I guess it's feast or famine then.

[iamlachesis]

As to how often I'm posting, that is.
So. Tell me the name (and maybe the author) of a book you feel you should have read by now meaning, 'at your age' or stage of life, that sort of thing, but juuuuuuuust haven't gotten around to yet.

Looking at my own bookshelf next to me, I'll start with American Gods; Neil Gaiman. Owned it for oh... a few years now, havent cracked more than the first chapter. Next?

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[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

anna karenina, tolstoy. i'm not a big tolstoy fan, but as a lit major i feel guilty that there are still classics i haven't read.

[armandae.livejournal.com]

narcissus and goldmund - hermann hesse

[mechanacor.livejournal.com]

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
With a title like that how could it not be good!

[grega.livejournal.com]

Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye"

[witchchild]

PRobably anything considered a classic of British lit.

[devnul.livejournal.com]

I only finally read Watership Down last year. I still have gaps in my Charles Dickens, and I haven't read any Asimov.

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

Gah, this is a hard meme for me. Quite literally I have read 1000s of books. I've forgotten more titles than most people have read.

I haven't read Tolstoy yet.
I haven't read de Balzac in French yet (read the English versions of all his work)
Moby Dick hasn't made it onto the list yet.

Gah, so many, many books to read and I haven't even started listing the sci fi that I've gotten behind on in the past 15 years while I spent time reading the classics...

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

If you want some light beach reading, take a look at Janet Evanovich's bounty hunter series. Stephanie Plum is the main character is everything Jersey Girl. If you start from the beginning, you get to see 90's bad fashion.

[sunstealer.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Dante's Inferno, sad to say. Never read it. *hides head in shame*

And something, not sure what, makes me think you might like Snow Crash by Neil Stephensen. The main character is named "Hiro Protagonist" and works for the Cosa Nostra Pizzeria. He calls himself "the Deliverator" in the first chapter.

there's a Hiro in all of us...

[lachesis.livejournal.com]

Maybe because I own that book? (and have read it. multiple times. :))
Love it.

[frankensplean.livejournal.com]

Finnegan's Wake by Señor James Joyce

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

Hmm,
Haven't read any Hemmingway, nor Tolstoy, nor "Lolita".

I haven't read Jane Austen's "Emma". Bad UberGoth!