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[melannen]

..so I assume that all this downtime-y weirdness is related to the Great JF Update? It would be nice if we'd had some sort of warning. ETA: And sorry about the spammage; it screwed up, and then wouldn't let me in to edit.

Have been consumed lately with the discussion around otw_news (poor metamiri, whose innocent meta-post has been taken over by acafen theorizing!)

Anyway, since I don't feel up to anything substantive, that most commonly marked 'unread' on LT books list that everyone's posting:
bold what you have read, italicise that you started but didn't finish, and strike through what you don't ever plan to read ever again. Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once. Underline those marked unread on your lt.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys*
The Once and Future King*
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a Novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present
Cryptonomicon*
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion*
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down*
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers - Loved this book. The only one of Dumas' books that I thoroughly enjoyed.

...I am kind of embarrassed by the number of these marked 'unfinished'. But classics are books I tend to pick up when I know I'll have bits of reading time, but I don't want to get absorbed in anything, so a lot of them were taken on trips or whatever and then dropped when I got to something shinier.

Also, I am deeply skeptical of all the people claiming that they have finished "canterbury tales" and "Don Quixote." Really really? The vast majority of modern editions of both of those are excerpts and abridgements - which I've read several of, but don't count as the whole thing in my book.

I want my 100 icons back, dammit!

Comments

[b_jellybean [journalfen.net]]

I admit to sorta cheating on Canterbury Tales-- I figure if you read a LOT of them and didn't pick up a book, read a bit, and say "screw it" then it's reading the whole damn thing *g*

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Since it's unfinished anyway, I see your point. :D But I've been wanting to read an unabridged paper copy for ages and haven't found one yet, so I pout.

[stellar_dust [journalfen.net]]

He's totally working on it (http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/)! Sheesh.

;D

[airavanya [journalfen.net]]

Hi. stellar_dust sent me your way when I asked a question about LJ customization. She said that at one point you'd used the coding might to have header images rotate with each visit to your journal. I've been looking for this coding, but have been unable to find it. Can you perhaps point me in the proper direction?

Sorry to spam your journal.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

I used the image randomizing PHP script here (http://babytest.livejournal.com/9923.html) -- it's pretty easy to set up as long as you have webspace that accepts php; you don't have to know php at all.

But all the coding is at offsite webspace -if you don't have webspace that can run scripts, I don't know if there's any way to do it. (My webspace went down, which is why my header images are broken right now.)

[airavanya [journalfen.net]]

Thank you so much for your help! I've got both the webspace, and the minion to make it happen. :D Yay!

[stellar_dust [journalfen.net]]

... why is the JF font sans at work and serif at home? grargh.

[stellar_dust [journalfen.net]]

So what time are you guys showing up tomorrow?

*has not cleaned*

*at all*

*or packed*

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

We were going to ask *you* that.

(don't talk to me about cleaning and packing, we're apparently having guests here tomorrow night and I just spent all evening baking.)

[stellar_dust [journalfen.net]]

Um. Try to get here before ten? Maybe? Something like that?

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Okay, nine-ish to ten-ish is pretty much what we were thinking. Probably closer to ten-ish, given rush hour.

[stellar_dust [journalfen.net]]

Mneh, surewhatever. *goes to re-watch her boyz and then sleeeeeep*

*did in fact sorta kinda clean* *a little*