"Mais Manu vivre libre, c'est souvent vivre seul."

[fan_elune]

Gakked from the_grynne:

The current top 46 books from whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Leave the rest.

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (No. Comment.)
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (How did I not read this book until now? Brilliance.)
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
12. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
21. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
22. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
23. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
24. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Neuromancer - William Gibson
26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
27. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
32. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (well, I don't think I finished it, but...)
36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
37. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
38. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
41. Atonement - Ian McEwan
42. The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
44. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
46. Dune - Frank Herbert

Which brings me to: god, I used to read so much. I always had two or three books going on at the same time, and I finished them quickly, too. Now it's a struggle to get through one, because, very simply, I don't take the time anymore. When and where do I read? On the metro. And that's it. The internet has swallowed up my literary life.

Part of me would like to go "oh, resolution! now I shall read more once again! go back to those glorious days when I read ten books in a month, instead of one!" But I just know that it won't happen. The internet has swallowed up my literary life, and it sucks, but at the same time I know I'm not ready to give up any of my internet-related addiction to remedy to that.

So, um, yeah. This is pointless whining. I'll shut up now.

Comments

[shadesofbrixton.livejournal.com]

I actually find I've been reading a bit more now that school's out, despite the fact that I used to read on the bus. I think it's more the fact that I used to devour books without credit to subject matter or taste, and now I'm actually discerning about what I'll read. I do miss glutting myself on literature, though. Staying up until four a.m. to finish a thriller.

Julie's been sending me novels online, and I can't bring myself to read them on the computer. It makes me feel dirty.

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

*squees at your icon* *has Atreju love*

Yeah, but see, I used to devour books, now I trudge my way through them. It's highly annoying. I don't get as much enjoyment from it as I used to, even when I'm in awe of them. It seems like a chore, almost, and books should never be that damnit what's wrong with me. Grmpf.

As for e-books, I read a couple like that, part of a fantasy cycle which I did not want to buy because hello, ten books and going? I didn't want to ruin myself on it. But it's not the same and I like books, with pages, and I dropped it after a couple of books. I'll read the rest of that cycle when I'm rich and can afford it.