{"id":359,"date":"2003-05-21T22:50:31","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T03:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2003\/05\/21\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T01:05:22","slug":"book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2003\/05\/21\/book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been avoiding quizzes and things, since Blogger doesn’t have a cut tag like livejournal or MoveableType, but I like the book lists, so…<\/p>\n

I saw the list on the BBC news site a week or so ago; don’t remember exactly who compiled it.<\/p>\n

I don’t agree with a lot of these choices. For instance, I don’t think _Artemis Fowl_ was a very good book; the female characters were poorly drawn, most of the supporting cast was very flat, and the plot, which could have been interesting, was plodding because the characters were boring. <\/p>\n

1984, George Orwell<\/b>
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll<\/b>
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy<\/b>
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery<\/b>
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer<\/b>
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding<\/b>
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger<\/b>
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl<\/b>
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens<\/b>
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel (… but I did<\/i> read books 2 and 3 of this series)
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert<\/b>
Emma, Jane Austen<\/b>
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell<\/b>
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake (I fell asleep watching the movie on PBS. This didn’t turn me on to the books.)
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck<\/b>
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald<\/b>
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling<\/b> (another book that shouldn’t be on here…)
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling<\/b> (ditto)
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling<\/b>
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling<\/b>
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman<\/b> (And why the heck is Harry Potter on here 4 times when these 3 books are smushed into one?)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams<\/b>
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien<\/b>
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte <\/b>
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis<\/b> (… and the rest of the series?)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott<\/b>
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding<\/b>
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien<\/i><\/b> (I’ve only read about half. I just can’t get through it all. Yawn.)
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bda M\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdrquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl <\/b>
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden <\/b>
Middlemarch, George Eliot <\/b>
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck <\/b>
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bda M\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdrquez
Perfume, Patrick S\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen <\/b>
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen <\/b>
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot <\/b> (Why the heck is this book on the list?!)
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/b>
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens <\/b>
Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy <\/b>
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee<\/b>
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson<\/b>
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams<\/b>
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame<\/i> (I’ve tried. Never got through it.)
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte<\/b><\/p>\n

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