Just call me a sheep and get it over with

[itsallovernow]

This is a bizarre list, and I'm gonna highlight the ones I've read, highlight and italicize the one's I hated.
Best reads my ass. Did thses people actually read Dicken's and Thomas Hardy, on purpose?
I shouldn't say that, there are books on here I love.

1984, George Orwell - but not this one.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott FitzgeraldThis I love
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis - and this
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding-but not this
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien - these get hugs
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez-as does he
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne - My all time favorite
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

I guess I didn't hate any of them, although I came pretty close to italicizing Thomas Hardy. I've read a lot of these books, though only a few of them are close to my heart, and most of those are books from my childhood.
Keep in mind, I've live a lot of places with very long winters, although I read War and Peace in Greece because Penguin classics were available in English and were the only books I could afford. I was also an English major. I do adore Jane Austen, and I have - admittedly -read The Stand many, many times. I'm pleased that there are only a few I haven't heard of. Oh, and Donna Tartt can kiss my ass.
The Secret History is not as good as it's press suggested, and after having spent a year at Bennington, she ripped off her setting verbatim. I'd bet money she lived in the same room that I did - though all the old rooms are pretty similar. The book is creepy, atmospheric and clever, laced with incest and displaced, disenfranchised youth, but it is hardly ground breaking. It's a big gothic thriller set in a small college, and as a Classicist, I can tell you, we didn't have drug induced Bacchanals in the snow. It's too frelling cold!
And finally, I didn't read Catcher in the Rye until i was an adult, and I think it suffered as a result. Teenage angst seems to be the best mode of appreciating this book.

Comments

[veritykindle.livejournal.com]

Gah! Evil LJ ate my comment. I've decided not to see that as a sign that I shouldn't post the comment in the first place, and try to post it again. ;)

You haven't read any Terry Pratchett? Oh, you definitely should! He's really a lot of fun to read. I think of his Discworld novels as sort of like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" of fantasy. Very fun and very quotable. :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

No Terry Pratchett, which isn't a testament to anything but the fact that I don't actually read all that much science fiction any more, except for people who have been recommended by readers I trust. I had to stop taking recs from my dad because he'll read anything:)

I hadn't even read Bujold until I started seeing her name spring up on LJ. I've heard great things about Terry Pratchet though, and a good friend of mine has all of his books, so I will look into borrowing them!

Gah! Evil LJ ate my comment. I've decided not to see that as a sign that I shouldn't post the comment in the first place, and try to post it again. ;)
It's been all wonky all day. My posts keep not posting.