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.
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 Ulysses Madame Bovary The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The Tale of Two Cities The Brothers Karamazov Guns, Germs, and Steel 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 Inferno 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 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 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
I posted this mostly to showcase my new rocking animated "Heroes" mood theme. But I might as well actually post something too. I haven't been up to much since I got back from Rome last month. Rome was fun by the way, but if you're ever planning on going to Italy NEVER FLY ALITALIA. I was supposed to get there on a Thursday, didn't get there until Saturday. And I had to spend my first night back in the states in a hotel in Queens.
Anyway, on to the less eventful part of my summer. I've been writing. I've gotten into screenwriting lately, which is so hard. I'm not a very long winded writer, and most hour long dramas have 44 page scripts. I'm on page 32, and it's taken me a week to get there. I've also been getting into some new TV shows. I'm now hooked on "Big Love," that show on HBO about polygamists. I'm just starting on "Doctor Who," and it's been a hoot so far.
I went to my family reunion last weekend in Millen, GA (It's fine if you've never heard of it, no one has.). The best part of the weekend is that I saw "Transformers." I got dragged along with a group of people. It was ten o'clock at night and it was either that or the new Die Hard. And I'm avoiding that, and all really old, resurrected franchises on principle (I'm talking to you Indiana Jones. Although I did see the new Rocky. Rent it. It's good.). So I went. It wasn't Shakespeare or anything, but it was entertaining. I couldn't tell half the robots a part either. If it wasn't Optimus Prime, I had no idea what was going on. And of course there was Shia. He pretty much carried that movie on his back. He had all the funny lines. I don't even know what Jon Voight and John Torturro were doing in this movie though. I'm assuming they needed the money.
So obviously I haven't been up to much. I'm enjoying my lazy little summer though.
"Makes Me Wonder" topped the Billboard charts this week. Not only that, last week the song was 64. It's the biggest jump to number one in the history of the chart. Now that's a comeback! I was worried there for a minute. In more news, the cover of their CD is below. I also linked to a site that has a sampler of the songs on the album along with a few whole leaked tracks. It comes out May 22nd. Unfortunately I'll be in Italy doing Summer Abroad then and won't be able to buy it until I get back.
Here's the website that has the leaked tracks. The sampler is the second post from the top. Scroll down some more and there are some full songs. I haven't listened to them yet. I was so excited about the number one single news I posted this first.
UK free newspaper METRO print edition informed that actors Jack Davenport, Peter Rnic, Stephen Rea and Naomi Watts are in negotiations for different parts in the next Harry Potter movie, Half-Blood Prince, schedule to start shooting in September. It's still unknown the roles they will play.
Jack Davenport=hells yes. What they did with Norrington in PoTC 2 was one of the few things I enjoyed about that mess of a movie. And he was on the original "Coupling." So hot. Love his voice. The end. I have no idea who the hell the other guys even are. I can't even think of who they would all play, except for Naomi, who everyone seems to think will play Narcissa Malfoy. I wonder if any of the guys will play that badass werewolf Fenrir. The character may not even be in the movie, but I hope he is. I hated him so much in the book, but I want to see another, mean, werewolf in the movies. The Remus werewolf was a little eh in the third movie.
It's the domestic version, so some of the footage is the same as the other one. But it's awesome! Bellatrix looks crazy as hell.
Oh, and by the way, that Heath Ledger as the Joker picture I posted turned out to be a fake. Oh, well. There are some real photos of him on the web, but they're all blurry and from far away on the set. I'll post when I find them again.
Yep, Heath Ledger as the Joker. I'm assuming this is the final look because they've already started filming, but it might not be. I put it behind a cut just in case people don't want to be spoiled.
You probably haven't heard of this show because they've just started promoting it this week, but Nathan Fillion is going to be on a new TV show called "Drive" about an illegal cross-country street race. And it's on FOX. And it's executive produced by Tim Minear (co-executive producer of "Firefly"). It'll probably get cancelled next week, but it sounds pretty interesting. The two hour premiere is this Sunday.
I'm sorry for all the friend page spam, but this made me very happy. Serenity has usurped the original Star Wars as the UK's favorite sci-fi film according to SFX magazine. Now can we get that sequel? Even a comic book sequel? Here's the whole list.
1. Serenity (2005) 2. Star Wars (1977) 3. Blade Runner (1982) 4. Planet of the Apes (1968) 5. The Matrix (1999) 6. Alien (1979) 7. Forbidden Planet (1956) 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 9. The Terminator (1984) 10. Back to the Future (1985)
I really need to see Blade Runner by the way. I've heard nothing but good things about that movie.
Here's what the guy who plays Neville Longbottom looks like de-Nevilled (minus the fake buckteeth and Adolf Hitler haircut.) Kinda cute right? I uploaded this to my own photobucket account, so the picture shouldn't go down like the last one did. Yes, he's partaking in some underage drinking, but I'm not one to judge.
Apparently Edward Scissorhands has been adapted into a ballet. Yeah, a ballet. It's been out for awhile too, because it's already touring. I've heard good things about the choreographer, whose name I forget at the moment, but I still don't know how I feel about this. It is a very whimsical film, but I can't imagine it...danced. Also, since it's a ballet, there is no dialogue. Tim Burton likes it though, so maybe it's good. But Tim Burton also made "Planet of the Apes." He slips up everey once and awhile. Unfortunately it's not coming to Atlanta so I can't see it for myself. It would be interesting to see this in like the Fox Theatre or something though. Anyway, here's the link to the official site. Make up your own mind.
edit: Here's a compilation video of the production. There's tons more of videos on Youtube as well.
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