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Greatest Love Story Meme

Wednesday,25th June,2008,2.26 pm
Borrowed From bookywookey.We have done a similar one before.But this one is worth a try too.I had created the previous one,so any anomalies there have been ironed out here.

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


if you're reading, you're it. Add one title of your own to the bottom of the list.
ok Here is number
24. The Trumpet major - Thomas hardy [ sorry cant think of any other name at the moment]

OMG!!! i was already feeling miserable before starting this,and just see the results.
I have only read 2 books out of 23 in that list.
The worst thing is, i haven't seen any movie out of the 23
The best part is, i don't want to marry any of the leading lady hehehe.
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Special notice to all the females on this blog.Its compulsory for them, but optional for the males :P
Note :- As per suggestions by a member.I would like to request all the members who have a personal blog, to do the tag on their blogs and inform us here,so that we may check it.Rest of them can do this on this blog only
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Jai Sri Ram!!!

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