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Gakked at random from http://community.livejournal.com/surveys/12957189.html, and notably for the books it leaves out - Blade Runner, Maltese Falcon, any noir at all frankly, any of John Huston, any Hitchcock, Naked Lunch, The Prestige, any Wyndham, any Clarke, any Christie, any Doyle, pretty well any crime aside from one Hiasson and one Grisham, etc
Famous Books to Movies
( random list of films )
Famous Books to Movies
( random list of films )
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This has been doing the rounds on another social utility - so I thought I'd have a go. Name the fifteen books that will always stay with you - first thoughts, what you think of in fifteen minutes, that sort of thing.
I'm not entirely surprised that only two books by women appeared (The Teddy Robinson books should be there), and I was looking for the theory book that made me quiver, but it's pseuds corner. Many of these I read for the first time between 16 and 21 (or younger):
( Cheap suspense )
The interesting question would be why these fifteen...
I'm not entirely surprised that only two books by women appeared (The Teddy Robinson books should be there), and I was looking for the theory book that made me quiver, but it's pseuds corner. Many of these I read for the first time between 16 and 21 (or younger):
( Cheap suspense )
The interesting question would be why these fifteen...
Drown in a pool of Diet Lemonade
For many years you have been trying to warn people about global warming, but no one ever listened to you. One day you will realize how to solve the problem. One day a friend will suggest a diet lemonade drink to cure a fever that you will get. You realize, "Hey if that drink can bring my temperature down, maybe it will work for the Earth!", so you start emptying your life savings to lemons, which you hand squeeze into your pool. Unfortunately, one day when you're pouring in your sugar substitute, a random Velociraptor runs out from the bushes and knocks you in the pool. You try to swim out but your hand is caught in the straps of the bag of sugar substitute. Down you go.
For many years you have been trying to warn people about global warming, but no one ever listened to you. One day you will realize how to solve the problem. One day a friend will suggest a diet lemonade drink to cure a fever that you will get. You realize, "Hey if that drink can bring my temperature down, maybe it will work for the Earth!", so you start emptying your life savings to lemons, which you hand squeeze into your pool. Unfortunately, one day when you're pouring in your sugar substitute, a random Velociraptor runs out from the bushes and knocks you in the pool. You try to swim out but your hand is caught in the straps of the bag of sugar substitute. Down you go.
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A good day to be teaching about the Great Tradition today. 149 titles - too many of them by Waugh and Wodehouse and - good grief - Phil Farmer. Read, unfinished, hated. 24 out of 149? A few movies and tv versions as well.
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)
Martin Amis, Money (1984)
Martin Amis, The Information (1995)
Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney (2001)
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)
Henry Howarth Bashford, Augustus Carp, Esq By Himself — Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924)
Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1951)
Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (1911)
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader (2007)
EF Benson, Queen Lucia (1920)
WE Bowman, The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956)
William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa (1981)
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man (1975)
Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, No Bed for Bacon (1941)
Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985)
JL Carr, A Season in Sinji (1967)
JL Carr, The Harpole Report (1972)
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet (1976)
Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson (1939)
Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605)
Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
Richmal Crompton, Just William (1922)
EM Delafield, The Provincial Lady (1930)
Peter De Vries, Slouching towards Kalamazoo (1983)
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837)
Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (1796)
JP Donleavy, A Fairy Tale of New York (1973)
Roddy Doyle, The Commitments (1987)
Maria Edgeworth, Ennui (1809)
Willem Elsschot, Cheese (1933)
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742)
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749)
Ronald Firbank, Caprice (1917)
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)
Michael Frayn, Towards the End of Morning (1967)
William Gerhardie, The Polyglots (1925)
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (1842)
Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov (1859)
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon), Brewster's Millions (1902)
Michael Green, Squire Haggard's Journal (1975)
Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (1958)
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt (1969)
George Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody (1892)
Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo (1948)
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
Eric Hodgins, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946)
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (1995)
Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England (1983)
James Hynes, The Lecturer's Tale — A Novel (2001)
Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935)
Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer (1999)
Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution (1954)
Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1899)
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
Franz Kafka, The Castle (1926)
Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin (1996)
John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure (1996)
Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) (1715-1735)
David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
David Lodge, Nice Work (1988)
Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
AG Macdonnell, England, Their England (1933)
Compton Mackenzie, Whisky Galore (1947)
David Madsen, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (1995)
W Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale — Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)
Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (1978)
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
Spike Milligan, Puckoon (1963)
Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (1998)
John Mortimer, Charade (1947)
John Mortimer, Titmuss Regained (1990)
Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (1954)
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)
Shiva Naipaul, Fireflies (1970)
Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2008)
Georges Perec, La Disparition (1969)
Georges Perec, Les Revenentes (1972)
Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi (1978)
Robert Plunkett, My Search for Warren Harding (1983)
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75) [cheat!]
Dawn Powell, A Time to Be Born (1942)
Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952)
Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels (1955)
Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro (1959)
Simon Raven, Alms for Oblivion (1964-76)
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here (1990)
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Saki, The Westminster Alice (1902)
Saki, The Unbearable Bassington (1912)
Ronald Searle, Hurrah for St Trinian's (1948)
Will Self, Great Apes (1997)
Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue (1974)
Tom Sharpe, Blott on the Landscape (1975)
Wilfred Sheed, Office Politics (1966)
Charles Simmons, Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel (1987)
Jane Smiley, Moo (1995)
Thorne Smith, Topper Takes a Trip (1932)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat (1970)
Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent (1981)
Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
Mike Stocks, White Man Falling (2006)
RS Surtees, Handley Cross (1843)
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)
WM Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch (1939)
Leslie Thomas, Tropic of Ruislip (1974)
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857)
Kilgore Trout, Venus on the Half-Shell (1974)
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973)
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934)
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)
Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief (1932)
Evelyn Waugh, Scoop (1938)
Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One (1948)
Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
HG Wells, Tono Bungay (1909)
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, Molesworth (2000)
Nigel Williams, The Wimbledon Poisoner (1990)
Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956)
P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (1915)
P.G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim (1918)
P.G. Wodehouse, Thank You Jeeves (1934)
P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather (1933)
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters (1938)
P.G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning (1947)
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)
Martin Amis, Money (1984)
Martin Amis, The Information (1995)
Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney (2001)
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)
Henry Howarth Bashford, Augustus Carp, Esq By Himself — Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924)
Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1951)
Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (1911)
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader (2007)
EF Benson, Queen Lucia (1920)
WE Bowman, The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956)
William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa (1981)
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man (1975)
Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, No Bed for Bacon (1941)
Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985)
JL Carr, A Season in Sinji (1967)
JL Carr, The Harpole Report (1972)
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet (1976)
Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson (1939)
Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605)
Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
Richmal Crompton, Just William (1922)
EM Delafield, The Provincial Lady (1930)
Peter De Vries, Slouching towards Kalamazoo (1983)
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837)
Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (1796)
JP Donleavy, A Fairy Tale of New York (1973)
Roddy Doyle, The Commitments (1987)
Maria Edgeworth, Ennui (1809)
Willem Elsschot, Cheese (1933)
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742)
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749)
Ronald Firbank, Caprice (1917)
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)
Michael Frayn, Towards the End of Morning (1967)
William Gerhardie, The Polyglots (1925)
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (1842)
Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov (1859)
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon), Brewster's Millions (1902)
Michael Green, Squire Haggard's Journal (1975)
Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (1958)
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt (1969)
George Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody (1892)
Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo (1948)
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
Eric Hodgins, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946)
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (1995)
Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England (1983)
James Hynes, The Lecturer's Tale — A Novel (2001)
Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935)
Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer (1999)
Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution (1954)
Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1899)
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
Franz Kafka, The Castle (1926)
Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin (1996)
John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure (1996)
Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) (1715-1735)
David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
David Lodge, Nice Work (1988)
Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
AG Macdonnell, England, Their England (1933)
Compton Mackenzie, Whisky Galore (1947)
David Madsen, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (1995)
W Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale — Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)
Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (1978)
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
Spike Milligan, Puckoon (1963)
Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (1998)
John Mortimer, Charade (1947)
John Mortimer, Titmuss Regained (1990)
Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (1954)
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)
Shiva Naipaul, Fireflies (1970)
Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2008)
Georges Perec, La Disparition (1969)
Georges Perec, Les Revenentes (1972)
Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi (1978)
Robert Plunkett, My Search for Warren Harding (1983)
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75) [cheat!]
Dawn Powell, A Time to Be Born (1942)
Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952)
Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels (1955)
Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro (1959)
Simon Raven, Alms for Oblivion (1964-76)
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here (1990)
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Saki, The Westminster Alice (1902)
Saki, The Unbearable Bassington (1912)
Ronald Searle, Hurrah for St Trinian's (1948)
Will Self, Great Apes (1997)
Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue (1974)
Tom Sharpe, Blott on the Landscape (1975)
Wilfred Sheed, Office Politics (1966)
Charles Simmons, Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel (1987)
Jane Smiley, Moo (1995)
Thorne Smith, Topper Takes a Trip (1932)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat (1970)
Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent (1981)
Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
Mike Stocks, White Man Falling (2006)
RS Surtees, Handley Cross (1843)
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)
WM Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch (1939)
Leslie Thomas, Tropic of Ruislip (1974)
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857)
Kilgore Trout, Venus on the Half-Shell (1974)
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973)
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934)
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)
Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief (1932)
Evelyn Waugh, Scoop (1938)
Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One (1948)
Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
HG Wells, Tono Bungay (1909)
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, Molesworth (2000)
Nigel Williams, The Wimbledon Poisoner (1990)
Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956)
P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (1915)
P.G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim (1918)
P.G. Wodehouse, Thank You Jeeves (1934)
P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather (1933)
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters (1938)
P.G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning (1947)
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Yes, well: bold means I've read it, italic on author means started but didn't finish, struck through hated it. Yes, a low score of read - out of somethin g like 145..
Henri Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913)
Layla al-Juhani, Jahiliyya (2006)
Latifa al-Zayyat, al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1899)
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1957)
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962)
HE Bates, Love for Lydia (1952)
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (1973)
Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (1938)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Anita Brookner, Look at Me (1983)
AS Byatt, Possession (1990)
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
JL Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)
Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918)
Willa Cather, A Lost Lady (1923)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Claudine à l'école (1900)
Sidone-Gabrille Colette, Chéri (1920)
Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale (1915)
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (1678)
Daphne du Maurier, The Parasites (1949)
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
Marguerite Duras, The Lover (1984)
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Enayat el-Zayyat, Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967)
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides (1993)
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (1934)
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (1995)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
EM Forster, A Room With a View (1908)
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose (1941)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth (1853)
André Gide, Strait Is the Gate (1909)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (1932)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Henry Green, Living (1929)
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (1887)
LP Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus (1980)
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Georgette Heyer, The Infamous Army (1937)
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck (1935)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
WH Hudson, Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (1983)
Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness (1964)
MM Kaye, The Far Pavilions (1978)
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (1946)
Pamela Kent, Moon over Africa (1955)
Colette Khoury, Ayyam Ma'ah (1959)
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978)
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1982)
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782)
DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960)
DH Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915)
DH Lawrence, Women in Love (1920)
Rosamond Lehmann, The Echoing Grove (1953)
Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets (1936)
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)
Audre Lorde, Zami (1982)
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs (1984)
Amin Maalouf, Samarkand (1989)
Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo trilogy (1956-57)
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912)
Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess (1990)
Javier Marías, A Heart So White (1992)
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915)
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwan, The Child in Time (1987)
George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah (1969)
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate (1949)
Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island: A Novel (1957)
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (1987)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male (1955)
RK Narayan, The Painter of Signs (1976)
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (1978)
Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day (1999)
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut (1731)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Henry Handel Richardson, Maurice Guest (1908)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740)
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748)
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
Kurban Said, Ali and Nino (1928)
James Salter, Light Years (1975)
James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime (1967)
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (1995)
Aara Seale, The Reluctant Orphan (1947)
Erich Segal, Love Story (1970)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies, a Love Story (1972)
Elizabeth Smart, At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945)
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love (1999)
Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls (1966)
Graham Swift, Waterland (1983)
Junichiro Tanizaki, Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961)
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
Rose Tremain, Music and Silence (1999)
Ivan Turgenev, First Love (1860)
Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons (1988)
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (1985)
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (2006)
Charles Webb, The Graduate (1963)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (1987)
Mrs Henry Wood, East Lynne (1861)
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (1961)
Henri Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913)
Layla al-Juhani, Jahiliyya (2006)
Latifa al-Zayyat, al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1899)
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1957)
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962)
HE Bates, Love for Lydia (1952)
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (1973)
Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (1938)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Anita Brookner, Look at Me (1983)
AS Byatt, Possession (1990)
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
JL Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)
Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918)
Willa Cather, A Lost Lady (1923)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Claudine à l'école (1900)
Sidone-Gabrille Colette, Chéri (1920)
Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale (1915)
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (1678)
Daphne du Maurier, The Parasites (1949)
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
Marguerite Duras, The Lover (1984)
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Enayat el-Zayyat, Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967)
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides (1993)
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (1934)
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (1995)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
EM Forster, A Room With a View (1908)
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose (1941)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth (1853)
André Gide, Strait Is the Gate (1909)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (1932)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Henry Green, Living (1929)
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (1887)
LP Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus (1980)
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Georgette Heyer, The Infamous Army (1937)
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck (1935)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
WH Hudson, Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (1983)
Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness (1964)
MM Kaye, The Far Pavilions (1978)
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (1946)
Pamela Kent, Moon over Africa (1955)
Colette Khoury, Ayyam Ma'ah (1959)
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978)
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1982)
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782)
DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960)
DH Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915)
DH Lawrence, Women in Love (1920)
Rosamond Lehmann, The Echoing Grove (1953)
Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets (1936)
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)
Audre Lorde, Zami (1982)
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs (1984)
Amin Maalouf, Samarkand (1989)
Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo trilogy (1956-57)
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912)
Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess (1990)
Javier Marías, A Heart So White (1992)
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915)
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwan, The Child in Time (1987)
George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah (1969)
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate (1949)
Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island: A Novel (1957)
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (1987)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male (1955)
RK Narayan, The Painter of Signs (1976)
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (1978)
Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day (1999)
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut (1731)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Henry Handel Richardson, Maurice Guest (1908)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740)
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748)
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
Kurban Said, Ali and Nino (1928)
James Salter, Light Years (1975)
James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime (1967)
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (1995)
Aara Seale, The Reluctant Orphan (1947)
Erich Segal, Love Story (1970)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies, a Love Story (1972)
Elizabeth Smart, At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945)
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love (1999)
Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls (1966)
Graham Swift, Waterland (1983)
Junichiro Tanizaki, Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961)
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
Rose Tremain, Music and Silence (1999)
Ivan Turgenev, First Love (1860)
Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons (1988)
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (1985)
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (2006)
Charles Webb, The Graduate (1963)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (1987)
Mrs Henry Wood, East Lynne (1861)
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (1961)
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A number of people seem to be posting a New Year's Resolution for 2008 meme - which strikes me as being a little bit late in the day. On the other hand, resolutions made in advance are all about the fail so:
In 2008 I shall:
finally read the Inspector Rebus novels
buy a megarider gold rover ticket and explore Kent
finish editing two books and do another edition of a third (but not prof raed it)
give a conference paper that's not on sf
go to the Edinburgh Festival
see more comedy
bring world peace and an end to poverty
tidy up.
One of them will not come off.
In 2008 I shall:
One of them will not come off.
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esmeraldus_neo
esmeraldus_neoYour result for The Which Discworld Character Am I Test...
Susan Sto Helit
As Death's granddaughter (a long story, which you greatly dislike), you inherited his ultimate practicality and lack of fear. In fact, boogeymen and other childhood boggles fear YOU. Often assisted by the Death of Rats and his raven, you manage to fix the Universe inbetween working as a governness and educating the masses. The ultimate teacher.
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Do this right now. Don't do that. Or that. Just do this. Do that with no that. (Unless you have to do that. Don’t do that.) Metado. |
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...Chainstores
(Gakked from various people)
What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
You scored as a Existentialism
Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
--Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
--Blaise Pascal
More info at Arocoun's Wikipedia User Page...
Existentialism 90%
Utilitarianism 75%
Hedonism 65%
Justice (Fairness) 50%
Kantianism 45%
Strong Egoism 25%
Nihilism 25%
Apathy 15%
Divine Command 0%
(Gakked from various people)
What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
You scored as a Existentialism
Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
--Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
--Blaise Pascal
More info at Arocoun's Wikipedia User Page...
Existentialism 90%
Utilitarianism 75%
Hedonism 65%
Justice (Fairness) 50%
Kantianism 45%
Strong Egoism 25%
Nihilism 25%
Apathy 15%
Divine Command 0%
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What Shakespeare Play Are You?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
You often get into strange mix-ups, particularly when it comes to romance, but no matter how crazy your life gets, it all works out in the end.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
You often get into strange mix-ups, particularly when it comes to romance, but no matter how crazy your life gets, it all works out in the end.
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(gakked from desperance.)
desperance.)What Your Taste in Chocolate Says About You |
 You are sophisticated, modern, and high class. Your taste is refined, but you are not picky. You are often the first to try something new. You are passionate and full of life. You fall in love easily, and you tend to have whirlwind relationships. Your passion sometimes does get the better of you. You have a crazy temper! You love being around people. Friendships are important to you. You feel lost when you're by yourself... so you tend to avoid being alone. |
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Sounds more like my therapy sessions. I always think of myself as Pooh but fear I'm Rabbit...
(thanks tomaryread)
(thanks to
maryread)Your Score: Piglet
You scored 12 Ego, 17 Anxiety, and 9 Agency!
"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could escape by -- by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, surrounded by water and I can't do anything."
You scored as Piglet!
ABOUT PIGLET: Piglet is a Very Small Animal, who used to live in his own house, a nice big tree. However, after Owl's house was blown over by a storm, he "found" Piglet's house, and Piglet didn't want to tell him that the home was already lived in. So he went to live with Pooh.
WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are a rather nervous person, and you tend to worry about The Worst happening. You don't really feel capable of dealing with the things that life could throw at you, and so you tend to fret about it. You are one of those people who seems to think that worrying actually accomplishes something... and your friends can't help but love you for it. Your humble manner and self-deprecating ways make your friends feel good about themselves. They want to help and protect you.
Your loving friends are always trying to encourage you to be more independent, and they are right. You need to develop a bit of self confidence and stand on your own two feet.
| Link: The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test written by wolfcaroling on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(wolfcaroling) |
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You Are a Question Mark |
 You seek knowledge and insight in every form possible. You love learning. And while you know a lot, you don't act like a know it all. You're open to learning you're wrong. You ask a lot of questions, collect a lot of data, and always dig deep to find out more. You're naturally curious and inquisitive. You jump to ask a question when the opportunity arises. Your friends see you as interesting, insightful, and thought provoking. (But they're not always up for the intense inquisitions that you love!) You excel in: Higher education You get along best with: The Comma |
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Perhaps this explains why most of the people I hang out with are in their twenties.
| You Act Like You Are 23 Years Old |
 You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel like an adult, and you're optimistic about life. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. You're still figuring out your place in the world and how you want your life to shape up. The world is full of possibilities, and you can't wait to explore many of them. |
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Gakked, ganked and nicked from all over the shop:
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Added byoursin: and underline those you have no intention of reading. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book (that is, last time that the algorithm was done).
( To save your screen )
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Added by
oursin: and underline those you have no intention of reading. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book (that is, last time that the algorithm was done).( To save your screen )
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Interest Rank
1. Anthropologist
2. Archivist
3. Sport Psychology Consultant [Hah! "It's character building, this losing. I know, because I used to lose all the time and I've got a fucking big character"]
4. Historian
5. Genetic Counselor ["Don't reproduce. Not with that nose."]
6. Psychologist
7. Actor [actually, yes]
8. Editor [ho hum]
9. Special Effects Technician [Kewl]
10. Computer Trainer {N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!]
11. Computer Network Specialist
12. Career Counselor [Very meta]
13. Costume Designer
14. Set Designer
15. Addictions Counselor
16. Conservator
17. Social Worker
18. Administrative Assistant
19. Director of Photography
20. Professor {twentieth. Pah)
21. Casting Director
22. Corporate Trainer
23. Comedian
[...]
29. Print Journalist
[...]
31. Critic
1. Anthropologist
2. Archivist
3. Sport Psychology Consultant [Hah! "It's character building, this losing. I know, because I used to lose all the time and I've got a fucking big character"]
4. Historian
5. Genetic Counselor ["Don't reproduce. Not with that nose."]
6. Psychologist
7. Actor [actually, yes]
8. Editor [ho hum]
9. Special Effects Technician [Kewl]
10. Computer Trainer {N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!]
11. Computer Network Specialist
12. Career Counselor [Very meta]
13. Costume Designer
14. Set Designer
15. Addictions Counselor
16. Conservator
17. Social Worker
18. Administrative Assistant
19. Director of Photography
20. Professor {twentieth. Pah)
21. Casting Director
22. Corporate Trainer
23. Comedian
[...]
29. Print Journalist
[...]
31. Critic
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 | You scored as Percy Shelley, You’re poet is Percy Shelley. Shelley's best-known works include his Prometheus Unbound (1819), a lyrical drama in which Shelley expounds the cause of an imaginative revolution, his atheistic poem Queen Mab (1821), his prose essay A Defence of Poetry (1840) and The Triumph of Life, left unfinished at Shelley's death. Many of Shelley's other works were written around 1820: these include The Mask of Anarchy (1820), the poem 'Ode to the West Wind' (1819), Peter Bell the Third (1819) and the political odes 'To Liberty' and 'To Naples' (both 1820).
Who is Your Romantic Poet? created with QuizFarm.com |
Doesn't look like it lets you be Blake, but I'd rather be Shelley than Keats
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