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Was browsing though a list of 1001 books to see before you die.... so far i've only read 23.. pityful! hahaha!
have read
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
required reading for hum 2, didnt get it at first, thought the actions of the protagonists were illogical. which i later realized during class discussion, was actually logical and very realistic... cape town, apartheid issue..or after its abolishment... something like that.. for some reason i dont really like african related political lit..
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
weird story behind my acquisition of this book. was in baguio and this is what i bought instead of buying baguio-related souvenirs. i came so far just to buy a book i could buy in manila.! hahaha! liked this book. a lot. the will to live. strongest thought from book, something like, every day when they wake up they will feel that life is a miracle... parang ganun.. nagdadrama ako nung time na binasa ko ito kaya feel na feel ko! hahaha!
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
gave me a headache reading..enjoyable headache! haha! good book, liked it a lot, different from all else..
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
i absolutely dislike this book! RAR! but, i couldnt stop reading it cuz it was so annoying, i was itching to see if the main character would act more .... 'logically' hahahaha! i think this is the literary device called: THWARTING THE READERS DESIRE. thwarted beyond my patience! haha! mysticism used in book compared to marquez.. IMO, no, no, and no! so not the same! kumusta naman kasi nagliyab sa sobrang libog?! hahahahahaha!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
great great book! loved it a lot, couldnt put it down for long..
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
funny shit! hehe! its not shit actually, its good too its fun, read it in one sitting cuz you have to know what happens next! was actually influenced by my freind ai cuz she was collecting it all, she loved the trilogy of five books! hahaha!
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
takes a hundred years to read! haha! but worth it...! draging first part, put later on just cant stop! confusing names! confusing family!
The Joke – Milan Kundera
has dragging parts, good read too, learn a lot about communism...? hehe, history of their people, as wilth other kundera reads....
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
honestly did not get it when i read it cuz i was in... 2nd yr hs i think.... maybe it deserves a re-read... i didnt get big brother...
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
lets be honest, it was difficult...! i did not get the fish chase.... and the lions on the shore which i have read somewhere that have religious meaning... i need more background on literary imagery to understand... or maybe
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
wont say anything anymore, this book is too widely read so nobody needs MY opinion. but i enjoyed it din.
The Stranger – Albert Camus
my introduation into the world of existentialism..! i was blown away..! changed my views on life
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
ofcourse, its steinbeck! who am i to say anything?! when i think of this book, what comes to mind is its ending...
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
most everyone has read this too, no comment. its steinbeck!
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
book ito...?! akala ko short story?!
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
book report, 4th yr hs, chose it cuz it was short and the teacher want very familiar with it! weee! so kayang kaya ko mambola, lalo na nung defense ng paper sa harap ng class, haha, well she doesnt know what i'm talking about, haha, i can say whatever i want!
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
read wayyy back in grade six i think... fun fun...!
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
two more cases of 'hey, i thought this was a short story?!' summary, equation poe=genius
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
some odd reasong, cant recall....
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
read way back then... we have a collection of grimm and aesop fables in a hard bound series of classics...fun fun..!
own but have not read
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Silas Marner – George Eliot
have heard of and want to read
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Information – Martin Amis
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Plague – Albert Camus
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
have read
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
required reading for hum 2, didnt get it at first, thought the actions of the protagonists were illogical. which i later realized during class discussion, was actually logical and very realistic... cape town, apartheid issue..or after its abolishment... something like that.. for some reason i dont really like african related political lit..
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
weird story behind my acquisition of this book. was in baguio and this is what i bought instead of buying baguio-related souvenirs. i came so far just to buy a book i could buy in manila.! hahaha! liked this book. a lot. the will to live. strongest thought from book, something like, every day when they wake up they will feel that life is a miracle... parang ganun.. nagdadrama ako nung time na binasa ko ito kaya feel na feel ko! hahaha!
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
gave me a headache reading..enjoyable headache! haha! good book, liked it a lot, different from all else..
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
i absolutely dislike this book! RAR! but, i couldnt stop reading it cuz it was so annoying, i was itching to see if the main character would act more .... 'logically' hahahaha! i think this is the literary device called: THWARTING THE READERS DESIRE. thwarted beyond my patience! haha! mysticism used in book compared to marquez.. IMO, no, no, and no! so not the same! kumusta naman kasi nagliyab sa sobrang libog?! hahahahahaha!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
great great book! loved it a lot, couldnt put it down for long..
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
funny shit! hehe! its not shit actually, its good too its fun, read it in one sitting cuz you have to know what happens next! was actually influenced by my freind ai cuz she was collecting it all, she loved the trilogy of five books! hahaha!
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
takes a hundred years to read! haha! but worth it...! draging first part, put later on just cant stop! confusing names! confusing family!
The Joke – Milan Kundera
has dragging parts, good read too, learn a lot about communism...? hehe, history of their people, as wilth other kundera reads....
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
honestly did not get it when i read it cuz i was in... 2nd yr hs i think.... maybe it deserves a re-read... i didnt get big brother...
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
lets be honest, it was difficult...! i did not get the fish chase.... and the lions on the shore which i have read somewhere that have religious meaning... i need more background on literary imagery to understand... or maybe
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
wont say anything anymore, this book is too widely read so nobody needs MY opinion. but i enjoyed it din.
The Stranger – Albert Camus
my introduation into the world of existentialism..! i was blown away..! changed my views on life
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
ofcourse, its steinbeck! who am i to say anything?! when i think of this book, what comes to mind is its ending...
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
most everyone has read this too, no comment. its steinbeck!
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
book ito...?! akala ko short story?!
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
book report, 4th yr hs, chose it cuz it was short and the teacher want very familiar with it! weee! so kayang kaya ko mambola, lalo na nung defense ng paper sa harap ng class, haha, well she doesnt know what i'm talking about, haha, i can say whatever i want!
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
read wayyy back in grade six i think... fun fun...!
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
two more cases of 'hey, i thought this was a short story?!' summary, equation poe=genius
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
some odd reasong, cant recall....
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
read way back then... we have a collection of grimm and aesop fables in a hard bound series of classics...fun fun..!
own but have not read
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Silas Marner – George Eliot
have heard of and want to read
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Information – Martin Amis
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Plague – Albert Camus
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
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