Quote of the Day
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
-- H.L. Mencken
“Unread” Book Meme
(via Swimming with Sharks)
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 ones you own but have not read.
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
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
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Ken Miller weighs in on _Expelled_
(via Pharyngula)
Ken Miller doesn’t like Expelled. He must be one of those atheistic scientists, or not.
Prom Night Dumpster Babies
(from the random thoughts on a Friday afternoon dept.)
Yet another name for the band: Prom Night Dumpster Babies
Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-09
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Vital Transformation | Mahavishnu Orchestra | Inner Mounting Flame | Jazz |
| 2. | Going To California | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV | Rock |
| 3. | Heart Of The Sunrise | Yes | Fragile | Rock |
| 4. | (Listen to the) Flower People | Spinal Tap | This is Spinal Tap | Soundtrack |
| 5. | The Acid Queen | The Who | Tommy | Rock |
| 6. | Do What You Have To Do | Sarah McLachlan | Surfacing | Rock |
| 7. | The Treason Of Isengard | Howard Shore | The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring | Soundtrack |
| 8. | Trial Of Tears | Dream Theater | Falling Into Infinity | Metal |
| 9. | After The Goldrush | Neil Young | Greatest Hits | Rock |
| 10. | Supercollider | Fountains Of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | Alternative & Punk |
Mrs. Stella R. Andaluss
Another lottery scam…
From: stella rita <stellarita@web.de>
Date: 02 May 2008 19:25:19 +0200
Subject: Mrs.Stella R. Andaluss
Mrs.Stella R. Andaluss
CASINO FOUNDATION OFFICE ES,
REFERENCE NUMBER:ES/14OO/08
The award committee of Casino Foundation.
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BATCH NUMBER:16/614/OTY
TICKET NO:10/42/55/60,
Your full Names:
Telephone:
CASINO FOUNDATION OFFICE ES,
MR.RICHARD HALBERT.
Tel:+34-695-469-737
Fax:+34-917-915-252
Email:casnoinfo@aim.com
An aim.com email address? <sarcasm> This must be legitimate. </sarcasm>
Congratulations!!
All winnings must be claimed not later than 14,days.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs.Stella Rita Andaluss.
Winning Co-ordinator.
One has to wonder why an email announcing a Spanish “Casino Award” originated from Germany.
Beneficial Nematodes
(from the random thoughts on a Friday afternoon dept.)
Yet another name for the band: Beneficial Nematodes
Other band names:
Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-02
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Searchin’ | The Beatles | Anthology 1 (Disc 1) | Rock |
| 2. | Help Me | Joan Osborne | Relish | Rock |
| 3. | My Spanish Heart | Chick Corea | My Spanish Heart | Jazz |
| 4. | Rat Tomago | Frank Zappa | Sheik Yerbouti | Alternative & Punk |
| 5. | Zoot Allures | Frank Zappa | Zoot Allures | Alternative & Punk |
| 6. | High | Yes | Tormato | Rock |
| 7. | Prelude | Kate Bush | Aerial: A Sky of Honey | Alternative & Punk |
| 8. | Slo-Funk | Omar Hakim | Burning For Buddy: A Tribute To The Music Of Buddy Rich | Jazz |
| 9. | Walking Back | The Cranberries | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? | Alternative & Punk |
| 10. | Symphony No. 5; III. Largo | The Cleveland Orch. / Lorin Maazel | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring | Classical |
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