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09:12 am
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I need to get reading
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 LOVE.
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 ;-)
WATCHING MOVIES DOES NOT COUNT!!!
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 Only read 1 of them
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
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
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
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
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
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
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
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
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
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total count: 12 1/3 read
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08:57 am
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Surely not...
Indeed it is. This weekend sees my 3rd wedding of 4. All I need is a funeral in the next 2 weeks, and I will be Hugh Grant. Going to be a bit different this time as it's going to be a Buddhist/Indian wedding. Never been to one before. Going to be having a western style main meal, and then an Indian buffet in the night. Its going to be fun!!! :)
Also making a momentous step this weekend (although it might be a backward one), in that I’m going to be using a borrow satnav to get there this weekend. It kind of feels wrong, as there is a certain romantic quality to driving around with a piece of paper with directions clasped in one hand while driving with the other.
Current Mood:  happy
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08:53 am
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Passing of a legend
Found out that Don S. Davis passed away on the weekend.
Rest in peace General Hammond
Current Mood:  sad
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05:07 pm
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me Vrs the countryside..
Sometimes you can tell that I live with a bunch of what I would call active people. Yesterday was one of the guys birthday, so hence we celebrated. Now, when you think of a celebrating a birthday, you think about going to a party, having a meal, or one of many different permutations on a similar theme. But here, oh no, we celebrated by walking up the mountain behind the place where I live. Have to say as celebrations go, it was pretty good. Something has to be said for having a nice walk on a sunny afternoon/evening with a few friends, running through waist high grass throwing Frisbees, pretending to be velociraptors and drinking cheap champagne and port on a windy mountain watching the sun going down. However, the walk home was a bit more of a trek. I’m one of these lucky people who has a pretty good sense of direction, and apart from when in Gloucester (which appears to be my kryptonite) can find my way to a place even if I’ve only been there years before once, or generally feeling my way. So, I thought that it wouldn’t be to much to assume that the guy who’s birthday it was, and is quite outdoorsy would be similarly gifted. I was wrong. When my direction sense was telling me that we wanted to go one way the guy wanted to go another way. I thought to myself, “hell it’s his birthday; he probably knows what he is doing”. I was wrong. My first indication was when we started to walk around the wrong side of the mountain that I live in the shadow of. This made a 2 hour walk move to more like 4 hours. Not saying that I didn’t have fun, I did, it was just funny how lost you can get, and in the end, how cool night walking can be, even if it is midnight.
Current Mood:  amused
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05:56 pm
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Zelda WTF
All I can say. Most random Japanese advert ever
But also, best April Fools ever by IGN
Current Mood: amused
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10:08 pm
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After being the in justice league was no longer enough
Batman decides that he needs some other people to make him look cool
Mortal Combat Vrs DC
Current Mood: amused
Tags: computer games
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08:56 am
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The continuing adventures of SG1
Following the ark of truth, the trailer for the next SG1 movie has been released. Looks quite interesting :)
Current Mood:  excited
Tags: stargate
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09:09 am
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Stargate and weekends
First off, found out that Sky one is going to show the ark of Truth on 28th March. I'm very excited about this
But also, on Amazon there is an Ark of Truth clip. Go Teal'c!!! @:)
But moving on to other things. Had an enjoyable weekend in Cardiff for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zodiacs_cat's 30th birthday shindig. Had lots of fun firstly at the Mezza Luna where I had a nice flame-throwered chicken dish while not looking at the belly dancer, and chatting about computer games and other such things with people I hadn't seen for a while. After that some drinking was done in the Poet's corner, which I think is a great pub.
The Saturday was nice with the arrival of Mr Toby Frost, where talking about his up coming book was the order of the day. Also pizza got eaten and some singing was undertaken :)
All in all a pretty enjoyable weekend
Current Mood: happy
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01:34 pm
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Completing an epic
I just read that Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to complete the Wheel of time.
Bizarrely, I just picked up one of his books while in Canada on the advice of a guy in a book shop who said he was really good. Sounds promising to me
Current Mood:  curious
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11:58 am
[Link] | It’s Pancake Day.
It’s Pancake Day
It’s P P P P P P P P Pancake Day!!!
Current Mood: happy
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04:33 pm
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Can't keep a man down
I’m back!!!!
After a week and a bit of skiing, I have returned to old Blighty with no injuries greater than a few achy and bruises.
First off I had a brill time, very enjoyable even though I was abit rubbish. Only managed to nearly kill myself a few times with the odd 30 mile/hour stack down a mountain.
Looking forward to going again next time, although I think a bit more practise might be in order :)
In some ways it is nice to get back though, as I’ve eaten more cheese and sausage than any man really should over the last week :)
Current Mood: happy
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12:52 pm
[Link] | There is a new Knight Rider film coming out, and here is the new car, which is a Ford Mustang GT
Not sure if it has the feel of the old pontiac
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04:09 pm
[Link] | I went to see Crowded house last night.
They were cool!!!
Neil Finn was sporting Reed Richards’ haircut from universe X
They played the hits!!!
It rocked!!!
I bought the show on CD after the show
I’m listening to it now :)
It still rocks!!!
Now I don’t have to dream, as it won’t be over!!w
Current Mood:  cheerful
Current Music: 4 Seasons in 1 day
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05:01 pm
[Link] | I just heard that Lilly Allen is being tipped to be the new assistant in Dr who
*blink*
I WEEP FOR THE FUTURE*
*but it does no good :(
Current Mood:  annoyed
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08:39 am
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Is it just me...
...or are scientists getting lazy.
Oh, there is something mysterious and unexplained in space. Must be a super massive black hole
Current Mood:  thoughtful
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08:54 am
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Weekend ramblings
I like weekends. These are like that bit after work, but stretched over 2 whole days :) I just had a nice one. Firstly, Friday night revolved around a visit of Bendy (a girl who used to live up here and her new marine captain husband) from Exeter. There was much Mexican style food and lots of booze, or there was on my side anyway. Might have been a little drunker than everyone else. Ho hum. Saturday brought with it the worst hangover that I have had for a long time, so much that I thought that my head was going to explode through my face. Thankfully it didn’t, and with the AWESOME power of bananas and diet coke a sense of stability to my body chemistry was restored. In the late morning, Owen was dropped off by his parents for a visit. We went to the old Victorian seaside town of Llandudno and had ice-cream, climbed a small mountain, moaned like old men about the state of the world and the idiots in it, and I had a Seagull attack my head. Thankfully my cranium was harder than its beak. GO SKULL!!!! Anyway, afterwards we headed to Betws-y-coed to look at swallow falls, which were quite impressive, but would have been more impressive if it didn’t involve the paying of a shiney pound to see them. Sight seeing was followed by travel in the vague direction of Port Meiron through some “interesting” roads that Owen directed me along. I was amaze to see how small roads can get, and that just when you think that you are in the middle of nowhere, a house jumps out at you. Finally arriving at Port Meiron, and after playing a game of dodge the skally, we arrived at Owens Nan’s house. There we had a nice roast dinner, followed by the watching of the rugby world cup final. After that I went home. Sunday was very lazy, with apart from the playing of Kingdom hearts 2 and the visit to the Llangollen food festival at which I ate lots of free samples and bought some pear chutney, was quite uneventful, which in its own way was kind of nice.
Current Mood:  chipper
Tags: kingdom hearts 2, north wales
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04:31 pm
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Sad news
I was very sad to hear that Robert Jordan is dead.
Hope that he finished the last book, as it would be nice to find out what Rand was buying in the shops
Current Mood: sad
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04:49 pm
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Ok, so I saw...
...this interesting trailer just now for a random film called Dragon Wars. Looks quite exciting. It has big dragons fighting each other in America. Hurray for disaster movies :)
Oh, and the dragons have rocket launchers and get attacked by apaches, which is always cool :)
Current Mood:  surprised
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10:18 am
[Link] | To start, I have a good weekend. I drank wine (lots), watched sound films (1 and a half out of 4 were good), ate some fab food (some of it cooked by me) and went to a medieval fair (and ever show someone fail a tumble check and get brutally murderised). But on to more important things
Current Mood: happy
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03:57 pm
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Raaaaaaaaaaaa!
Sometimes, sometimes I hate people. Why can’t people just keep quite. I’ve just had the new Harry Potter book spoilered. I have been told who dies. I don’t know if it has any truth to it, but it is still annoying by the potential that it is.
Current Mood: annoyed
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