Finally! A list of popular books that should be read in this lifetime. Okay, it's not a good list, but a starters. This was pulled of one of the many Facebook Notes floating around. I've read a third of these books ... not too bad since I'm more of a fantasy fiction reader. When I get back into classics, I've got a good list to begin with ... starting with books by Charles Dickens!
How many books have you read?
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Put an x next to the books you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen --X--
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien –X--
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte --X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling –X--
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee --X--
6 The Bible – X--
9 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte –X--
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell –X--
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy –X--
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien --X--
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell --X--
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald –X--
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams –X--
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck --X--
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll --X--
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS LewiS
34 Emma - Jane Austen --X--
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen --X--
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe --X--
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden --
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne --X--
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown --X--
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert --X--
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen --X--
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary --
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville --X--
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett --X --
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker --X--
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White --X--
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery --X--
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare --X--
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl --X --
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo --X--
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Stagehands have astonishing learning curves. It's not unusual for stage crews to have trucks full of unknown scenery arrive at a theatre on Monday, which we need to assemble and understand to open a show we've never seen before... on Tuesday night.
Most people, if confronted with such a task, would flatly say it was impossible.
Stagehands find ways to make it possible. We learn quickly, we draw upon years of experience, skills and training, and (all too often) we drink lots of coffee and work all night.
I've had one longstanding handicap in my career as a stagehand. I don't drink coffee.
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