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[labellementeuse]

Instead of writing my essay today, I learned to programme in Python (and a bit in Ruby, until I hit a wall) for the fanarchive project. This was lots of fun :D I feel very proud and forced my flatmate to play Choose Your Own Adventure to check that it worked.

And now instead of being constructive, that LibraryThing meme that's been going around: These are the 106 books most often marked as unread by LibraryThing users. As ever, bold if you've read it, italicise if you started but never finished it, strikethrough if you hated it, and optionally underline if you particularly liked it.



* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A Tale of Two Cities
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel
* 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
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked
* The Canterbury Tales
* The Historian
* 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 (I haven't read this book for a long time, and tbh I don't know if I'd still get through it, but I loved it as a kid.)
* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King
* The Grapes of Wrath
* The Poisonwood Bible
* 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 - I'm ashamed to admit I've actually faked my way through classes on this. I enjoyed it, too, no idea why I never finished it.
* 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
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States
* 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
* Collapse
* Cloud Atlas
* The Confusion
* Lolita
* Persuasion
* Northanger Abbey
* The Catcher in the Rye
* On the Road
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Freakonomics
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers

And so it goes. How about you all?

Comments

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

You're not a rabid fan of The Catcher In The Rye? Because I'm one of those people who read it when they were fourteen and decided that Holden Caulfield is ME XD

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I liked it, but I didn't love it. :D I totally get the cult of Holden, though.

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was one of those books that you either loved to pieces or totally hated because that's how it was in my freshman english class, but it seems that a number of people are surprisingly ambivalent about it. Hello, real world XD

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely think it has polarising qualities - and I don't know if I'd call me ambivalent: I'm definitely positive towards it. But it was no To Kill a Mockingbird, say.

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

It's funny that you mention To Kill A Mockingbird because I've been meaning to re-read that to see if I can get rid of my own positivish ambivalence about it.

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, this list put me in such a novel-reading mood!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Me too! I was like, ooh, I should really read that one... and that one... and I have NO TIME at all.

[kitsunerei88]

I learned to program (kind of) in Java over the summer.

And then I realized that programming wasn't for me because I got a headache every time I stared at the computer for a period of time exceeding four hours. xDD

That list makes me feel like I've actually read things. xD.

[angry-in-pink.livejournal.com]

This list reminds of all the novels I have yet to read...