Okay, so complete fail on my part. I am still alive in case anyone was wondering. I had an amazing holiday with
thisissirius there are several photos of us doing strange and stupid things, which I will upload soon I hope, but right now RL is kicking my arse.
I came back from holiday to find that my little brother, who is actually 19, but still my little brother is moving out with his fiancee. Now that would be okay if his fiancee wasn't from Belgium and they weren't moving to Belgium, which they are. Also he is going to be a dad, so not only am I losing my little brother but also the chance to see my niece/nephew more than a couple of times a year which sucks.
In good news, well relatively I am back at uni. Second year is so hard. Seriously. It is kicking my arse right now and I've only been back for 4 days. I've opted to take just Philosophy this year, which was my best subject last year, but right now I am spedning a lot of the time just confused. I'm sure it'll click into place soon, but for the time being I am trying not too pull my hair out as I stare at Plato's Apology for the 100th time tonight. But some sadistic part of me is really enjoying being back, I really missed it.
Anyway, because I need a break, and I saw this from someone else on my flist and I have never done it.
MEME
According to the bbc most people have only read an average of 6 out of this 100 classic books. bold the ones you have read. italic the ones you have dabbled with (read just a part or a abridged version, seen a movie/rendition of it)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6
The Bible7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14
Complete Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden40
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood THIS SO MUCH, BEST BOOK EVER!!!
49
Lord of the Flies - William Golding50
Atonement - Ian McEwan51
Life of Pi - Yann Martel52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87
Charlotte’s Web - EB White88
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Working my way through right now, slowly!
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Did not like!
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100
Les Miserables - Victor HugoGuess I better hurry up and get reading then!