15 books
Stolen from Facebook, with all of the goofy tag stuff removed. A weird mix, but that is what came to mind. I'm curious as to what others come up with.

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

2. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

3. Shadows of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

4. Dresden Files (entire series) - Jim Butcher

5. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

6. Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore

7. The Book Thief - Marcus Zuzak

8. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

9. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner - Dean Karnazes

10. The Eight - Katherine Neville

11. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

12. Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey

13. The Nineteenth Wife - David Eberschoff

14. Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold

15. The Speed of Dark - Elisabeth Moon

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This is just too me...
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011366.html#011366

I NEED to visit this place.

For those who don't know:

A) I am Lutheran
B) I am the advisor for my university's Muslim Student Association.

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What the hell is it with me and birds?!
So, I'm in San Antonio for a conference, and I arrived the day before everyone else from school as I have officer stuff to do in the morning and the meeting doesn't really get going until tomorrow afternoon.

I had time to kill, and no one with me, and stopped for dinner at a Mexican restaurant on the Riverwalk. I was eating on the patio, and pigeons were wandering around, being bold. After I finished eating, I pushed the plate back, and one particularly brave pigeon perched on the table and snuck a piece of rice. When I didn't shoo him off, he moved in closer, and at one point, there were 6 pigeons eating my leftovers and posturing at each other. Rice was flying around, birds were hopping around on the plate and in the tortilla chips, tourists were stopping to take pictures.... I don't know what it is with me and birds.

At least none of them flew into my head. For those of you reading who haven't heard that story, lets just say that one of Donald Duck's less cartoonish brethren tried to decapitate me at Disneyworld while I was on my honeymoon.

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Another movie meme, stolen from ericcoleman via rjmwell
A movie meme
How many of these best-picture Oscar nominated movies have you seen?
Bold the ones you've seen, regardless of whether you saw them in the cinema, on TV/video, or on a plane even years after they came out.



1980. Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess
1981. Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982. Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
1983. Terms of Endearment, The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies
1984. Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
1985. Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
1986. Platoon, Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View
1987. The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck
1988. Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl
1989. Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
1990. Dances with Wolves, Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas
1991. The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides
1992. Unforgiven, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman
1993. Schindler's List, The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day
1994. Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption
1995. Braveheart, Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino (The Postman), Sense and Sensibility
1996. The English Patient, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
1997. Titanic, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential
1998. Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line
1999. American Beauty, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
2000. Gladiator, Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic
2001. A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge
2002. Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist
2003. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
2004. Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways
2005. Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
2006. The Departed, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
2007. No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood
2008. Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader

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Razzies List - Stolen from ericcoleman
That other movie list
Not every movie is worthy of an Oscar. Hell, some movies aren't worthy of anything much but scorn and derision. The Razzies were born in 1981 and as long was we are all copping to the great movies we've seen, let's fess up to the not-so-great ones we've watched... either in a theater or in the private shame of our homes by highlighting them in bold. I'm adding an extra, italize those that you tried to watch, but gave up on in disgust.

Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Cruising (1980)
Formula, The (1980)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Jazz Singer, The (1980)
Nude Bomb, The (1980)
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Saturn 3 (1980)
Windows (1980)
Xanadu (1980)

Endless Love (1981)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Legend of the Lone Ranger, The (1981)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Mommie Dearest (1981)

Annie (1982)
Butterfly (1982)
Megaforce (1982)
Pirate Movie, The (1982)
Inchon (1981)

Hercules (1983)
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Stroker Ace (1983)
Two of a Kind (1983)
Lonely Lady, The (1983)

Cannonball Run II (1984)
Rhinestone (1984)
Sheena (1984)
Where the Boys Are '84 (1984)
Bolero (1984)

Fever Pitch (1985)
Revolution (1985)
Rocky IV (1985)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) - I'm sure I saw this, but have blocked all memory of it from my mind

Blue City (1986)
Cobra (1986)
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
Howard the Duck (1986)
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

Ishtar (1987)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
Who's That Girl (1987)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)

Caddyshack II (1988)
Hot to Trot (1988)
Mac and Me (1988)
Rambo III (1988)
Cocktail (1988)

Karate Kid, Part III, The (1989)
Lock Up (1989)
Road House (1989)
Speed Zone! (1989)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) - A friend dragged 5 of us to this, and loved it - he then turned to look at the rest of us, asleep on each other in the theater like ferrets. He got very mad at us. I've fallen asleep during that whole God sequence every subsequent time someone has made me try to watch it.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)
Graffiti Bridge (1990)
Rocky V (1990)
Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The (1990)
Ghosts Can't Do It (1989)

Cool as Ice (1991)
Dice Rules (1991)
Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Hudson Hawk (1991)

Bodyguard, The (1992)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
Final Analysis (1992)
Newsies (1992)
Shining Through (1992)

Body of Evidence (1993)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Last Action Hero (1993)
Sliver (1993)
Indecent Proposal (1993)

North (1994)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
Specialist, The (1994)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Color of Night (1994)

Congo (1995)
It's Pat (1994)
Scarlet Letter, The (1995)
Waterworld (1995)
Showgirls (1995)

Barb Wire (1996) - My husband actually had this on last night, but I left the room before he hit play. He claims it is actually a really bad remake of Casablanca, with Pam in the Bogart role.
Ed (1996)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1996)
Stupids, The (1996)
Striptease (1996)

Anaconda (1997)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Postman, The (1997)

Armageddon (1998/I)
Avengers, The (1998)
Godzilla (1998)
Spice World (1997)
Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, An (1997)

Big Daddy (1999/I)
Blair Witch Project, The (1999)
Haunting, The (1999)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Wild Wild West (1999)

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The (2000)
Little Nicky (2000)
Next Best Thing, The (2000)
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
Driven (2001)
Glitter (2001) - a friend obsessed with Mariah made me sit through this.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Adventures of Pluto Nash, The (2002)
Crossroads (2002/I)
Pinocchio (2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Swept Away (2002)

Cat in the Hat, The (2003)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Real Cancun, The (2003)
Gigli (2003)

Alexander (2004) .
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
Surviving Christmas (2004)
White Chicks (2004)
Catwoman (2004)

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
Dukes of Hazzard, The (2005)
House of Wax (2005)
Son of the Mask (2005)
Dirty Love (2005)

BloodRayne (2005)
Lady in the Water (2006)
Little Man (2006/I)
Wicker Man, The (2006)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

Bratz (2007)
Daddy Day Camp (2007)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
Norbit (2007)
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

Happening, The (2008)
Hottie & the Nottie, The (2008)
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
Brightlight Picture
Disaster Movie (2008)
Love Guru, The (2008)

I probably actually saw a few more of these, but either fell asleep, or they were just unmemorably bad.

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another book meme, stolen from qnofhrt and dave_ifversen
Bold = have read in entirety, italics = started but haven't finished.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. 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 - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
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
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 - L.M.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
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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - A.S. 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
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

Apparently some group thinks most people have read six or less of these. I am apparently not most people, nor are most of the people I know. A few of these "have reads" are rather embarrassing (gah - I've read both Dan Brown AND Mitch Albom).

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Cute.

Your International Spy Name is Solitaire Shriek

Your Code Name: The Dancer You Reside in: Geneva Why You're a Good Spy: You a master at disguise

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snagged from qnofhrt

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...

Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.

Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects. Impressionist paintings are balanced, use colored shadows, use pure color, broken brushstrokes, thick paint, and scenes from everyday life or nature.

People that like Impressionist paintings may not alway be what is deemed socially acceptable. They tend to move on their own path without always worrying that it may be offensive to others. They value friendships but because they also value honesty tend to have a few really good friends. They do not, however, like people that are rude and do not appreciate the ideas of others. They are secure enough in themselves that they can listen to the ideas of other people without it affecting their own final decisions. The world for them is not black and white but more in shades of grey and muted colors. They like things to be aestically pleasing, not stark and sharp. There are many ways to view things, and the impresssionist personality views the world from many different aspects. They enjoy life and try to keep a realistic viewpoint of things, but are not very open to new experiences. If they are content in their live they will be more than likely pleased to keep things just the way they are.

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most entertaining Obama endorsement yet
I think I adore this woman:

http://jezebel.com/5062366/106+year+old-nun-will-be-voting-for-obama-in-november

Ike?! That was her last vote. Love this.

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So, I'm reading the Obama book...
... while at the gym last night. I come across the following rough-quote from President Bush, while welcoming new Senator Obama to Washington:

"You know, me and you got something in common. We both had to debate Alan Keyes. That guy's a piece of work, isn't he?"

Hehehe.

I never thought Bush could say something that would make me like him at all, but this, well, maybe I could like him a little bit if he wasn't running the country. The whole thing was made even funnier when Obama realized that he had unconsciously been draping his arm over W's shoulder during this whole exchange, probably causing many a Secret Service agent to loose his lunch.

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Not terribly surprised by this.

Your result for The Classic Dames Test...

Katharine Hepburn

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Love this
http://drugmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/09/everything-you-really-need-to-know.html

If you are a democrat, you probably will, too. If not, sorry, but I find it too funny to resist.

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Must have been my positive response on the miniskirt question
Your results:
You are Uhura

Uhura 85% Beverly Crusher 75% Deanna Troi 75% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 65% Will Riker 65% Spock 52% Chekov 50% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 50% Geordi LaForge 45% Worf 45% James T. Kirk (Captain) 40% Jean-Luc Picard 40% Data 38% Mr. Scott 30% Mr. Sulu 30%

You are a good communicator with a pleasant soft-spoken voice. Also a talented singer.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character am I?" quiz...

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Well, this is sort of a boring result

Your result for The Harry Potter Husband Test...

Mrs. Harry Potter

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How, I ask, did I NOT end up with Snape on this thing? Or hell, even Lupin, Sirius, Bill Weasley, or a twin? Harry? Oy.

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Chicago Distance Classic
Wow. It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I think I've been too busy being out of town and/or training for this race.

I did the Chicago Distance Classic Half-Marathon yesterday in order to raise money for Asha for Education (http://ashanet.org/chicago/teamashawiki/index.php/Runners/Karen-Nagel-Edwards - there is still time to donate. Sorry. Force of habit. But there really is.)

I've been very slow during group training (gah - 17 minute miles) and right around my typical 15 minute mile on runs by myself (this included the 9, 10, and 12 milers, so I figured that's where I'd end up). Apparently the combination of gorgeous weather and race-inspired competitive mindset allowed me to toss that out the window. My first mile was 12:30. I think all of them prior to mile 10 were less than 14 minutes. And even when I slowed down in the last 3.5 miles (we'll get to that soon - grr), I kept every single mile under 15 minutes. Yay me! Seriously, when you are as slow as I am, that is major. And I wasn't the slowest one on my marathon team! I seriously thought I was going to be, and I ended up faster than a guy from one of the other sites, and two women from mine.

So, the course: We started out downtown, then they sent us south onto one blocked off lane of Lake Shore Drive, then onto a path heading towards Science and Industry. We turned around down there, going around Promentory Point and getting a gorgeous view of the skyline. The return was along the lakeshore path, so we didn't even really disrupt traffic much. The breeze felt great, but everyone I talked to said they were significantly slower in that second half - I think it was the wind resistance (gee, having already run 6.5 miles by then couldn't have had anything to do with it).

One thing I did notice: I was wearing my GPS watch (lovely thing, that) and noticed that after about two miles, their mile markers were totally not matching up with what my watch was telling me. And not in the direction that leads to a more "personal best" sort of time. By the end of the race, my watch was telling me I had run 13.5 miles, nearly a half mile further than I was supposed to. I guess it was still a personal best, though, since I have never run a half-marathon before, and my time was faster than any of my three marathon split times.

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Ha! Sorry, honey.

41 As a 1930s wife, I am Poor Take the test!

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Well, I suppose I should post this here - fundraising for a cause
Okay, so I'm just copying and pasting what I sent out to the people at work. This has a *far* lower fundraising goal of the last one of these that I did, or I don't think I would have considered it.

We are currently up to 6 miles on the training.

More details after the jump( ”AshaCollapse )

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Stolen from born_to_me

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.

And a further twist: Strike the ones you read and despised (or started and despised and didn't finish).

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel*
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick (I am on disc 5 of 19 - I haven't bailed, really; it's actually pretty good)
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife*
The Iliad
Emma*
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner*
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
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
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility*
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
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
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Okay, I haven't figured out the code for underlines and strike-throughs yet. I will, however, state that Wuthering Heights will be getting a big ole strike through. Oddly, few of these books were read for school. I guess I really am just a big nerd.

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Color me completely unsurprised

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Aspie test
[img]http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12b.php?p1=34&p2=8&p3=33&p4=10&p5=21&p6=12&p7=30&p8=7&p9=31&p10=15&p11=49&p12=19[/img]

Hmm. I really thought if it told me I *could* be diagnosed as any of these things, it would be OCD, but apparently not. Bipolar, OTOH, maybe.

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