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It's time for another round of Humiliation, the game that wrecks academic careers.

The Rules:

1. Each player must nominate a book that they have not read. This must be a book that a reasonably well read person would be embarrassed to not have read. Pride and Prejudice, for example, would count. Dianetics would not. This is an explicitly elitist game!

2. I create a poll that gives each player a chance to indicate which of the nominated books they have read. The 'winner' is the person who has not read the most read book.

3. Only two qualities are required to play; honesty and deep seated cultural insecurity.

Nominations will close in 48 hours.

Let Humiliation commence!

Date: 2007-06-29 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I nominate Middlemarch

Date: 2007-06-29 02:48 pm (UTC)
white_hart: (Default)
From: [personal profile] white_hart
Jane Eyre

Date: 2007-06-29 02:48 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-06-29 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com
War and Peace

Date: 2007-06-29 03:02 pm (UTC)
ann1962: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ann1962
Heart of Darkness

o teh shaem

Date: 2007-06-29 03:04 pm (UTC)
nanila: me (Default)
From: [personal profile] nanila
Do books that you've tried and failed to complete multiple times count? If so:

The Tin Drum

Re: o teh shaem

Date: 2007-06-29 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Oh definitely. You have no idea how many times I have started The Way Past Swann's

Re: o teh shaem

Date: 2007-06-29 03:33 pm (UTC)
ironed_orchid: watercolour and pen style sketch of a brown tabby cat curl up with her head looking up at the viewer and her front paw stretched out on the left (Default)
From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
I actually finished that one after about 3 years, it was the rest of his books I somehow never managed to pick up, despite having the full set.

Re: o teh shaem

Date: 2007-06-29 04:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com
You should drop the newfangled translation and read it in French, or in the old Scott Moncrieff translation. The new one is appalling.

I nominate Great Expectations.

Date: 2007-06-29 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.

Date: 2007-06-29 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com
David Copperfield

Date: 2007-06-29 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com
Fahrenheit 451

Date: 2007-06-29 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bopeepsheep.livejournal.com
The Three Musketeers

Date: 2007-06-29 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] knirirr.livejournal.com
Lord of the Flies

Date: 2007-06-29 03:30 pm (UTC)
ironed_orchid: watercolour and pen style sketch of a brown tabby cat curl up with her head looking up at the viewer and her front paw stretched out on the left (Default)
From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
The Brothers Karamazov.

Date: 2007-06-29 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceruleanblue3.livejournal.com
Lord of the Rings. And Les Liasons Dangereuses.

Date: 2007-06-29 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] albionwood.livejournal.com
Aha! Finally, one I have read (LotR)!

Date: 2007-06-29 03:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keithlard.livejournal.com
To Kill A Mockingbird

Date: 2007-06-29 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frumiousb.livejournal.com
Tristram Shandy

Date: 2007-06-29 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thidwick.livejournal.com
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Date: 2007-06-29 04:51 pm (UTC)
kinetikatrue: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kinetikatrue
The Bible

Date: 2007-06-29 04:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gramarye1971
The Aeneid.

Date: 2007-06-29 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] midnightsjane.livejournal.com
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.
Also, Ulysses by James Joyce. Tried and utterly failed to read this.

Date: 2007-06-29 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
Great Expectations

Date: 2007-06-29 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
Bugger, just noticed that I'm not unique in that - will keep the Dickens theme and go for Bleak House instead.

Date: 2007-06-29 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnimmel.livejournal.com
OK then: Pride and Prejudice.

Date: 2007-06-29 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I am humiliated to admit that I have only just finished reading Jane Eyre for the first time and I am well on my way to 40 years old. And I blooming well loved it.

However, I have not read any of the following:

Catch-22
Moby Dick
A Clockwork Orange
Anything by Charles Dickens, except A Tale of Two Cities
Anything by George Eliot, Thakeray, D H Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Iris Murdoch or Joseph Conrad
The Catcher in the Rye (at least, I don't think so)

I promise you, though, I am really well and widely read!!

Date: 2007-06-29 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com
The Great Gatsby

Date: 2007-06-29 07:07 pm (UTC)
ext_6283: Brush the wandering hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com
Any Conrad at all, but will go with The Heart of Darkness. Or Lord Jim.

Date: 2007-06-29 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com
The Satanic Verses, despite adoring Rushdie's other work.

(Did [livejournal.com profile] frankie_ecap's Humiliation game ever have a winner declared?)

Date: 2007-06-29 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minx-minx.livejournal.com
Animal Farm

Date: 2007-06-29 07:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
I don't think I've read Rebecca. But I might have done. It's one of those works one absorbs through film/television/spinoff fic etc, so I can't swear I haven't read it as well. I think I've read the opening page, as I remember stuff about them living in exile which I don't remember in any adaptation. But I can't remember any more of it as text. So, er, yes. I nominate Rebecca.

I'm not sure I've read Anna Karenina, come to think of it... probably have read chunks. No, probably I have read that, now I think of it, I can recall too much text not to have done.

Date: 2007-06-29 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topicaltim.livejournal.com
Gulliver's Travels

Date: 2007-06-29 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aparecida.livejournal.com
A Farewell to Arms

Date: 2007-06-29 10:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassandre.livejournal.com
George Orwell, 1984. *hangs head in shame* I don't know why I haven't read this, really. I've read several other more obscure Orwells. So that makes it OK!

I also haven't read Ulysses (embarrassing for a person with a comp lit degree). Or more than about 50 pages of Proust (embarrassing for a French specialist).

Or Catch-22, or Huckleberry Finn, or Moby Dick. OK, I'm going to stop this now. I still think 1984 is my most humiliating.

Date: 2007-06-30 02:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tanuja.livejournal.com
Any of Dante's work (Divine Comedy, Inferno or Hell)

God knows I've tried and just couldn't.

Date: 2007-06-30 04:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com
Brideshead Revisited

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