: The devil is in the details: Stealing, bragging and feeling dumb.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Stealing, bragging and feeling dumb.

Stolen from HD (Hey, I never said that I was creative). I started to feel a little bad as I did this because I had read so many of the early books on the list, but then I felt like less of a dork later when I came across many that I hadn't read. And then I felt even dumber when I couldn't figure out how to underline. I eventually figured it out and felt even sillier.

Instructions: Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Did you know that my old landlord is JD Salinger's daughter? Well, she is.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
(His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling

Life of Pi - Yann Martel
There are no words to express how much I despised this book. None. I really should give my copy away.

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
I know that Evan really liked it.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
I really liked the movie.

1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold


Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
I love this book so much, as I love most things that Vonnegut wrote. Trivia: one of the other soldiers who was kept in Slaughterhouse 5 is from my small town. He put the windows in our house.

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
(Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson)
(The Secret History - Donna Tartt)

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Icky movie.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman)
Atonement - Ian McEwan
(The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
This is my other most hated book in the whole world. In fact, I think that a major reason why I hated Life of Pi is that it reminded me of The Old Man and the Sea

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Even though I had already read this book, I had nightmares after I saw the movie. It was filmed on Duke's campus and I watched it in class as a freshman. It is particularly disturbing to see some of the events of this movie take place where you live.

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert