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Fri Aug 14, 2009, 12:45 PM
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Bible (in entirety) –
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X (half way through - it was bloody awful)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell –
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X (read first one, didn't like the others)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - X (I hate Thomas Hardy, die tess die)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare-
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – x (amazing)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X (I love Narnia )
34 Emma-Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres –
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell – x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown – x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – (no but have read all quiet on the western front, amazing)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - (no but have it somewhere)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - (i am never reading another thomas hardy book)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel-
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen-
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - x
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez –

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold –
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac –
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville-

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - (no but got it)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - ((no but got it)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno – Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - X (yes and loved every minute, wanted my childhood to be like that)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray-
80 Possession - AS Byatt –

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - (no but got it)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert –
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - (just got 'the casebook';)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams –
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - (no but m,ight have it somewhere)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

18, not bad compared to 6, but not great either. should say i must read more but all my books are crime at the min and not on the list. oh well :-)

  • Mood: Triumph
  • Listening to: Maximo Park
  • Reading: Elizabeth Peters - The Murders of Henry III
  • Drinking: Tea

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Hi, I'm Laura, 19 and from Washington. That would be the original Washington in the North East of England, just ouside of Newcastle. I'm at uni in Chester though studying Nutrition and Dietetics, so spend my time between the two. As you can probably tell from this, I hope to become a fully registered and qualified dietitian when I finish uni.

Most of my stuff on here is photography or poetry. My camera is only a Fujifilm Finepix Z, so I don't think my stuff is too bad considering. Also, most of my stuff is architecture of scenery - I'm crap at taking pics of people - I always cut their heads off!

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  • Current Residence: UK
  • Interests: Guiding - sad to some but I help out the best Rainbows ever
  • Favourite movie: Star Trek(the new one), Hot Fuzz, Hellboy 1 and 2, Dogma
  • Favourite band or musician: Wolfmother, Alphabeat (bit of a difference, i know!)
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock/pop
  • Favourite artist: Millais
  • Favourite poet or writer: Elizabeth Peters, Sylvia Plath, Charlaine Harris, Mark Gatiss
  • MP3 player of choice: Creative Zen Sleek - when it works!
  • Wallpaper of choice: Star Trek quotes from the new film
  • Favourite game: Mah jong - what a skill!
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC - I'm not into all this fancy playstation lark, although my cousin has a Nintendo Wii ...
  • Favourite cartoon character: Wallace and Gromit - more stop motion animation really, but still Great British Humour
  • Personal Quote: I'll fix it!
  • Tools of the Trade: Pen - mightier than the sword some say, Camera - mightier than the eye? oh I don't know!

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:iconsilveraaki:
Thanks so much for the fav! :)

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*Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!*
:iconlauy:
no probs :-)

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"She'll be ripping her bodice off next!"
"Bodice? What century are you living in?"

"I was sorting through some past correspondance..."
"I believe the phrase, 'what century are you living in?', is called for again!"

Me and my mental mates!
:iconfiona-elizabeth:
Told ya I'd find it!

[link]

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You had your chance, but frankly Davies: I don't give a damn.
:iconlauy:
yeah after how many hours? lols love it though

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"She'll be ripping her bodice off next!"
"Bodice? What century are you living in?"

"I was sorting through some past correspondance..."
"I believe the phrase, 'what century are you living in?', is called for again!"

Me and my mental mates!
:iconlauy:
no probs :-)

--
"She'll be ripping her bodice off next!"
"Bodice? What century are you living in?"

"I was sorting through some past correspondance..."
"I believe the phrase, 'what century are you living in?', is called for again!"

Me and my mental mates!
:iconhushblossom:
thanks for the favs

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My journal -- [link]
:iconlauy:
no probs :-)

--
"She'll be ripping her bodice off next!"
"Bodice? What century are you living in?"

"I was sorting through some past correspondance..."
"I believe the phrase, 'what century are you living in?', is called for again!"

Me and my mental mates!
:iconsummerjasmine:
thanks for the :+fav:

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apparently, my Indian name is "Gee with boobs"
so says ~gw

"Be yourself. Don't take anyone's shit. And never let them take you alive!!" ~Gerard Way
:iconlauy:
no probs :-)

--
"She'll be ripping her bodice off next!"
"Bodice? What century are you living in?"

"I was sorting through some past correspondance..."
"I believe the phrase, 'what century are you living in?', is called for again!"

Me and my mental mates!

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