yet another book thang!

Monday, 8 October 2007 — azahar

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Found over at Lori’s booknook book_icon.gif

And many thanks to alejna for coining the term me-me, because I cringe everytime I read that trendy blogosphere bastardization of the word meme. But me-me is not only clever, it actually says what these thangs are all about, which is “all about me”.

Instructions…

Bold what you have read, italicize your DNFs, strikethrough the ones you hated, put *asterisks next to those you’ve read more than once, and put a + cross in front of the books that are on your bookshelf.

It’s another self-tagging me-me … but do let us know where to find your answers. f_ok.gif

 

  1. Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
  2. Anna Karenina
  3. Crime and Punishment
  4. Catch-22
  5. One hundred years of solitude
  6. Wuthering Heights
  7. The Silmarillion
  8. +Life of Pi: a novel
  9. +The Name of the Rose*
  10. +Don Quixote [only read book one]
  11. +Moby Dick
  12. +Ulysses
  13. +Madame Bovary
  14. The Odyssey
  15. +Pride and Prejudice*
  16. +Jane Eyre
  17. +A Tale of Two Cities
  18. The Brothers Karamazov
  19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
  20. +War and Peace
  21. Vanity Fair
  22. +The Time Traveller’s Wife
  23. The Iliad
  24. +Emma
  25. +The Blind Assassin
  26. +The Kite Runner
  27. Mrs. Dalloway
  28. +Great Expectations
  29. +American Gods
  30. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
  31. +Atlas shrugged
  32. Reading Lolita in Tehran
  33. Memoirs of a Geisha
  34. Middlesex
  35. Quicksilver
  36. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
  37. The Canterbury Tales
  38. +The Historian
  39. +A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  40. Love in the Time of Cholera
  41. Brave new world
  42. +The Fountainhead*
  43. +Foucault’s Pendulum*
  44. Middlemarch
  45. Frankenstein
  46. The Count of Monte Cristo
  47. Dracula
  48. A Clockwork Orange
  49. Anansi Boys
  50. The Once and Future King
  51. The Grapes of Wrath
  52. The Poisonwood Bible
  53. 1984
  54. Angels & Demons
  55. The Inferno
  56. +The Satanic Verses
  57. +Sense and Sensibility
  58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  59. Mansfield Park
  60. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest*
  61. +To the Lighthouse
  62. +Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  63. +Oliver Twist
  64. Gulliver’s Travels
  65. Les misérables
  66. The Corrections
  67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  68. +The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
  69. Dune
  70. +The Prince
  71. The Sound and the Fury
  72. +Angela’s Ashes
  73. +The God of Small Things
  74. A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
  75. Cryptonomicon
  76. +Neverwhere
  77. +A Confederacy of Dunces
  78. +A Short History of Nearly Everything
  79. +Dubliners*
  80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  81. Beloved
  82. Slaughterhouse-five
  83. The Scarlet Letter
  84. +Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  85. The Mists of Avalon
  86. +Oryx and Crake : a novel
  87. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
  88. Cloud Atlas
  89. The Confusion
  90. +Lolita
  91. +Persuasion
  92. Northanger Abbey
  93. +The Catcher in the Rye*
  94. On the Road
  95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  96. Freakonomics
  97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  98. The Aeneid
  99. Watership Down
  100. Gravity’s Rainbow
  101. +The Hobbit*
  102. In Cold Blood
  103. +White Teeth
  104. Treasure Island
  105. +David Copperfield
  106. The Three Musketeers
Posted in books & writing, me-me's, quizzes. 14 Comments »

14 Responses to “yet another book thang!”

  1. loricat Says:
    Monday, 8 October 2007 at 6:21 pm

    So, Middlemarch is on my bookshelf, waiting to be read. Did you enjoy it??

    :)

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  2. Arnold Says:
    Monday, 8 October 2007 at 7:19 pm

    I read Anna Karenina, you read War and Peace. So let me ask you, did you always mean to read the other, but haven’t yet motivated? That’s how I feel.

    I’ve tried starting Gravity’s Rainbow multiple times…so we’re probably “on the same page” with respect to that one :)

    I read Angel’s & Demons, and the more famous one…Tha Da Vinci Code. The second was better, IMO, b/c there are some key plot elements that rely on physics that I know about in the first one, and they were unrealistic…

    I highly, highly, highly recommend Cryptonomicon, but alternatively Quicksilver. They are long but are over too soon.

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  3. azahar Says:
    Monday, 8 October 2007 at 8:14 pm

    I seem to recall that Middlemarch bored me stupid, Lori, but somehow I didn’t hate it. Sorry I can’t be more specific but it was a very l-o-n-g time ago and my memory is crap.

    I don’t know why I’ve never read Anna Karenina, Arnie. I read War and Peace one winter when I couldn’t afford to buy any new books and one of my flatmates had left it behind when they moved out. I quite liked it, though I’d never read it again.

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  5. azahar Says:
    Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 8:18 am

    Okey-dokey … will check it out, WC.

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  6. nursemyra Says:
    Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 10:42 am

    I read Middlemarch quite recently and really enjoyed it.

    Madame Bovary is definitely in my top 10.

    Freakonomics is worth dipping in to. but I didn’t think much of Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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  7. azahar Says:
    Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 11:03 am

    WC mentioned on her blog that her DNFs were also the ones she hated, but I don’t think that’s quite the case with me.

    As I said earlier, I remember finding Middlemarch (and more recently, Emma) really boring. But I didn’t actually dislike them, let alone hate them enough not to finish them.

    Likewise, with some of the ones I didn’t finish, it seemed more a case of not being in the mood at the time, or even that it just wasn’t the kind of book I tend to enjoy, but I wouldn’t say I actually disliked them – I just didn’t fined them interesting. So that’s why there’s only one struckout book on my list.

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  8. azahar Says:
    Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 11:11 am

    On Lori’s blog the last instruction is to underline the books on your bookshelf (in your TBR pile).

    I changed this here because I can’t figure out how to underline stuff here :oops: and I don’t have a TBR pile. Well, okay, there is one I have yet to read, but it’s not on this list.

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  10. azahar Says:
    Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 12:10 pm

    Yes, sorry dq, I should have written that in the post as I had to ask Lori about it too.

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  11. loricat Says:
    Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 4:15 pm

    And everyone is answering the question about Middlemarch, when you should have all read my mind and realized that I’d confused ‘march’ with ’sex’ [is there some Freudian thing here that I'm missing??]. Az, or anyone, how was Middlesex? It was a Christmas present from my mother-in-law (I married into a family that buys books as gifts!!), and I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

    Thanks.

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  12. alejna Says:
    Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 4:19 am

    I’m glad you enjoy the me-me etymology. However, I’m not sure I can claim its coining. I think others have also noted the me-fullness of memes.

    I’m planning to put up my list soon, but continue to be sidetracked by pesky work obligations…

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  13. unread, unread « collecting tokens Says:
    Thursday, 11 October 2007 at 7:29 am

    [...] October 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments This here is a meme (or whatever you like to think of it as) based on the top 106 unread books from Library Thing. (At least as of the date when this was started. The earliest I could find was a post from October 1st at Once Upon a Booshelf, saying the meme had been found at Lady Strange. I couldn’t find, it there though.) I myself found this at Lori’s Book Nook, and then re-found it shortly thereafter at Casa Azahar. [...]

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  14. alejna Says:
    Friday, 12 October 2007 at 3:16 am

    I’ve put mine up, too. (See pingback above.)

    I used your version with the plus to mean “on the shelves.” It was fun to see how many of them I own. (And actually, it works well for the origins of this, being the most commonly owned but not read books on Library Thing.

    I have a story (not much of one) about reading Middlemarch. I remember the act of reading it. Sitting down with the big book, and slogging my way through it. But come a couple of years later, I couldn’t recall a thing about it. I met a woman who was a lit professor, and we were talking about books. And when this book came up, and I said I’d read it, I think she must have thougt I was lying. Because I couldn’t even name the characters.

    I think this was a sign that it wasn’t a favorite book of mine.

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