Bookworm Me.
Monday, September 21, 2009Got this from a note in facebook. Nice.
I’ve put remarks pampasaya. Hehe.
The BBC believes that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
(X) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
() The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
() Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
() Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(X) To Kill a Mockingbird [an excellent political read]
(X) The Bible [haven’t finished a single book]
(X) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [a long read. tsk.]
() Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [read the first few parts but never finished]
() His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
() Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total - 4
() Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
() Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
() Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
() Complete Works of Shakespeare
() Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
() The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
() Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(X) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [one of the bests]
() The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [i’ll read this SOON.]
() Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total - 1
() Middlemarch - George Eliot
() Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(X) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [read it just for two days. a really good one.]
() Bleak House - Charles Dickens
() War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
() The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
() Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
() Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
() Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Total - 1
() The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
() Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
() David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
() Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(X) Emma - Jane Austen [so so..]
() Persuasion - Jane Austen
() The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
() The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
() Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(X) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [good good. better than the movie.]
Total - 2
() Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(X) Animal Farm - George Orwell [i was amazed by how well this was written.]
(X) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [very creative. i was required to read this though.]
() One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
() A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
() The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
() Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
() Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
() The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(X) Lord of the Flies - William Golding [omg. i was speechless after reading this. very well-written. very psychological.]
Total - 3
() Atonement - Ian McEwan
() Life of Pi - Yann Martel [i’ve bought the book from this year’s NBS sale. i’m so excited to read this.]
() Dune - Frank Herbert
() Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
() Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
() A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
() The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
() A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
() Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon [parang hindi fiction. very graphic in a good way.]
Total - 1
(X) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [long read. i liked the movie better. hehe]
() Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
() Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
() The Secret History - Donna Tartt
(X) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [bought it because she died on my birthday]
() Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
() On The Road - Jack Kerouac
() Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
() Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
() Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Total - 2
() Moby Dick - Herman Melville
() Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
() Dracula - Bram Stoker
() The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
() Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
() Ulysses - James Joyce
() The Inferno - Dante
() Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
() Germinal - Emile Zola
() Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Total - 0 [awww..]
() Possession - AS Byatt
() A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
() Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
() The Color Purple - Alice Walker
() The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
() Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
() A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
() Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(X) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [i love for one more day more. hehe]
(X) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [i love everything with sherlock holmes in it]
Total - 2
() The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
() Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
(X) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [read it in high school because every geek was reading it then. hehe]
() The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
() Watership Down - Richard Adams
() A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
() A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
() The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
() Hamlet - William Shakespeare
() Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Total- 1
Overall total: 17
Yeah, admittedly, I’m a bookworm, a geek, and a lover of literature. Naks. Hehe.
Previous Comments
wow. natalbugan ako ah.
i’m not a fan of shakespeare eh. pero, i’m amazed by how you’ve put up reading all these classic lits.
yep, wala masyadong contemporary fiction sa list.
i like john grisham and bob ong. too bad, they’re not on the list.
thanks for dropping by.
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eto naman sa akin…
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Some of Shakespear’s
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Emma - Jane Austen [so so..]
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (pending to read next month)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Ulysses - James Joyce (currently reading, malapit na ako masiraan ng ulo sa book na to)
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
tama ka one of the best nga yan Catcher in the rye,
pero bakit walang virginia woolf, dh lawrence at william faulkner… ayayay…
Posted by Adrian at October 30, 2009, 10:47 am