I wasn't gonna do another meme...
but this one's interesting. Which of these books have I read? According to Librarything.com, these are books that lots of people have but have not read.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - nope
Anna Karenina - nope
Crime and Punishment - nope
Catch-22 - yep, liked his book about King David more
One Hundred Years of Solitude - nope
Wuthering Heights - nooooooo
The Silmarillion - for bizarre reasons, the only Tolkein I've read.
Life of Pi - nope
The Name of the Rose - good movie, but no
Don Quixote - nope. The head of the ENglish Dept at TTU and his assistant used to call themselves Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. I am therefore of a mind never to extend beyond the excerpt I read in Lit class.
Moby Dick - nope, only about a hundred pages.
Ulysses - read a thing by Robert Anton Wilson about the metaphysics of Finnegan's Wake and somehow I ended up feeling Joyce was only for grownups.
Madame Bovary - nope
The Odyssey - many, many times. Taught it, lived it, learnt it.
Pride and Prejudice - I choose Pride! Er, no, haven't read.
Jane Eyre - I sorta read stuff by guys like Charles Brockden Brown instead.
A Tale of Two Cities - nope
The Brothers Karamazov - nope
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies - sounds important. Nope.
War and Peace - nope.
Vanity Fair - seems to me I did, but cannot recall a single thing about it.
The Time Traveler’s Wife - nope.
The Iliad - Best book I ever read. Greek, English, either way is good for me. Love that damn thing--read it every year.
Emma - nope.
The Blind Assassin - huh?
The Kite Runner - nope.
Mrs. Dalloway - nope.
Great Expectations - nope.
American Gods - the only Gaiman book I've read straight through is DON'T PANIC. The rest I dunno. It's good, but just not for me.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - nope.
Atlas Shrugged - piss off with that stuff. Read SEWER GAS ELECTRIC instead.
Reading Lolita in Tehran - nope.
Memoirs of a Geisha - nope.
Middlesex - nope.
Quicksilver - nope.
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West - nope.
The Canterbury Tales - yep.
The Historian : a novel - nope.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - nope.
Love in the Time of Cholera - nope, but I know someone who worked on the movie.
Brave New World - most of it. Like punk, it's important, but not all that great.
The Fountainhead - seriously, piss off.
Foucault’s Pendulum - started it, got plain intimidated by it.
Middlemarch - nope.
Frankenstein - yep. Taught that one too. Read 10-12 times.
The Count of Monte Cristo - nope
Dracula - yep.
A Clockwork Orange - if a book has a glossary and isn't a textbook, it's disqualified.
Anansi Boys - see AMERICAN GODS above.
The Once and Future King - know the first few lines via LORENZO'S OIL. Sounds good.
The Grapes of Wrath - yep.
The Poisonwood Bible - huh?
1984 - yep.
Angels & Demons - uh, no thanks.
The Inferno - yep.
The Satanic Verses - nope.
Sense and Sensibility - nope. Read CARWIN THE BILOQUIST, tho!
The Picture of Dorian Gray - selection.
Mansfield Park - nope.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - nope.
To the Lighthouse - huh?
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - nope.
Oliver Twist - nope.
Gulliver’s Travels - seems to me I did, in a raging fit of reading satire. Liked GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL more.
Les Misérables - nooooooo.
The Corrections - nope.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - ah, one I own and have not read. I'll get there--hundred pages down already.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - nope.
Dune - one hundred pages. Plus see A CLOCKWORK ORANGE above.
The Prince - nope.
The Sound and the Fury - one hundred pages.
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir - nope.
The God of Small Things - huh?
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present - I keep hearing Matt Damon when I try to read this and it throws me off.
Cryptonomicon - nope.
Neverwhere - I'm sure it's great.
A Confederacy of Dunces - A character I created has been compared to Mr. Reilly, so I suppose I must someday.
A Short History of Nearly Everything - nope.
Dubliners - nope.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - haven't even seen the movie.
Beloved - nope.
Slaughterhouse-five - yep, during my Vonne-gasm of 1986.
The Scarlet Letter - selections.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - huh?
The Mists of Avalon - nope.
Oryx and Crake - nope.
Collapse - huh?
Cloud Atlas - huh?
The Confusion - huh? (no, seriously, huh?)
Lolita - saw both movies.
Persuasion - nope.
Northanger Abbey - nope.
The Catcher in the Rye - ugh.
On the Road - nope.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - selections.
Freakonomics - nope.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - tidbits in the store.
The Aeneid - I made it through two Masters' degrees in Classics without reading it. So ha!
Watership Down - watched the movie first and figured the book would make me want to kill myself.
Gravity’s Rainbow - have tried a few times. I like writing tricky books too, but I am not patient enough to read a tricky book.
The Hobbit - nope. See SIMARILLION.
In Cold Blood - nope.
White Teeth - nope.
Treasure Island -nope.
David Copperfield - nope. I really should do something about my Dickens gap.
The Three Musketeers - nope.
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