff in it such as a really, really big explosion.
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) I think this is better than his other stuff so I read it twice.
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Read this so many times it permanently warped my speech patterns. I still say stuff like "It's raining like a bastard."
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) They tried to force me when I was 8 but I kept my honor.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Look, I'm sorry for what happened to Sebold but I don't like reading about it. Sue me.
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) I'm reading this now and it is terrific.
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) My son loves it. I tried it. Meh.
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) I'll read this when someone tells me how to wuther.
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Twice. I love C.S. Lewis.
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Nobody has to wipe Morrie's butt or suction his saliva. Which is what you do for people with ALS. Grow up, Mitch.
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) Tried. Sorry.
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) I missed the window of opportunity for reading Ayn Rand, which is from the time you're twelve to the time you're fourteen.
34. 1984 (Orwell) No! Make Julia read it, not me!
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) –
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Tried. It's a really awful book.
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) Guess what about a shopaholic? I. Don't Give. A flying. Rusty. Rat. Fuck.
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) I started it. It was actually intriguing. If it had been more intriguing, I'd have finished it.
45. The Bible. Only the good parts.
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) What Jen said: I will never fucking read Anna Karenina and you can stop trying to make me feel guilty about it right now.
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Yeah, yeah, one of these days.
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)--Next
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) --They cain't never stop makin' folks try to read this shit, Pa, 'cause we're the people.
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) Don't talk to me about Dickens. I have spent the last 20 months reading Dickens. I am taking a break from Dickens. Because he makes everybody else look stupid.
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Look, let's just clear this one up right now. I AM NOT GOING TO READ GATSBY. I DON'T CARE ABOUT GATSBY. OR DAISY. OR ANY OF THEM. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR BIG HOUSES OR THEIR MONEY OR THEIR COLORFUL DRESSES OR THE WAY THEIR FUCKING CURTAINS BLOW IN THE BREEZE. OKAY? I JUST DON'T. AND NOBODY CAN MAKE ME.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) My absolute favorite trashy novel. At least three times.
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) Very subtle. I've said this before, but I always want to push one of Margaret Atwoods' paragraphs over a cliff so I can hear all the delicate little glass things break.
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) In high school. I remember I sort of identified with Raskolnikov, or went around saying I did in order to seem cool.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace I tried. I really tried. I will try again. I suspect I am not worthy.
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) God what a wonderful first chapter. Someday I'll read the second.
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Repeatedly.
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Repeatedly. But long ago.
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding) Read – hysterical
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) Once. It was fun, only my wife didn't like being called "woman."
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) They forced me to read Little Lord Fauntleroy in the fifth grade. It traumatized me so I can't read Burnett.
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)--Twice. Excellent stuff.
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) It would take a heart of stone to read the death of Charlotte without laughing. Just kidding! I love this book and if you count reading it to my children have read it 101001018 times.
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)--I always thought this was a pretty twisted book to be assigning to eighth graders. I'd give them something relatively straightforward, such as Naked Lunch.
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) A nice little book about bunnies. I have read it a whole bunch of times.
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) Long ago. And I'm still glad I'm not a Beta.
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)9
2. Lord of the Flies (Golding) Long ago. Repeatedly. Okay, I had a weird phase.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) Long ago. I still wonder about the evil eye.
4. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) –
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) First rate.
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)9
9. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) I have read this repeatedly. I understand it all, too, including the Greek and all the classical allusions. I have also read its satellite volumes, including Finnegan's Wake, again and again, with great enjoyment. [Weird snorting sound that comes from trying not to laugh]
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