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February 26, 2005 — Leave a comment

List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you`ve read. Italicize the ones you`ve read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible

#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

#4 The Qur`an

#5 Arabian Nights

#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker

#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne

#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

#23 Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

#25 Ulysses by James Joyce

#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell

#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

#29 Candide by Voltaire

#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

#31 Analects by Confucius

#32 Dubliners by James Joyce

#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal

#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx

#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding

#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys

#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker

#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck

#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau

#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

#69 The Talmud

#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau

#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles

#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck

#78 Popol Vuh

#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

#80 Satyricon by Petronius

#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright

#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle

#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin

#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner

#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown

#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau

#103 Nana by Émile Zola

#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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hullo, my name is keifel and I’m a literature abuser

July 21, 2004 — Leave a comment

Are you a Literature Abuser?

Take this test and find out! How many of these apply to you?

[x] I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up.

[x] I have gone on reading binges of an entire book or more in a day.

[x] I read rapidly, often `gulping` chapters.

[x] I have sometimes read early in the morning or before work.

[x] I have hidden books in different places to sneak a chapter without being seen.

[x] Sometimes I avoid friends or family obligations in order to read novels.

[x] Sometimes I re-write film or television dialog as the characters speak.

[-] I am unable to enjoy myself with others unless there is a book nearby.

[x] At a party, I will often slip off unnoticed to read.

[x] Reading has made me seek haunts and companions which I would otherwise avoid.

[x] I have neglected personal hygiene or household chores until I have finished a novel.

[x] I have spent money meant for necessities on books instead. (how can this be wrong?)

[x] I have attempted to check out more library books than permitted.

[x] Most of my friends are heavy fiction readers.

[x] I have sometimes passed out from a night of heavy reading.

[x] I have suffered `blackouts` or memory loss from a bout of reading.

[x] I have wept, become angry or irrational because of something I read.

[-] I have sometimes wished I did not read so much.

[x] Sometimes I think my reading is out of control.

If you answered `yes` to four or more of these questions, you may be a literature abuser. Affirmative responses to seven or more indicates a serious problem.

Once a relatively rare disorder, Literature Abuse, or LA, has risen to new levels due to the accessibility of higher education and increased college enrollment since the end of the Second World War. The number of literature abusers is currently at record levels.

Social Costs Of Literary Abuse

Abusers become withdrawn, uninterested in society or normal relationships. They fantasize, creating alternative worlds to occupy, to the neglect of friends and family. In severe cases they develop bad posture from reading in awkward positions or carrying heavy book bags. In the worst instances, they become cranky reference librarians in small towns.

Excessive reading during pregnancy is perhaps the number one cause of moral deformity among the children of English professors, teachers of English and creative writing. Known as Fetal Fiction Syndrome, this disease also leaves its victims prone to a lifetime of nearsightedness, daydreaming and emotional instability.

Heredity

Recent Harvard studies have established that heredity plays a considerable role in determining whether a person will become an abuser of literature. Most abusers have at least one parent who abused literature, often beginning at an early age and progressing into adulthood. Many spouses of an abuser become abusers themselves.

Other Predisposing Factors

Fathers or mothers who are English teachers, professors, or heavy fiction readers; parents who do not encourage children to play games, participate in healthy sports, or watch television in the evening.

Prevention

Pre-marital screening and counseling, referral to adoption agencies in order to break the chain of abuse. English teachers in particular should seek partners active in other fields. Children should be encouraged to seek physical activity and to avoid isolation and morbid introspection.

Decline And Fall: The English Major

Within the sordid world of literature abuse, the lowest circle belongs to those sufferers who have thrown their lives and hopes away to study literature in our colleges. Parents should look for signs that their children are taking the wrong path — don`t expect your teenager to approach you and say, “I can`t stop reading Spenser.” By the time you visit his/her dorm room and find the secret stash of the Paris Review, it may already be too late.

What to do if you suspect your child is becoming an English major:

– Talk to your child in a loving way. Show your concern. Let him/her know you won`t abandon him/her — but that you aren`t spending a hundred grand to put him/her through Stanford so she can clerk at Waldenbooks, either. But remember that he/she may not be able to make a decision without help; perhaps he/she has just finished Madame Bovary and is dying of arsenic poisoning.

– Face the issue: Tell her what you know, and how: “I found this book in your bag/purse. How long has this been going on?” Ask the hard question — Who is this Count Vronsky?

– Show him/her another way. Move the television set into him/her room. Introduce him/her to sorority girls/frat boys.

– Do what you have to do. Tear up his/her library card. Make him/her stop signing her letters as `Emma.` Force him/her to take a math class, or minor in Spanish. Transfer him/her to a Florida college.

You may be dealing with a life-threatening problem if one or more of the following applies:

– He/She can tell you how and when Thomas Chatterton died.

– He/She names one or more of her cats after a Romantic poet.

– Next to his/her bed is a picture of: Lord Byron, Virginia Woolf, Faulkner or any scene from the Lake District.

Most important, remember, you are not alone. To seek help for yourself or someone you love, contact the nearest chapter of the American Literature Abuse Society, or look under ALAS in your telephone directory.

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savouring the moment

July 6, 2004

Highlight the books you’ve read from the list below:

1. The Lord of the Rings — by J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice — by Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials — by Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy — by Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — by J.K. Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird — by Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh — by A.A. Milne

8. 1984 — by George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — by C.S. Lewis

10. Jane Eyre — by Charlotte Bronte  

11. Catch-22 — by Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights — by Emily Bronte

13. Birdsong — by Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca — by Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye — by J.D. Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows — by Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations — by Charles Dickens

18. Little Women — by Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli`s Mandolin — by Louis de Bernieres

20. War and Peace — by Leo Tolstoy

#SPLIT#

21. Gone with the Wind — by Margaret Mitchell

22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer`s Stone — by J.K. Rowling

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets — by J.K. Rowling

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban — by J.K. Rowling

25. The Hobbit — by J.R.R. Tolkien

26. Tess Of The D`Urbervilles — by Thomas Hardy

27. Middlemarch — by George Eliot

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany — by John Irving

29. The Grapes Of Wrath — by John Steinbeck

30. Alice`s Adventures In Wonderland — by Lewis Carroll

31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker — by Jacqueline Wilson

32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude — by Gabriel García Márquez

33. The Pillars Of The Earth — by Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield — by Charles Dickens

35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory — by Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island — by Robert Louis Stevenson

37. A Town Like Alice — by Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion — by Jane Austen

39. Dune — by Frank Herbert

40. Emma — by Jane Austen

41. Anne Of Green Gables — by L.M. Montgomery

42. Watership Down — by Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby — by F Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo — by Alexandre Dumas

45. Brideshead Revisited — by Evelyn Waugh

46. Animal Farm — by George Orwell

47. A Christmas Carol — by Charles Dickens

48. Far From The Madding Crowd — by Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom — by Michelle Magorian

50. The Shell Seekers — by Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden — by Frances Hodgson Burnett

52. Of Mice And Men — by John Steinbeck

53. The Stand — by Stephen King

54. Anna Karenina — by Leo Tolstoy

55. A Suitable Boy — by Vikram Seth

56. The BFG — by Roald Dahl

57. Swallows And Amazons — by Arthur Ransome

58. Black Beauty — by Anna Sewell

59. Artemis Fowl — by Eoin Colfer

60. Crime And Punishment — by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Noughts And Crosses — by Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha — by Arthur Golden

63. A Tale Of Two Cities — by Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds — by Colleen McCollough

65. Mort — by Terry Pratchett

66. The Magic Faraway Tree — by Enid Blyton

67. The Magus — by John Fowles

68. Good Omens — by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

69. Guards! Guards! — by Terry Pratchett

70. Lord Of The Flies — by William Golding

71. The Perfume — by Patrick Susskind

72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists — by Robert Tressell

73. Night Watch — by Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda — by Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones`s Diary — by Helen Fielding

76. The Secret History — by Donna Tartt

77. The Woman In White — by Wilkie Collins

78. Ulysses — by James Joyce

79. Bleak House — by Charles Dickens

80. Double Act — by Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits — by Roald Dahl

82. I Capture The Castle — by Dodie Smith

83. Holes — by Louis Sachar

84. Gormenghast — by Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things — by Arundhati Roy

86. Vicky Angel — by Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World — by Aldous Huxley

88. Cold Comfort Farm — by Stella Gibbons

89. Magician — by Raymond E Feist

90. On The Road — by Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather — by Mario Puzo

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear — by Jean M Auel

93. The Colour Of Magic — by Terry Pratchett

94. The Alchemist — by Paulo Coelho

95. Katherine — by Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel — by Jeffrey Archer

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera — by Gabriel García Márquez

98. Girls In Love — by Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries — by Meg Cabot

100. Midnight`s Children — by Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men In A Boat — by Jerome K. Jerome

102. Small Gods — by Terry Pratchett

103. The Beach — by Alex Garland

104. Dracula — by Bram Stoker

105. Point Blanc — by Anthony Horowitz

106. The Pickwick Papers — by Charles Dickens

107. Stormbreaker — by Anthony Horowitz

108. The Wasp Factory — by Iain Banks

109. The Day Of The Jackal — by Frederick Forsyth

110. The Illustrated Mum — by Jacqueline Wilson

111. Jude The Obscure — by Thomas Hardy

112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2 — by Sue Townsend

113. The Cruel Sea — by Nicholas Monsarrat

114. Les Miserables — by Victor Hugo

115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge — by Thomas Hardy

116. The Dare Game — by Jacqueline Wilson

117. Bad Girls — by Jacqueline Wilson

118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray — by Oscar Wilde

119. Shogun — by James Clavell

120. The Day Of The Triffids — by John Wyndham

121. Lola Rose — by Jacqueline Wilson

122. Vanity Fair — by William Makepeace Thackeray

123. The Forsyte Saga — by John Galsworthy

124. House Of Leaves — by Mark Z. Danielewski

125. The Poisonwood Bible — by Barbara Kingsolver

126. Reaper Man — by Terry Pratchett

127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging — by Louise Rennison

128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles — by Arthur Conan Doyle

129. Possession — by A. S. Byatt

130. The Master And Margarita — by Mikhail Bulgakov

131. The Handmaid`s Tale — by Margaret Atwood

132. Danny The Champion Of The World — by Roald Dahl

133. East Of Eden — by John Steinbeck

134. George`s Marvellous Medicine — by Roald Dahl

135. Wyrd Sisters — by Terry Pratchett

136. The Color Purple — by Alice Walker

137. Hogfather — by Terry Pratchett

138. The Thirty-Nine Steps — by John Buchan

139. Girls In Tears — by Jacqueline Wilson

140. Sleepovers — by Jacqueline Wilson

141. All Quiet On The Western Front — by Erich Maria Remarque

142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum — by Kate Atkinson

143. High Fidelity — by Nick Hornby

144. It — by Stephen King

145. James And The Giant Peach — by Roald Dahl

146. The Green Mile — by Stephen King

147. Papillon — by Henri Charriere

148. Men At Arms — by Terry Pratchett

149. Master And Commander — by Patrick O`Brian

150. Skeleton Key — by Anthony Horowitz

151. Soul Music — by Terry Pratchett

152. Thief Of Time by Terry Pratchett

153. The Fifth Elephant — by Terry Pratchett

154. Atonement, Ian McEwan

155. Secrets — by Jacqueline Wilson

156. The Silver Sword — by Ian Serraillier

157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo`s Nest — by Ken Kesey

158. Heart Of Darkness — by Joseph Conrad

159. Kim — by Rudyard Kipling

160. Cross Stitch — by Diana Gabaldon

161. Moby Dick — by Herman Melville

162. River God — by Wilbur Smith

163. Sunset Song — by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

164. The Shipping News — by Annie Proulx

165. The World According To Garp — by John Irving

166. Lorna Doone — by R.D. Blackmore

167. Girls Out Late — by Jacqueline Wilson

168. The Far Pavilions — by M. M. Kaye

169. The Witches — by Roald Dahl

170. Charlotte`s Web — by E.B. White

171. Frankenstein — by Mary Shelley

172. They Used To Play On Grass — by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams

173. The Old Man And The Sea — by Ernest Hemingway

174. The Name Of The Rose — by Umberto Eco

175. Sophie`s World — by Jostein Gaarder

176. Dustbin Baby — by Jacqueline Wilson

177. Fantastic Mr. Fox — by Roald Dahl

178. Lolita — by Vladimir Nabokov

179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull — by Richard Bach

180. The Little Prince — by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

181. The Suitcase Kid — by Jacqueline Wilson

182. Oliver Twist — by Charles Dickens

183. The Power Of One — by Bryce Courtenay

184. Silas Marner — by George Eliot

185. American Psycho — by Bret Easton Ellis

186. The Diary Of A Nobody — by George and Weedon Gross-Smith

187. Trainspotting — by Irvine Welsh

188. Goosebumps — by R.L. Stine

189. Heidi — by Johanna Spyri

190. Sons And Lovers — by D.H. Lawrence

191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being — by Milan Kundera

192. Man And Boy — by Tony Parsons

193. The Truth — by Terry Pratchett

194. The War Of The Worlds — by H.G. Wells

195. The Horse Whisperer — by Nicholas Evans

196. A Fine Balance — by Rohinton Mistry

197. Witches Abroad — by Terry Pratchett

198. The Once And Future King — by T.H. White

199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar — by Eric Carle

200. Flowers In The Attic — by Virginia Andrews

201. The Silmarillion — by J.R.R. Tolkien

202. The Eye of the World — by Robert Jordan

203. The Great Hunt — by Robert Jordan

204. The Dragon Reborn — by Robert Jordan

205. Fires of Heaven — by Robert Jordan

206. Lord of Chaos — by Robert Jordan

207. Winter`s Heart — by Robert Jordan

208. A Crown of Swords — by Robert Jordan

209. Crossroads of Twilight — by Robert Jordan

210. A Path of Daggers — by Robert Jordan

211. As Nature Made Him — by John Colapinto

212. Microserfs — by Douglas Coupland

213. The Married Man — by Edmund White

214. Winter`s Tale — by Mark Helprin

215. The History of Sexuality — by Michel Foucault

216. Cry to Heaven — by Anne Rice

217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe — by John Boswell

218. Equus — by Peter Shaffer

219. The Man Who Ate Everything — by Jeffrey Steingarten

220. Letters To A Young Poet — by Rainer Maria Rilke

221. Ella Minnow Pea — by Mark Dunn

222. The Vampire Lestat — by Anne Rice

223. Anthem — by Ayn Rand

224. The Bridge To Terabithia — by Katherine Paterson

225. Tartuffe — by Molière

226. The Metamorphosis — by Franz Kafka

227. The Crucible — by Arthur Miller

228. The Trial — by Franz Kafka

229. Oedipus Rex — by Sophocles

230. Oedipus at Colonus — by Sophocles

231. Death Be Not Proud — by John Gunther

232. A Doll`s House — by Henrik Ibsen

233. Hedda Gabler — by Henrik Ibsen

234. Ethan Frome — by Edith Wharton

235. A Raisin In The Sun — by Lorraine Hansberry

236. ALIVE! — by Piers Paul Read

237. Grapefruit — by Yoko Ono

238. Trickster Makes This World — by Lewis Hyde

240. The Mists of Avalon — by Marion Zimmer Bradley

241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever — by Stephen Donaldson

242. Lord of Light — by Roger Zelazny

242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — by Michael Chabon

243. Summerland — by Michael Chabon

244. A Confederacy of Dunces — by John Kennedy Toole

245. Candide — by Voltaire

246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More — by Roald Dahl

247. Ringworld — by Larry Niven

248. The King Must Die — by Mary Renault

249. Stranger in a Strange Land — by Robert Heinlein

250. A Wrinkle in Time — by Madeline L`Engle

251. The Eyre Affair — by Jasper Fforde

252. The House Of The Seven Gables — by Nathaniel Hawthorne

253. The Scarlet Letter — by Nathaniel Hawthorne

254. The Joy Luck Club — by Amy Tan

255. The Great Gilly Hopkins — by Katherine Paterson

256. Chocolate Fever — by Robert Kimmel Smith

257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic — by Piers Anthony

258. The Lost Princess of Oz — by L. Frank Baum

259. Wonder Boys — by Michael Chabon

260. Lost In A Good Book — by Jasper Fforde

261. Life Of Pi — by Yann Martel

261. Well Of Lost Plots — by Jasper Fforde

263. The Bean Trees — by Barbara Kingsolver

264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water — by Michael Dorris

265. Little House on the Prairie — by Laura Ingalls Wilder

267. Where The Red Fern Grows — by Wilson Rawls

268. Griffin & Sabine — by Nick Bantock

269. Witch of Blackbird Pond — by Joyce Friedland

270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH — by Robert C. O`Brien

271. Tuck Everlasting — by Natalie Babbitt

272. The Cay — by Theodore Taylor

273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — by E.L. Konigsburg

274. The Phantom Tollbooth — by Norton Juster

275. The Westing Game — by Ellen Raskin

276. The Kitchen God`s Wife — by Amy Tan

277. The Bone Setter`s Daughter — by Amy Tan

278. Relic — by Duglas Preston & Lincoln Child

279. Wicked — by Gregory Maguire

280. American Gods — by Neil Gaiman

281. Misty of Chincoteague — by Marguerite Henry

282. The Girl Next Door — by Jack Ketchum

283. Haunted — by Judith St. George

284. Singularity — by William Sleator

285. A Short History of Nearly Everything — by Bill Bryson

286. Different Seasons — by Stephen King

287. Fight Club — by Chuck Palahniuk

288. About a Boy — by Nick Hornby

289. The Bookman`s Wake — by John Dunning

290. The Church of Dead Girls — by Stephen Dobyns

291. Illusions — by Richard Bach

292. Magic`s Pawn — by Mercedes Lackey

293. Magic`s Promise — by Mercedes Lackey

294. Magic`s Price — by Mercedes Lackey

295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters — by Gary Zukav

296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor — by Jack L. Chalker

297. Interview with the Vampire — by Anne Rice

298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices — by Brenda Love

299. Infinite Jest — by David Foster Wallace

300. The Bluest Eye — by Toni Morrison

301. The Cider House Rules — by John Irving

302. Ender`s Game — by Orson Scott Card

303. Girlfriend in a Coma — by Douglas Coupland

304. The Lion`s Game — by Nelson Demille

305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars — by Stephen Brust

306. Cyteen — by C.J. Cherryh

307. Foucault`s Pendulum — by Umberto Eco

308. Cryptonomicon — by Neal Stephenson

309. Invisible Monsters — by Chuck Palahniuk

310. Camber of Culdi — by Kathryn Kurtz

311. The Fountainhead — by Ayn Rand

312. War and Rememberance — by Herman Wouk

313. The Art of War — by Sun Tzu

314. The Giver — by Lois Lowry

315. The Telling — by Ursula Le Guin

316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith`s Brood) — by Octavia Butler

317. A Civil Campaign — by Lois McMaster Bujold

318. The Curse of Chalion — by Lois McMaster Bujold

319. The Aeneid — by Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)

320. Hanta Yo — by Ruth Beebe Hill

321. The Princess Bride — by S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)

322. Beowulf — by Anonymous

323. The Sparrow — by Maria Doria Russell

324. Deerskin — by Robin McKinley

325. Dragonsong — by Anne McCaffrey

326. Passage — by Connie Willis

327. Otherland — by Tad Williams

328. Tigana — by Guy Gavriel Kay

329. Number the Stars — by Lois Lowry

330. Beloved — by Toni Morrison

331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ`s Childhood Pal — by Christopher Moore

332. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel — by Ellen Raskin

333. Summer Sisters — by Judy Blume

334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame — by Victor Hugo

335. The Island on Bird Street — by Uri Orlev

336. Midnight in the Dollhouse — by Marjorie Filley Stover

337. The Miracle Worker — by William Gibson

338. The Genesis Code — by John Case

339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — by Robert Louis Stevensen

340. Paradise Lost — by John Milton

341. Phantom — by Susan Kay

342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned — by Anne Rice

343. Anno Dracula — by Kim Newman

344. The Dresden Files: Grave Peril — by Jim Butcher

345. Tokyo Suckerpunch — by Issac Adamson

346. The Winter of Magic`s Return — by Pamela Service

347. The Oddkins — by Dean R. Koontz

348. My Name is Asher Lev — by Chaim Potok

349. The Last Goodbye — by Raymond Chandler

350. At Swim, Two Boys — by Jaime O`Neill

351. Othello — by William Shakespeare

352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats

354. Sati — by Christopher Pike

355. The Inferno — by Dante

356. The Apology — by Plato

357. The Small Rain — by Madeline L`Engle

358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes — by Richard E Cytowick

359. 5 Novels — by Daniel Pinkwater

360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy — by Juliet Marillier

361. Girl with a Pearl Earring — by Tracy Chevalier

362. To the Lighthouse — by Virginia Woolf

363. Our Town — by Thorton Wilder

364. Green Grass Running Water — by Thomas King

365. The Interpreter — by Suzanne Glass

366. The Moor`s Last Sigh — by Salman Rushdie

367. The Mother Tongue — by Bill Bryson

368. A Passage to India — by E.M. Forster

369. The Perks of Being a Wallflower — by Stephen Chbosky

370. The Phantom of the Opera — by Gaston Leroux

371. Pages for You — by Sylvia Brownrigg

372. The Changeover — by Margaret Mahy

373. Howl`s Moving Castle — by Diana Wynne Jones

374. Angels and Demons — by Dan Brown

375. Johnny Got His Gun — by Dalton Trumbo

376. Shosha — by Isaac Bashevis Singer

377. Travels With Charley — by John Steinbeck

378. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly — by Jean-Dominique Bau — by

379. The Lunatic at Large — by J. Storer Clouston

380. Time for Bed — by David Baddiel

381. Barrayar — by Lois McMaster Bujold

382. Quite Ugly One Morning — by Christopher Brookmyre

383. The Bloody Sun — by Marion Zimmer Bradley

384. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric — by Matt Ruff

385. Jhereg — by Steven Brust

386. So You Want To Be A Wizard — by Diane Duane

387. Perdido Street Station — by China Mieville

388. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — by Anne Bronte

389. Road-side Dog — by Czeslaw Milosz

390. The English Patient — by Michael Ondaatje

391. Neuromancer — by William Gibson

392. The Epistemology of the Closet — by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

393. A Canticle for Liebowitz — by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

394. The Mask of Apollo — by Mary Renault

395. The Gunslinger — by Stephen King

396. Romeo and Juliet — by William Shakespeare

397. Childhood`s End — by Arthur C. Clarke

398. A Season of Mists — by Neil Gaiman

399. Ivanhoe — by Walter Scott

400. The God Boy — by Ian Cross

401. The Beekeeper`s Apprentice — by Laurie R. King

402. Finn Family Moomintroll — by Tove Jansson

403. Misery — by Stephen King

404. Tipping the Velvet — by Sarah Waters

405. Hood — by Emma Donoghue

406. The Land of Spices — by Kate O`Brien

407. The Diary of Anne Frank

408. Regeneration — by Pat Barker

409. Tender is the Night — by F. Scott Fitzgerald

410. Dreaming in Cuban — by Cristina García

411. A Farewell to Arms — by Ernest Hemingway

412. The View from Saturday — by E.L. Konigsburg

413. Dealing with Dragons — by Patricia Wrede

414. Eats, Shoots & Leaves — by Lynne Truss

415. A Severed Wasp — by Madeleine L`Engle

416. Here Be Dragons — by Sharon Kay Penman

417. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) – translated — by Lady Charlotte E. Guest

418. The DaVinci Code — by Dan Brown

419. Desire of the Everlasting Hills — by Thomas Cahill

420. The Cloister Walk — by Kathleen Norris

421. The Things We Carried — by Tim O`Brien

422. I Know This Much Is True — by Wally Lamb

423. Choke — by Chuck Palahniuk

424. Ender`s Shadow — by Orson Scott Card

425. The Memory of Earth — by Orson Scott Card

426. The Iron Tower — by Dennis L. McKiernen

427.The French Lieutenant`s Woman — by John Fowles

428. The Four Feathers — by A.E.W. Mason

429. The Jester — by James Patterson

430. Cry the beloved Country — by Alan Paton

431. The Bell Jar — by Sylvia Plath

432. The Stranger — by Albert Camus

433. Stargirl — by Jerry Spinelli

434. The Fuck-Up — by Arthur Nersesian

435. Things Fall Apart — by Chinua Achebe

436. The Little Princess — by Frances Hodgson Burnett

437. The Awakening — by Kate Chopin

438. Shoeless Joe — by W.P. Kinsella

438. The Trumpet of the Swan — by E.B. White

439. Fall On Your Knees — by Ann-Marie MacDonald

440. Unless — by Carol Shields

441. The House of the Spirits — by Isabel Allende

442. Chronicle of a Death Foretold — by Gabriel García Márquez

443. The Neverending Story — by Michael Ende

444. Confessions of a Shopaholic — by Sophie Kinsella

445. Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman

446. Firebrand — by Marion Zimmer Bradley

447. The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy

448. Fifth Business – Robertson Davies

449. The Terminal Man – Michael Crichton

450. The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger

451. Desert Dawn – Waris Dirie

452. The Baghdad Diaries – Nuha Al-Radi

453. The Tain- translated by Kinsella

454.Glass Bead Game- Hermann Hesse

455. Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood

456. Rain of Gold (Lluve de Oro)- Victor Villasenor

457. Beyond lies the Wub, collected short stories of Phillip K. Dick, vol. 1

458. Neverwhere — by Neil Gaiman

459. A house for Mr. Biswas — by V.S. Naipaul

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some validation required

April 20, 2004 — Leave a comment

Grammar

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to

preserve the English tongue, it should be.

Congratulations and thank you!

How grammatically sound are you?
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as if i didn`t already know this

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which country?

April 7, 2004 — Leave a comment

Would you accept $10,000,000 to leave your country in two hours and NEVER set foot in it again? (You can not take family with you.)

but seriously, it`s not about money. for the last four years i`ve been away from the country of my birth for prolonged periods and i have to say i haven`t missed it. i miss my children, i miss my friends, i miss the food, but honestly i can`t say i`ve missed the place.

but at the end of the day, no family and no ability to go back, no amount of money would ever be worth a decision like that.

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in vino veritas

March 25, 2004 — Leave a comment

We are told the truth shall set us free but why is it that the truth is the only thing you have to sugar coat before someone will accept it? Why is it that most people can’t handle the truth? Shouldn`t the acceptance of truth be part of what strengthens our character?

i have what is construed as a bad habit of speaking my mind but it only seemed to apply to people i didn`t care about. i could lash out in the most horrendous way, using the truth as my cover but when it came to the people nearest and dearest to me, i would use avoidance or an outright lie.

i realised after a while it hurts more. so i try to go with the truth even though i know it will hurt knowing that if you cover it up, when finally does come out it will be some much more painful

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i made a promise to myself

February 24, 2004 — Leave a comment

Step 1: Open your mp3 player.

Step 2: Put all of your music on random.

Step 3: List the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.

and here is mine:

Nu Flow – Big Brovaz

If You Leave – OMD

Get Busy – Sean Paul

Poison [Environmental Remix] – Prodigy

Hopeless – Dionne Farris

My Friend Of Misery – Metallica

Digital ft. KRS-1 – Goldie

Eric the Pilot, Pt.2 – Henry Rollins

Deus ex machina – Eddie Izzard

Soon All Will Know – Marsalis, Wynton

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not in my back yard

February 24, 2004 — Leave a comment

Do you think a child molester can be rehabilitated? Would you trust a rehabilitated child molester recently released from prison and living on your block?

no. i don`t even care if they can be. not anywhere around my children. there are things i`m liberal about not my children and their well being.

end of conversation

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money isn’t everything

February 23, 2004 — Leave a comment

You and your mate/spouse have been going through drama for a while now. They have been cheating on you for a minute and you know this for sure, but the only thing is that they don`t know that you know they are cheating. You are strategically planning to leave them because you can`t take it anymore, knowing they are sleeping with someone else besides you, but then 2 weeks before you decide you are leaving their ass, they win the lotto …now do you stay or do you still leave?

if money is all it takes to keep you content, maybe that`s at the crux of what is wrong with your relationship in the first place.

but that is just my 2¢.

my moral high ground is really just an anthill but there are things i stand by. if i`ve made a decision to leave, i`m not hanging around for money.

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my friends

February 20, 2004 — Leave a comment

Do you feel like your really close friends are similar to yourself or do you have a variety of different friends? Has the behavior of one of your friends ever influenced stranger`s opinion of you whether it be positive or negative?

well i only have a few very close friends and they all know each other and while we don`t necessarily share the same views, the thing that draws us together is the fact that we`re all open-minded and are willing to accept each other`s beliefs.

and as for the opinions of strangers?

fuck `em if they can`t a joke.

my friends are bright, funny and speak their minds. when we`re together we`re usually pretty loud, but our behaviour tends to be tempered by where we are. which is why hanging out is usually done at home or locations where we and our behaviour is know and accepted, which brings me back to the opinions of strangers.

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