The current book meme

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise 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. As Dorothy Parker said, when invited to make a sentence that included the word "horticulture", "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think" (although I think plenty of whores are quite cultured). I also don't think reading these books is particularly indicative of the amount of culture you have, or how worthy you might be in general. So there.
5) Put a star next to those you've only partially read.

I'm also going to strike the ones I somehow finished and yet loathed.
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To sum up, books I've actually completed - 49. Books I picked up and disliked or was so bored by that I didn't complete them - 20. So I've sampled 69% of the list - not bad going.

Also, my absolute favourites on this list? Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland (both in my top 10 books ever), and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (top 20) . Followed by Lord of the Rings (top 30-ish).

While I'm on a roll, 100 movies

bold the ones you've seen, underline the ones you've started and didn't finish and asterisk the ones you own.

I'm also going to italicise the ones I really like, since I only own about a dozen DVDs.
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47/100 that I actually finished watching.