Books Memes and Movies

[kjpepper]

Librarythings 106 most "unread" books. Bold what you've read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, cross out what you couldn't stand, underline what you want to read but haven't yet.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and peace
Vanity fair
The time traveler's wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The kite runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great expectations
American gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault's pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela's ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud atlas
The confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger abbey
The catcher in the rye
On the road
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Note I only crossed out two items. I usually like reading books, even if I find the story kinda tedious because they are still a diversion in themselves, but I do have a special hate on for Cryptonomicon and think all copies of it should be donated to construction sites to be used as extra cinderblocks. Just thinking about that book makes me want to slap Neal Stephenson.

In other news, Rewind last night was AMAZING. Holy crap sold out show for Labyrinth! So much fun! I love watching movies like that with a theater full of fan-people, because the cheering, singing along, reciting lines along, the collective gasp and snicker about David Bowie's area, which is even MORE terrifyingly omnipresent on the big screen. Also, when the screen is bigger you notice more little details about the movie... I never noticed that there was more than one junk lady, or the goblins peeing fountain in the middle of the Goblin City. Or that the huge front gate guard at the end of the movie is a dead ringer for one of those goblin piloted Venture Company Shredders in WoW. LOL. Anyway, much fun was had.

Side note. One of the trivia questions we used in the pvrewind prize contest was to name the two other performers they were considering for Jareth the Goblin King... Again, if I ever gain access to Dream's library? Totally watching both the Sting version and the Michael Jackson version. Think about that for a while.

Side note #2. People, please shut up about the Dark is Rising, the Seeker. If I have to hear one more person bitch about how oh noes Walden Media is surprise buttsekksing your entire childhood by making this movie, there will be gratuitous slappings all around. Just don't go see it if it looks that bad, there is no need to whinge that obsessively about it. It's not the first allegedly chidhood-defining book that Hollywood has dry humped for money, nor will it be the last. Frankly I don't give a rats, I didn't read the Susan Cooper books until college and I didn't think they were anything to write home about. And if your entire childhood revolved around one five book series, I'd say you had a pretty stunted childhood. They're books. It's a movie. I could swear there are way more worthwhile things to bitch about with that level of vitriol.

EDIT: Here have a LOLseeker:



So when I came home I was high on caffiene and tweaky so I pulled a sundart and cleaned the entire living room and the bits of the dining room that were bothering me. Like lost my shit. I'm somewhat wondering if going up to dunkins and getting one of those superlarge coffees with a crapton of sugar tonight will get me to deal with my own room... It may be worth a shot provided I survive today. We'll see.

Comments

[masteradept.livejournal.com]

Why is American Gods crossed????

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

Cause I absolutely hated it. Weirdly enough I LOVED Anansi Boys. Oh well, there needed to be proof that Gaiman!=God.

[masteradept.livejournal.com]

I have Anansi Boys..hardback sitting on my shelves untouched. I loved AG, totally loved the interplay of characters. Yet I have tried to read AB and just end up putting it down.

[harinezumi.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with Cryptonomicon? Aside from Stephenson's inability to write an ending if his life depended on it, that is. -_- Ever since I've read it it's been my life goal to become Randy.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

It would have been an amazing book if Stephenson had ripped out the overarching story entirely and repackaged it as a book of short stories. As a book, it was Shitty McShitshits. That alone probably wouldn't have earned it a cross out, but I felt especially pissed off about this book sucking because I'd read Snow Crash before that which was awesome. Cryptonomicon was too many pages of underedited fail in comparison.

[realjordanna.livejournal.com]

I met Stephenson the week before last - he came to my office to talk about the book he is working on now. He admitted that he is a bit obsessive in his books and tries to throw in all of his research into a single book - making them a bit dense.

The other things to note about him: he is now obsessed with sword making and sword fighting so expect to see more if it in future books.

He drives a ugly, dirty, ford minivan - which got a ticket for illegal parking while he was talking - which was sort of funny given his success selling books.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Word on the Stephenson dislike. One of the jerks I worked with at the bookstore acted as if Stephenson's books were God's gift to the bookselling world. (Barf.) However, they are some of Hubby's favorite books, so I can't complain too much. ;p

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

See the thing is after Snow Crash, I wanted to have his little geekling babies. Then I read Cryptonomicon, and felt a bit like my virtual boyfriend had cheated on me, beat up my mom, and pooped on my cat and used my other cat to wipe himself. Needless to say after that I couldn't bring myself to read anything else of his.

[labmouse.livejournal.com]

My god. I love you so much for saying that.