The Broke and the Bookish is allowing us to pick from any of their old topics, so I figured I'd do the top ten books "I can't believe I haven't read." I may have done this one before, who knows. My brain is so fried from teaching/planning biology for 9 hours a day (and planning 4 hours last night) that I want to do things that I can't write here because they be incriminating later. I'm kidding. Let's just say I'm not really a serious complainer, but am somehow doing plenty of it right now (and it's not the kids or the fact that I'm working extra). Tomorrow the big-girl panties will be on and Negative Nancy will be sufficiently silenced.
Here we are:
1. Ulysses by James Joyce- It just seems important.
2. The Bible by God (just kidding, by King James... oh wait...)- I didn't have a strong religious upbringing and I've never had the urge. I know I need to for literary reasons.
3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville- I was good-naturedly chastised about this last week by a few colleagues and now I feel slightly guilty. Stupid whale.
4. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller- I know, I know! It fell through the cracks! It's like a doctor failing to learn about, I don't know, the liver.
5. Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut- Another one that I probably should have read...
6. Underworld by Don Dellilo- I've owned it for like 8 years and have started it over two or three times. It's not bad, it's just that I'm good at making excuses.
7. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck- It just seems so depressing (see above sentence). And dusty (I really, really dislike movies with dirty people, like Westerns- I've more forgiving with books, but still, the Dust Bowl sounds gross).
8. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon- This is a huge confession: I've never read anything by Pynchon. For some reason I got a little carried away with the idea that he's a total sci-fi writer, which is not my genre of choice.
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov- This was supposed to be our book club selection, but I changed my choice and Lolita remains unread.
10. Fifty Shades of Gray by EL James- Apparently the majority of women between the ages of 18 and 93 have read this... Hmm... I don't think I've heard of it... Oh wait. I'm sorry, but the majority does not rule. I'm also sorry that I will continue to bitch about this book until the next big thing that I disagree with comes along.
I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey either and I don't plan on it. Now I here it's a series! Yikes!
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I haven't read any of these. Okay I've read the Bible, but not from cover to cover...
ReplyDeleteI’ve only read Lolita and it’s really good. I would like to read something by Vonnegut at some poin as well as Steinbeck. And I keep hearing The Crying Lot of 49 is soooo good so it’ll probably be picked up at some point as well. Oh and I just started Fifty Shades of Grey after hearing all the hype, then swearing I wouldn’t read it, and now I just have to see for myself so I can write a review about it. And yeah, you’re not missing anything there. I don’t even know if I’ll be finishing it.
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