La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:43:01 GMT

Stolen from reveduvide
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4~~) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.~~
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien <3 <3 <3
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The 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 Faulks
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 (so long ago I can't remember anything about it :/)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (to be honest, only half of it)
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (nice fiction, but Geisha of Gion is WAY better, not to mention the author sued A.Golden...)
~~40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne~~
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (*must* buy it soon)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (one of my favourites as a kid)
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 (another childhood favourite)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
~~75 Ulysses - James Joyce~~ (*never* again.... :S)
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 (one more childhood favourite :P)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
~~89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~~ (I hate detective stories)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
~~91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad~~ (Which enjoys totally undeseved fame in my opinion :/)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (pure genious!)
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 (Dahl is always enjoyable! :D )
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Oh dear...

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:05:19 GMT

Taken from cupcake_goth 's journal

Online multiplaying?

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:34:00 GMT

I need help!!

As you might know, the only videogame I've been playing for years is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (no, I never get tired!)..

I've done the online multiplaying years ago, and now I want to do it again, but I can't seem to make it work!

I've got Hamachi, and the person I was trying to play with has it too, but somehow it won't let us connect to the same game :( We also tried using the WON servers (downloaded all that has to be downloaded to apparently have it working again) but still *nothing*!!

Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? :(

Wow :P

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:30:46 GMT

What Lovecraftian terror are you?

You are Nyarlathotep!The Crawling Chaos, you serve your masters the Outer Gods with an open disdain for their mindless ways. You yourself are smart, twisted, and, unlike most Gods of the Mythos, have a recognizable personality; you are funny, mocking, and thouroughly evil.
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Mr Tibbles

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:40:17 GMT

(remember the news? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6917113.stm)

This made me *burst* out laughing, and I'm in the library pretending to be studying.. oops :P

I WANT!!!

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:22:09 GMT

kitty i-pod cover!!! I neeeeeed this!

Does anyone know where to buy it?

Interesting result :P

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:53:01 GMT

which major arcana of the thoth tarot deck are you? short, with pictures and detailed results

DEVIL/PAN"the joker, worker, stabilizer"You are gifted when it comes to protecting yourself from judgements cast upon you by others. In fact, you are not easily thrown by external reality. You have the capacity to work and play hard and to laugh at yourself. This is the card of humour and sexuality (it is the only card with genital symbols). "Devil" spelled backwards is "lived", and it is very fitting. You live with humour and have a stable foothold on life. Of course, you do love setting the occasional bit of mischief into play.
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Stolen from kris_ether

Does Anyone Here Love Darth Vader?

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:45:34 GMT

(yes, click on the image)

What's in a name?

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:03:41 GMT

What Gemma Means

You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.
You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.
Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are confident, self assured, and capable. You are not easily intimidated.
You master any and all skills easily. You don't have to work hard for what you want.
You make your life out to be exactly how you want it. And you'll knock down anyone who gets in your way!

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Stolen from fraulein_doktor

Einstürzende Neubauten-Sabrina

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:12:07 GMT

I <3 Blixa Bargeld

Rammstein - Bayern des samma mia

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:38:19 GMT

I <3 Till

:D :D :D

Aphex Twin - Nannou

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:42:14 GMT

It's the first time!!

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:37:27 GMT

Yes, it's the first time I find someone who stole my photos and set them as their own on myspace! :D HA! I'm amused!

I'll send a message to this person saying how very rude stealing artwork is and that they should take mine down from their profile, but still, I'm very amused. This means someone liked the picture enough to use it and, most important of all, that they found it somewhere- which means: A) there are many people watching my dA gallery B) there are many other online image thieves :/

Anyway, the evil stealing person is this one: LINK TO HER MYSPACE

Her profile is set to private: can someone add her to find out if she's using other pics? :P

Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:04:59 GMT

EEK! PINK! O_o

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:02:17 GMT

Yes I *DO* realize my journal has gone pink.

Do not despair, 'tis but a temporary misforune due to my total inability to change the colour scheme without messing it up.. ^^;

Does any you wonderful ladies out there know how to find the codes for some colours matching my lovely new wallpaper? Otherwise I think I'd better simply go back to the pre-made ones..

Victorian manners

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:24:51 GMT

I took this very amusing test on victorian manners and I scored "You are a picture of politeness!" ^__^

http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0/

why not try it yourselves? ;)

Memoirs

Sat, 19 May 2007 22:16:02 GMT

Romanticism is at the core of life itself.

There are some places which you wish to be in, with every fibre of your body, whenever you're elsewhere.

A Quest.

Thu, 10 May 2007 15:04:30 GMT

I'd quite like to say I'm off with Tim Curry (as he was twenty years ago of course) so seek the Holy Grail. I love Sir Robin's minstrels. Alas, no.

But I do have another quest: I seek an antique edition of Alice in Wonderland. A leather-bound one, possibly dark red, with the title embedded in golden swirly letters. And filled with illustrations, victorian engravings.

I cannot possibly read under a tree and have tea on the meadow if I'm holding a paperback modern edition, can I?? The effect would hardly be the same. U_U

So as soon as I finish with the studies I am determined to find that. If anyone knows a place where I might find such a book don't hesitate to let me know ;)

A portrait.

Mon, 07 May 2007 21:55:37 GMT

Random pic of the day: of course I've been doing all but studying >.>'' for tomorrow's exam. *cough*

As you can see, I'm mightily pissed off. (Might be posted to dA soon)