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[phosfate]

I'm doing the Modern Library meme 'cause I can. Stuff I've read:

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (feh!)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (asskick!)
1984 by George Orwell
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
DUNE by Frank Herbert
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein (say what? and L Ron Hubbard and Orson Scott Card and Charles de fucking Lint? somebody is totally stuffing the ballot box.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
THE STAND by Stephen King
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell (I've only read about half of this 'cause it's a bitch to find. but it's keen.)
YARROW by Charles de Lint (these people are fucking high)
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway (ewwwwwwwwwwwww.)
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm (worth reading if you can find it - it's deranged)
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card (you may have seen the movie with Robert Preston)
STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein (oh JESUS NO!)
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson (Shirley Jackson is God)
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell (kill me now)
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig (pokes eyes out with propelling pencil)
SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein (hurl!)
MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock

Man, I've read some bad books. >:X

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game is a movie?????

Don't ever read the sequels. They suck. Very, very badly. Talking furry alien piggies. VERY bad books. *shudders*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Naw, The Last Starfighter is a movie with certain similarities to Ender's Game. But at least The Last Starfighter has Robert Preston in it.

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

Hmm, what on this list have I read?
Good books in italics.
Lord of the Rings
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984 (75% of it, at any rate)
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game (not impressed)
Heart of Darkness
Call of the Wild
Farenheight 451 (50%, if that much)
Watership Down (very wierd)

THANK YOU!!!!

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I found Ender's Game unpageturnable. I couldn't summon up the energy to be all excited about the spooky, uncannily mature child.

Just like I couldn't be all excited about the spooky, uncannily mature child in The Ring.

Spooky, uncannily mature children just don't impress me, I guess.

Re: THANK YOU!!!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so much the spooky, uncannily mature child, but that we got a JILLION spooky, uncannily mature children. Though the thing I really hated was the blindingly obvious heartbreakingly ironic twist ending that one could spot coming up Broadway around Chapter Three.

I will summarize.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

After several hundred thousand pages of anecdotes about basic machine repair, Mr Pirsig comes to the conclusion that it is both possible and necessary for a human being to employ both logic and emotion/intuition in order to solve problems.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think it's life-changing if you're from the planet Vulcan. I had to read it for a university class, and I'm still not sure why.

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (feh!)

It gets a "feh!"? I always loved this book; mostly because it brings back fond memories of me crying like a baby as I finished the end of it in the middle of class. Yes, those were the good old days...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Are...are you sure you're not thinking of Charlotte's Web?

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

The Haunting of Hill House scared the bejesus out of me. It was like a cold wet hand unexpectedly gripping the back of one's neck. It made my nipples stand up and not in a good way. And I was reading it *at work*.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Being scared at work is the strangest feeling!

Your Snape icon is fab.

My Snape icon

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

Thank you! If it's my default, with my name on it, it was made for me by enchanteresse; if it's just Severus, it was made by Vali.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I've read most of the books on your list. (Go, me.) I confess I've never been able to complete anything of Virginia Wolfe.

Hmm, Fitzgerald always seemed too muchof a whiner for me. But at least I could stand him more than Hemmingway.

YARROW by Charles de Lint (these people are fucking high) ::snork:: Generally, I love Charles de Lint, though this isn't anywhere near my favorite of his.

And the finally comment:

SHANNNNNNEEE!! Come back, SHANE!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I was waiting for that.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Always glad to oblige. :)

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

wow, someone else whose read Mythago Wood! I picked it up in a used book sale at the library...thought it was very wierd, but liked it. (It's been ages since I read it, it, along with everything else, is still PACKED!) I need to get my books unpacked and reread it...oh hell, maybe I'll just buy a new copy, if I can...

I want to play!

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

Where does one get this meme?

You can play!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Rat cheer:

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/novels.html