So, I am so sorry that I killed you little fox. May your soul rest in peace.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Death of a Fox
I killed a fox last night with my automobile. It jumped in from of my car and I had no time at all to respond except to scream, "NO! Don't do that!" One second later, and it would have landed on my hood; that is how close it was :(. I started crying immediately and didn't stop for about 40 minutes. After it happened, I turned around to see if maybe I had imagined the whole horrible incident, but no such luck. In the middle of the road was a dead animal. Then--because it was dark and couldn't see exactly what it was I had hit--I started wondering if maybe I had killed someone's cat, which made me even more sad. So, this morning I drove by it again, to see what exactly I had hit--for peace of mind, but also so that I could mourn it properly--and it was not a cat, but definitely a fox.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Google Chrome - niftykeen
Of course I couldn't resist checking out google's new beta browser, 'Chrome'. I'm actually writing this post using it right now. Initial impression - this thing is nifty. Sure, there will be some getting used to the feel and I haven't gotten into many of the special features yet, but on Vista it's rendering the pages lightning-fast and has some built-in features that are ideal for QA - like the Inspector:
It shows page load graphs, element sizes, and has a full element inspector that will let you go through the source line by line, show dimensions, css, etc. All things I had to install Firebug to do in FF.
Even better is the Task Manager, which will break down memory, cpu and network usage for each of the apps/processes running within your browser. Now you can easily see if it's really your page or if it's the 20 gossip blogs you have open in the background that are killing your browser.
So far I'm liking it. I dunno if it'll replace my beloved Firefox, or even if I want it to, but right out of the box it includes some pretty nifty features that make it worth playing around with.
It shows page load graphs, element sizes, and has a full element inspector that will let you go through the source line by line, show dimensions, css, etc. All things I had to install Firebug to do in FF.
Even better is the Task Manager, which will break down memory, cpu and network usage for each of the apps/processes running within your browser. Now you can easily see if it's really your page or if it's the 20 gossip blogs you have open in the background that are killing your browser.
So far I'm liking it. I dunno if it'll replace my beloved Firefox, or even if I want it to, but right out of the box it includes some pretty nifty features that make it worth playing around with.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Geeking Out
Okay... I'm so damn pleased with myself, I can't help posting about it. I've had a little downtime at work for the past few days, so I spent some time writing up regression tests using the Selenium IDE for my websites's tracking tags. I didn't want to rely on just a static set of pages/urls to use in my tests, so it was a little tricksier than just saying "this page should use the following values, assert that they're there." Instead, I needed to pull the values off of the page I hit, and then, depending on the page type, compare what was in our tracking tags, and verify they matched.
... but wait, it was worse than that, because of two things:
1. The format for the tracking tags doesn't always match the format for the data on the page (i.e., Rock & Alternative on the page = rock_n_alternative in the tag).
2. In some cases, there was nowhere in the html source of the page where I could find the expected data. For this, I needed to actually pull the data out of the database, store it in a variable, and then compare the variable to the tag.
So... for number 1, I used some javascript expressions to transform the data. If, as an example, Rock & Alternative was in the h4 tag on the page, my script went like this:
Command: storeText
Target: //h4
Value: navGenre
Command: storeExpression
Target: javascript{storedVars['navGenre'].toLowerCase().replace(/( |\-)/g,'_').replace('&','n')}
Value: genre
That got me the expected format for the genre in a 'genre' variable that I could compare against the tag in the tracking code.
For number 2, the record ID for each item on the page is the last piece of the url for the page. I'm in luck that my db can be queried using an http request, so using the following regular expression, I was able to cut everything but the last piece of the url from the page to get the record ID I needed, and store it in a variable:
Command: storeLocation
Target: curPage
Command: storeExpression
Target: javascript{storedVars['curPage'].replace(/.*\/([^\/]{0})/,'')}
Value: assetID
Then, I plugged that variable into an url, like:
Command: open
Target: http://my.db.serverurl/select/?q=select+something+from+mytable+where+assetID%3D+${assetID}
(this is obviously not the actual url, because I think I'd get in trouble if I just passed that out.)
Once I hit that query, my results are in an html table, so it's not hard to construct an xpath to pull the cell from the table I wanted and store it in another variable, then go back to my test page and verify that the data matched in the tag.
Ta-da! I can now do lookups in my db for anything I want, store the data in variables, and then compare that data to the values on my page. Of course, it'd be easier if they stored that data in the source of the page somewhere, but I'd rather have dev pushing new code than rewriting existing pages just to make my regression tests easier.
... but wait, it was worse than that, because of two things:
1. The format for the tracking tags doesn't always match the format for the data on the page (i.e., Rock & Alternative on the page = rock_n_alternative in the tag).
2. In some cases, there was nowhere in the html source of the page where I could find the expected data. For this, I needed to actually pull the data out of the database, store it in a variable, and then compare the variable to the tag.
So... for number 1, I used some javascript expressions to transform the data. If, as an example, Rock & Alternative was in the h4 tag on the page, my script went like this:
Command: storeText
Target: //h4
Value: navGenre
Command: storeExpression
Target: javascript{storedVars['navGenre'].toLowerCase().replace(/( |\-)/g,'_').replace('&','n')}
Value: genre
That got me the expected format for the genre in a 'genre' variable that I could compare against the tag in the tracking code.
For number 2, the record ID for each item on the page is the last piece of the url for the page. I'm in luck that my db can be queried using an http request, so using the following regular expression, I was able to cut everything but the last piece of the url from the page to get the record ID I needed, and store it in a variable:
Command: storeLocation
Target: curPage
Command: storeExpression
Target: javascript{storedVars['curPage'].replace(/.*\/([^\/]{0})/,'')}
Value: assetID
Then, I plugged that variable into an url, like:
Command: open
Target: http://my.db.serverurl/select/?q=select+something+from+mytable+where+assetID%3D+${assetID}
(this is obviously not the actual url, because I think I'd get in trouble if I just passed that out.)
Once I hit that query, my results are in an html table, so it's not hard to construct an xpath to pull the cell from the table I wanted and store it in another variable, then go back to my test page and verify that the data matched in the tag.
Ta-da! I can now do lookups in my db for anything I want, store the data in variables, and then compare that data to the values on my page. Of course, it'd be easier if they stored that data in the source of the page somewhere, but I'd rather have dev pushing new code than rewriting existing pages just to make my regression tests easier.
Biggie Magnum strikes
YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Biggie Magnum
YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
LOL - C-Wet
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Yellow Cat
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Petrina Baltimore
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Wetce
SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Red Coffee
NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Orval Jack
STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Sandalwood Bonbon
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Elaine Leroy
TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Bottigi Berlin
SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Autumn Laurel
CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Raspberry Shorty
HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Nada Dogwood
YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Dancing Lightning Tour
Biggie Magnum
YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
LOL - C-Wet
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Yellow Cat
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Petrina Baltimore
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Wetce
SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Red Coffee
NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Orval Jack
STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Sandalwood Bonbon
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Elaine Leroy
TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Bottigi Berlin
SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Autumn Laurel
CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Raspberry Shorty
HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Nada Dogwood
YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Dancing Lightning Tour
Here's Livvy!
YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Gizmo Matrix
YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
O-BIL (OMG Banana...Ours are the SAME!!!)
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Kitten
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
LeAnne Fort Gordon
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Bi-lol (I hyphenated it. It just seemed right...)
SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Blue Water (mine's redundant...)
NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Jack Orval (oooh...Let's see what Lissa and Celeste come up with :) ).
STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Honey Sour Patch Kids
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Elaine Leroy
TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
I have no idea....Stupid memory!
SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Spring Rose
CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Olive Sweatery
HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Waffle Magnolia
YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Hiking Lightning Tour
Gizmo Matrix
YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
O-BIL (OMG Banana...Ours are the SAME!!!)
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Kitten
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
LeAnne Fort Gordon
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Bi-lol (I hyphenated it. It just seemed right...)
SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Blue Water (mine's redundant...)
NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Jack Orval (oooh...Let's see what Lissa and Celeste come up with :) ).
STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Honey Sour Patch Kids
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Elaine Leroy
TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
I have no idea....Stupid memory!
SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Spring Rose
CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Olive Sweatery
HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Waffle Magnolia
YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Hiking Lightning Tour
Your Superhero Name
I picked this up on another blog. I meant to save it for later what with the recent spate of postings on here, I figured we could all use a break, but whatever . . . I'm bored already.
YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Tootsie Scion
YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
O-BIL (I wonder what Livvy's will be LOLOL!!!)
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Penguin
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Lenore Fort Gordon
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
BILOR
SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Blue Beer
NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Orval Jack
STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Coconut Ginger
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Elaine Leroy
TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Bowditch Boise (Spaced on fifth grade teacher's name, sixth grade will have to do)
SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Winter Orchid
CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Apple Jeany
HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Grapefruit Willow
YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Reading Snow Tour
YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Tootsie Scion
YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
O-BIL (I wonder what Livvy's will be LOLOL!!!)
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Penguin
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Lenore Fort Gordon
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
BILOR
SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Blue Beer
NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Orval Jack
STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Coconut Ginger
WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Elaine Leroy
TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Bowditch Boise (Spaced on fifth grade teacher's name, sixth grade will have to do)
SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Winter Orchid
CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Apple Jeany
HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Grapefruit Willow
YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Reading Snow Tour
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
When It Rains It Pours....
Okay.... last one today, and then I guess I'll do something productive for work...
J R R Tolkien, Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
J K Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time Series
C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
George R R Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire
David Eddings, The Belgariad Series
Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Raymond E Feist, Magician
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
R A Salvatore, Dark Elf Trilogy
Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weis & Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson, Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
William Golding, The Lord Of the Flies
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series
Garth Nix, Sabriel
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse
T H White, The Once & Future King
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Unknown Author, Beowulf
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Dianna Gabaldon, Outlander
C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Homer, The Odyssey
LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
David Eddings, The Malloreon
Terry Pratchett, Mort
J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Laurell K Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Frank Miller, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Weis & Hickman, Death Gate Cycle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Patricia C Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun
Christopher Moore, Lamb
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkan
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
David Eddings, The Elenium
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Okay... now I'm going back to my Buffy marathon....
J R R Tolkien, Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
J K Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time Series
C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
George R R Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire
David Eddings, The Belgariad Series
Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Raymond E Feist, Magician
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
R A Salvatore, Dark Elf Trilogy
Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weis & Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson, Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
William Golding, The Lord Of the Flies
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series
Garth Nix, Sabriel
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse
T H White, The Once & Future King
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Unknown Author, Beowulf
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Dianna Gabaldon, Outlander
C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Homer, The Odyssey
LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
David Eddings, The Malloreon
Terry Pratchett, Mort
J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Laurell K Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Frank Miller, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Weis & Hickman, Death Gate Cycle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Patricia C Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun
Christopher Moore, Lamb
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkan
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
David Eddings, The Elenium
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Okay... now I'm going back to my Buffy marathon....
Arrgh
J R R Tolkien, Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
J K Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time Series
C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
George R R Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire
David Eddings, The Belgariad Series
Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Raymond E Feist, Magician
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
R A Salvatore, Dark Elf Trilogy
Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weis & Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson, Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
William Golding, The Lord Of the Flies
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series
Garth Nix, Sabriel
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse
T H White, The Once & Future King
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Unknown Author, Beowulf
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Dianna Gabaldon, Outlander
C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell gave up half way through actually. Another monster of a book.
Homer, The Odyssey
LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
David Eddings, The Malloreon
Terry Pratchett, Mort
J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Laurell K Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Frank Miller, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Weis & Hickman, Death Gate Cycle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Patricia C Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun
Christopher Moore, Lamb
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkan
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
David Eddings, The Elenium
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
I call Shenanigans does Lord of the Flies actually qualify as fantasy? Also China Mieville while an excellent writer, is more scifi.
J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
J K Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time Series
C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
George R R Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire
David Eddings, The Belgariad Series
Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Raymond E Feist, Magician
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
R A Salvatore, Dark Elf Trilogy
Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weis & Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson, Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
William Golding, The Lord Of the Flies
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series
Garth Nix, Sabriel
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse
T H White, The Once & Future King
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Unknown Author, Beowulf
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Dianna Gabaldon, Outlander
C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell gave up half way through actually. Another monster of a book.
Homer, The Odyssey
LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
David Eddings, The Malloreon
Terry Pratchett, Mort
J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Laurell K Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Frank Miller, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Weis & Hickman, Death Gate Cycle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Patricia C Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun
Christopher Moore, Lamb
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkan
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
David Eddings, The Elenium
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
I call Shenanigans does Lord of the Flies actually qualify as fantasy? Also China Mieville while an excellent writer, is more scifi.
Olivia's Fantasy Meme
:)...Look what I found:
J R R Tolkien, Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
J K Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time Series
C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
George R R Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire
David Eddings, The Belgariad Series
Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Raymond E Feist, Magician
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
R A Salvatore, Dark Elf Trilogy
Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weis & Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson, Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
William Golding, The Lord Of the Flies
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series
Garth Nix, Sabriel
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse
T H White, The Once & Future King
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Unknown Author, Beowulf
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Dianna Gabaldon, Outlander
C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Homer, The Odyssey
LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
David Eddings, The Malloreon
Terry Pratchett, Mort
J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Laurell K Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Frank Miller, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Weis & Hickman, Death Gate Cycle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Patricia C Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun
Christopher Moore, Lamb
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkan
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
David Eddings, The Elenium
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Still less that the first one, but better than the sci-fi one :)!
J R R Tolkien, Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit
J K Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time Series
C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
George R R Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire
David Eddings, The Belgariad Series
Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
Raymond E Feist, Magician
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
R A Salvatore, Dark Elf Trilogy
Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weis & Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson, Thomas Covenant - The Unbeliever
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
William Golding, The Lord Of the Flies
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series
Garth Nix, Sabriel
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse
T H White, The Once & Future King
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Unknown Author, Beowulf
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Dianna Gabaldon, Outlander
C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Homer, The Odyssey
LaHaye & Jenkins, Left Behind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
David Eddings, The Malloreon
Terry Pratchett, Mort
J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Laurell K Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
Frank Miller, Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Weis & Hickman, Death Gate Cycle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Patricia C Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun
Christopher Moore, Lamb
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkan
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
David Eddings, The Elenium
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Still less that the first one, but better than the sci-fi one :)!
Olivia Sci-Fi Meme
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Frank Herbert, Dune
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
George Orwell, 1984
Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Larry Niven, Ringworld
Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
H G Wells, The Time Machine
Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
Dan Simmons, Hyperion
H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Frederik Pohl, Gateway
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
Carl Sagan, Contact
Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
Philip K Dick, UBIK
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
David Brin, Startide Rising
Greg Bear, Eon
Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Clifford Simak, Way Station
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
H G Wells, The Invisible Man
Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
Dan Simmons, Ilium
Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
William Gibson, Burning Chrome
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
Michael Crichton, Sphere
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
David Brin, The Postman
Clifford Simak, City
Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
Philip K Dick, VALIS
Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
Greg Bear, Blood Music
Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
James Blish, Cities in Flight
David Brin, The Uplift War
Hmm...I should read more actual science fiction too! I have a ton of Philip K. Dick to read. I recommend him because, although I haven't read the books on this list (but are on my own to read list), I have read a couple of his other novels, which were really good. I also have been meaning to read more Ursula K. LeGuin, and Isaac Asimov...AND I have been wanting to read some Alistair Reynolds too :).
Frank Herbert, Dune
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
George Orwell, 1984
Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Larry Niven, Ringworld
Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
H G Wells, The Time Machine
Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
Dan Simmons, Hyperion
H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Frederik Pohl, Gateway
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
Carl Sagan, Contact
Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
Philip K Dick, UBIK
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
David Brin, Startide Rising
Greg Bear, Eon
Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Clifford Simak, Way Station
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
H G Wells, The Invisible Man
Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
Dan Simmons, Ilium
Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
William Gibson, Burning Chrome
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
Michael Crichton, Sphere
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
David Brin, The Postman
Clifford Simak, City
Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
Philip K Dick, VALIS
Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
Greg Bear, Blood Music
Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
James Blish, Cities in Flight
David Brin, The Uplift War
Hmm...I should read more actual science fiction too! I have a ton of Philip K. Dick to read. I recommend him because, although I haven't read the books on this list (but are on my own to read list), I have read a couple of his other novels, which were really good. I also have been meaning to read more Ursula K. LeGuin, and Isaac Asimov...AND I have been wanting to read some Alistair Reynolds too :).
Top 100 SciFi: Celeste
Items I've read in bold
1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. Frank Herbert, Dune
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. George Orwell, 1984
6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
40. Carl Sagan, Contact
41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
60. David Brin, Startide Rising
61. Greg Bear, Eon
62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
90. David Brin, The Postman
91. Clifford Simak, City
92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
100. David Brin, The Uplift War
Were it not for the heavy representation for Heinlein, I wouldn't have so many.... there are number of authors on the list I've read, just not that particular book, though. Like L Ron Hubbard (anyone who actually read Battlefield Earth is a glutton for punishment), Le Guin, Brin, Clarke, May, and Vonnegut (I've read a lot of his stuff.) Heh. And I went into this thinking I'd have a better score than that NEA list.
1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. Frank Herbert, Dune
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. George Orwell, 1984
6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
40. Carl Sagan, Contact
41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
60. David Brin, Startide Rising
61. Greg Bear, Eon
62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
90. David Brin, The Postman
91. Clifford Simak, City
92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
100. David Brin, The Uplift War
Were it not for the heavy representation for Heinlein, I wouldn't have so many.... there are number of authors on the list I've read, just not that particular book, though. Like L Ron Hubbard (anyone who actually read Battlefield Earth is a glutton for punishment), Le Guin, Brin, Clarke, May, and Vonnegut (I've read a lot of his stuff.) Heh. And I went into this thinking I'd have a better score than that NEA list.
Anna's Top 100 Sci-Fi
Some of these books I attempted to read when I was all of ten, so I abandoned them. I fully plan on reading them in full one day, so I put those in italics.
1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. Frank Herbert, Dune
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. George Orwell, 1984
6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
40. Carl Sagan, Contact
41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
60. David Brin, Startide Rising
61. Greg Bear, Eon
62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
90. David Brin, The Postman
91. Clifford Simak, City
92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
100. David Brin, The Uplift War
Celeste will win. I remember she had a hard-on for Heinlein and Vonnegut. I never could finish those Heinlein books, because I was so young. I'll have to try again. Incidentally I just finished Cryptonomicon last week. It's like 1500 pages long. Good read though.
1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. Frank Herbert, Dune
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. George Orwell, 1984
6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
40. Carl Sagan, Contact
41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
60. David Brin, Startide Rising
61. Greg Bear, Eon
62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
90. David Brin, The Postman
91. Clifford Simak, City
92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
100. David Brin, The Uplift War
Celeste will win. I remember she had a hard-on for Heinlein and Vonnegut. I never could finish those Heinlein books, because I was so young. I'll have to try again. Incidentally I just finished Cryptonomicon last week. It's like 1500 pages long. Good read though.
Top 100 Sci-Fi meme
This is a top 100 Sci-Fi list, which can be found here. I know Celeste will probably win this one, lol, though I would put even odds on Anna winning, except they seem to be very strictly in the Sci-Fi category and have a bias against stuff that leans more towards Fantasy (e.g. is there any Piers Anthony on here at all?). Anyway, copy it, bold the ones you've read!
Yikes, 11 out of 100 for me. I actually really love Sci-Fi, though you wouldn't know it from this list. I just have a tendency to pick up whatever crap I find in used book stores indiscrimintely. So I probably read quite a bit of Sci-Fi that Sci-Fi experts would consider trash. I have quite a few of these in my to read stack and haven't got to them yet, and I know I read one other Heinlen book besides Starship Troopers, but can't remember which one, lol.
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
- Frank Herbert, Dune
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation
- Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- George Orwell, 1984
- Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
- Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
- Larry Niven, Ringworld
- Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Aldous Huxley, Brave
- Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
- H G Wells, The Time Machine
- Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
- H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
- Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
- Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
- Philip K Dick, The Man in the
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway
- Michael Crichton,
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
- Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
- Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
- Philip K Dick, UBIK
- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
- Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
- Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
- Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
- L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
- Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
- Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
- David Brin, Startide Rising
- Greg Bear, Eon
- Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
- Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
- Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
- Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
- Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
- Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
- Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
- Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
- Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
- C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
- Clifford Simak, Way Station
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
- Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
- H G Wells, The Invisible Man
- Julian May, The
- Dan Simmons,
- Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
- E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
- William Gibson, Burning Chrome
- Mark Twain, A
- Michael Crichton, Sphere
- Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
- David Brin, The Postman
- Clifford Simak, City
- Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of
- John Brunner, Stand on
- Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
- Philip K Dick, VALIS
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
- Greg Bear, Blood Music
- Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
- James Blish, Cities in Flight
- David Brin, The Uplift War
Yikes, 11 out of 100 for me. I actually really love Sci-Fi, though you wouldn't know it from this list. I just have a tendency to pick up whatever crap I find in used book stores indiscrimintely. So I probably read quite a bit of Sci-Fi that Sci-Fi experts would consider trash. I have quite a few of these in my to read stack and haven't got to them yet, and I know I read one other Heinlen book besides Starship Troopers, but can't remember which one, lol.
Alicia Book Meme
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (book one only) --I've read all three.
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 (a few only)--I've read more than a few.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -- I've read all of them.
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 Meany - 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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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
51 out of 100 -- though a few I had read to me when I was a kid. You can consider all the rest italicized for me as I have tons of classic book lists that I look at regularly to decide what I should read next. Surprised to see some of these on here, I don't think I have seen "A Fine Balance" on any lists before and was a very excellent read, though horribly depressing.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (book one only) --I've read all three.
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 (a few only)--I've read more than a few.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -- I've read all of them.
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 Meany - 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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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
51 out of 100 -- though a few I had read to me when I was a kid. You can consider all the rest italicized for me as I have tons of classic book lists that I look at regularly to decide what I should read next. Surprised to see some of these on here, I don't think I have seen "A Fine Balance" on any lists before and was a very excellent read, though horribly depressing.
Duck Salad
If you like Vietnamese food, then this duck salad should go on your menu for the week. I took recipes from two different food blogs and cobbled them together into a close approximation of the vermicelli dishes I get at Vietnamese restaurants. I roasted the duck the day before because it takes around 3 hours to render off all the fat. My suggestion is that you DO not do this if the dish you are eating for dinner that night is disgusting and makes you want to vomit. Just so happens the meal I made on Sunday that I had to eat again on Monday, the night I roasted the duck, was an enormous FAIL. So I had to eat that crap while the scent of roasting duck tickled my nostrils. I ended up helping myself to a leg when it came out of the oven, and gave Sonny the other one as an apology for my awful awful spaghetti. I also saved the fat, and am definitely going to use it for something.
Recipe 1: Aromatic Duck Salad I changed it obviously but I like to give credit where credit is due.
1 Roasted duck (mine was 4 pounds and change)
1 package Rice Vermicelli
1 seedless cucumber thinly sliced
1 Bunch scallions, sliced into matchsticks (huge pain in the ass)
2 cups mung bean sprouts
To roast the duck:
Salt liberally and pat dry. Don't forget to remove giblets and if you want you can trim off loose fat, but why would you want to do that? Let sit for about half an hour at room temperature while you preheat the oven to 350. Roast at 350 for two hours, turning every half hour. Increase heat to 375 and roast for additional 30 minutes, then roast at 400 for ten minutes to re-crisp the breast. Total cooking time about 2hr 40 min for a 4 pound bird. The leg should swivel easily and pull out without a struggle. Just so you know flipping the duck is a bitch because you want to be careful not to prick the skin, so you have to fiddle with spoons and cavities and what not to get that sucker on its back and vice versa. Let rest 20 minutes.
Once the duck is cool enough to handle--in my case the next day by which time I couldn't frakking wait to eat the stupid thing--cut off the wings at the joint, and then cut that sucker in half lengthwise. Then cut the halves in half lengthwise. Work the meat off the bones, you want to end up with perfect little pieces of sliced duck with the skin still attached.
To cook rice noodles:
Bring water to a boil, take off heat and throw the rice noodles in for five minutes. Do not over cook, rinse with cold water while draining.
To slice cucumber:
Slice in half cross wise, and then in half again lengthwise, then slice thinly crosswise. This would be good with little matchstick cucumbers but I didn't have the patience for that. If you do, well . . . you're weird.
To slice scallions:
I have no idea how people get those perfect little scallion matchsticks. Can you buy them that way? I mean seriously slicing those suckers is the most irritating job in the world. Half of the bunch ended up sliced on a diagonal, because I am not made of time.
Throw everything together.
Recipe 2: Nuoc Cham This I kept the same, except my directions are the lazy way.
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup warm water
1/4 cup fish sauce (Viet Huong Three Crabs brand)
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 of a lime, juiced
3-4 cloves of garlic , minced
2-3 Thai chili pepper, minced
Add the sugar to the water and swirl until the sugar dissolves. Throw everything else in.
Pour some dressing over your salad, and voila. A dish that makes up for my colossal spaghetti failure. AND there's enough left for lunch for two more days. Thank God!
Recipe 1: Aromatic Duck Salad I changed it obviously but I like to give credit where credit is due.
1 Roasted duck (mine was 4 pounds and change)
1 package Rice Vermicelli
1 seedless cucumber thinly sliced
1 Bunch scallions, sliced into matchsticks (huge pain in the ass)
2 cups mung bean sprouts
To roast the duck:
Salt liberally and pat dry. Don't forget to remove giblets and if you want you can trim off loose fat, but why would you want to do that? Let sit for about half an hour at room temperature while you preheat the oven to 350. Roast at 350 for two hours, turning every half hour. Increase heat to 375 and roast for additional 30 minutes, then roast at 400 for ten minutes to re-crisp the breast. Total cooking time about 2hr 40 min for a 4 pound bird. The leg should swivel easily and pull out without a struggle. Just so you know flipping the duck is a bitch because you want to be careful not to prick the skin, so you have to fiddle with spoons and cavities and what not to get that sucker on its back and vice versa. Let rest 20 minutes.
Once the duck is cool enough to handle--in my case the next day by which time I couldn't frakking wait to eat the stupid thing--cut off the wings at the joint, and then cut that sucker in half lengthwise. Then cut the halves in half lengthwise. Work the meat off the bones, you want to end up with perfect little pieces of sliced duck with the skin still attached.
To cook rice noodles:
Bring water to a boil, take off heat and throw the rice noodles in for five minutes. Do not over cook, rinse with cold water while draining.
To slice cucumber:
Slice in half cross wise, and then in half again lengthwise, then slice thinly crosswise. This would be good with little matchstick cucumbers but I didn't have the patience for that. If you do, well . . . you're weird.
To slice scallions:
I have no idea how people get those perfect little scallion matchsticks. Can you buy them that way? I mean seriously slicing those suckers is the most irritating job in the world. Half of the bunch ended up sliced on a diagonal, because I am not made of time.
Throw everything together.
Recipe 2: Nuoc Cham This I kept the same, except my directions are the lazy way.
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup warm water
1/4 cup fish sauce (Viet Huong Three Crabs brand)
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 of a lime, juiced
3-4 cloves of garlic , minced
2-3 Thai chili pepper, minced
Add the sugar to the water and swirl until the sugar dissolves. Throw everything else in.
Pour some dressing over your salad, and voila. A dish that makes up for my colossal spaghetti failure. AND there's enough left for lunch for two more days. Thank God!
Olivia Book Meme
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (book one only) --I've read all three.
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 (a few only)--I've read more than a few.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -- I've read all of them.
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 Meany - 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 (Loved it when I was a teenager. Re-read it recently and found it tedious.)
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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
So...I guess I've read about 30%, but I think that I should re-read some of those because some of them were read a long time ago. I actually have been wanting to read a number of these books, simply because I believe my high school education was slack in its reading requirements. So, hopefully I will get to them soon.
I agree with Celeste though...this list is not that great. Also, what's with the duplicates? They have the Chronicles of Narnia listed and then go on later to list The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. They did the same thing with Shakespeare!
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (book one only) --I've read all three.
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 (a few only)--I've read more than a few.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -- I've read all of them.
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 Meany - 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 (Loved it when I was a teenager. Re-read it recently and found it tedious.)
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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
So...I guess I've read about 30%, but I think that I should re-read some of those because some of them were read a long time ago. I actually have been wanting to read a number of these books, simply because I believe my high school education was slack in its reading requirements. So, hopefully I will get to them soon.
I agree with Celeste though...this list is not that great. Also, what's with the duplicates? They have the Chronicles of Narnia listed and then go on later to list The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. They did the same thing with Shakespeare!
Innovation in Education
Now, this is pretty damned innovative.
As the article points out, this isn't a fixit for all poor urban families; the schools will not take students who are discipline problems, and will ask students to leave if they are not holding up their end of the work bargain. So the resulting group of students attending Christo Rey schools are motivated and willing to work hard for their education - but they're also poor, come from bad neighborhoods, and have no experience dealing with people in a professional environment. The schools give them a prep-school education, professional work experience and contacts they can use on their resumes, and have a college-acceptance rate far higher than public schools. By asking these students to work for their education, they're getting a far better idea of the value of it.
...five school days a month, Adams skips the uniform and dons business attire. On those days, after a morning assembly, she bypasses the classrooms and hops instead into a van bound for Essex County College. There Adams works in the human resources department from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. or so, scheduling résumé appointments, doing clerical work, and generally keeping the place functioning. Far from being a distraction, this opportunity to work while going to school is what drew Adams to Christ the King in the first place. “I thought it would be a good school for me to learn about business,” she says. “I would like to be an entrepreneur.”
Few teenagers are so concretely focused on their future careers. But Adams’ attitude is not unusual for the 89 freshmen at Christ the King Prep, part of a recently formed national network of Catholic schools that combine school and work. In the process, these “Cristo Rey” (Spanish for “Christ the King”) schools have stumbled on a new business model for private urban education—one that asks students like Adams to largely pay their own way.
At the 19 schools in the network (three new ones are opening this fall in Brooklyn, Detroit, and the west side of Chicago), four-student teams share entry-level clerical jobs at area employers. In exchange, these companies pay the schools $20,000 to $30,000 for each team. The subsidy of $5,000 to $7,500 per student keeps tuition low enough (usually around $2,500) that a prep school education becomes feasible for poor families.
As the article points out, this isn't a fixit for all poor urban families; the schools will not take students who are discipline problems, and will ask students to leave if they are not holding up their end of the work bargain. So the resulting group of students attending Christo Rey schools are motivated and willing to work hard for their education - but they're also poor, come from bad neighborhoods, and have no experience dealing with people in a professional environment. The schools give them a prep-school education, professional work experience and contacts they can use on their resumes, and have a college-acceptance rate far higher than public schools. By asking these students to work for their education, they're getting a far better idea of the value of it.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Book MeMe: Celeste
The premise of this exercise is that someone has claimed that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - (editors note: lol. What, they consider this anonymous?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - tried to read it, but something more compelling was sitting on my desk.
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 - actually, just Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, all of his histories (thanks to my drama teacher), As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest... um, okay, most of them really...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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 Meany - 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 - tried to read it, bored the shit out of me.
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - I've read some of them, but not the whole thing.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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 - why does this show up twice?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Eh.... 40% ain't bad. Especially for what I'd call a rather arbitrary list. I mean seriously, there's like NO sci-fi. What about "War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "I, Robot", "The Mote In Gods Eye"... I could go on and on, but you get what I mean. I fail to see how Adams made it to the list (much as I enjoy his work), but Niven, Heinlein and Asimov were snubbed. And not a single Mark Twain, and no Oscar Wilde?
Now I have to sit down and put together a top 100 list of books I've read and think everyone else should give a shot as well. I have a feeling it'll be substantially different....
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - (editors note: lol. What, they consider this anonymous?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - tried to read it, but something more compelling was sitting on my desk.
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 - actually, just Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, all of his histories (thanks to my drama teacher), As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest... um, okay, most of them really...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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 Meany - 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 - tried to read it, bored the shit out of me.
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - I've read some of them, but not the whole thing.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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 - why does this show up twice?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Eh.... 40% ain't bad. Especially for what I'd call a rather arbitrary list. I mean seriously, there's like NO sci-fi. What about "War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "I, Robot", "The Mote In Gods Eye"... I could go on and on, but you get what I mean. I fail to see how Adams made it to the list (much as I enjoy his work), but Niven, Heinlein and Asimov were snubbed. And not a single Mark Twain, and no Oscar Wilde?
Now I have to sit down and put together a top 100 list of books I've read and think everyone else should give a shot as well. I have a feeling it'll be substantially different....
Book MeMe
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (book one only)
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 (a few only)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the
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
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29
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 Meany - 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 (Loved it when I was a teenager. Re-read it recently and found it tedious.)
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
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
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
74 Notes From A
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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
I've read considerably more than six, thanks in large part to my high school English teachers. I'm a little disappointed that I haven't read more than half of the list, boo for me.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Dr. Horrible = Totally Freaking Awesome!
I just finished watching Act One of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and I heartily recommend you do the same. And before July 20th, because apparently they will be taken down. It's Joss Whedon through and through.
I'm at a loss to describe it, except to say that Neil Patrick Harris rules!
I'm at a loss to describe it, except to say that Neil Patrick Harris rules!
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