Trisect With Me The Course Of Time

All the cool kids are doing it.

2008-04-29T01:50:32Z

I'm going to say right out--I'm not a big reader. I don't read much outside of class. I'm terrible, I know.

These are the 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.

Here’s the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, and a dash next to books you own but have not read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary *
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice *
Jane Eyre (I chose to read it out of a list, but it was still for school.)
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods **************** (Read this fucking book NOW!!)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys - (Yeah I own it, I just haven't read it yet!)
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984 (Does it count that I really want to read it?)
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere *
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter *
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit *
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

I'll bite.

2008-04-08T00:20:21Z

Find Out Which Disney Girl You Are!
created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Mulan

A free spirit, a beautiful soul, all things that most people would tag on a lovely girly girl - but you're more boy than anything! Sometimes you're considered a 'nerd' or 'dork', but that just comes with the package - you even embrace your inner nerd. Go you!

Mulan

79%

Pocahontas

75%

Ariel

63%

Belle

63%

Jane

54%

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

50%

Jasmine

50%

Tinkerbell

42%

Alice

33%

Snow White

33%

Cinderella

33%

Megara

29%

Violet

29%

Esmerelda

17%

Tee hee.

Word of the Day

2008-04-03T02:20:32Z

boverloaded \BOE-vurr-loe-ded\, adjective:
1. When you are completely sick of reading parodies of romances.
Etymology: Madame Bovary + overloaded

ò_ó

vorpalmuse @ 2008-03-18T23:44:00

2008-03-19T03:45:19Z

I'm sure you guys have seen enough of it by now, but... I'm in.

For those of you who don't already know, there has been a strike scheduled for Friday, March 21st, 2008, during which we hope to have many members of LiveJournal provide LJ with absolutely no content for twenty-four hours. This means no posting and no commenting. If you post elsewhere and have it set up to be posted through a feed on LiveJournal, don't do it. Stay away from LiveJournal for twenty-four hours. That can't be too hard, can it? I know some of you are probably quite active on LiveJournal and will find it hard to stay away for an entire day, just as I will, but this is something that needs to be done, to show the people running LiveJournal that we're watching the changes they are making, that we're paying attention, that we're discontent, and that we want to be heard and taken in to consideration. We are not simply users who can be tossed to the side and ignored. We are the people who make up LiveJournal. Without us, without the content we create, without our words, our voices, our creativity, our participation, there would be no LiveJournal. This is a fact, and it needs to be realized and understood and then taken in to consideration when making decisions regarding the way that LiveJournal is run. The strike is only a few days away, so there isn't all too much time to prepare. While this is unfortunate, it isn't enough to keep this strike from taking place. It will take place, the second it is meant to, and it would be best to have as many people take part as possible. Please, spread the word. Spread it fast. There are only a few days to organize this. If you find that you care about LiveJournal or care about the people you interact with on LiveJournal or simply want it to remain a place where you can entertain yourself without constant censorship and money-hungry practices being thrown in without the consideration of those who use the service, act now. If you don't wish to spread the word, that is fine, but please: refrain from using LiveJournal on Friday, March 21st. Do something else for a change. It's for a good cause. (:

For background on this strike and why it is being held, please read the following posts:
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/394838.html
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395310.html

To find out exactly when the strike begins and ends, depending on where you are located, please see this:
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395125.html

What's this about?

* It's about free and ad-free LiveJournal accounts being abolished for new members, ignoring the advice from the newly-formed Advisory Board.
* It's about LJ staff trying to sneak this decision in under the radar, and when people found out, telling the users it was done 'to make the signup process less confusing'.
* It's about LJ staff failing to apologize for trying to hide the facts from view and for lying about the actual reasons for their actions.
* And finally, it's about the latest decision to hide certain user interests from the list of Most Popular Interests, some of them being fanfiction, bisexuality, sex and depression. This decision was not announced or explained in any way. Users found out for themselves.

-Taken from the journal of m03m

AND ICONS TO SUPPORT THIS:

6^2 questions

2008-03-16T23:33:16Z

YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better!

BE HONEST! COPY FROM HERE THEN SEND DIRECTLY TO ME IN A COMMENT THEN, REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS.

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?

2) What was your dream growing up?

3) What talent do you wish you had?

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?

5) Favorite vegetable?

6) What was the last book you read?

7) What zodiac sign are you?

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.

9) Worst Habit?

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?

11) What is your favorite sport?

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.

16) Do you have any pets?

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?

22) What color eyes do you have?

23) Ever been arrested?

24) Bottle or can soda?

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?

28) Do you believe in ghosts?

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

30) Do you swear a lot?

31) Biggest pet peeve?

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?

34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?

35) Do you believe in God?

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

This was fun!

2008-02-29T17:56:56Z

Comment, and I will pick six of your interests on your user page. You then can post this on your journal with the answers, and spread the love of memeage!

These interests were picked by the LG. ^_~

1. fine cheeses
It's no secret that I'm an antivegan. My favorite foods are meats and cheeses. But I must say, while consuming vast quantities of the most basic cheddar can be delicious, I'm rather fond of the finer varieties. Like gouda. My favorite cheese is Alpenjoy, which is like... a smoky sort of gouda, very creamy, with tiny pieces of sausage in it. It's the best of both worlds! ... :has a heart attack:

2. finntroll
Ahhhhhh Finntroll. They're a Finnish band but they sing in Swedish to sound more troll-y. I loooove this band. I discovered them like half a year ago when my German linked me to their song Trollhammaren (their most famous song). Now, I liked this song a LOT, but when I poked at a couple of their other songs, I was less than impressed. About a month ago, however, the subject of Finntroll was brought up, and I found myself once more investigating. Now, one of my school friends, Ben, is a hardcore metalhead. He's been subjecting me to rougher music recently. And as I listened to more Finntroll, I thought, "What the hell was I thinking?! These guys ROOOCCKK!" And that's the tale. :B

3. klaus kinski
It's hard to explain my fondness for this man. He's a German actor that died in the 90s. The icon for this post is his picture. :B I've only ever seen two of his movies, Aquirre, Der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) and Fitzcarraldo. Both are very extreme and slightly disturbing movies. Kinski is really not a good person. He was a serious asshole. Like, he was asked to play the villain in the second Indiana Jones movie, but he said "as much as I'd like to do a movie with Spielberg, the script is as moronically shitty as so many other flicks of this ilk." Which makes me :C since I love Indy.

4. korpiklaani
If you like Finntroll, there's a 95% chance you'll like Korpiklaani. These guys are Finnish too, and sing in both Finnish and (rather poor) English. They're like... a softer and more nature-oriented version Finntroll. I think I like Korpiklaani more, but both are really awesome. Let's see... how did I find Korpiklaani? I know my German introduced me to them. I think he sent me Hunting Song. I was pretty much immediately hooked, since I liked everything I've heard from them pretty much. They used to be called Shaman, but they sorta reinvented their style and became Korpiklaani. Rather different bands. I've heard a couple Shaman songs and I do like. These guys do some bitchin' instrumental songs, too.

5. tyr
LG just loves asking about my music! ^_~ Týr is a Viking metal band I, yet again, heard about from the German. (He just has a great taste in music. *_*) He sent Regin Smiður. They're from the Faroe Islands, which are like... halfway between Iceland and Norway. This was a band I didn't get into until a few months after I'd heard Regin Smiður. I mean, I loved the song, and I liked what else I heard, but I just didn't get into it so much. But I think I have their entire discography now (only a couple CDs). And I'm seeing them live in April! SQUEAL!!

6. ∞
This one is kind of hard to explain. Ever since I was young, I've always had a really strong attraction to the ∞ symbol, and I'm not sure why. It stands for infinity and all. But uh, that's pretty much all I can tell you about it. x_X