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Books meme

2008-07-01T20:21:35Z

I found this at every friends page, so I thought I should do it too.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
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 - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
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
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
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I love to read books. I spend 1,5 hours per day in a train (commuting between work and home), so there's a lot of time to read.
My grandmother gave me most of the books I bold on the list. I have to admit, I would have never read Anna Karenina (wow, a very long book) or Madame Bovary. She also promised to give me Rebecca.
I like more to read light fiction or crime fiction.
or funny books.
I never laughed so much before while reading The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. *lol*

Pirates fo the Caribbean III

2007-05-26T22:01:14Z

I saw yesterday the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean.
It didn't meet my expectations. :-(
The movie was too long, a little bit confusing for me and some things were predictable. but more behind the cut.

One thing:
There should be an additional scene after the credits, but I didn't stay so long at the cinema.

First, Orlando looked hot!

So, the second part ended with a dead Jack and his crew went to the strange woman to find him and to bring him back and suddenly Barbossa was there to help them.

Jake is now in a strange place whith the Plack Pearl and his whole crew looked like him. or he duplicated himself, don't know. The idea is nice and funny, but it was too long.

The Calypso storyline was also strange and was IMO totally pointless. ok, Calypso and Davy Jones were a couple. Davy Jones was only allowed to see his love every ten years and she wasn't there and so now he's such a creature. I understood it that way, maybe I'm wrong, it was all so confusing sometimes.
Calypso is a goodness and the nine highest pirates (don't know the right definition) banned her and now Barbossa want to resurrect her. (I never understood why)
oh, the strange woman is Calypso.

so, he resurrect her and she generated an enormous swirl and the flying dutchman and the black pearl got into the swirl.
funny quote from a supporting actor : why does it have to rain now?
so true, why does it always have to rain to intensify a dramatic scene? *roll eyes*

Jack wanted to take Davy Jones place, but Davy kills Will and with his last effort Will stabs Davy's heart (with Jakes help) that he can live.

Will saw in the second part his father who is part of the crew from the Flying Dutchman. He's determined to save his father.
Now, he's with his father, but he (kind of) lost the love of his life.

This was so predictable. The whole time I thought about it who will take Davy Jones's place.
of course, no classic happy end between Will and Elizabeth. BTW, they got married during the final fight.
Elizabeth will wait for him. you know, he's only allowed to see her every ten years.

I liked the first part better.

oh, now I know about the final scene after the credits:
Elisabeth is waiting for Will and

a nine year old boy is with her.

so predictable........

My thoughts about Spiderman

2007-05-12T20:56:33Z

I went to the cinema to watch Spiderman III.
Without spoiling someone, I can say that I liked the movie. You get what you expect from such a movie.

I like the idea behind Spiderman. Someone who's a loser, a geek in high school, receives special powers and saves the world everyday. Someone who you would never expect that he's able to do such things.

If you don't want to get spoiled than don't click 'behind the curtain'. ;-)

The beginning is nice and cute. MJ and Peter lying in a huge spider web, enjoying their time togehter. MJ gained a part in a Broadway musical. Peter is happy too, the people love Spiderman and he wants to propose! Harry is still angry because he things Spiderman killed his dad and he knows that Peter is Spiderman. It seems that MJ doesn't know that Harry knows.

The problems begin as MJ is fired because the critics are bad and Peter doesn't listen to MJ.
and Harry is the 'New Goblin' and attacks Peter.
and there's the Sandman
and there's this other creature who needs a host and guess who is the first host?

Peter is very selfish in this part and so vainly too even before he gets bad.
The dark Peter Parker was more awkward than scarry.
the black Spiderman was a nice idea, but I expected more. I can't say what I wanted to be different, but I wasn't content with the result.

BTW, Harry is cute and handsome. hehe
During the second fight with Spiderman he burnt one side of his face.
Damn you Spiderman! you destroyed the face of my handsome!

some things were so predictable.
Sandman and the other 'thing' kidnapping MJ
Harry fighting alongside with Spiderman and

HERE'S A MAJOR, MAJOR SPOILER!!!

Harry dying. :-(((((((

I was so sad about this. MJ and Peter too.

wow, there were soo many tears in this part.

as always, I felt bad for the felon. The Sandman a.k.a Flint Marco killed Peter's uncle. but it was an accident! The other guy bumped into him and the gun fired. :-(((
He has a little girl and she's so ill and he needed the money.
It was nice that Peter forgave him and he gave him freedom.

Peter didn't propose to MJ. He screwed up. He humiliated her and he wasn't there for her.
at the end, he visited her, she grabbed his hand and END OF THE MOVIE.
I was glad that it wasn't a 'real' happy end between them. I think they still have a chance together.
Peter needs to learn to take a back seat sometimes and he should be there for MJ.

My final statement:
I liked the movie and it's worth to watch it.

inge_24 @ 2007-04-28T00:46:00

2007-04-27T22:50:21Z

found this at alligator138

Hm, I think Yelina is ok. I like her. She's a strong and independant woman and has a lot of bad luck with men. Her husband simulated his own death, came back, took her away from the love of her life and then died. Her ex-boyfriend abused her and only dated her to outrival his enemy. The man who really loved her and would do everything for her is too much of a coward to confess her love for her.

New spoiler, new rant

2007-03-14T21:34:54Z

I read a new spoiler at tvguide.com and it isn't a very joyful spoiler, but there's hope and hope never dies, right?

Ausiello: Ryan lands in some serious hot water when Horatio finds out he used his connections to try to settle a gambling debt. Meanwhile, look for some major sparkage between Calleigh and Delko.

I think 'some serious hot water' means a lot of trouble......
my hope is that it says 'settles a debt' and not 'his debt'.
lame, but I have an excuse: I'm not a native speaker, so who could blame me for not understanding it correctly? LOL

So, it seems that E/C is serious.
This is really a major step back. I think I will join the chorus: Season 2 and Season 3 was soo much better.

I think I'm going to read the CaRWash and Hardy Boys ship more often now and pretend I never read about the spoilers. The good thing is that I have one year till I can see the episodes. I can read your comments and can decide wheter to watch it or not.

CSI Miami SPOILERS

2007-03-10T22:48:30Z

I read at talk.csi some spoilers for the episode 5.22 and I'm very frustrated after reading them.
Normally I would write it at talk.csi about it, but sadly things got complicated there. I don't want to be responsible for starting an argument. so, I'm doing it here.
Oh, no worries, it doesn't mean you can't write your opinion. I'm a open minded young woman! ;-)
and maybe some people don't like me anymore after this.

Sorry for the mistakes. after editing it for the forth time I guess there are more mistakes. I'm just too lazy and too frustrated to check it again.

First, Ryan got in trouble again. AGAIN! and AGAIN!
I'm not sure if I understood it correctly, but it seems that Ryan gambles and has some debts. The CSI's suspect a guy and Ryan owns him money. The guy wants to 'blackmail' him and will remits his debt when Ryan helps him that he isn't a suspect anymore. (I'm not sure if I got this part right). Ryan pays the money while on duty and will get in to a lot of trouble, even Horatio can't help him.

arg!!!! Ryan and gambling? I don't buy this. and he's always the one who does such stupid things.
I want to know the 'why'. Which reason could he have to gamble. I know that police officers don't earn a lot of money in the US (maybe in Austria too, don't know). When the reason is good, then I think this storyline could be a good one. Maybe he needs the money not for himself. please!!! this is my only hope.

the next thing is that Yelina is coming back! I mean I'm very, very happy about this. I really like her character and also the H/Y relationsip. The bad thing is that Yelina is now a private investigator. which wouldn't be a bad thing. the problem I have is that her suspect is the guy from the Ryan storyline and she will see Ryan paying back the money while on duty.
and it seems that she will - kind of- whistle blow this.
I don't like this. Yelina - the woman who helped him to get the job - will help to destroy his career. I can't see her doing this. she would got to Horatio first.
My hope here is that we don't know exactly what will happen and maye it's not so bad. I repeat, I can't see Yelino doing this.
and maybe I understood it wrong. and I should just look forward that she's back again in an episode.

and now the most horrible thing for me: maybe there will be a romance between Calleigh and Eric.
Please, please no!!!!! I don't know why I read this shipping thread, I wish I hadn't done it. I don't want to repeat the spoilers, but they are terrible.
In my little world romances between main characters on CSI shows are not allowed. It doesn't matter which.
There's only one ship which would work for me on screen: Horatio/Yelina. I don't think it would be awkward to watch. They are nearly canon.
People who know me will say, but you are shipping Ryan/Cal and Ryan/Eric too and you don't like romances between main characters? you are not a real shipper. You don't undersand the concept of shipping.

maybe I am. It's nice to read about cute scenes and wonderful fanfics, but I started to watch the CSI shows, because I never thought that there will be a romance between main characters. The cases are in the foregrund. They seemed to be so different from all the other shows I normally watch. (and I watch a lot of different shows).
and then I read that Sara/Gil are a couple on-screen and I was disappointed.
but CSI LV isn't my fav show, so maybe I could cope with that. (haven't seen it yet). Miami is my fav. and now they are doing this.
and it would also destroy all the other shipping communities. Cal is shipped with everyone as is Eric.
See, my both fun ships would be dead.
I really, really hope that this won't be happen.

Bye, don't expect a post from me today at talk.csi. maybe in the misc-forum in a total unrelated CSI thread.

I hope that no one is angry with me and feel free to add your opinion.

Song tag

2007-03-03T21:06:04Z

dutchie_1991 and alligator138
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tagged me:
List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

No particular order:

1. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
2. Snow Patrol - The song nr. 5 on the album CD 'open your eyes*. don't know the title, don't find the CD
3. Bon Jovi - It's my life
4. Green Day - Wake me up when September ends
5. Will Young - Who am I
6. Lords of the Ring Soundtrack
7. Natalie Imbruglia - That Day

ok, I won't tag anyone because all the people I know are already tagged. ;-)

lucky girl

2007-02-26T21:30:03Z

I had soo much luck today.
I went to work this morning.
Suddenly I saw a van from the corner of my eye slowly approaching the pavement where I was walking.I
It drove onto the pavement (!) diagonal to the street. My luck was that another van was parking parallel to the pavement. The van hit only the parked van on the side and not me. The big surprise was that no one was driving the amok van. My guess is that the hand brake broke.

I really didn't know that walking on the pavement is so dangerous. *roll eyes*

My first entry

2007-02-23T21:41:21Z

This is my first entry.

My name is Ingrid and I'm from Austria. So please always have in your mind that English isn't my first language and ignore my little mistakes. I'm 24 years old, but I think you may have guessed it from my user name. LOL

At the moment my life is not very eventfull. Everything is normal.