{"id":4423,"date":"2008-05-09T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:01:11","slug":"a-book-listing-meme-that-proves-again-that-i-read-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/a-book-listing-meme-that-proves-again-that-i-read-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Listing Meme That Proves, Again, That I Read A Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/backlog\/2008\/05\/bolstering_my_shelfe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dustbury<\/a>, I again have an opportunity to list some books and identify what I&#8217;ve read.  Apparently, this is some list of books people tend to own just so they look smart.<\/p>\n<p>The schtick is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as &#8220;unread&#8221; by LibraryThing&#8217;s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. <b>Bold<\/b> the ones you&#8217;ve read, <u>underline<\/u> the ones you read for school, <i>italicize<\/i> the ones you started but didn&#8217;t finish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, I have listed in <font color=\"green\">green<\/font> the ones that I have on my to read shelves to actually read.  Additionally, I have posted links to the reports on books that I&#8217;ve finished in the last couple of years so you can see I did read them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr Norrell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/book-report-anna-karenina-by-leo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Anna Karenina<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Crime and Punishment<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Catch-22<\/b><\/li>\n<li>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/li>\n<li>Wuthering Heights<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">The Silmarillion<\/font><\/li>\n<li>Life of Pi: a novel<\/li>\n<li>The Name of the Rose<\/li>\n<li>Don Quixote<\/li>\n<li><b><u>Moby Dick<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">Ulysses<\/font><\/li>\n<li>Madame Bovary<\/li>\n<li><b>The Odyssey<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Pride and Prejudice<\/li>\n<li><b><u>Jane Eyre<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><u>The Tale of Two Cities<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li>The Brothers Karamazov<\/li>\n<li>Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies<\/li>\n<li><i><font color=\"green\">War and Peace<\/font><\/i><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">Vanity Fair<\/font><\/li>\n<li>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/li>\n<li><b>The Iliad<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/book-report-emma-by-jane-austen-1996.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Emma<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Blind Assassin<\/li>\n<li>The Kite Runner<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Dalloway<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/book-report-great-expectations-by.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Great Expectations<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>American Gods<\/li>\n<li>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/li>\n<li><b>Atlas Shrugged<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books<\/li>\n<li>Memoirs of a Geisha<\/li>\n<li>Middlesex<\/li>\n<li>Quicksilver<\/li>\n<li>Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West<\/li>\n<li><u><i>The Canterbury Tales<\/i><\/u><\/li>\n<li>The Historian: a novel<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/font><\/li>\n<li>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/li>\n<li><b>Brave New World<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/book-review-fountainhead-by-ayn-rand.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The Fountainhead<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">Middlemarch<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">Frankenstein<\/font><\/li>\n<li>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/li>\n<li>Dracula<\/li>\n<li>A Clockwork Orange<\/li>\n<li>Anansi Boys<\/li>\n<li>The Once and Future King<\/li>\n<li><b><u>The Grapes of Wrath<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li>The Poisonwood Bible : a novel<\/li>\n<li><b>1984<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Angels &#038; Demons<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)<\/font><\/li>\n<li>The Satanic Verses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/book-report-sense-and-sensibility-by.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Sense and Sensibility<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/li>\n<li><i><font color=\"green\">Mansfield Park<\/font><\/i><\/li>\n<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/li>\n<li><b><u>To the Lighthouse<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><u>Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/book-report-adventures-of-oliver-twist.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Oliver Twist<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/li>\n<li>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/li>\n<li>The Corrections<\/li>\n<li>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/font><\/li>\n<li>Dune<\/li>\n<li><b>The Prince<\/b><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\"><i><u>The Sound and the Fury<\/u><\/i><\/font><\/li>\n<li>Angela&#8217;s Ashes: a memoir<\/li>\n<li>The God of Small Things<\/li>\n<li>A People&#8217;s History of the United States: 1492-present<\/li>\n<li>Cryptonomicon<\/li>\n<li>Neverwhere<\/li>\n<li>A Confederacy of Dunces<\/li>\n<li>A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/li>\n<li>Dubliners<\/li>\n<li><b>The Unbearable Lightness of Being<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Beloved<\/li>\n<li>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/li>\n<li><b><u>The Scarlet Letter<\/u><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Eats, Shoots &#038; Leaves<\/li>\n<li>The Mists of Avalon<\/li>\n<li>Oryx and Crake: a novel<\/li>\n<li>Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed<\/li>\n<li>Cloud Atlas<\/li>\n<li>The Confusion<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">Lolita<\/font><\/li>\n<li>Persuasion<\/li>\n<li>Northanger Abbey<\/li>\n<li><b>The Catcher in the Rye<\/b><\/li>\n<li>On the Road<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/book-report-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything<\/li>\n<li>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values<\/li>\n<li>The Aeneid<\/li>\n<li>Watership Down<\/li>\n<li>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">The Hobbit<\/font> (well, the graphic novel, anyway)<\/li>\n<li>In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences<\/li>\n<li>White Teeth<\/li>\n<li><b>Treasure Island<\/b><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">David Copperfield<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/book-report-three-musketeers-by.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The Three Musketeers<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, the list is mostly unread, even the books that I actually think are worth reading and not just fluff put on by contemporary reviewers or poseurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Dustbury, I again have an opportunity to list some books and identify what I&#8217;ve read. Apparently, this is some list of books people tend to own just so they look smart. The schtick is as follows: What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as &#8220;unread&#8221; by LibraryThing&#8217;s users. 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