Comments on: Goal #5 Progress http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:08:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: themissadventurejournals http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3916 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:40:06 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3916 I consider myself to be pretty well read but Ive only read seven books on this list.

]]> By: Natalie http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3872 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:25:45 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3872 I would also consider myself a reader but have only read about a dozen and there’s plenty on there I’ve never even heard of.

I’d second the recommendation re Wide Sargasso Sea – it’s based loosely on Jane Eyre.

]]> By: Dee http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3868 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:24:51 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3868 To be fair, a few of them I read in high school, and I also studied literature. But I have read a lot of books in my time. :-)

]]> By: Thelma http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3866 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:38:10 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3866 Okay I’ve only read 4- and thats including Revolutionary Road, which Im not even finished yet!!

]]> By: Jessica http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3865 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:08:14 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3865 I’m working on this list myself (amongst about 5 other lists!). I’ve only got 22 of 100. Right now I’m working more on another list, so I’ll have to focus on this list later.

Way to go with your progress thus far!

]]> By: Stacey http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3861 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:34:13 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3861 PS My most hated from that list are:

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (Not really hated, but it’s SO COMPLICATED it made me feel very stupid. I feel like I literally had to have been a communist to understand it.)

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – I found this IMPOSSIBLE to read, and I’ve got a feeling it was designed that way.

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (I just can’t get over how much I hate Rushdie, he’s a jerk).

Also I’ve only read Animal Farm, Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange, 1984 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest because I’ve had to for school/uni, I didn’t particularly like them.

OK I’ll stop talking now :)

]]> By: Stacey http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3860 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:28:53 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3860 I should read the rest on that list. There’s so many there that I know the basic plots of so I’ve never read them, or started them and never finished, and I should!

]]> By: Stacey http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3859 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:27:12 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3859 From those, I’ve read:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 by George Orwell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

My top 7 (tried to do 5!) of those would be:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

]]> By: Jessica http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3857 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:35:35 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3857 That is an impressive selection Dee! I really want to read The Great Gatsby before the new film is released with Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.

]]> By: Jessica http://thebellelumiere.net/2011/01/27/goal-5-progress/#comment-3856 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:27:59 +0000 http://thebellelumiere.net/?p=3140#comment-3856 Excellent! Good luck with your reading Emily, I look forward to hearing how you go!

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