BBC Top 100 Books vs. Facebook Meme

First of all there is a facebook meme running around claiming to be attached to the BBC list. But it seems to have been doctored, it took of a lot of literary books and replaced them with books that have been made into popular American Movies. I guess whoever started it didn't think Americans would read "Good Omens" by Pratchet and Gaiman, British Authors. (I did.)

Also most people on facebook probably count watching the movie as "reading" it.

Also the facebook meme contends that the "average" person would have only read 6 of the 100 listed. This is not what the BBC List is about, it was just looking for the most popular book in the UK.

I guess I'll play along and even use the Facebook list instead of the BBC original list.

Top 100 Books by BBC - X those I've read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
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
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - x (Lower case x this time...)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger-X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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 (Lower case X again...)
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -X
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 -X
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 - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - 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 -X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -X
53 Cold Comfort Farm
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 - X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - X
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - x (Lower case X, I think everyone skims over the middle of this book.)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce- X
76 The Inferno – Dante- X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -X
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 - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X
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 - X
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

Ok the facebook list is stupid. It lumps a lot of things into "Series". For example, the BBC lists individual Harry Potter books and Shakespeare plays.

There are also weird inconsistencies on the list. For example, "The Complete Works of Bill" are listed as well as Hamlet. As well as The Chronicles of Narnia and the individual L,W&Wardrobe book.

I X'd 48 of them (3 of which were lower case). Drat less than half...

I decided to google this before posting, here is an interesting article on this Facebook list and its migration away from the original.

Trey Update: Stream of Consiousness

Ok, so I've been through some changes and people are probably asking themselves, "What's up with Trey now?" So I figured I'd give you guys the det's stream of consciousness style.

• Personal Fear: Heights
• Height: 6' in the morning, 5'11'' at bedtime
• Bedtime: 11:00pm-1:00am
• Favorite AM Radio Station: Sports Talk 1310 the Ticket
• Recent Ticket Purchase: Flight of the Concords at Nokia.
• Nokia product owned: Backpack
• Items in Backpack: KenKen Puzzle Book, Moleskin notebook and book "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." (About 2 comic book writing kids in the 40s.)
• Where I want to be when I'm 40: Alive.
• Favorite scene from the movie Alive: Where they eat that soccer player
• Favorite thing about Soccer: They occasionally crash into mountains and eat each other cannibal style.
• Favorite cannibal: Hannibal
• Favorite feat of Hannibal: Crossing the Alps mountain range
• Favorite Mountain: Big Rock Candy Mountain (folk song)
• Favorite Folk Movie: A Mighty Wind
• Favorite name for wind: Maria
• Favorite Maria Carie Song: "Vision of Love"
• Love of my life: Sara
• Other person names Sara(h) I like: Palin 2012
• Where I want to be in 2012: Either at World Cup in Brazil hoping to see people eat each other or in Norway exploring my Norse roots.
• Norse god of Mischief my dog is named after: Loki
• Loki's reaction to loud noises: Fear
• Personal Fear: Heights

There I hope that was informative but somehow I doubt it.

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Facebook Requests

Ok, before I click ignore all I'm finally going to look at all this trash people send me on facebook.

For the record, other than flair, I'm not interested in any apps or facebook groups or whatever you want me to join. I'm not into facebook fads.

Here is what is currently pending on my facebook requests page:
(I don't know what most of these even are!)

3 Friend suggestions - No thanks
59 Friend requests - This seems like a lot because I never reject anyone, I just table veto it.
1 Event invitation
4 Cause invitations - I'm not into causes just effects! ba-zing!
10 New Notifications
7 Group Invitations - Your group is not important to me.
3 Group Confirmations - My group is not important to me
1 Star Wave request - IDK
3 Kidnap! requests - Are you wanted to kidnap me or am I supposed to kidnap you?
6 (lil) green patch requests - The world is going fine, its ok to litter now.
8 top friend requests - We really have to have two tiers of fake friends on facebook now! I'm waiting to be someones top top friend
1 digital bookshelf friend request - Intriguing but I'm too lazy to enter every book I own online.
2 mob wars invitations - I'm not Italian.
2 dot game request - IDK
1 how long would you survive in a horror movie invitation - I'd make it out and survive the sequel.
1 relative request - So are we not officially related unless I agree to this ap?
6 nicest person requests - Get a life losers. Who's nice now?
2 hug requests - Consider your request for a digital hug denied.
2 tinyadventures invitation - I'm too big to be tiny.
2 coolest persons request - Well, maybe...
2 bumper sticker requests - Do you people never learn?
2 triumph invitations - I will not join your legion, triumph alone or not at all.
2 word challenge invitations - idk
3 friend quiz invitation - If I fail do we still have to be friends?
1 more bumper stick request - Apparently there are two separate aps for bumper stickers.
1 kickups challenge - idk
2 bowling buddies invitation - If we've never bowled IRL then we won't online either.
9 superpoke invitations - lame
(Dozens of regular pokes have gone unpoked back. I'm not into retaliation poking.)
1 brain game request - pass
1 DC comics superhero request - tempting
2 YoVille game invitations - I love Yoyo's and say "yo" a lot but still no thanks.
1 Smile request - :) there you go, now leave me alone.
1 Scramble invitation - when I learned its not about eggs I passed
1 Which Bible character are you invitation - I didn't take the quiz but I'm pretty sure I'm Judas.
1 My Hero ability request - again i didn't take the quiz but I'm going to say mine is sarcasm
7 Funniest friends invitation - I hope you found this list and subsequent rejection funny.

and before I compiled a list I ignored a whole slew of old things like:
Jedi vs. Sith
Drug War
and countless other recruiting contests that are pointless.

There you have it. Well over 100 things asking for my attention. Why? I'm glad you thought of me. Thank you. I'm touched. But I am now clicking reject all!

(Well, I'm still not rejecting friends, nor am I accepting them. If I haven't actually sat down across a table and eaten a meal with you I'm leaving you in unrejected limbo!)

Ok, its done! I want to be your friend in real life, if all we have is facebook we aren't really very good friends. Still... SUPERPOKE!