I’m participating in yet another list thingy, you know the routine – bold the books you’ve read, italicize those you might read, cross out the
ones you won’t, put an asterisk beside the ones on your bookshelves,
and place brackets around the ones you’ve never even heard of , only because I felt badly for M MV and you all know how I feel about her. She thinks she’s the only book blogger who has read and is not ashamed of reading The DaVinci Code. Well she’s not alone. I read it. I’m not ashamed. I actually enjoyed it. I know there are more of us lurking – come out of the closet and admit you’ve read it. And if you’re really brave, you might even admit you sort of enjoyed it. A little. (And admit to having read Angels & Demons too)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
* The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
* The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
* To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J. K. Rowling)
The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
* Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (George Orwell)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
* The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
* Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
* Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
* 1984 (George Orwell)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
*Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
* Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
* Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
* Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
[The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)]
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
* The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
* The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
* Sula (Toni Morrison)
* Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
* White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
* The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
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LOL! Yeah, I sort of liked it, too. It was flawed and cliche-ridden, but it also prompted me to learn more about the Louvre. And (*hushed tones*), Code introduced me to the idea that Jesus, Mary Magdalene… and so on. Seriously, I had never encountered this idea before. I know, I know. Where have I been? Under a a bookcase?
Heh, heh, heh.
Thank you for taking pity on me. (*grin*)
No pity at all. There’s not a darn thing wrong with a flawed, cliche-ridden novel. In fact there are many of those on the best seller list right now, not to mention on every “great books” list ever created.
Under a bookcase, ha! I’m under there with you.
I am going to read the Davinci code, because all of my friends are pressuring me to. I just hate that it is not available in paperback, and I don’t really like hardcover books. It’s a bad reason to not read a book, but it’s an obstacle for me. I’ve read over 90% of the list you have there, all except for Dan Brown books, and The Curious Incident of the Dog…any good?
The library is your friend, Jay. Really, it is. 😉
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, sigh. A lot of people thought so. I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was. I keep reading people’s reviews thinking I missed something but so far – no. I was just bored with it. Again, library is your friend. 😉
Strange selection, though. I miss all my favourite authors.
Da Vinci Code – I was frustrated by it. I thought it was silly to the extreme, but at the same time I couldn’t put it down.
I haven’t read the DaVinci Code. I *might* have been tempted to, just to see what all the fuss was about if people had just let me alone. But I have one friend who just won’t stop tell me how I HAVE to read it (and Angels and Demons) and it’s annoying me so I’m being stubborn because the truth is I’m not especially interested in the theme. At the moment there are just too many other books that I actually want to read.
And MMV – you shouldn’t be ashamed. lol If it were something I was actually interested in I’d so have read it by now.
Another book list. God knows these things are like crack for me, chocolate flavored crack with whipped cream on top. I’ll be stealing this, with a link to you!
hm. What did I do wrong? I tried to trackback, but apparently it’s not working.
Hey Lies, I don’t see a trackback on your post either. Does your software or configuration send trackbacks? Where did you place the link on your blog?
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WordPress has a space to add trackbacks. I put the link there and saved it.
Ok, apparently I did it right and it just takes some time :).
DaVinci Code?? Hell, I read it TWICE!
OMG twice? Please don’t tell people you are my mother, geez. Twice? And you won’t read Celestine Prophecy twice to share the experience with your granddaughter? Tsk tsk.
Twice.
You didn’t read Angels & Demons twice, did you?