Things in Print Thursday :: my success as an English major measured by how many SparkNoted titles I’ve read (A-E)

7 Oct

Yep, this is just a list and some numerical analysis, part 1 of several.

Bolded titles are ones I enjoyed.  Plain italic titles are ones I feel neutral about.

A:
1984 by George Orwell (this is conditional; I read part of it and saw the movie.  I fail, yes.)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Angels in America by Tony Kushner (holy Christ, do I love this play; I wish I could double-bold it)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Antigone by Sophocles
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
8 of 44 titles.  4 of 44 were sincerely enjoyed.

B:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf
Bible: The New Testament
(another conditional; I’ve read pieces, ish?)
Bible: The Old Testament (likewise)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (yeah… when I was like ten, but still.)
5 of 31 titles.  1 of 31 was sincerely enjoyed.

C:
Candide by Voltaire
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
8 of 46 titles.  1 of 46 was sincerely enjoyed.

D:
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Ambroise Laclos
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Dubliners by James Joyce (conditional; I’ve read like two of the stories; I enjoyed them, but am not bolding as I’ve not read all of them)
5 of 27 titles  .5 of 27 were sincerely enjoyed.

E:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
1 of 12 titles.  0 of 12 were sincerely enjoyed.

I… have strange taste in literature, I suppose.

–your fangirl heroine.

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