{"id":226,"date":"2007-11-04T17:27:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=226"},"modified":"2007-11-04T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T07:29:15","slug":"book-meme-bites-meme-of-meme-that-memes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Book Meme Bites The Meme of Meme that Memes It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaedrin.com\/weblog\/archive\/001338.html\">Cadged from Mark<\/a>, it&#8217;s a way of updating without having to exert myself in a week of meandering essays without clear lines of inquiry!<\/p>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s one of those &#8220;have you read blah?&#8221; lists, and it proves that my knowledge of an arbitrary selection of books is unimpressive! Find out more on the other side!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read it? <b>Bold it.<\/b><br \/>\nStart it, but didn&#8217;t finish it? <i>Italicize it.<\/i><br \/>\nHated it? <s>Strike it through<\/s>.<\/p>\n<ul>Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr. Norrell<br \/>\nAnna Karenina<br \/>\nCrime and Punishment<br \/>\nCatch-22<br \/>\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude<br \/>\nWuthering Heights<br \/>\n<i>The Silmarillion<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Life of Pi: A Novel<\/b><br \/>\nThe Name of the Rose<br \/>\nDon Quixote<br \/>\n<i>Moby Dick<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Ulysses<\/i><br \/>\nMadame Bovary<br \/>\n<b>The Odyssey<\/b><br \/>\nPride and Prejudice<br \/>\nJane Eyre<br \/>\nA Tale of Two Cities<br \/>\nThe Brothers Karamazov<br \/>\nGuns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies<br \/>\nWar and Peace<br \/>\nVanity Fair<br \/>\nThe Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife<br \/>\n<b>The Iliad<\/b><br \/>\nEmma<br \/>\nThe Blind Assassin<br \/>\nThe Kite Runner<br \/>\nMrs. Dalloway<br \/>\nGreat Expectations<br \/>\n<b>American Gods<\/b><br \/>\nA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<br \/>\nAtlas Shrugged<br \/>\nReading Lolita in Tehran<br \/>\n<b>Memoirs of a Geisha<\/b><br \/>\nMiddlesex<br \/>\nQuicksilver<br \/>\nWicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West<br \/>\nThe Canterbury Tales<br \/>\nThe Historian<br \/>\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<br \/>\nLove in the Time of Cholera<br \/>\n<b>Brave New World<br \/>\nThe Fountainhead<\/b><br \/>\nFoucault&#8217;s Pendulum<br \/>\nMiddlemarch<br \/>\nFrankenstein<br \/>\nThe Count of Monte Cristo<br \/>\nDracula<br \/>\n<b>A Clockwork Orange<br \/>\nAnansi Boys<\/b><br \/>\nThe Once and Future King<br \/>\nThe Grapes of Wrath<br \/>\nThe Poisonwood Bible<br \/>\n<b>1984<br \/>\nAngels &#038; Demons<\/b><br \/>\nThe Inferno<br \/>\nThe Satanic Verses<br \/>\nSense and Sensibility<br \/>\nThe Picture of Dorian Gray<br \/>\nMansfield Park<br \/>\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<br \/>\nTo the Lighthouse<br \/>\nOliver Twist<br \/>\nTess of the Dubervilles<br \/>\n<b>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/b><br \/>\nLes Miserables<br \/>\nThe Corrections<br \/>\nThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<br \/>\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<br \/>\nDune<br \/>\nThe Prince<br \/>\nThe Sound and the Fury<br \/>\nAngela&#8217;s Ashes<br \/>\nA People&#8217;s History of the United States : 1492-Present<br \/>\n<s>The God of Small Things<\/s><br \/>\nCryptonomicon<br \/>\nNeverwhere<br \/>\nA Confederacy of Dunces<br \/>\nA Short History of Nearly Everything<br \/>\nDubliners<br \/>\nThe Unbearable Lightness of Being<br \/>\nBeloved<br \/>\nThe Scarlet Letter<br \/>\nEats, Shoots &#038; Leaves<br \/>\nThe Mists of Avalon<br \/>\nOryx and Crake: A Novel<br \/>\nCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<br \/>\nCloud Atlas<br \/>\nThe Confusion<br \/>\n<b>Lolita<\/b><br \/>\nPersuasion<br \/>\nNorthanger Abbey<br \/>\n<b><s>The Catcher in the Rye<\/s><\/b><br \/>\nOn the Road<br \/>\nThe Hunchback of Notre Dame<br \/>\nFreakonomics<br \/>\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<br \/>\nThe Aeneid<br \/>\nWatership Down<br \/>\nGravity&#8217;s Rainbow<br \/>\n<b>The Hobbit<\/b><br \/>\nIn Cold Blood<br \/>\n<b>Treasure Island<\/b><br \/>\nWhite Teeth<br \/>\nDavid Copperfield<br \/>\nThe Three Musketeers<\/ul>\n<p>All this proves is that the list compiler reads Neil Gaiman!<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.79soul.com\/?p=229\">Roy<\/a>&#8216;s additions:<\/p>\n<ul>For Whom the Bell Tolls<br \/>\n<B>Maus<\/B><br \/>\n<I>War of the Worlds<\/I><br \/>\nThe Invisible Man<br \/>\nTime Machine<br \/>\nOld Man and the Sea<br \/>\nBluest Eye<br \/>\nThe Republic<br \/>\n<b>The Bible<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Alice in Wonderland<\/i><br \/>\nWizard of Oz<br \/>\nReturn to Oz<br \/>\nEnder&#8217;s Game<br \/>\nIt<br \/>\nMisery<br \/>\n<b>The Chronicles of Narnia<br \/>\nBeowulf<\/b><br \/>\nThe Stranger<br \/>\nAnimal Farm<br \/>\nAre You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret<br \/>\nLord of the Flies<br \/>\nNaked Lunch<br \/>\nThe Confessions of Nat Turner<br \/>\nRabbit, Run<br \/>\nAs I Lay Dying<br \/>\nSnow Crash<br \/>\nThe Sound and the Fury<br \/>\nThe Great Gatsby<br \/>\nWatchmen<br \/>\n<b>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/b><br \/>\nThe Giving Tree<br \/>\nGood Night Moon<br \/>\nA Wrinkle in Time<br \/>\n<b>The BFG<\/b><\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s that? You want me to contribute?<\/p>\n<ul><b>The Colour Purple<\/b><br \/>\n<b>High Fidelity<\/B><br \/>\n<b>The Colour of Magic<\/b><br \/>\nDemon Jones and the Quilt of Nightfall<br \/>\nHis Dark Materials<br \/>\n<b>Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The Line of Beauty<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Glue<\/i><br \/>\n<i><s>The Ill-Made Mute<\/s><\/i><br \/>\nThrillcyclopedia Generica (an action novel by Dan Brown)<br \/>\nFakejay Madupbuk<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that it really reflects on me that poorly that I&#8217;ve only read such and such. In fact, does this list really reflect anything? Yes, it does: it reflects the fragile human condition, as represented by low volume words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadged from Mark, it&#8217;s a way of updating without having to exert myself in a week of meandering essays without clear lines of inquiry! Yep, it&#8217;s one of those &#8220;have you read blah?&#8221; lists, and it proves that my knowledge of an arbitrary selection of books is unimpressive! 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