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THAT WAS TERRIBLE, HORRENDOUS, I'M OFFENDED, I'M APPALED!

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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
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
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
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
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
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

I was going to do the whole thing, but i found Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on youtube.

Crystal Skulls

Saw the New Indiana Jones, movie, and they almost had it. Without giving too much away, It felt like there was too much of an ending. It was all really good up until the chamber at the end. After that it became less like the old Indy, and more deep. They leave, killing the bad lady for some reason, taking off, and leaving nothing behind. I felt that there should have been something physical for Indy to take back, as unlike the other movies, nothing was accomplished. there were moments of very cool action and memorable parts, although nothing spectacular. The Motorcycle chase was good at parts, particularly the beginning, where he gets pushed back into a group of bikers... GET THAT GREASER! was pretty cool. And in the library, when Indy recommended a different book to read. The most memorable was probably the refrigerator, and when it closes, the door reads "Lead Lined." I wasn't expecting it but the Waterfalls was pretty well done. They could have coped out and did a panic bit like in the Last Crusade and the tank, but they all had the characters be like, Ya whatever. And the car chrash that they show in the previews. in the lead up to that a character betrays Indy, (Hint, its the only guy you don't recognize) and he is shouting, "Stay back, you don't know jones like I do. You don't know Jones! YOU DON'T KNOW JONES!" *crash* Overall they movie had a feel like Destroy all Humans!! with the communists angle of things, not a bad thing. But the killer was the ending, it felt like even though technically they left it open for a sequel, they were wrapping up 4 movies.

tl;dr Ending needed something. Less Wrap-up, and more cheesy JOOOOONES! moments.

Where have all of the action heroes Gone?

I had just finished watching Judge Dredd, when a thought occurred to me. When was the last time, I had seen an action movie that had not delved into the complicated world of thought. In Judge Dredd, the was Rico, the Ultimate Bad Guy, and Dredd the Perfect Good Guy. Explosions, Good guy wins, the humorous sidekick, Rob Snieder complains the entire way. It made me go Woo! inside after watching it.

Another Example, Die Hard. Die hard 1, he's fighting terrorist who are also greedy. Die Hard 2 same thing. Die Hard 3, he's doing it with Samuel L Jackson. Die Hard 4 he got some whiney little computer hacker that he has to protect the entire time. The Bad Guy was once a good guy, and he is really just doing this to protect the country from an attack that really means it and make some money. With the addition of all of the technology, computer hacking, and the removal of the signature line in order to keep the rating, the movie was terrible. Killed by modernization and new movie making techniques.

At least one Genre is still getting better. Horror movies are still remembering where they came from and where they should be going. Planet Terror was one of the Best Zombie/Plauge/Psycho Killer/Shocker movie I've ever seen. Deathproof put Kurt Russell back where he should be, as the rough, tough Bad- Ass. (cept for that part at the end, that was a mistake, a true tribute to the stalker movie should have been the new chicks getting killed in, and the killer starting on the next victims)

I really really really hope that the new Indiana Jones movie has as little as possible of Shilo Lebueaf or whatever his name is. The movie should be Indy shooting Nazi's, Wooing Women, and Grabbing the treasures. I swear to God if they start to get deep on me I will walk out. Fight Nazi's, Women, Treasure. simple.

Movies made from past pop culture. Spiderman, hulk, transformers. You're starting to leave me empty inside after I watch one of these movies. I would REALLY like to see one of these that has NOT been dummed down for general public viewing. You just end up with a movie that been remade like the new action movies. Speed Racer goes fast, and fights baddies. Preferably at the same time. He WILL not debate the ethical consequences of driving under the race company, unless they are clearly names TEAM EVIL. (way to go Shaolin Soccer)

Too many movies try and make me think when they should just be silent. Unless I want to come out of the movie thinking, like V for Vendetta, I don't want that. No one does. Piracy isn't causing drops in movie, neither are home entertainment systems, HD in the home. It is the quality of the cinema. (WTF was No Country!? Best Picture!?!)

I heard a statement the other day. I originally thought It was rediculous, but the more and more I look into it, the more and more it seems to be more true. The more intelligent you are, the less happy you are. A comedian made an amazing comment along these lines. I can't remember his name at the moment but here is what I remember from it. "I thing 'Tards, are the evolution of man, not a disease. Sure they're stupid as hell, but look at how happy they are. They get a new lunchbox and thats the highest point of thier day, until five minutes later when something Better happens! Continuously reaching new high points in the day, man it must be great. I would kill for 5 minutes a day of 'Tard happy. "

*Edit* I just remembered another quote from the episode of South Park, "Cartoon Wars", A random trucker give Kyle a ride to try and stop Cartman from canceling a Family Guy episode. "I mean, I know it's just joke after joke, but I like that. At least it dosen't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages, you know? "

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Snow

I just get ready to do outsidey stuff, it keeps dashing my hopes to the ground with bad weather. Oh well.

Snow Happens.