The List

You all have them, you know you do. That epic list of books that you've been getting round to reading ... and then all those ones that you did start reading ... but then ... yeah...

Here's mine! It's colour coded!

On the list.
Started but well yeah.
Omigawd she actually finished an entire book.

Musicophelia
What is music?
Feminism in Art History
Hamlet
The Aneaid
1984
Lolita
No Logo
The Female Eunuch
Dialogues on the Death of Socrates
Speaking Truth to Power
Umm ... The Sil! And ... yeah...

Now we can tick of books when we manage to read them! And congratulate each other on managing to actually finish reading an entire book!

Trying to make herself look like a creative intellectual
Trying to make herself look intelligent and knowledgeable.
Forced in actually being honest!


Don't bother yourself overmuch lovely, I'm just taken the piss, we all do it, after all. XP

I'm scared to laugh.

I lol'd.

My signature is reference to my current fav book

I think artsgeek deserves a shiny rep point for that brilliance. Considering he doesn't have one yet

He hasn't been here for ages though... we should make him come back...

1984 is amazing.

Lolita is good but be prepared to be completely disturbed.

I did this a few years ago - compiled a massive list and circulated it to family and friends so I got them all as birthday/Christmas presents. Great way to get lots of books without it costing you much, and its also kind of an incentive to read them because people ask you about them.

Kerouac - On the Road is amazing
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye is fantastic.
Orwell - Animal Farm, def worth a look.
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar - my fave book.

I've been big into biographies of late - Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Tuhoe Isaacs, Anthony Kiedis, Motley Crue, Louise Nicholas, Anthony Rapp (of RENT fame).

Also, for witty/funny/light reading - Jenny Crusie writes great chicklit. Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation, both v v good.

Hey wretchedkisses, Louise Nicholas is my second cousin, how bout that?

I know I should read Animal Farm at some point ... but that would involve having some vague knowledge of the political climate which happens to be the point of the whole thing... and I cbf finding all that out... so it remains at the bottom of the list for another decade or so ^.^o

Ugh, I haven't read Animal Farm either. *pout*


Necrophilia Variations - Supervert
They Called me Bunny - Mary Anderson Parks
Girl, interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

I'm starting to get the hint that I should be delving into some Sylvia Plath...

I had to study 'Daddy'.

Horrible poem.

Her poems are absolute bollocks.

But her book, The Bell Jar, is a work of genius.

Awh, were all the Wolf At the Table references deleted? *frown*

I told Liv Liv about how goth lolly was inspired by Lolita so she went out and bought the book, I might borow it from her when she done since our school library can't find it's copy anymore....

I'm quite into the histories, As The Waltz Was Ending was fantastic but that may be somewhat to do with the dance element to it. Eternal love for Jodi Picoult, particularly my Sister's Keeper.

I really want to read Jo's book, but I can't remember the title or her last name so kinda hard. I'll get to it sometime though... I assume.

You could always ask about it at the school library, I mean, you'd think they might know a thing or to about it, given the westlake connection...

Westlake connection perhaps, but not a very proud one!

But hey, I could just ask Ms Marshall, might be a little more helpful instead of going to the librarian, I want a specific book, it's just been published and the author's first name is Jo but I think she used er full name I just can't remember what it is...

lawl. Good luck... XP

I don't get it, what do I need luck for?

I take it you don't remember any of the details.

I also have eternal love for Jodi Picoult... Change of Heart is beautiful but not quite as good, I felt, as Nineteen Minutes or Tenth Circle.

TimTam wrote:

I told Liv Liv about how goth lolly was inspired by Lolita so she went out and bought the book, I might borow it from her when she done since our school library can't find it's copy anymore.....

Well, slightly. I saw it in the bookstore and was like hey, thats the book Tam told me about and then I read the back and was like that sounds interesting.

This list could go on for a while because I have about 200 books I am yet to read. Go book sales.

- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (okay, I already read this but I want to read it again).
- The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory
- Lolita (haven't finished it yet)
- Daughter of the Forest/Son of the Shadows/Child of the Prophecy, by Juliet Marillier (read them too but want to again...)

oo yes, Nineteen minutes I got for Christmas, I liked it except that sometimes it seemed to almost cross a line with the homophobia but I put it down to plot detail and character developement rather thanthe author's personal views, though I really didn't like the description of the lesbian and the suggestion that her childhood 'game' had anything to do with her sexuality.

TimTam wrote:

oo yes, Nineteen minutes I got for Christmas, I liked it except that sometimes it seemed to almost cross a line with the homophobia but I put it down to plot detail and character developement rather thanthe author's personal views, though I really didn't like the description of the lesbian and the suggestion that her childhood 'game' had anything to do with her sexuality.

There's a lesbian in Nineteen Minutes? I haven't read it in a long time, so I don't remember much apart from the straight plot.

Oh god, pun so *not* intended. I meant, the basic plot details.