That's not what the Death card means

When other people start to feel like they have nothing to say on their blogs and websites and what have you, the Internet provides a wealth of useless crap from which to draw and take up space on your various pages. And, no different, I am likewise resorting to such.

While reading about Chick Tracts published by Darkseid, I also read this entry on books you have or have not read. The following are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Categories here are: have read, have read more than once, started but did not finish, have not read. Omitted categories: could not stand to read, and on my "to-read" list. I omitted the first one because few books make this grade with me (see Beloved below) and the second one because, well, my "to-read" list is mostly everything.

How you can make this stupid internet crap your own: copy all the book names into your own webpage, deleting my editorial snippets, and mark them according to the categories, what you've read and not read. Then post it, e-mail it, write it on a piece of paper wrapped around a brick and throw it at someone you think would like to read it.

You can blame Arrowette's Diary for this. I know I am.

Have Read (and Have Read Again*)

• Catch-22*
• The Silmarillion - I think. I read a lot of the Tolkien a loooong time ago.
• The Name of the Rose*
• Moby Dick
• Ulysses
• The Odyssey
• The Brothers Karamazov*
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• The Iliad
• Great Expectations
• American Gods*
• Quicksilver *
• Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
• Brave New World*
• The Fountainhead
• Foucault's Pendulum*
• Dracula
• The Once and Future King - I think?
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Anansi Boys*
• 1984*
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Oliver Twist
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Corrections
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
• Dune*
• The Prince
• Cryptonomicon*
• Neverwhere
• Dubliners*
• Beloved - this is some Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou crap, right? I believe I was obligated to read this at some point in school.
• Slaughterhouse-five*
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Confusion*
• Lolita
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values
• Watership Down
• The Hobbit*
• Treasure Island
• The Three Musketeers

Started but did not finish

• War and Peace - I love a book that I can read 800 pages, lose track of it, and still not really be half-finished with
• A Confederacy of Dunces - comes highly recommended, though
• Gravity's Rainbow - I'm arguably still reading this.

Have Not Read

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Anna Karenina
• Crime and Punishment
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Wuthering Heights
• Life of Pi: a novel
• Don Quixote - But I really should
• Madame Bovary
• Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Eyre
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies.
• Vanity Fair
• Emma
• The Blind Assassin
• The Kite Runner
• Mrs. Dalloway
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Middlesex
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Historian: a novel
• Love in the Time of Cholera - though I hear good things
• Middlemarch
• Frankenstein - I feel like I must have read this, but can't recall
• The Count of Monte Cristo - I feel like I must have read this, but can't recall
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
• Angels & Demons - I read Da Vinci Code, which I understand was the same book, and I also read Focault's Pendulum, which was the same book as the Da Vinci Code, only it was actually good
• The Inferno - Again, I feel like I read the whole Divine Comedy at some point, but can't remember clearly.
• The Satanic Verses
• Sense and Sensibility
• Mansfield Park
• To the Lighthouse
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Les Mis

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