冬夜長

disposableninja's big long book list

2008-06-26T17:57:55Z

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read. (Instead, I'll italicize those I intend to make a best-effort attempt to never, ever read.)
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (There were really only two or three on this list that I capslock-love, so I went ahead and picked a few others that are pretty good so it looked less boring.)

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
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (I thought we covered this by listing the Chronicles in No. 33? Let's replace this redundant Lewis entry with a better one!)
36(a) Till We Have Faces - CS Lewis
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
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

spoiler: aldred dies

2008-05-30T21:28:45Z

I totally got to see this as I was driving home last night: 2-County Chase Ends On I-95N

The hospital was at the end of that exit ramp, and conveniently so, after the dogs got him. I don't think he felt a thing. Peeled Vicodin and vodka, lol.

The tinysquad is in Hawaii. Their plane was filled with sharks and snakes, and they liked it. Everyone else is in Houston for A-kon. Why do I even try anymore?

These are for you, Kam, you degenerate

2008-02-12T08:30:19Z

http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=2052&e=5374

http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=2052&e=7017

daysgoby @ 2008-02-02T15:09:00

2008-02-02T20:09:41Z

I had a dream that Shannon killed Aldred on the 16th floor of Baptist-Medical. What the fuck, Shannon? Aldred's never done anything to you.

daysgoby @ 2008-01-21T17:22:00

2008-01-21T22:21:40Z

Handful of images from the raws. I started out cutting some of these for drawing reference purposes and ended up clipping 'stuff I enjoy about Kekkaishi' as well.

They're from v15 - v16 and should be spoiler-free outside of 'picture of a bad guy you haven't seen yet just standing there looking neat.'

BECAUSE MY LAYOUT SUCKS the frame is going to cut off a lot of these images. If you use firefox, right-click and select 'view image' on the ones that are obviously cut off.

oh god timmy fell in the well, come quick

get off the damn phone

awwww.

okay what the hell, stop beating the adopted children

masamori, make him stop beating the children, what is wrong with you

he's hurling shuu

get off the damn phone.

sweet.

sweet.

Yellow's technical skill escalates volume by volume. This is a two-page spread with a little cropped out. If you draw you know how difficult a piece like this can be.

yoshimori you are the best shounen hero ever

dog on your head

heheeh. oh, kensei.

♥

papa ain't happy

tokine is laying it down. in fact, she laid it down a lot in this mini-arc.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

get. off. the. phone.

eheheheh. legs. this is for emlan.

no, seriously.

oh god i love him so much

augh

YOU MADE HIM CRY

jesus i want to keep him like a pet, you should see him bumble-run around in his giant puffy sleeves and pants

then I got sleepy and stopped for the day. THE END

How To Be Sensitive

2008-01-16T03:35:20Z

They make us take online 'diversity courses' at work. The object is supposedly to increase 'global awareness,' ie., keep us from making jew jokes at work. We're required to select a certain amount of these courses, watch a slideshow presentation on the country involved, and then pass a test at the end. To be honest, I think I came out of these courses more racist than I went in.

And it's not hard to imagine why.

just in time for 2008

2007-12-29T23:40:17Z

Komuibot: GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT
Komuibot: I INVENTED THE NEW YEAR.
Komuibot: *holds up coffee in triumph*

GeneraI Cross: ::hangs up::

Okay, so-

2007-12-29T08:53:32Z

How the hell do all of you TVophiles find the time to watch the 19 hundred shows you're addicted to and still have time to 1. eat 2. sleep 3. use the bathroom?

For the sake of fairness I'm assuming you're all billionaires with no need to earn any kind of income, thus 'work' has been left off of the list above.

daysgoby @ 2007-12-27T07:01:00

2007-12-27T12:01:37Z

A gay.

Ghost.

Dog.

.......................

(Actually, Madarao reminds me of Urahara. They would be good friends, I think.)

daysgoby @ 2007-12-20T04:48:00

2007-12-20T09:48:58Z

The Prince Caspian trailer is awesome

But them using the train to get there bodes ill; that doesn't happen until very nearly the end of the series and uh

For a good reason, too.

304

2007-12-19T10:59:23Z

Szayel

That

is disgusting

'instant abortion -- just add water!!'

lol

2007-12-12T21:04:43Z

I should have laid bets on it.

daysgoby @ 2007-11-25T03:53:00

2007-11-25T08:53:28Z

Cyclone Favio strikes Mozambique

"The category-four storm tore through the tourist town of Vilanculos, damaging homes, the town court and prison and uprooting trees."

Okay, but for the record, if my name was 'Cyclone Favio' I'd be running around damaging homes and uprooting trees, too. As would you. Agreed?

Someone on LJ said it, that makes it true

2007-11-17T07:35:20Z

'No Country for Old Men'

Come on, who didn't chuckle a little the first time they heard that title?

In other retarded news, I bought some lamer 'shoujo beat' BPAL thinger for ceylon because she's a homo like that. If it makes her reek like spakles and rainbows and fanboy splooge, though, that shit is going out the window.

Last & Least: D.Gray-man-- I called that shit with Kanda and the generals approx. four hundred years ago. I am a prophet.

Oh, PS-

2007-11-15T11:12:48Z

New Dane Cook CD came out on the 13th. Go forth and sample.

Newsflash: 'Dexter'

2007-11-15T10:57:02Z

It fucking rocks.

No, not the way Lost rocks. (That was a joke.) Dexter rocks because the title character is the perfect combination of terminally dysfunctional and white-picket-fence-nice-guy. (That was a [horrible] pun.) No matter how evil he gets, he's the guy you root for.

ceylon -- For your enjoyment, a Dexter WP from the show's website. I will be using this at work.

You go, Dex, you go.

daysgoby @ 2007-11-12T05:31:00

2007-11-12T10:31:26Z

Mort aux Chats
There will be no more cats.
Cats spread infection,
Cats pollute the air,
Cats consume seven times
their own weight in food a week,
Cats were worshipped in
decadent societies (Egypt
and Ancient Rome); the Greeks
had no use for cats. Cats
sit down to pee (our scientists
have proved it). The copulation
of cats is harrowing; they
are unbearably fond of the moon.
Perhaps they are all right in
their own country but their
traditions are alien to ours.
Cats smell, they can't help it,
you notice it going upstairs.
Cats watch too much television,
they can sleep through storms,
they stabbed us in the back
last time. There have never been
any great artists who were cats.
They don't deserve a capital C
except at the beginning of a sentence.
I blame my headaches and my
plants dying on cats.
Our district is full of them,
property values are falling.
When I dream of God I see
a Massacre of Cats. Why
should they insist on their own
language and religion, who
needs to purr to make his point?
Death to all cats! The Rule
of Dogs shall last a thousand years!

-- Peter Porter

quit dicking around with my shit, cats

2007-11-04T05:19:39Z

So I'm making my bed, putting new pillowcases on the pillows, whatever, and realise my ceiling fan is on.

I look up at it, and I'm kneeling there thinking, "...why the fuck is that on? I haven't used that in weeks."

Ergo, someone has been in my room while I was at work.

I've been told it's 'gross' that I notice these things. I think it's 'retarded' that someone wouldn't. Is it that rare for someone to walk back in a room and notice the television is off when they left it on, a door is closed when it was open, an object is here when it was put down there, etc? This does not seem like the sort of thing that should be considered a mutant ability.

For. You know. Someone who doesn't have severe brain damage.

298

2007-11-01T08:52:24Z

Um

Mayuri's make-over is not appreciated

Now we have two sex-crazed nerds who can dislocate their jaw at will

super

Actually logged into DA today....

2007-10-22T09:35:52Z

~Ogun-GodofIron:iconOgun-GodofIron: Mar 14, 2007, 3:37:50 PM Hide
did you actually draw this???
looks completey different from the rest of your gal.

That's because it's not fanart, which my DA is basically for. Posting original designs on DA makes me feel like I'm selling my characters to the dog food factory.

Art Theft Detectives are super and all, but I feel ashamed by proxy when they raise the sword before doing the research.

173 comments read so far!!

Well that sucks

2007-09-08T03:36:52Z

'Wrinkle In Time' Author Dies at 88

daysgoby @ 2007-09-02T16:03:00

2007-09-02T20:03:17Z

Bad technology, no!

daysgoby @ 2007-08-28T14:15:00

2007-08-28T18:15:51Z

Have any of you ever worked 3rd shift? You know, where you come in at 10 or 11 PMish and go home around 7 or 8 AM? I can never figure out when those people sleep. If I apply the situation to myself, I don't know when the hell *I* would choose to sleep.

daysgoby @ 2007-08-15T10:59:00

2007-08-15T15:00:15Z

I cannot believe I am still awake.

My pillows are so lonely I think one of them just jumped into the bathtub with the hair dryer.

daysgoby @ 2007-08-10T18:51:00

2007-08-10T22:51:32Z

So who here knows how to make me some surströmming?