Yes, It’s a Book Meme
Posted By Ardellis on January 28, 2006
Scarfed from PZB.
Have read
Intend to read
Won’t read
might consider reading if somebody gave it to me
started but never finished
*finished but hated
[] don’t know enough about to decide
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
[Life of Pi - Yann Martel]
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon]
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (actually, I’ve just started this one)
[The Secret History - Donna Tartt]
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender’s Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
[Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell]
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
[Atonement - Ian McEwan]
[The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon]
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
I notice I didn’t mark any of these as started but not finished. There have been a few books in my reading history that I’ve simply not been able to get through, but they’ve been very very few in number. I chalk it up to my inability to let go of the hope that even a very bad book will eventually redeem itself somehow. Frequent disappointment in this doesn’t seem to deter me.
Cryptonomicon is much fun, but Stephenson is my favorite author so I’m a little biased.
Just noticed that you’ve never read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and am kind of surprised, but I’ve got some classics I’ve never read so I understand how that happens.
It’s nice that you didn’t mark any as “finished but hated” either.
I was wondering what you’ve got against “American Gods” and “Ender’s Game”? I thought you liked Gaiman, and, despite his Mormon-ness, Card is actually very good, IMHO.
–E.
I have a great deal of trouble separating what I know of an artist as a person from my enjoyment of his work. That’s the issue here for me. Have you read Card’s screed against gay marriage? The man will never see another dime from me, if I can help it.
I can understand that. For some reason I thought you *had* read “American Gods”, though.
–E.
I bought the book. Right before I decided that I wished I hadn’t.
Ah, that’s what must have confused me; I distinctly remember seeing it in your car at one point.
–E.