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I started reading it, but to be honest I hated the main character so much I couldn't stand 'being in the same room' as her for the duration of the book

Phantom Of The Opera - I've only seen the West End version in London, which IS the original, but I hear the Broadway version is actually better. I thoroughly enjoyed it, anyway.

Stargate is brilliant. Period. Guilty pleasures: O Brien's Sandwiches! Oh I love them, but they're so expensive and about 1000 calories per sandwich!!!

I didn't even know who RP was until I saw Twilight. Luckily, I saw him in the movie before establishing that I don't like him as a person.

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 1984 - George Orwell 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 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 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 - Alice Sebold 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 Dickens72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 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 - Enid Blyton - 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 32, and have another 9 on my actual TBR.

I still haven't read this!!! GRR!

Ohh Fruits Basket is another anime I loved. Never read the manga though.

I didn't like Jacob until he was hot in the movie, but I've always loved vampires so all the Cullen boys were winrars from the start.

Daniel's perfect. He's the right amount of nerdy-mixed-with-dashing-looks and nerdy attitude with military man.

It's both. I love guys with long hair and glasses, but the fact that Daniel is a nerd who rambles all the time, is particularly specfic/logical/pedantic makes him hot even when he's got shorter hair. Loooooove him.

Daniel's hot.

Oh I love Edward. He can come stalk me anytime.

Also, can I just say: The scene on the Biology trip, when Bella goes, 'well you don't answer any o my questions, you don't even say hi to me.' And Edward kinda rolls his eyes a little and with a tiny smile says, 'hi' very meekly. IT'S SO CUTE! It's the cutest thing in the entire movie!

I'm watching Twilight again - in fairness, Rob's a great actor. Edward is so far removed from Rob's actual personality, and Rob hated the character after reading up on him - it must have been difficult to act the part. And yuss, poor Wilson. I always get upset when he loses him.

Castaway is also superb. There's nearly always some little metaphor in his more serious movies. I love the crossroads at the end o Castaway.

He's brilliant, I don't like his earlier work, but he is great. I love You've Got Mail. I want to randomly meet a guy (who owns a bookstore chain) online and then end up dating him. Sleepless in Seattle is also awesome - I love Meg Ryan too, I have to admit.

Just had a sandwich.

Hmph. And again I say, hmph.

I think it's a work of art in the same way that Lost In Translation is. Both are indirect commentaries on life, and theres nothing more I love in a movie than an intellectual interpretation of life.

I try to pretend the 1st scene doesn't happen. The second scene is brilliant. And to be honest, I think Rob does the smirking thing very well. He totally captured all the key elements about Edward in my opinion, the velvet voice, the smirking, he generally just comes across as being a bit different.

I'll update this this weekend, I promise. Michelle, you are to chase me with a stick if I forget!

Has anyone mentioned The Terminal? I love that movie. I watch it regularly.

Hell I still read kids books.

The baseball scene is the best scene I've seen all year. Bar none. Muse and vampires playing baseball? Who needs drugs?

Rawr - because I b*tch about it all the time! And I STILL think it's, at best, enjoyable in the same way that Twilight is (i.e mindless, arguably worthless fluff.) However, it's well written, and I have to admit I'm enjoying it. SO far.