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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the owns you own but have not read.

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 (start, stop, start over, stop, ad infitium)
The 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 (I adore everything by Neil Gaiman)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha (saw the movie, intend to read the book)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (when I was far too young and have since forgotten all of it except for the tedious experience)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera (saw the movie, NO INTENTION of reading the book)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys (another Gaiman, own and read repeatedly)
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath (AP American History FTL)
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (for some reason I think I’ve read this, but I’m not really sure…)
1984 (quite possibly my favorite book ever)
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 (own, read repeatedly, another Gaiman, also own the BBC miniseries that was written by Gaiman and upon which he based the novel)
A Confederacy of Dunces (I really want to read this, but keep forgetting)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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 : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down (own the movie and have seen it many times)
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (11th grade, final English reading project)
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

I don’t know, seems like that’s not too bad.

So I was fooling around on Wikipedia the other day.  I started at the Muppets and in my journey I wound up passing through (in no particular order) pseudoscience, drop bears, aurora borealis, Mithridatism, and quite a few other completely unrelated things.  What made this interesting to me was that all of this stemmed from my original read of the Muppets and that every strange topic that I found myself on had been a link from the previous page.

I had linked a friend to drop bears (because I am fascinated by cryptids) and while I continued on my own wiki journey, he wound up at Star Wars, so we had radically divergent paths.  I decided that this should be a game and he helped me to define the rules.

So let’s play a game.  This is how it goes:

Everyone starts at the same page and reads about it.  Whatever you’re most interested in linking to from there, you click.  When you have made 10 clicks, come back and comment to tell me where you wound up, how long it took and how many pit stops you made.

The Rules:
Each click only counts if you either again link or end on that page (so clicking a word to define it, then clicking back does not count).  Some clicks are considered "pit stops", where you open the link in a new tab or window because you want to read it later, but it’s not part of your overall trip.  You can have no more than 3 pit stops, but only the page you opened counts.  If you link from your pit stop, it counts as continuing your journey.  The back button should be used as sparingly as possible, but is allowed in cases where there are few internal links or when you hit a dead-end.  Using the back button carries no penalty and the dead-end page doesn’t count as a click.  Portals count as a click, but they cannot be a stopping point (either to end the game, or as a pit stop).

So, to ensure that we all start at the same point, I hit "random" until I got an article that was long enough and had enough diverse links to ensure a long and fruitful journey.  The starting point is Vulgar Latin.

And, of course, feel free to steal my game and post it on your own blog.  Choose your own starting point, though.  I imagine there are only so many places one can go from Vulgar Latin…

YAY YAY YAY!  I found a list of all the movies that were released in 2007.

Here’s the game:

Below the jump you will find a list of ALL the movies that were released in 2007.  BOLD all the movies you’ve seen, with italics for the ones you intend to see again (or to own, or have already bought or seen more than once).  Strike through the ones you wish you hadn’t seen and place an asterisk (*) next to the ones you intend to see (either in the theater or on DVD).
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Because if she hadn’t done it, I wouldn’t have ever even seen it.

(From PumaViking, who has the best memes.)

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users (as of 10/2/07). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

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
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
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 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 : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers 

You read my blog. I’d like to know 27 things about you. Just copy and hit reply and paste in the comments section with answers.Thanks! You’ll be surprised how much you didn’t know about your friends after this! Then copy the meme and see if anyone answers you.

1. Do you have a tattoo?
2. How old are you?
3. Are you single or taken?
4. Fish?
5. Do you dream in color?
6. Ever seen a corpse?
7. Hipsters or Hillbillies?
8. How did we meet?
9. What’s your philosophy on life and death?
10. If you could do anything with me, and have no one know, what would it be?
11. Do you trust the police?
12. Do you like musicals?
13. What is your fondest memory of me?
14. If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
15. Would you cheat ?
16. What are you wearing?
17. Have you ever peed in a pool?
18. Would you hide evidence for me if I asked you to?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Which do you prefer - short or long hair?
21. What’s your favorite day of the week?
22. What’s your favorite color?
23. If you could bring back anyone that has passed, who would it be?
24. Tell me one interesting/odd fact about you?
25. What was your first impression of me?
26. Have you ever done drugs?
27. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

If you want the comment to not show up (as some of these answers may not be for public consumption and my mom reads my blog), just put Meme27 at the top of your reply and it will go into moderation.

This is one meme that I wasn’t able to steal without participating on the blog where I would have otherwise stolen it.  My interviewer today is the fabulous Miss Britt (and if you haven’t read her blog, go do it now.  I’ll wait.):

1. What is the sexiest thing about yourself?

Since my real answer isn’t one I’m able to put into words, I’ll say my affected Kathleen Turner phone voice.

2. If you had to wear a sign that described yourself in one word -  what would it be?

It would say "FyreGoddess". 

3.  If you came with a warning label, what would it say?

"If you play with Fyre, you might get burned."

4. What makes you sad?

People who take my warning label seriously, the current US political climate, feeling helpless to change things that effect the people I care about, snow, broken netflix discs.  *sniffle*  *cry*  I can’t go on…

5. When was the last time you laughed so hard you peed yourself… or came damn close?

When I found out that my dad sued Hooters for gender discrimination - and won.  I’m still laughing.

And to finish the whole thing off, if you want to be interviewed:

1. *Jump up and down, waving your hand madly while you shout, "Me! Me! Me!  Pick me!  Fyre!  Pick me!"  Or, I suppose, if you’re no fun at all, you can just ask nicely. *
2. *I will respond by asking you five questions (in email). I get to pick the questions (be afraid). *
3. *Update your weblog with the answers to the questions.  And, you know, probably the questions themselves…  for context. *
4. *Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post, unless you’re a total stick-in-the-mud, in which case I will cry and you will be added to my list of things that make me sad. *
5. *When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions or smack them with a fish (halibut for preference).*

This is the most fabulous time-waster I think I’ve ever seen. 

Here is the link:  SpendaMillion.com

Here’s my list, but there are a lot of things that just aren’t available in this game.  I would do a whole lot more (and different things) than what they offer, but, hey, what are you going to do?  It’s a free virtual million, I’m not complaining.  Share yours and have fun with it

Hrm.  Stumbled across this posted on Digg today. 

Basically, it’s a social networking experiment and a meme-tracking device…  I guess.  It’s a game called Lost (no relation to the television show).

The game is based on a timer.  You have 7 days from the moment you join.  You join by finding an invitation, like the one given here: www.lost.eu/4c84  In order to reset the timer, you have to invite someone else to the game by giving them your personalized invitation code.

Points are awarded like a pyramid scheme.  I guess there are prizes, but I’m more interested in the experiment aspect of it.  Heh.

Yeah, we’re going to just go ahead and call this a meme.