Meme Sheepage

[erastes]

Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book. I've added an addendum. Underline what you recommend.

I think this bears up a lot of what I've always said about myself. I live in the past.  As you can see, I didn't hate or not finish any of them..... My name is Erastes and I'm a bookaholic.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and Punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi : A Novel (94)
The Name of the Rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
Moby Dick (86)
Ulysses (84)
Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)
Pride and Prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80)
A Tale of Two Cities (80)
The Brothers Karamazov (80)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (79)
War and Peace (78)
Vanity Fair (74)
The Time Traveler's Wife (73)
The Iliad (73)
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The Kite Runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great Expectations (70)
American Gods (68)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (67)
Atlas Shrugged (67)
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66)
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (65)
The Canterbury Tales (64)
The Historian : A Novel (63)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (63)
Love in the Time of Cholera (62)
Brave New World (61)  (Co-incidentally - check out my review over on SMART BITCHES)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's Pendulum (61)
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59)
A Clockwork Orange (59)
Anansi Boys (58)
The Once and Future King (57)
The Grapes of Wrath (57)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & Demons (56)
The Inferno (56)
The Satanic Verses (55)
Sense and Sensibility (55)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (54)
To the Lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's Travels (53)
Les Misérables (53)
The Corrections (53)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (52)
Dune (51)
The Prince (51)
The Sound and the Fury (51)
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (51)
The God of Small Things (51)
A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50)
Neverwhere (50)
A Confederacy of Dunces (50)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (50)
Dubliners (50)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being(49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-Five (49)
The Scarlet Letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)
The Mists of Avalon (47)
Oryx and Crake : A Novel (47)
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (47)
Cloud Atlas (47)
The Confusion (46)
Lolita (46) 
Persuasion (46)
Northanger Abbey (46)
The Catcher in the Rye (46)
On the Road (46)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (45)
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (45)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's Rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (44)
White Teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44) 

Comments

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

You shame me into un-readation...but bahhhh :P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

But I am OLD. most of these were read when I was at school (again since, obviously) and before I was 25... I'm a read-aholic - two - three books a week?

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Methinx me may be older...

but until...aprox 7 years ago, I never wrote a word...of smutty boypRon ;) Needless to say, a book is never out of my hand now. RL just gets in the way of reading, don't you think?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nope! I'm older!

And yes, it does. I only read in the bath and in bed these days, and rarely - rarely on Saturday mornings. But i have to read before bed, or I can't sleep.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

You checked me out them? LOL

I've only recently discovered maybe I can write...

but I certainly can read, ;P and not in the bath, the pages go all soggy :(

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I always check out new friends, don't want to be friending under 16s!

Oh yes, they do, I ruin more books than I can speak of in that way, but that's good for the book industry! Dun it all me life....

I have a RUINED copy of "Stardust" mouldering in there right this minute....

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

You have not read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell? I loved that book and the book of short stories by the same author set in the same universe as the first book.

It is a fantasy novel but not..just set in England of the past but one that is different.

:)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I am tempted, but gehayi started it and really loathed it - so it kind of put me off. I'll give it a try one of these days and try to be objective!!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

It is one of those novels that starts sloooow...and once you push thorough the first couple of chapters the story just picks up and runs...also a lot of footnotes telling backtales and such. I really really enjoyed the book and was just satisfied when done with it.

Now one I have tried to read twice and can't get into is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I have tried to read it twice this year and could even get half way done. Maybe next year....

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing. I am humbled.

Although I definitely concur with RL getting in the way of reading, I'm absolutely convinced that my reading speed has slowed down since I went down the path of higher education. When I was in school, I would take ten or fifteen books out of the library at a time (granted, about half of those would be fluffy things I'd finish in half an hour so they don't really count). I read because it was the best entertainment I had, in my view. I don't suppose I really viewed it as a means of enriching my mind.

That might be the key. The moment reading became part of my 'job' as it were.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nah - as I said, I've read few of those recently, apart from the Austen (can't understnad why they are the least read..) read most of them when I was a lot younger.

School put me off reading. I didn't read anything after school much for about five years.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I don't understand the reluctance to read Austen either. Maybe because it turns up in schools so often, people associate it with writing superficial reports? One of my very good friends absolutely *loathes* Pride and Prejudice because she had to read it in school.

ah Mustapha Mond

[dubaiyan.livejournal.com]

how did you get on Smart Bitches?!

Re: ah Mustapha Mond

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's part of their Banned Books week - they advertised for reviews for any of the Banned Books and I think I was first in with my review!!

:)

I'm SUCH a whore.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I will never try this meme... I read most of the classic even before school ask me to do that. I remember to have reading Kafka and Gorky when I was 12 years old and my mother started to look at me in strange way. In that period I read also Lady Chatterly's Lover and Maurice and from that moment on my preference went to historical novel and from historical novel I passed on histical romance novel and then... too long. Now I read mostly romance, and my only exceptions are historical essays. As I often say, I'm searching the second hand book markets to find the last two volumes to complete my collection of a 33 volumes encyclopedia about histotic family, all realeased in the '50 and '60... elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't think I would ever read one genre to the exclusion of all others, it can't be healthy. I do read a lot of gay historicals, but in between I read children's books, fantasy, classics and sci-fi. I just get bored with one genre over and over

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I have had a case of... tireness. At one point my head has said STOP, and from that moment on, only lightness and stupidity has the right to enter it. Sometimes some sparkle of intelligence break through (I'm enthralled by some books other find really boring, like "The 5 Formulas who changed the world"...), but then I read a really really lighthearted book and I'm happy... and in this moment really sleepy, so if I said nonsenseness, don't mind too much. elisa