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Greatest Love Story Meme

Ok tush here goes....

Legend:
I’ve read it
I want to read it
I’ve seen the movie*
I’m indifferent
I have it on DVD
I want to marry the leading man/lady!

The list:
1 Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, 1847
2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813 *
3 Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, 1597 *
4 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847 *
5 Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
6 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
7 Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, 1938
8 Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
9 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence, 1928
10 Far from The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy, 1874
11 My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner, 1956 [By this name,there was a swing in appu ghar i think]
12 The African Queen, CS Forester, 1935
13 The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 1925
14 Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, 1811
15 The Way We Were, Arthur Laurents, 1972
16 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1865
17 Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du Maurier, 1942
18 Persuasion, Jane Austen, 1818
19 Take a Girl Like You, Kingsley Amis, 1960
20 Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, 1876
21 Maurice, E.M. Forester, 1971 (posth.)
22 The Good Solider: A Tale of Passion, Ford Madox Ford, 1915
23The Goldbug Variations, Richard Powers,1991
24. The Trumpet major - Thomas hardy
25. Love story - Erich Segal (didnt personally like it...left me cold really but then its supposed 2 b a classic)
Add one title of your own to the bottom of the list.

Comments

Tshhar Mangal said…
7 out of 24
Figures why your teachers were so after you :P

Waise i havent heard about so many of these books.
Especially the last ones.

And love story cant be said as a classic...
Kya baat kar rahi
July 5, 2008 at 12:49 AM
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