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Things I've done, Books I've Read
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ironymaiden and mimerki
I'm not terribly remarkable, so I had to stretch to think of ten things that I've done and you probably haven't:
1. Been threatened by a gang girl, and then ended up having her a)console me and b)encourage me to join a gang, all in a half-hour conversation.
2. Built a fire so hot that the flames were purple and blue.
3. Burned a plaster gauze caste of my girlfriend's (bare) chest, then salvaged it from the fire because the color was altered in an awesome way.
4. Made a completely different article of clothing out of a thrift-store find. (My prom dress, among other things.)
5. Been asked my age for a movie when I was well over 21, let alone 17.
6. Graded a diamond.
7. Eaten thimbleberries off the branch.
8. Came close to drowning because of a little girl's mean joke.
9. Served dessert to William Shatner AND Leonard Nemoy, on separate occasions. This was not at a con of any sort.
10.Had a "handcuff dilemma". I won't elaborate.
And here are ten things that I have done that I expect that at least one other person on my f-list also has done:
1. Eaten clams that were just dug up.
2. Eaten homemade mango preserves.
3. Pushed an SUV uphill. (With two other people.)
4. Swam/played in an area marked "Hazardous Area, Keep Out"
5. Driven a car without a license.
6. Purchased alcohol for a minor. (Stoli, for a birthday present.)
7. Had a phone sex conversation... with a stranger.
8. Stolen a book from the library.
9. Had sex with someone whose real name I didn't know until several days later.
10. Gotten lost and ended up in a very bad neighborhood late at night. (Echo Park, in L.A. Where I went to school for 1st-3rd grade, go figure.)
Stolen fromcygna_hime and shiro_no_wired
This is a list of the top 110 banned books, plus 2 more that I added. Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.
#1 The Bible (the entirety of Genesis and of Revelations, much of several others)
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (My sister was reading it for school. Maybe I didn't like it cuz I was... 12-ish)
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (school)
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (I was 12 or 13, and the dialect was a no-go)
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (school)
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (school)
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell (at 11)
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (at 12 or 13 -- the assuming librarian said, "good luck on your report!")
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I kind of have a *thing* for Holmes)
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (twice. I don't know why.)
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (and it's one of my favorites, storywise)
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (school)
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 biography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (I kind of have a *thing* for Holden Caufield, too.)
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a book that my brother has read, but I haven't)
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (I had a lot of this read to me.)
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (my niece has read this and I have not)
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (?) (I may have read this.)
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
#111 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald (school)
#112 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I find it kind of funny that most of these that I have read, I read by choice, not for school.
ironymaiden and mimerkiI'm not terribly remarkable, so I had to stretch to think of ten things that I've done and you probably haven't:
1. Been threatened by a gang girl, and then ended up having her a)console me and b)encourage me to join a gang, all in a half-hour conversation.
2. Built a fire so hot that the flames were purple and blue.
3. Burned a plaster gauze caste of my girlfriend's (bare) chest, then salvaged it from the fire because the color was altered in an awesome way.
4. Made a completely different article of clothing out of a thrift-store find. (My prom dress, among other things.)
5. Been asked my age for a movie when I was well over 21, let alone 17.
6. Graded a diamond.
7. Eaten thimbleberries off the branch.
8. Came close to drowning because of a little girl's mean joke.
9. Served dessert to William Shatner AND Leonard Nemoy, on separate occasions. This was not at a con of any sort.
10.Had a "handcuff dilemma". I won't elaborate.
And here are ten things that I have done that I expect that at least one other person on my f-list also has done:
1. Eaten clams that were just dug up.
2. Eaten homemade mango preserves.
3. Pushed an SUV uphill. (With two other people.)
4. Swam/played in an area marked "Hazardous Area, Keep Out"
5. Driven a car without a license.
6. Purchased alcohol for a minor. (Stoli, for a birthday present.)
7. Had a phone sex conversation... with a stranger.
8. Stolen a book from the library.
9. Had sex with someone whose real name I didn't know until several days later.
10. Gotten lost and ended up in a very bad neighborhood late at night. (Echo Park, in L.A. Where I went to school for 1st-3rd grade, go figure.)
Stolen from
cygna_hime and shiro_no_wiredThis is a list of the top 110 banned books, plus 2 more that I added. Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.
#1 The Bible (the entirety of Genesis and of Revelations, much of several others)
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (My sister was reading it for school. Maybe I didn't like it cuz I was... 12-ish)
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (school)
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (I was 12 or 13, and the dialect was a no-go)
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (school)
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (school)
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell (at 11)
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (at 12 or 13 -- the assuming librarian said, "good luck on your report!")
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I kind of have a *thing* for Holmes)
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (twice. I don't know why.)
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (and it's one of my favorites, storywise)
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (school)
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 biography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (I kind of have a *thing* for Holden Caufield, too.)
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a book that my brother has read, but I haven't)
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (I had a lot of this read to me.)
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (my niece has read this and I have not)
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (?) (I may have read this.)
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
#111 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald (school)
#112 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I find it kind of funny that most of these that I have read, I read by choice, not for school.