You won't let those robots eat me

[vovat]

Gmail has changed around the delete function yet again, so now I keep accidentally adding stars to my messages instead of deleting them. It's sort of like how I almost drove through the E-Z Pass lane today, forgetting that my rental car doesn't have E-Z Pass. And I'd already gotten the cash out, too. Sometimes getting into a habit can be a bad thing.

I got my order from Amazon today. It consists of Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero, Paul Ford's Companion to Narnia, and the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. As you might know from previous entries, I'd heard the album before, when I checked it out from the library during a period when I was temporarily without home Internet access. I distinctly remember sitting in the attic and listening to it. It's a really cool album (which is why I wanted to own it {g}). It's atmospheric, but still quite catchy. I'm really not familiar with much else by the Flaming Lips, but maybe I will in the future.


I got this one from zimbra1006:

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 65% Hulk 65% Superman 60% Robin 53% Green Lantern 50% Supergirl 43% The Flash 30% Catwoman 25% Batman 20% Iron Man 15% Wonder Woman 8%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...



This music survey comes from countblastula:

1. Of all the bands/artists in your cd/record collection, which one do you own the most albums by?

XTC

2. What was the last song you listened to?

At the time I started this survey, I think it might have been "The Vanishing Spies," by Frank Black. Currently, it's "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21," by the Flaming Lips. By the time I actually post this, who knows?

3. What's in your record/CD player right now?

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

4. What song pretty much sums you up?

I really can't think of one.

5. What's your favorite local band?

Do I even KNOW any local bands? I'm not generally one to pay attention to that kind of thing. Maybe if I lived in New York City or Seattle...

6. What was the last show you attended?

They Might Be Giants on New Year's Eve/Day

7. What was the greatest show you've ever been to?

Hard to say. I've been to so many that were great in different ways. I can tell you my favorites by specific bands that I've seen multiple times, but does anyone really care?

8. What's the worst band you've ever seen in concert?

As a headliner, Voices on the Verge. As an opener (or at least an act that wasn't what I came to see) maybe Gravel Pit or Adrian Belew (both TMBG openers).

9. What band do you love musically but hate the members of?

I can't think of one.

10. What is the most musically involved you have ever been?

Honestly, probably when I still had to take music classes in school. I also took harmonica lessons while I was in high school.

11. What shows are you looking forward to?

Laura Cantrell at the Tin Angel, and Belle and Sebastian at the Electric Factory

12. What is your favorite band shirt?

Probably my TMBG Indestructible Object shirt, because it's very comfortable for a T-shirt. In terms of design, I might say my TMBG flying carpet shirt, which I never wear anymore because it's stained.

13. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day?

There are a lot that I kind of THINK I'd like to hang out with, but I'm sure that, if the situation were to actually arise, I'd be too nervous to have much fun. Maybe I'll say Carolyn Mark, because she's the friendliest musician I've ever met. I get the feeling that she likes to hang out in bars, though, and I'm not so keen on that. At least, I don't THINK I would be, since I don't like crowded, noisy places full of drunk people. I can't actually say I've tried it.

14. What musician would you like to be in love with for a day?

I don't know that I'd LIKE to be in love with any musician. It rarely seems to work out very well.

15. Pat Benatar or Cyndi Lauper?

I don't know. Cyndi Lauper, I guess?

16. Sabbath or solo Ozzy?

I can't really think of enough songs from either project to really judge. I mean, I know I've heard stuff by both, but not enough to form strong opinions on it.

17. Commodores or solo Lionel Ritchie?

Solo, I guess.

18. Punk rock, hip hop or heavy metal?

All three have their good and bad representatives. I can't say I'm a huge fan of any of them, but I might say hip-hop is the one I respect the most, even if I don't actually listen to it. I guess I listen more to punk, since the Fastbacks could probably loosely fall into that category. I'm not at all fond of the punk attitude, but there are plenty of artists who can play the music without trying to put on the attitude. As for heavy metal...eh, I'm just not that familiar with it, honestly.

19. Doesn't Primus suck?

I can't say I know enough by them to judge. Man, name-dropping surveys like these always make me realize how culturally ignorant I can sometimes be.

20. Name 5 flawless albums:

Hey, nothing is flawless! But five albums that come close, in that the strong points totally kick ass and the weak points are still pretty good, are:

XTC - Skylarking
Moxy Früvous - Bargainville
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Pixies - Bossanova
The Posies - Failure

21. Did you know that filling out this survey makes you a music geek?

I don't think it does, especially since several of my answers have essentially amounted to "duh, I don't know." If it does, though, that's cool. Being a music geek is hardly anything to be ashamed of.

22. What was the greatest decade for music?

Honestly, I'm sure it would be a decade in a previous century. I would imagine that most of the stuff I listen to is from the eighties and nineties, but that's just because that's when I grew up.

23. How many music-related videos/dvds do you own?

Let's see...four Weird Al videos, two TMBG videos, and two Pixies DVD's. That makes eight, I guess.

24. Do you like Journey?

I like that they had their own Atari game.

25. Don't try to pretend you don't!

Okay.

26. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?

Probably O Brother, Where Art Thou?, even though I realize I'm pretty much jumping on the bandwagon here.

27. What was your last musical phase?

I don't have phases. I have syntheses. {g}


And here's a book meme thing, courtesy of slfcllednowhere. I've done similar memes many times in the past, but I'll probably keep doing them as long as people on my friends list keep posting them. They're fun for me, even if they aren't for anyone else.

Bold the books you have read
Italicize the books the books you intend to read
Underline you had read to you as a child and don't remember too well.
Strike the books you started but didn't finish
Add three


1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (probably an abridged version, though)
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison (for my Young Adult Literature class in graduate school)
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch (aka Outlander in the U.S.), Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-Smith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps (series), R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
208. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
241. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon Holding
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
365. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
366. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
367. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
368. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
369. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
370. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
371. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
372. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
373. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
374. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
375. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
376. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
377. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
378. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
379. The Lunatic at Large, J. Storer Clouston
380. Time for Bed, David Baddiel
381. Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
382. Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre
383. The Bloody Sun, Marion Zimmer Bradley
384. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric, Matt Ruff
385. Jhereg, Steven Brust
386. So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane
387. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
388. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
389. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
390. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
391. Neuromancer, William Gibson
392. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
393. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
394. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
395. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
396. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
397. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
398. Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
399. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
400. The God Boy, Ian Cross
401. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
402. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
403. Misery, Stephen King
404. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
405. Hood, Emma Donoghue
406. The Land of Spices, Kate O'Brien
407. The Diary of Anne Frank
408. Regeneration, Pat Barker
409. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
410. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
411. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
412. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
413. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
414. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
415. A Severed Wasp, Madeleine L'Eengle
416. Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman
417. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales), translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
418. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
419. Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill
420. The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
421. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
422. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
423. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
424. Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
425. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
426. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
427. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
428. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle
429. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
430. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
431. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
432. The Bridge, Iain Banks
433. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
434. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
435. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
436. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
437. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
438. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
439. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
440. White Oleander, Janet Fitch
441. The Land of Laughs, Jonathan Carroll
442. Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
443. Roots, Alex Haley
444. Kleopatra, Karen Essex
445. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
446. The Psycho-Ex Game, Merrill Markoe, Andy Prieboy
447. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
448. Deception Point, Dan Brown
449. Bookends, Jane Green
450. Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
451. Vectors, Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell
452. Redwall, Brian Jacques
453. Millennium, Felipe Fernàndez-Armesto
454. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
455. Shardik, Richard Adams
456. Tehanu, Ursula Le Guin
457. Z - A Love Story, Vigdis Grimsdottir
458. Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
459. Don Quixote I, Cervantes
460. Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud
461. Collected poems, Anna Akhmatova
462. Breath, eyes, memory, Edwidge Danticat
463. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
464. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago
465. Not Before Sundown (or Troll - A Love Story), Johanna Sinisalo
466. Hannibal, Thomas Harris
467. The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick
468. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
469. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde
470. The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
471. Complicity, Iain Banks
472. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
473. The Bane Of The Black Sword, Micheal Moorcock
474. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
475. Delta Of Venus, Anais Nin
476. Lost souls, Poppy Z Brite
477. Belle de jour diary of a london call girl
478. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
479. City, Alessandro Baricco
480. Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry
481. Thank you, Jeeves, PG Wodehouse
482. Tout à l'Ego (Everything for Ego), Tonino Benacquista
483. Betty Blue, Philippe Djian
484. Naive.Super, Erlend Loe
485. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
486. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
487. Krabat, Otfried Preußler
488. Lieutenant Hornblower, C. S. Forester
489. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
490. Drawing Blood, Poppy Z. Brite
491. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
492. The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
493. The Matarese Circle, by Robert Ludlum
494. Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
495. Searching for Dragons, Patricia C Wrede
496. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams
497. The Flanders Panel Arturo Pérez-Reverte
498. This Alien Shore, C. S. Friedman
499. Beauty , Robin McKinley
500. The Eight, Katherine Neville
501. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
502. In this House of Brede, Rumer Godden
503. The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
504. Reginald, H.H. Munro (Saki)
505. Queen Lucia, E.F. Benson
506. A Shadow On The Glass, Ian Irvine
507. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
508. Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody
509. The Ancient Future, Traci Harding
510. The Surgeon, Tess Gerritse
511. Blindness, Jose Saramago
512. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
513. Portrait in Sepia, Isabelle Allende
514. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
515. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
516. A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin
517. Sammy's Hill, Kristin Gore
518. The Ordinary Princess, M.M. Kaye
519. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
520. Miss Manners Rescues Civilization, Judith Martin
521. Mythology, Edith Hamilton
522. Danse Macabre, Stephen King
523. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
524. The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera
525. Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
526. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
527. The Metemorphoses, Ovid
526. Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Greg Keyes
527. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
528. This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
529. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
530. Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
531. Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (and Other Observations), Al Franken
532. The Kalevala, assembled by Elias Lönnrot
533. New Treasure Seekers, E. Nesbit
534. Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
535. Morality for Beautiful Girls, Alexander McCall Smith
536. Autumn Term, Antonia Forest
537. The Importance of Happiness, Lin Yutang
538. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
539. Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
540. A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
541. Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
542. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
543. The Happy Hollisters, Jerry West
544. So You Want to Write, Barbara Ueland
545. Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar
546. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
547. Elske, Cynthia Voigt
548. Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham (I'm pretty sure I heard it in school or something, anyway)
549. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
550. Take the Cannoli, Sarah Vowell
551. The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell
552. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
553. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
554. Love is a Dog from Hell, Charles Bukowski
555. The (Marvelous) Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
556. Dave Barry Slept Here, Dave Barry
557. Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen

I'm actually kind of curious about Diana Wynne Jones (who is represented twice in this list), having seen many favorable comments on her work on Oz-related forums.

Oh, and speaking of Charlotte's Web (well, I wasn't really SPEAKING of it, but it's in the list), Michael Ian Black said something on I Love the 90's about the pig dying in it. Methinks Mr. Black doesn't remember the story so well.

Comments

[l8erngr8er.livejournal.com]

Sometimes getting into a habit can be a bad thing.

I like how your posts teach lessons.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yes, and in THIS school, even the teacher gets lessons.

In fact, the teacher is probably often the ONLY one who gets lessons. :P

[travspence.livejournal.com]

I saw the Flaming Lips play "Do You Realize?" on Conan on Halloween the year the album came out. The band were all dressed in really funky costumes. I believe Wayne Coyne was in a human sized hamster ball. Anyway, I fell in love with the song and bought the CD and two of the remix CDs that were realeased around the same time.

And I haven't bought another Flaming Lips CD since. :-) I still listen to Yoshimi quite a bit, though.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

You haven't read The Catcher in the Rye? WTF, man? (And some other books I like a lot too, but dude--The Catcher in the Rye! Come on!)

[bethje.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it either. It's too anti-phony. {g}

[vovat.livejournal.com]

It seems like a lot of people were required to read it for school, but I never was, so I never read it. Actually, I didn't even read every book that I WAS required to read for school, but I read at least part of most of them. One that I actually didn't read at all was The Fountainhead, but most of what I've read about Ayn Rand's philosophy pisses me off, so maybe it's better that I didn't.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Haha yeh Ayn Rand sucks. I can't stand her. Stay away! I think it's actually kind of unfortunate that Catcher gets assigned for school, because I think there are a lot of people who will just automatically resent whatever they're forced to read even when it's wonderful, so it would be better if they just discovered and read it on their own. But I guess lots of people don't really do reading on their own time, which is very sad.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that with reluctant readers or people who aren't otherwise into reading, it always seems that Catcher is the one thing they've read that they ABSOLUTELY LOVE (whether they read it for school or not). It's kind of funny. I mean it's a good book, but there are lots of good books out there-- why always that one?

I was doing a book talk for a bunch of eighth graders once and introduced that book with that story-- that it seems to be everyone who doesn't like to read's favorite book-- and then my description of it was "The Ultimate Teen-Angst Fed Up with Everyone In the World Book," at which point the entire class looked straight at this one girl, who then stood up and said "THAT ONE'S MINE!"

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Maybe I just wasn't angsty enough as a teen. {g} Regardless, I guess it might be a good idea to at least try reading Catcher. It wouldn't be for a while, though. I have a pretty big backlog of stuff to read.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

I really read 2/3 of that booklist before giving up and scrolling. My analysis: there's too much Douglas Adams on there. I am so anti-Douglas Adams that it's absolutely crazy.

And I begged you to get me The Wasp Factory out from the library, and you were all, "naw, man."

[vovat.livejournal.com]

There are only two Douglas Adams books on there, which I wouldn't say is that many. On the other hand, there are fifteen Pratchett books.

And I begged you to get me The Wasp Factory out from the library, and you were all, "naw, man."

I don't remember this.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

Yeah, whoops. Pretend that I said Terry Pratchett instead of Douglas Adams up there. Someday I may read some Douglas Adams. Terry Pratchett is hte one I am against.

And that thing about The Wasp Factory is totally true. It was summertime and I was bored, and I saw it on some amazon lists, and I wanted to read it.

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

I personally think that "The Soft Bulletin" is a better than "Yoshimi", but to be fair, I haven't listened to the latter as much as the former. I'm sorta bias like that with a lot of albums. Like, I have Elliott Smith's "From a Basement on a Hill" but everytime I'm in the mood for him, I just listen to XO because I love it so much.


But I think I might stealith that book meme.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm probably that way with some artists, too. If I want to hear a particular artist, I'll often gravitate toward a particular album, and ignore the others.