Long weekend Humiliation

[chickenfeet]

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!

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I nominate Middlemarch

[white_hart]

Jane Eyre

[ghastlymess.livejournal.com]

Lolita.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

War and Peace

[ann1962]

Heart of Darkness

o teh shaem

[nanila]

Do books that you've tried and failed to complete multiple times count? If so:

The Tin Drum

Re: o teh shaem

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely. You have no idea how many times I have started The Way Past Swann's

Re: o teh shaem

[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

[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.

[parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com]

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

David Copperfield

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Fahrenheit 451

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

The Three Musketeers

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Flies

[ironed_orchid]

The Brothers Karamazov.

[ceruleanblue3.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Rings. And Les Liasons Dangereuses.

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Aha! Finally, one I have read (LotR)!

[keithlard.livejournal.com]

To Kill A Mockingbird

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

Tristram Shandy

[thidwick.livejournal.com]

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

[kinetikatrue]

The Bible

[gramarye1971]

The Aeneid.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.
Also, Ulysses by James Joyce. Tried and utterly failed to read this.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Great Expectations

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Bugger, just noticed that I'm not unique in that - will keep the Dickens theme and go for Bleak House instead.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

OK then: Pride and Prejudice.

[(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!!

[intertext.livejournal.com]

The Great Gatsby

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Any Conrad at all, but will go with The Heart of Darkness. Or Lord Jim.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

The Satanic Verses, despite adoring Rushdie's other work.

(Did frankie_ecap's Humiliation game ever have a winner declared?)

[minx-minx.livejournal.com]

Animal Farm

[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.

[topicaltim.livejournal.com]

Gulliver's Travels

[aparecida.livejournal.com]

A Farewell to Arms

[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.

[tanuja.livejournal.com]

Any of Dante's work (Divine Comedy, Inferno or Hell)

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

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Brideshead Revisited