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I think I'm one of the few that really likes "Carrie". I love that book. I liked "The Long Walk" as well, very thought provoking. The other things I've read I liked though, haven't come across anything so far that I didn't.

I finally read this last fall. I devoured it, it was excellent. I'm glad I got the chance. People always say read XYZ Classic Book, and I think the hype is usually more than is warrented, but this lived up to it.

I live in The Bronx. Thanks for the Welcome.

Can I just say I think George Eliot is super awesome. This was the first book I've read/listened to by her. I've seen movie adaptations of her stuff, and I loved all of them. This story (Silas Marner) was so amazing. I don't know who I like better, her or Edith Wharton.

I'm not a horror reader either. The only horror author I've read on a regular basis is Stephen King. And sometimes some of his stuff is more supernatural or metaphysical with bits of horror thrown in. I don't know if I'd enjoy a pure horror book. If anyone can suggest a good one to me, I may check it out.

I was never into chick lit so I haven't read many authors, but I love Jane Green. She is one author I will read any book w/o having to be prompted.

That would take me about a month to do! And although it doesn't look it from this standpoint, there is a method to my madness. The very top is Art/craft books. One square is TBR One Square is religion/metaphysics One square is health. Yes, it is organized enough so I can find what I need....usually. It just doesn't look pretty.

The other bookshelves I have are smaller, that is the large one. One is in my son's room, and the other 2 are in the living room. I live in 'The Bronx' in a 2 bedroom. It is spacious enough I suppose.

People in the UK wouldn't know this probably, but people in the states might. There is this uber annoying McDonald's commercial with a singing fish on the wall! OMG! I want to stab the TV everytime this comes on. I think it will be on until Lent is over as it is advertising the fillet o fish.

I love Goodreads, I've been there since August.

21 of these were read to the end Many were started and never finished b'cause I didn't like them Most of them are on my TBR List 1 I'm currently reading 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 (Currently making my way thru) 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 (4 of them so far) 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 But I have read the house at pooh corner 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 started 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 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 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

Hey guys, I need your organization skills. This was one of my book shelves about 4 years ago. I have 3 more in the house, all equally as packed and disorganized.

OMG this is so funny!

I could see my daughter reading an abridged version of a book like "Little Woman." I did when I was a kid. She'll get the drift now and later she can re-read the unabridged version. I don't see the purpose of an adult reading it though. But to his/her own right.

My son used to read more before he entered High School. Now whatever he reads is for school and not for pleasure. I think it is too much school work for him to read outside of homework. He was such an avid reader too, he read the HP books in one day. I think teenagers are getting away from it thanks to the advent of the computer and video game. But then again, I HATED to read as a teenager. You had to put a gun to my head. I didn't start being an avid reader until about 4 years ago.

I remember having to read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, I only remember parts of it and was disgusted. I am planning to revisit the book very soon. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was one book that almost had me stabbing myself in the eyeball with my pencil. Hamlet was read in my first year of college, and I love it still. One of my favorite pieces.

I'll try to narrow this down. The Color Purple It's A Wonderful Life Random Harvest (1942) My Man Godfrey (1936) Elizabeth

Just make sure you get the one with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. The best version in my opinion.

I remember telling my mother to watch that version of P&P with Colin Firth. She wasn't sure, but she loved it once she saw the whole thing. I am very much into the costume drama (period piece). I love watching Masterpiece Theater Classic Series (here in the states) because they tend to put some costume dramas on. Not enough for my taste though, I wish we got BBC America on my cable stations.

The Characters in the Harry Potter books will stay with me forever. No, I don't have to grow up! Summer by Edith Wharton will stay with me. The 3 main characters were a mess. The woman who runs after love and loses it to a guy who is promised to another and the woman ends up with the man she never wanted to be with. What Drama.

I will only read an unabridged version. Especially if it is a Classic. What's the rush?

If I hear good things about a YA book, I will read it if the synopsis interests me. The last good YA I read was "The Giver", which was real good. I also like to read them, so I can tell my daughter if it is good or not.

THE DEFINITION OF LOVE. by Andrew Marvell I. MY Love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high ; It was begotten by Despair, Upon Impossibility. II. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble hope could ne'er have flown, But vainly flapped its tinsel wing. III. And yet I quickly might arrive Where my extended soul is fixed ; But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt. IV. For Fate with jealous eye does see Two perfect loves, nor lets them close ; Their union would her ruin be, And her tyrannic power depose. V. And therefore her decrees of steel Us as the distant poles have placed, (Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel), Not by themselves to be embraced, VI. Unless the giddy heaven fall, And earth some new convulsion tear. And, us to join, the world should all Be cramp'd into a planisphere. VII. As lines, so love's oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet : But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. VIII. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was a bit disturbing to me. The whole pedephelia thing, doesn't work for me in a book (that and incest). The Long Walk by Stephen King was another book, that disturbed me. The terror of such a thing.