| random meme |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|06:04 pm] |
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you really love (and strikethrough the ones you hate!).
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
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 (have read it before, half way, laughed my ass off. but think they work better as short stories)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (had to study it, loved some, was indifferent to others)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (Loved it when I was 13)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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 omg. story of unrequited love.
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
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (isn't this part of Narnia?)
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
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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 (i can't remember if i have read it!)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth omg i love this book so much!
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
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 (it's on my bookshelf!)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (i never got joyce i don't know why. not intellectual enough!)
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 i love love love 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
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 (read bits of it!)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (tried reading it 3 times, never finished it!)
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
one thing about me, classics don't sit well with me. i'd be in heaven if you gave me books by murakami, coupland and told me those are the only books i can read, but give me dickens, i might cry. i don't think i really hate books i've finished because with books i don't like/get most of the time i'd get annoyed and stop reading them halfway.
RANDOM POST. |
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| moral dilemma |
[May. 15th, 2008|12:55 am] |
so.... i've been addicted to online mahjong, and with a username like oysterboy, basically, everyone assumes i'm a guy. and random people have been requesting to add me to msn, which i usually say yes to cos it's just msn and there's nothing personal on there and i actually use it that much so there.
but the question is. is it evil to lead these prepubescent girls to believe that i'm a guy?
(and i know how i'm completely lame to get a kick out of this. :S bad bad bad. i shall blame it on uhm jamie not being around which makes i can't take the piss in real life, thus doing it online :P) |
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[Apr. 27th, 2008|04:09 pm] |
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hrm. am absolutely KICKING myself for not going for andrew bird yesterday even though i had tickets. GRUMP. stupid gigs at north greenwich! reduces candice's urge to go for them! MEHHHHH. |
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| need music at work!!!!! |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|02:30 pm] |
albums i really really am craving to listen to right now
-clap your hands say yeah - clap your hands say yeah
-daft punk - alive
-islands - return to the sea
i so want to import my old itunes folder and just have a music extravaganza! |
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[Apr. 9th, 2008|11:22 pm] |
it's been a music revival for me since buying glasto tickets. been trying to download things onto the work computer, trying to figure out which gigs i want to see which fall during weekends. and lurking around in the glasto website. life is goooood.
trying to get my life back on track i.e. trying to have a life. been in the office at least 14 hours each day for the 10th day running and to be honest, i'm a bit sick of the lack of sleep, lack of doing other things, so gonna plug back into my headphones and enjoying a bit of music whilst i work! yay for unpopular radio.
okay lost my train of thought, mostly due to working with two pints in my otherwise empty stomach after not having a life i.e. drinking for a long time
anyway am loving this! rickrolled! (not really but wth)
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[Feb. 4th, 2008|06:46 pm] |
from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) atarashi
Because everyone likes to be talked about, leave a comment and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - a song, a colour, a photo, a word, a smell, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favourite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. |
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| love it! |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|04:43 pm] |
writer's rooms from the guardian
favourites are goeff dyer (love the red!!! although i can imagine it being distracting) and Hanif Kureishi (cos of thousands of cds) |
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[Nov. 7th, 2007|02:38 pm] |
can i send this to my boss please? at least it's honest!
and someecards.com is ze best! :D |
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| need.to.go.home.asap |
[Nov. 6th, 2007|01:34 am] |
oh god i just joined the most evil facebook group called "i miss singapore food..." where people just posted tons and tons of pictures of hawker food....
hungryyyyy. where's my char kway teow? |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2007|01:16 am] |
was inspired by atarashi and decided to bake cupcakes! used her recipe for magnolia chocolate cupcakes and they turned out really well! slightly caved in due to jamie accidentally halving the baking soda required but still delish and not too sweet :) whee. happy candice!
now need to get decent camera to take pictures of more food cooking/baking :) |
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| overheard in the office... |
[Oct. 10th, 2007|04:01 pm] |
..."Hi this is Exxxx Bxxx calling from Dr3sdn3r Kl3inwort, and we would like to invite you to the Brazilian Grand Prix.... we are sponsoring Williams and have free tickets for our clients..." or something along those lines.
JEALOUS! i want to go to the brazilian grand prix too!!!! apparently our parent company has a box (actually i'm not surprised) and 17 clients are invited along with 3 bank staff (only senior bankers in Latin America are going). damnit. the perks are never distributed to the junior staff. my rationale is, since they have a box, why don't they have less expensive ordinary tickets that are given out in a raffle for london-based staff? (uhm. will be great if they limited this raffle to global banking staff). i'd settle for economy class flights! really!
(something tells me i've become spoilt...) |
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| james - sit down (live at GMEX, ages ago) |
[Sep. 14th, 2007|05:14 pm] |
this is bringing tears to my eyes. |
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[Sep. 10th, 2007|10:52 pm] |
heaven on earth =
-dancing in your underwear to retro 80s music (erasure + new order) from the record player
-after having meatballs with cheese and cheap £4 wine with peri peri sauce smuggled into the uk from mozambique
-after getting home from the office before 9!
a successful evening all round! |
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| holidaypanicattack! |
[Aug. 28th, 2007|12:08 pm] |
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ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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[Aug. 26th, 2007|01:28 am] |
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should i go home for my birthday??? just checked singapore airlines and flights are only £530, which is cheap. should i run the risk of it being cancelled? sigh sigh sigh. how! |
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| book tips? |
[Jul. 19th, 2007|02:19 pm] |
help! i've run out of books to read and need some recommendations
anyone? |
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[Jul. 16th, 2007|02:00 pm] |
my lover for the next 3 years has arrived in the post!
now i need advice on what apps would be good for new mac users
anyone? |
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