OK Sabby's gone and done it again!
And despite this being a damn busy week, I still had to put up one of my own. How can I not? So I started writing this post like a few hours ago, and only just completed. Probably the longest I took to write one!
By the way, she wants us to answer just Yes/No, but I had to give some explanations. Otherwise people might think... err... you know what I mean...
Here we go.
(1) The Yes/No (and a bit more)
Have you...
Kissed any one of your Facebook friends?
Depends on the type of the kiss. Lip Kiss - NO.
Been arrested?
Very nearly. But yeah, I mean NO I haven't.
Kissed someone you didn't like?
NO! Gee... why would I?
If the question is reversed, hell, it'll be a long list! :P
Slept in until 5 PM?
Hell yeah! A little too often...
Fallen asleep at work/school?
Again, too often.... LOL. So it's a yes.
Btw, add University to that too.
Held a snake?
Yeah. What's the big deal?
Ran a red light?
No. At least not yet.
Been suspended from school?
Thank God, No. I was very good at not getting caught...
Totalled your car/motorbike in an accident?
No. But have been involved in accidents. Twice.
Been fired from a job?
No.
Sang karaoke?
Yes. In Japanese no less! :O
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't?
Maybe once or twice. So... Yes.
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?
ROFLMFAO!!! Yes!
Caught a snowflake on your tongue?
YEAH! Very recently. And I've got a photo of doing so too!
Kissed in the rain?
Umm... yeah. Tell you, it's not much enjoyable though...
Sang in the shower?
No not really. I suck so much at singing.
Sat on a rooftop?
What kind of a stupid question is that. But yeah, I have.
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?
Nope.
Broken a bone?
Well, yeah but my finger. Does that count, really?
Shaved your head?
No and will never do. At least until the nature decides to...
Blacked out from drinking?
Sadly, yes.
Played a prank on someone?
Only yesterday I was telling a friend some of what I've done.
So, yeah!
Hey, it's a good idea for a blog post, isn't it.
Felt like killing someone?
Umm... sometimes.
Well, not really NO.
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry?
Amazingly, NOT even ONCE!
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets?
WTF? NO!
Been in a band?
No way!
Shot a gun?
Does home-made, jam-fruit firing ones count?
Tripped on mushrooms?
Again, WTF?
Donated Blood?
Once.
Eaten alligator meat?
Umm... can they be eaten?
Eaten cheesecake?
Who hasn't?
Still love someone you shouldn't?
Does Jessica Alba count?
Think about the future?
Have stopped doing it.
Believe in love?
Defa!
(2) The Booklist
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Although that also means you are an uncivilised git, you will be part of the masses. Less than 6, be ashamed. Read anything above 20 and you are a star.
Instructions:
Look at the list and mark those you have read.
Red = Read it.
Green = Read it, remember it.
Blue = Own it, haven't read yet.
Orange = Reading these days.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (only the first one though)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Withering 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 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 - AA 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
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 - 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
Hmm... fourteen... not bad I guess.
:)
Btw, Sabby, that's all...
For one, can't listen to songs now. For two, even if I could, no time anymore!
:D
And despite this being a damn busy week, I still had to put up one of my own. How can I not? So I started writing this post like a few hours ago, and only just completed. Probably the longest I took to write one!
By the way, she wants us to answer just Yes/No, but I had to give some explanations. Otherwise people might think... err... you know what I mean...
Here we go.
(1) The Yes/No (and a bit more)
Have you...
Kissed any one of your Facebook friends?
Depends on the type of the kiss. Lip Kiss - NO.
Been arrested?
Very nearly. But yeah, I mean NO I haven't.
Kissed someone you didn't like?
NO! Gee... why would I?
If the question is reversed, hell, it'll be a long list! :P
Slept in until 5 PM?
Hell yeah! A little too often...
Fallen asleep at work/school?
Again, too often.... LOL. So it's a yes.
Btw, add University to that too.
Held a snake?
Yeah. What's the big deal?
Ran a red light?
No. At least not yet.
Been suspended from school?
Thank God, No. I was very good at not getting caught...
Totalled your car/motorbike in an accident?
No. But have been involved in accidents. Twice.
Been fired from a job?
No.
Sang karaoke?
Yes. In Japanese no less! :O
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't?
Maybe once or twice. So... Yes.
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?
ROFLMFAO!!! Yes!
Caught a snowflake on your tongue?
YEAH! Very recently. And I've got a photo of doing so too!
Kissed in the rain?
Umm... yeah. Tell you, it's not much enjoyable though...
Sang in the shower?
No not really. I suck so much at singing.
Sat on a rooftop?
What kind of a stupid question is that. But yeah, I have.
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?
Nope.
Broken a bone?
Well, yeah but my finger. Does that count, really?
Shaved your head?
No and will never do. At least until the nature decides to...
Blacked out from drinking?
Sadly, yes.
Played a prank on someone?
Only yesterday I was telling a friend some of what I've done.
So, yeah!
Hey, it's a good idea for a blog post, isn't it.
Felt like killing someone?
Umm... sometimes.
Well, not really NO.
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry?
Amazingly, NOT even ONCE!
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets?
WTF? NO!
Been in a band?
No way!
Shot a gun?
Does home-made, jam-fruit firing ones count?
Tripped on mushrooms?
Again, WTF?
Donated Blood?
Once.
Eaten alligator meat?
Umm... can they be eaten?
Eaten cheesecake?
Who hasn't?
Still love someone you shouldn't?
Does Jessica Alba count?
Think about the future?
Have stopped doing it.
Believe in love?
Defa!
(2) The Booklist
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Although that also means you are an uncivilised git, you will be part of the masses. Less than 6, be ashamed. Read anything above 20 and you are a star.
Instructions:
Look at the list and mark those you have read.
Red = Read it.
Green = Read it, remember it.
Blue = Own it, haven't read yet.
Orange = Reading these days.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (only the first one though)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Withering 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 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 - AA 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
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 - 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
Hmm... fourteen... not bad I guess.
:)
Btw, Sabby, that's all...
For one, can't listen to songs now. For two, even if I could, no time anymore!
:D
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That's a great list! I've read 10 of em .. But where's Jack London, Mark Twain & Thoreau??!
ReplyDeletePS: Nice blog ONE! :D
Ah, this MUST be the Italian!
ReplyDelete;-)
Yeah it is a great list, and I intend to read as much of them as possible.
Yeah those you mentioned are missing, but I don't think this is in any way the best 100 books or something. Just a random collection of some of the best.
I loved Jack London too...
And thanks bro!
Yeah, to quote Alexander Supertramp, "Jack London is King!" lol! If you haven't read "Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer" yet, dude trust me it's the next book you should start reading! Absolutely blew me away. Can't wait till the uni year ends so I can live my own vagabond life atleast for a few days! lol
ReplyDeleteHere's another list of "Must read books" you might be interested in checking out..
http://www.djmcadam.com/books-you-must-read.html
Pretty much the same as the one you've already linked but this collection has different tastes and a wider range of genres..
Ok bro.. Time to hit the bed! Ciao4now!
Oh really? What kind of a story is it?
ReplyDeleteAnywayz, gonna trust our traitor footy fan this time! Will read it next...
LOL...
And thanks for the list bro!
Cheers and have a good night!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
ReplyDelete2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (only the first one though)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Man I read a lot don't I?
solomon
22!
ReplyDeleteNot bad at all!
Yeah bro... good to keep reading as well...
I gottsa do this one. I haven't read most.. but I'm not dead yet.
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