running with scissors

Found a blogger who posted this and I find it interesting to know how many books I have actually read. She also says that the BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. See if you're one of them! (The bold ones are the books that I have actually read, the italicized are ones I started but haven't finished or had only read an excerpt)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (redundant: no 33)

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 - A.A. Milne 

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

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

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I really want to tho!)

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

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 Inferno - Dante

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 - E.B. White

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

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

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I scored a mere total of 34 books (even including ones I haven't finished reading) :o This is sad. How about you?

5%

I'm such a lazy bum. Not only that, I find it hard to concentrate on one thing for a prolonged time. This semester break, I'm making a promise to myself that I will finish reading all these four books. Some of which, were purchased last year, sigh. Got no excuse to buy more now..

I'm always interested to see movie adaptations of books. To compare my initial perception and imagery of the characters and settings with what movie makers came up with and found is what I look forward to do the most. Though sometimes there's the possibility of getting crushed. i.e: Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen. (sorry Rpattz fans!)

The "Never Let Me Go" trailer is very promising, having Keira and Carey in it (two British actresses that I love!) And it had already inclined a tinge of sadness in me the first time I viewed it. Just like how I felt when reading the first half of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed it just the same as "A Thousand Splendid Suns" even though some people say otherwise. On the other hand, James Franco stars in Eat, Pray, Love as one the few minor characters. He automatically becomes my sole reason to watch it. (okay kidding, not that shallow..) 

I love Emma Stone in Superbad and Zombieland! She's funny without even trying. Hard to find that quality now, especially with young actresses like her. Anyway, I've read somewhere that the concept of Easy A's storyline is somewhat inspired by the novel, The Scarlett Letter. Yeay, another movie adaptation from a book. Hey, is it a trend now or something?

And lastly, 

I've gotten to know that this is a sequel but I never really get around to watching the first one. Should I? I just want to watch Shia LaBeouf on screen. The last time was Transformers 2 and him playing this dramatic role is something I feel like I need to see. Because sometimes when I see him, I still have the image of Even Stevens in my head. Do you remember that show? I loved it!

Edited: Eh you guys, I forgot "The Social Network"!

I've got 5 movies in my must-watch list. Now who's really gonna bring me? :p

Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you... I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.