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starfishdance IS THE GREATEST PERSON EVER!! I just got my birthday present from her and it includes such AWESOMENESS as official JE Matsujun pics and the GOKUSEN DVD and a FASHION CITATION PAD so that I can give people PINK NOTICES for being badly dressed, and A SPARKLY SEQUINED BRACELET and CUPCAKE LIPGLOSS and a LONDON PIN!! AND ON THE BACK IT SAYS "FROM NINO" and the location is "OHNO'S PANTS"!!! XDDDD I AM SO HAPPY!! <3333
Like, really, really happy!
Extremely happy!
I am waiting for my sister to come home because it is CARNIVAL NIGHT TONIGHT! We are going to dress up in feathers and sequins and watch the Time concert DVD and the Arashi Around Asia DVD and practice for when we go to see them in Korea. (Because it's totally going to happen. I read the back cover of The Secret, so I know how to work these things. XP)
Anyhow, that should be awesome.
And totally not lame at all.
Here is that book meme thing that everyone's been doing.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.
Apparently the average adult has read only six from the following list.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - I used to love this book, but now I'm sick of the hype, quite frankly. And I think Jane Austen was a bit harsh to Lydia. Lydia was totally the fun Bennett sister.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Sometimes, I randomly miss Frodo. <3
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Charlotte Bronte pisses me off. She's like the Jan Brady of the Brontes.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Is there seriously anyone in the world who hasn't read HP?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - One of the top 3 books ever written, no?
6. The Bible - I actually tried to read it cover to cover once, but the lack of continuity bugged me.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - So much the superior Bronte. There is nothing not awesome about this book.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - I can't remember if this is the George Orwell book I read or not.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - possibly my favourite fantasy trilogy ever.
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Dickens pwns everyone else on this list.
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Okay, so Little Women was okay but OMG GOOD WIVES PISSED ME THE HELL OFF!! LIKE WTF, JO! LAURIE? SLUTTY SISTER AMY!! WTF, SERIOUSLY! I threw that book across the room when I finished it, it made me so angry!
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Also annoying!!! OMG TESS, STOP YOUR FRICKING WHINING ALREADY!! Oh, woe is me, it's such a curse to be so beautiful blah blah, just go milk some cows and stfu already.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Dude, Thorin Oakenshield was totally hot. For a dwarf.
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Another annoying book. I don't care about the problems of whiny, acne-faced little middle-class kiddies. Cry me a river, Holden Caulfield, I need to go fishing.
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot - I know I've read this, but I can't actually remember what it's about.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - I used to want to be Scarlett when I grew up.
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Greatest novella ever. It gives me the freaking shivers, it is so good. I also used to want to be Jordan Baker when I grew up.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Roflcopter.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - I kind of wish my brain worked like his.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Toads kind of freak me out now.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - My freaking sister spoiled the end for me, because apparently EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HOW IT ENDS!
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Again, Dickens pwns.
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Awesome. Well except for The Last Battle.
34. Emma - Jane Austen - so much the best Jane Austen book.
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Why is this seperate to The Chronicles of Narnia?
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
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Meh.
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - This is the greatest book ever. (Well, except for that whole part where he's in Canada, but it's okay to just skip over that.) Seriously, go and read it now.
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - This book pretty much made me the person I am today!! XP
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hardy, just GTFO. Seriously.
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Poor Piggy!!! D:
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan - The ending bugged me. The movie bugged me even more.
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - The movie with Sting and Kyle McLaughlan is the greatest thing ever. The book is a bit tl;dr. Baron Harkonen > Jabba the Hutt.
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - I think I might've read this, but I'm not sure.
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-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - D:
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - this bugged me a bit, but I read it anyway.
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - I wanted to punch Jude in the face. Like MAYBE THE REASON YOU'RE OBSCURE IS BECAUSE YOU'RE AN ANNOYING, WHINGY TWAT!!
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Dickens. Still pwns.
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
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
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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 - D:
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - OMG, Enid Blyton, what a freaking genius. I used to always climb trees to see if strange and unusual people lived in them and there were awesome lands at the top, but I never found any. I did form a Secret Seven once though, but we didn't have anything much to investigate.
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 - rabbits, whatevs.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - This book made me believe that if I wanted something more than anyone else did, I'd get it. Needless to say, this mode of thought has screwed me over for real life. Still, chocolate factory - awesome!!
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
WTF, I've read 49 of these and I don't even read that much. Who are these average adults in question and what are they doing with their time??? I'd read more than six of these by the time I was ten years old, seriously wtf???
starfishdance IS THE GREATEST PERSON EVER!! I just got my birthday present from her and it includes such AWESOMENESS as official JE Matsujun pics and the GOKUSEN DVD and a FASHION CITATION PAD so that I can give people PINK NOTICES for being badly dressed, and A SPARKLY SEQUINED BRACELET and CUPCAKE LIPGLOSS and a LONDON PIN!! AND ON THE BACK IT SAYS "FROM NINO" and the location is "OHNO'S PANTS"!!! XDDDD I AM SO HAPPY!! <3333 Like, really, really happy!
Extremely happy!
I am waiting for my sister to come home because it is CARNIVAL NIGHT TONIGHT! We are going to dress up in feathers and sequins and watch the Time concert DVD and the Arashi Around Asia DVD and practice for when we go to see them in Korea. (Because it's totally going to happen. I read the back cover of The Secret, so I know how to work these things. XP)
Anyhow, that should be awesome.
And totally not lame at all.
Here is that book meme thing that everyone's been doing.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.
Apparently the average adult has read only six from the following list.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - I used to love this book, but now I'm sick of the hype, quite frankly. And I think Jane Austen was a bit harsh to Lydia. Lydia was totally the fun Bennett sister.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Sometimes, I randomly miss Frodo. <3
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Charlotte Bronte pisses me off. She's like the Jan Brady of the Brontes.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Is there seriously anyone in the world who hasn't read HP?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - One of the top 3 books ever written, no?
6. The Bible - I actually tried to read it cover to cover once, but the lack of continuity bugged me.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - So much the superior Bronte. There is nothing not awesome about this book.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - I can't remember if this is the George Orwell book I read or not.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - possibly my favourite fantasy trilogy ever.
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Dickens pwns everyone else on this list.
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Okay, so Little Women was okay but OMG GOOD WIVES PISSED ME THE HELL OFF!! LIKE WTF, JO! LAURIE? SLUTTY SISTER AMY!! WTF, SERIOUSLY! I threw that book across the room when I finished it, it made me so angry!
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Also annoying!!! OMG TESS, STOP YOUR FRICKING WHINING ALREADY!! Oh, woe is me, it's such a curse to be so beautiful blah blah, just go milk some cows and stfu already.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Dude, Thorin Oakenshield was totally hot. For a dwarf.
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Another annoying book. I don't care about the problems of whiny, acne-faced little middle-class kiddies. Cry me a river, Holden Caulfield, I need to go fishing.
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot - I know I've read this, but I can't actually remember what it's about.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - I used to want to be Scarlett when I grew up.
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Greatest novella ever. It gives me the freaking shivers, it is so good. I also used to want to be Jordan Baker when I grew up.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Roflcopter.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - I kind of wish my brain worked like his.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Toads kind of freak me out now.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - My freaking sister spoiled the end for me, because apparently EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HOW IT ENDS!
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Again, Dickens pwns.
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Awesome. Well except for The Last Battle.
34. Emma - Jane Austen - so much the best Jane Austen book.
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Why is this seperate to The Chronicles of Narnia?
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
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Meh.
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - This is the greatest book ever. (Well, except for that whole part where he's in Canada, but it's okay to just skip over that.) Seriously, go and read it now.
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - This book pretty much made me the person I am today!! XP
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hardy, just GTFO. Seriously.
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Poor Piggy!!! D:
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan - The ending bugged me. The movie bugged me even more.
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - The movie with Sting and Kyle McLaughlan is the greatest thing ever. The book is a bit tl;dr. Baron Harkonen > Jabba the Hutt.
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - I think I might've read this, but I'm not sure.
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-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - D:
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - this bugged me a bit, but I read it anyway.
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - I wanted to punch Jude in the face. Like MAYBE THE REASON YOU'RE OBSCURE IS BECAUSE YOU'RE AN ANNOYING, WHINGY TWAT!!
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Dickens. Still pwns.
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
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
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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 - D:
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - OMG, Enid Blyton, what a freaking genius. I used to always climb trees to see if strange and unusual people lived in them and there were awesome lands at the top, but I never found any. I did form a Secret Seven once though, but we didn't have anything much to investigate.
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 - rabbits, whatevs.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - This book made me believe that if I wanted something more than anyone else did, I'd get it. Needless to say, this mode of thought has screwed me over for real life. Still, chocolate factory - awesome!!
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
WTF, I've read 49 of these and I don't even read that much. Who are these average adults in question and what are they doing with their time??? I'd read more than six of these by the time I was ten years old, seriously wtf???
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Date: 2008-07-25 07:36 am (UTC)Actually I've seen rants that Jane Eyre is not a pushover and the fanwriters shouldn't write her like this. Because apparently she should have not been so stubborn and married him right away! XD
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Date: 2008-07-26 12:48 am (UTC)LOL, well that's doing great things for feminism, isn't it!! XP
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Date: 2008-07-26 09:12 pm (UTC)What? You mentioned the ideas of real feminism and an average fangirl in the same sentence?
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Date: 2008-07-27 08:47 am (UTC)