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[Cthulhu]

Then you won't be well read, you have to read all 100.

[Earthquake Damage]

Then you won't be well read, you have to read all 100.

IMO the Bible is literature in the same way that high school textbooks (course of your choosing, but I mean textbooks, not the novels and plays you might read in English Lit) are literature.  Actually, it's more like an extended standalone version of the primary source excerpts you see in a history textbook.  As such, I don't think it deserves a place on any meaningful list of works used to determine whether someone is "well read".

Note:  I liken it to a primary source only under the assumption (fervently believed by many, for whatever that's worth) that it is literally the word of God.

[Akroma]

today in my lectures, I learned about the properties and how to make adamantane


SCIENCE!

[chaoticag]

Any chance of a brief summary to spread the happiness.

[Itnetlolor]

My ship has been mentioned in TVTropes!!! Linked and everything! 

Military Mashup Machine: Nazushdur Anrizgeshud Nom, one of the finest examples of Dwarvern hubris awesomeness.

Frikkin' awesome.


Found out while I was making a link package for my sister to use since she's new to the game (got her into it now) with all sorts of stuff to help her out, as well as an email to forward to anyone else that would take interest (in both mine and her case). Just out of curiosity, I looked through DF trope to see if there was anything new, and found that.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (/)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (/)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (/)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (/)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (/)
6 The Bible - (/)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (/)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (/)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (/)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (/)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (/)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( /)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (X)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (/)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk (/)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (/)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (/)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (/)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (/)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (X)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (/)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (/)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (X)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (/)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (/)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (/)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (/)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (/)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (/)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - (/)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (X)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (/)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (/)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (/)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (X)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (X)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (/)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (/)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (/)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (/)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (/)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (/)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (/)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (x)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (/)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (/)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (/)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (/)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (/)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (/)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt (/)
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (/)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (/)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (X)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (/)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (/)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (/)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker /)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (/)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (/)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (/)
76 The Inferno - Dante (/)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (/)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (X)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (/)
80 Possession - AS Byatt (X)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (/)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (/)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (/)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (X)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (X)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (X)
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (/)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (X)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (/)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (/)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (/)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (/)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (/)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (/)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (X)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (/)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (/)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (/)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (/)

70/100, I think.
I'm surprised that the Silmarillion isn't in there. Much better and more challenging than Harry bloody Potter.

[Leafsnail]

My result is going to be abysmal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x) [English class]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ()
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x) [English class]
6 The Bible - (x) [Don't ask]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x) [English class]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ( )
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare () [Uh, not all of them]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ()
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ( )
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (x)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x) [English class]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ( )
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle () [Not all of them]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ()
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()

Result: 19/100.  Pretty pathetic.  Oh well, I guess I have plenty of time to read more of them.

[smigenboger]

I'm at 22 on the list.

Horray for Watership Down! No one seems to know about that book.

[Leafsnail]

Jane Eyre is definately the next on my list.  Especially since I've read The Eyre Affair.

[Nether]

Starting freshly here, so hi ^^
Makes me feel blended, but with a happy feeling too

[Akroma]

escape while you can, they got me, and my sanity took grave damage, ru-

today I saw a butterfly and it made me happy

group hug time!

[Nether]

escape while you can, they got me, and my sanity took grave damage, ru-

today I saw a butterfly and it made me happy

group hug time!

God, Armok's been busy since last time, hasn't he?
My mind has long ago been corrupted and each time I escape I find myself captured in the gravitational force of Bay12games.

[h3lblad3]

I just...
 

I got out of classes and went to my car...
I was hoping around with my mouth open trying to catch snowflakes...
All excitable-like.

I got in my car, drove forward a bit, and turned so I could get out of the parking lot.
As the road came into view, this amazing chorus-type music came on the radio.
With the chorus and the nicely falling snow... big flakes, slowish fall, you see...
It was so beautiful.

I came to my first stop and as I pressed the brakes, the voices were fading out.
Light turned green and the voices spoke up, it was so... in time.
The next light I stopped at had the song end.  But another took it's place as I took off.

When I stopped at the light 3-4 blocks away from my place, I watched the snow some more...
And my eyes started to fill with water. 
I didn't cry!
But... I was getting there.

IT WAS AMAZING!

[JoshuaFH]

Wait, so you're happy that your radio was synched up with your driving?

[h3lblad3]

No, I'm happy that it was synced with the weather.