Saturday, June 07, 2008 just for fun.Found this off a blog. Books I've read/own are in bold, and those in italics are those which I started and never quite finished/halfway. Underlined are those that have been on the want list for a very long time.Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude (I have this lying somewhere, but not read) Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi: A novel The Name of the Rose (I will borrow it from Ivan, well, sometime soon) 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 (I just bought it, not read yet) Emma The Blind Assassin The Kite Runner (This is lying somewhere around) Mrs. Dalloway Great Expectations American Gods (I borrowed this from Gaurav, but I've not started on it) 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 novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Love in the Time of Cholera (I have this too, not read yet) Brave New World The Fountainhead Foucault's Pendulum Middlemarch Frankenstein The Count of Monte Cristo Dracula A Clockwork Orange (I gave up on this book, and gave it away) Anansi Boys The Once and Future King The Grapes of Wrath The Poisonwood Bible 1984 (I have this but not read, book is with Tian) Angels & Demons Inferno The Satanic Verses Sense and Sensibility The Picture of Dorian Gray Mansfield Park One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Tian's copy is with me, not yet read) To the Lighthouse (I have it, not read) Tess of the D'Urbervilles Oliver Twist 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 (About to borrow from Ivan) 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: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into values The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity’s Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood: A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences White Teeth (Jess's copy is with me) Treasure Island David Copperfield |
blueprint I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator. fresh monodies I know, I haven't been around, no thanks to a majo... previous rants August 2004 treatises on life arty jen frivolous pursuits for shallow ppl mulling over "One is wicked, because one see things clearly." - Beaumarchais's Le nozze di Figaro.And there were phlegmatic souls.
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