It's Braggin' Time, Baby

[theWriter]

Oh, c'mon...You know you wanted to. It was only a matter of time.

Here's the deal: List ALL your books (yes, all of them), and put asteriks next to the ones you've read (because let's be honest, some of us haven't exactly...read...all our books). Next person up does the same thing, except they scan the list above them and brag if they've read any of the books.

Not make sense?

...Oh well. I can only explain so far.

Here it goes:

[i]Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[/i]--Douglas Adams*
[i]Aesop's Fables[/i]--Aesop*
[i]Dante's Inferno[/i]--Dante*
[i]Speak[/i]--Laurie Halse Anderson*
[i]Go Ask Alice[/i]*
[i]Backwater[/i]--Joan Bauer*
[i]Dark Side of the Moon[/i]--J. Carson Black
[i]The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants[/i]--Anne Brashares* (gasp! Chick lit!D
[i]In Cold Blood[/i]--Truman Capote*
[i]The Tailor of Panama[/i]--John le Carre*
[i]Mortal Friends[/i]--James Carroll
[i]The Angel of Darkness[/i]--Caleb Carr (Ugh...I couldn't even get through this book it was so boring...
[i]Jurassic Park[/i]--Michael Crighton
[i]The Lazurus Syndrome[/i]-- Rodney Davies
[i]Crime and Punishment[/i]--Fyodor Dostoevsky*
[i]Smilla's Sense of Snow[/i]--Peter Hoeg*
[i]One For the Money[/i]/[i]Three to Get Deadly[/i]--Janet Evanovich*
[i]Bridget Jones' Diary[/i]--Helen Fielding* (gasp! Even more chick lit! D
[i]Thunderball[/i]--Ian Fleming* (The name's Bond...James Bond)
[i]The Complete Merde[/i]--Genevieve*
[i]The Life of David Gale[/i]--Dewey Gram*
[i]Old Yeller[/i]--Fred Gipson
[i]An Episode of Sparrows[/i]--Rumer Godden
[i]The Captive[/i]--Joyce Hanson*
[i]Changes in Latitudes[/i]/[i]Downriver[/i]--Will Hobbs*
[i]Les Miserables[/i]--Victor Hugo
[i]The Legend of Luke, Marlfox, Martin the Warrior, Marlfox, Mossflower, Pearls of Lutra, Redwall, Taggerung, The Bellmaker, Marie, The Long Patrol, Lord Brocktree[/i]--Brian Jacques*
[i]Day of the Dead[/i]--J.A. Jance
[i]Ugly Duckling[/i]--Iris Johansen*
[i]Split Second[/i]--Alex Kava*
[i]Pandemic[/i]--Daniel Kalla
[i]From a Buick 8[/i]--Stephen King
[i]Notes from Underground, The Double, and Other Stories[i]--Fyodor Dostoevsky*
[i]Bacchae[/i]--Euripides*
[i]The Metamorphosis and Other Stories[/i]--Franz Kaftka*
[i]The Strange of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (and other stories[/i]--Robert Louis Stevenson
[i]To Kill a Mockingbird[/i]--Harper Lee*
[i]Mystic River[/i]--Denis Lehane
[i]Children of Vietnam[/i]--Betty Jean Lifton*
[i]The Bourne Identity, The Cassandra Compact, The Hades Factor, The Materese Countdown, The Prometheus Deception, The Road to Gandolfo, The Sigma Protocol[/i]--Robert Ludlum* (Gee, guess who was my favorite author two years ago...)
[i]Silver Eyes[/i]--Nicole Luiken*
[i]Double Tap[/i]--Steve Martini
[i]The Musician's Ultimate Joke Book[/i]--Kevin Mitchell* (I cannot deny my dorkiness...it has been bred into me)
[i]The Imaginary Invalid[/i]--Moliere
[i]Animal Farm[/i]--George Orwell*
[i]Doctor Zhivago[/i]--Boris Pasternak
[i]Katherine Paterson Treasury[i]--Katherine Paterson*
[i]The Guinea Pig[/i]--Audrey Pavia* (I looove guinea pigs...)
[i]The Republic[/i]--Plato (This is a psuedo-read...I'm kinda reading it)
[i]The Raven and Other Writings[/i]--Edgar Allen Poe*
[i]America's Railroad--The Official Guidebook[/i]--Robert T. Royem (Yes, it's dorky...but hey, so am I.)
[i]Standley Yelnats' Guide to Camp Green Lake[/i]--Louis Sachar*
[i]Holes[/i]--Louis Sachar*
[i]Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice*, Othello*, Romeo and Juliet*[/i]--William Shakespeare
[i]Beginner's Guide to Latin[/i]*
[i]Full Tilt[/i]--Neil Shusterman*
[i]Sybil[/i]--Flora Rheta Schreiber*
[i]Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim[/i]--David Sedaris*
[i]Golden Fox[/i]--Wilbur Smith*
[i]Maniac Magee[/i]--Jerry Spinelli*
[i]One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich[/i]--Alexander Solzhentisyn*
[i]Electra[/i]--Sophocles*
[i]Tales/More Tales/Still More/Even More Tales for the Midnight Hour[/i]--J.B. Stamper*
[i]Of Mice and Men[/i]--John Steinbeck*
[i]The Babysitter[/i]--R.L. Stein*
[i]The Iraq War[/i]--Martin Walker (e.d.)
[i]Premonitions[/i]--Jude Watson*
[i]Writing Your Own Screenplay[/i]--Cynthia Whitcomb*
[i]The MAD Student Survival Guide for Those Board of Education[/i]*
[i]Dictionnaire Des Communes[/i]--Editions Berge-Lerault
[i]Saving Faith[/i]--David Baldacci*
[i]Foxfire Book[/i]--Eliot Wiggington*
[i]The Runner's Handbook[/i]--Bob Glover*
[i]Running With Scissors[/i]--Augusten Burroughs*
[i]The Impressionists[/i]-- Meret*
[i]It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It[/i]--Scott Adams*
[i]It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone[/i]--Scott Adams*
[i]America[/i]--John Stewart*
[i]The Farside Gallery 2[/i]--Gary Larson*
[i]Vietnam Experience: Combat Photographer[/i]*
[i]The Ugly American[/i]--Willliam J. Lederer*
[i]Chopin's Funeral[/i]--Benita Eisler*
[i]The Koran[/i]*

Oy! That's all I can find for now.

So whaddaya got, eh?[/i]
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[NekoNinja]

EVERY book? Thats hard! I'll get back to ya on that!

[loveliesbleeding]

i have +1000 of 'em
but i'll post the last 25 i bought (but all this is from memory so i won't be accurate)

1. [i]Anna Karenina[/i] - - Leo Tolstoy
2. [i]Master Harold ... and the Boys [/i]- - Athol Fughard*
3. [i]Othello[/i] - - William Shakespeare *
4. [i]Courtier[/i] - - Castigilone (sp) *
5. [i]Astrophil and Stella[/i] - - Sir Philip Sydney*
6. [i]The Defence of Poesy[/i] - - Sir Philip Sydney*
7. [i]Miss Lonelyhearts[/i] - - Nathanael West*
8. [i]On the Dignity of Man[/i] - - Pico Mirandola*
9. [i]The Tipping Point[/i] - - Malcolm Gladwell*
10. [i]Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution[/i] - - Madison Bell*
11. [i]What Do You Care What Other People Think ?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character [/i]- - Richard Feynman*
12. [i]Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha[/i] - - Mohandas Gandhi*
13. [i]Animal Farm[/i] - - George Orwell*
14. [i]Who is Bugs Potter?[/i] - - Gordon Korman*
15. [i]The Complete Works of Henry Howard[/i] - - Henry Howard
16. [i]The Selected Works of Stevie Smith[/i] - - Stevie Smith *
17. [i]Judge & Jury[/i] - - James Patterson*
18. [i]I Feel Bad About my Neck[/i] - - Nora Ephron*
19. [i]Race, Language and Culture[/i] - - Franz Boas *
20. [i]The Crisis[/i] - - Winston Churchill*
21. [i]The Eyes of the World[/i] - - Harold Bell Wright*
22. [i]Jonathan Livingstone Seagull[/i] - - Richard Bach*
23. [i]View from the Cherry Tree[/i] - - Willo Davis Roberts*
24.[i] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[/i] - - Maya Angelou*
25. [i]Killing Mr. Griffin[/i] - - Lois Duncan*

well that took a while



EDIT: I've read all the books on your list except for (from what I noticed) Speak, Mortal Friends, The Musician's Ultimate Joke Book, and the Fire Fox Book.

ps, do you concider the Koran to be written by God or Muhammad?

[theWriter]

Muhummad. Since he considers himself, more or less, the vessel of God, I thought it was appropriate that he wrote the book. Besides, in words of lineage, being related to Muhummad is more of a big deal than anything else.

I haven't read Tolstoy's stuff yet--but I have a feeilng that the time I starting studying Leo will be soon.

[i]I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[/i] I have read. Beautiful writing. So much better than that junk in [i]House on Mango Street[/i]. I have not read Gandhi, Sir Philip Sydney, or Mirandola.

[i]The Tipping Point[/i] by Gladwell didn't look as interesting as [i]Blink[/i]...I got three pages in and for some reason, it didn't appeal to me. But how did you like it?

And: I'm SOOO glad that you participated in this. Finally, a worthy adversary. As to the books that you have not read, I defeinetely recommend Anderson's [i]Speak[/i]...It is an amazing book with very original voice. [i]Mortal Friends[/i] was humdrum and soso...but [i]Speak[/i] is absolutely incredible.
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[loveliesbleeding]

Tolstoy is so very descriptive, especially prior to [i]War & Peace[/i].

I suggest [i]Anna Karenina[/i] (post W&P) to anyone who is beginning with Tolstoy.

As for Malcolm Gladwell's [i]The Tipping Point[/i]... well it wasn't the best and I don't exactly agree with Gladwell on all points but by the end of the book you'll be applying his logic to everything. Literally everything.

Mirandola has many geniuses, [i]On the Dignity of Man[/i] is amazing, I am in love with that work, I've actually read it in Italian and English. He is, as I like to call him, a super humanist. He certainly captures spiritus mundi.

Gandhi is great, as is Sir Philip Sydney.

[Shadowwave]

Nah haven't read ANY of those but I have read the Broken sky series (Books 1-5 *not hole series*), Eragon, Eldest (sequel 2 eragon), Dragonlance series (Dragons of: Autumn Twilight, Winter Night, Spring Dawning) and i am gettin the Dragonlance-War of the souls series. I suggest Dragonlance if you want a lengthy Action packted adventure and Eragon if you want somting with more adventure (Eldest has ALOT more action) Okay?

Edit: Im readin something im my own language now: Skater- 80 lagwekkende stories deur Pieter Pieterse. It's funny.
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[waywardmortal]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams~~~~ (and all 5 of the Hitchiker trilogy!)
Aesop's Fables--Aesop*
Dante's Inferno--Dante* ~~~~(And Paradiso and Purgatorio)
Go Ask Alice*
Jurassic Park--Michael Crighton
Les Miserables--Victor Hugo
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories--Franz Kaftka*~~~ (wooooooocrazy Russian man!!)
The Strange of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (and other stories--Robert Louis Stevenson
To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee*
Animal Farm--George Orwell*~~~~~~(and all of his other greatness)
The Raven and Other Writings--Edgar Allen Poe* ~~~(and memorized most of his poems)
Holes--Louis Sachar*
Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice*, Othello*, Romeo and Juliet*--William Shakespeare~~~~(every single one actually--I have his complete works)
Maniac Magee--Jerry Spinelli*
The Farside Gallery 2--Gary Larson*(wooooo)
The Koran* (most of it)

soooo I'm a dork.

[Uchiki]

I am [i]not[/i] going to list [i]all[/i] of my books, because there are too many to be listed, so I'm just gonna be a coward and put in some of them. Sorry.

[i]Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince[/i] JK Rowling*
[i]The DaVinci Code*, Angels and Demons*, Deception Point[/i] Dan Brown
[i] Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy[/i] Kevin J Anderson*
[i] Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire[/i] Can't remember the author...*
[i] The Shadowleague Trilogy[/i] Maggie Furey*
[i] Dark Season [/i] Russel T Davies*
[i] Oscar and the Ice Pick [/i] Can't remember the author...*
[i] The Galactic Warlord[/i] Can't remember the author...*

[fallenangel]

Yay old thread.

I don't tend to [i]own[/i] books. Unless they're bloody brilliant.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey * (2 copies for some reason)
The Dirt - Motley Crue *
Rotten - John Lydon *
Raw Power - Mick Rock * (although it's mostly pictures)
American Hairmetal - various people *
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay *
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay *
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris *
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris *
Hannibal - Thomas Harris * (haven't heard anything good about Hannibal Rising, so I'm waiting to judge the plot of the movie)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess *
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje * (for school, terrible)
Written In Blood - Colin Wilson *


I think that's it. And of the lists I've read:

Dante's Inferno
To Kill a Mockingbird
Edgar Alan Poe's work
Holes
Lots of Shakespeare

...That's about it. I like to read, but only about one thing. As my list kinda shows.
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[SilverKitsune]

I have way to many books, over 1,000$ worth. I haven't read all of them yet though, but Im getting there. I read too much ):
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"Your a bird, I'm a cat of the jungle. Birds can't get pregnant last I checked. They lay eggs."[/b]

[Uchiki]

Reading is good, SilverKitsune. Fact.

[SirTyler48]

I have read:

[i]Jurassic Park ~ Michael Chrichton
Lost World: Jurassic Park ~ Michael Chrichton
NeXt ~ Michael Chrichton
Timeline ~ Michael Chr!(ht0n
Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace ~ Terry Brooks(?)
Star Wars: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream ~ Aaron Allston
Star Wars: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand ~ Aaron Allston
Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith ~ Matthew Stover
Star Wars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones ~ ........
Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader ~ James Luceno
Star Wars: Labrynth of Evil
Star Wars: Jedi Trial ~ David Sherman and Dan Cragg
Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil ~ James Luceno
Star Wars: Specter of the Past ~ Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Children of the Jedi ~ Barbra Hambly
Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia ~ Dave Wolverton
Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura ~ Kathy Tyers
Star Wars: The Approaching Storm ~ Alan Dean Foster
Star Wars: Rogue Planet ~ Greg Bear
Star Wars: Outbound Flight ~ Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter ~ Michael Reaves
Star Wars: Cloak of Deception ~ James Luceno
Star Wars: Dark Nest: The Joiner King ~Troy Denning
Star Wars: Dark Nest: Unseen Queen ~ Troy Denning
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest ~ Troy Denning
Star Wars: Dark Empire I
Beast ~ Peter Bencly (AND I saw the movie )
Harry Potter & The Sorcerers Stone ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of AskaBANNED ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Goblit of Fire
Harry Potter & The Order of the Pheonix
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince(ss)
Creature ~ Peter Benchly
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror ~ Steve Alten
Trench ~ Steve Alten[/i]


These are all the books I can remember at the top of my head that I have read.

[SilverKitsune]

[quote="Uchiki"]Reading is good, SilverKitsune. Fact.[/quote]

I know <3

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. D:<

Sometimes. lol.
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[falkonns_flight]

There's not enough space on the forums, or enough time in my life, to list all my books here. I've been collecting for years, a lil of this, a lil of that yadda yadda. I don't see it as being a dork, I see it as being intelligent.
Buying 3 books on the life and history of (insert name of fictional/non-fictional character here) $25. Being able to outsmart your bf, priceless.
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[stippie]

i read lots of books, in three langueges, english, dutch and hebrew. i can't write all the books from my blue book case, because the computer is on an other floor, so i'll have to carry it, but i have a list of all the books i DID read. all these books are since i'm nine, 5 years ago. some of the books are borowed from other book worms.

okay, here we go...

HIS DARK MATERIALS:
northern lights.
the subtle knife.
the amber spyglass.

GORDON CORMAN:
why did the underwear cross the road?
the twinkie squad (twise)
beware the fish.
the toilet paper tigers.
loosing joe's place.
who's bugs potter?

LITTLE CHILDREN BOOKS:
crybaby lois (really stupid book.)
the queens nose.
cute as a button (i was still young)
the box car children.
the box car children.
stuart little.
do it yourself magic.
the mous and the motorcycle.
tigers at twilight.
treasure island (briged)

LEMONY SNICKET:
the bad beging.
the reptile room.
the wide window.
(read 4 and 5 of the seary in hebrew)
the ersats elevator.
the vile village.
the hostile hospital.
the carnivovous carnival.
the slippery slope.
the grim grotto.

CLASSICAL, DRAMA AND LONG TIME AGO BOOKS:
the secret garden.
sing down the moon.
the sea of gold.
pride and prejudice.
the kingdom under the sea.
the door in the wall.
the road ahead.
the loner.
mr. tucket.
on the long trail home.
tuckets ride.
the magic in the pool of making.
real heroes.
the advantures of robin hood.

COMEDY, JEWISH AND OTHER:
the twins mystery teacher.
staring quincy rumpel.
clue.
nights of the shifters moon.
shadow over balinor.
side ways stories by wayside school.
the gang of four.
backers dosen.
our teacher is missing.
W.I.T.C.H.
W.I.T.C.H.
W.I.T.C.H.
dawsons creek.
the summer of riley.
mitch and amy.
other wise known as sheila the great.
heartland.
charlie london RN.

14 books in hebrew. including holes, an other W.I.T.C.H. matilda, two lemony snicket books that i wrote about before. the thief lord, storm chaser.

and an other 11 books in dutch.

[SirTyler48]

*Wonders if that list is longer then mine =_=*

[stippie]

well, reading is fun, but i don't read all day, only when i have free time, but i don't have that much either.