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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Classic find

This is not the most comprehensive literary analysis to which you will be exposed, but I'm enjoying sharing with the world what I square I am. You can talk a lot of rubbish about books, but essentially it all comes down to whether or not you like them.
What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular classic books at What Should I Read Next?
I liked it!I didn't like it!I want to read it!
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Emma - Jane Austen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Candide - Voltaire, Norman Cameron
Complete Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
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What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular overall books at What Should I Read Next?
I liked it!I didn't like it!I want to read it!
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Easter heroics

I have just been interrupted by the words "there's another short called Mars". Ah, and to think I once dreamed of working for FHM. I am however pleased to be able to offer these Easter ditties to you, only one of which was written by me... (the other being published illegally and without permission).

Higgledos piggledos
Jesus of Nazareth
Died on Good Friday
And then rose again.
Said to his drinking mates
Messianistically
See you on Sunday
At quarter to ten.

Higgledy piggledy
Judas Iscariot,
apostle whose sense of
the creed was amiss,
'sterious guy who
b'lated and gnostically
proved before Cher that
it's all in his kiss.

Now off to Mars I go.