So IJ is down then.

[unfeathered]

Bummer.

Here I am, all sat down at my computer, child in bed, husband away, settling in for a nice evening of RP...

And the site's down. Grrrr.

Ah well, I guess I'll catch up on my flist and maybe my telly-watching instead.

Oh, and post this, which I snagged off karaokegal:


The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I did actually read all of Genesis and Exodus when I was a child…)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - 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 – started it, got bored
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 - 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 - started several times, couldn't get very far
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 Meaney - 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 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 - 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


25 out of 100. For someone who hasn't actually read a book in over a year (basically, since I got so involved with LJ – and then IJ – that I couldn't tear myself away from my computer in time to read before bedtime, I think I did pretty well on that! (Though admittedly, several were books I read as a child, either at home (e.g. Little Women) or at school.)

ETA: Knew there was something else. First draft of Master Plan Part 11 is off to beta. :-)

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've seen that list elsewhere- I'm not sure how carefully it was put together- there's the complete works of Shakespeare listed and also Hamlet.

Yay for Master Plan!

[unfeathered]

Yeah, ditto The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Narnia chronicles...

I was just chuffed that I'd read so many. I wouldn't have bothered with it otherwise! *g*

And yes. Definitely yay. I started writing something else today too, so good progress on the writing front!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yeah.. noticed that too. *shrugs* oh well. I'm a little shocked that (in theory) people have read so few, because, as you said, I read a lot for school too.

and YAY for starting something else!

[unfeathered]

*grins* You're a good cheerleader!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I may not have pompoms, but I do have a cheerleader outfit!

[unfeathered]

What, in real life? Or just the icon?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

no, no, just in the icon. absolutely not in RL.

[unfeathered]

Oh, shame. That would have been fun! *g*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

but I can jump up and down and yell "Woo-Hoo" if you like

[unfeathered]

Okay. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

consider it done

[unfeathered]

I'm enjoying imagining it!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm at work, btw. I got some weird looks

[unfeathered]

*giggles*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*blushes* the funniest thing is that Bob (one of the guys who saw me) didn't even say anything. I guess they're used to me being weird

[unfeathered]

I'm sorry!

Is this better or worse than you getting all red at work from reading my porn? *g*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ummmm, better. They don't ask me to explain it.

*uses new and completely appropriate icon*

[unfeathered]

Cool icon. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*vbg* I earned it, unfortunately, after being quoted at metaquotes from when I was talking about what my little Ianto-in-chains drabble implied about me.

But then again, I never even tried to suggest I was normal...

[unfeathered]

Is this your latest whistly thing? I haven't actually got as far as reading it yet.

*goes to rectify*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

the two of them yes.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

You have been quoted again?

*show me* I needs to see.. FOUND it *giggles*

(I need an I am in ur journal icon)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I need a *so embarrassed* (or whatever the lolcat version of that would be- iz embarrasd?) icon for those sorts of revelations

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

You should be proud you is getting quoted - You iz fay-mouse!

*apologises*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Quick, Anna, HIDE! Someone has replaced Alex with a lolcat!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

And, to think, she trusts *me* to beta her stuff *sniggers*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

So is there some sort of evil plan behind all of this?

Today Anna's fic, tomorrow the world?

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

YAY for Master plan! :)

[unfeathered]

Thought you'd be pleased. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Yay for Master Plan! According to Twitter, btw, IJ is supposed to be back up by 5 pm Eastern. Which doesn't give you much time, I admit, but maybe a bit?

[unfeathered]

Yeah, and they actually made it! I really didn't expect it to be up in time for me to actually make use of it!