couch potato day

[fahye]

The fridge in my kitchenette freezes any liquid you put in it, regardless of what temperature setting it's on; as a result, being too lazy to chip away at solid blocks of frozen milk, I have started drinking black coffee. This is probably the point of no return.

I am planning to spend today reading. Maybe writing, maybe wandering down to Railway Square to check out the very very cheap bookshop I discovered yesterday when I only had time to duck inside for ten minutes, but mostly reading. It will be glorious.

In the spirit of things:

LibraryThing's 'most unread books' list.

Rules: bold the books you've read; italicize the books you read part of that one time.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Comments

[myrafur.livejournal.com]

Spend the day at oh_shit_santa! ^_^


Wow. I'm feeling pretty good about that list, there. I've read a quarter of those to my six year old.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I am planning on going through later and leaving comments everywhere, yes! But right now I have a date with several novels.

It's an interesting list, no matter how many you have or haven't read you can either feel smugly elite (that you've read some) or a sense of solidarity with your fellow man (that you, too, simply can't be bothered to read weighty old books when there are so many shiny new ones coming out).

To be fair, most of the books I've bolded up there, I really enjoyed. Which probably means I should give some of the others a try.

[myrafur.livejournal.com]

You can skip The Poisonwood Bible.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

You know, you specifically would love Nabokov, specifically, I think.