{"id":1907,"date":"2017-12-15T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2017-12-15T09:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:39:46","slug":"100-micro-reviews-of-well-loved-novels-most-of-which-i-have-not-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/100-micro-reviews-of-well-loved-novels-most-of-which-i-have-not-read\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Micro-Reviews of Well-Loved Novels, Most of Which I Have Not Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

This list comes from the BBC, in 2003, of England\u2019s most loved novels<\/a>. I don\u2019t know why I decided to review them all. I think this was sent to me as some kind of list to check-off, to see how literate I am. Results: not very.<\/p>\n

Pride and Prejudice <\/em>by Jane Austen
\nHave not read it but saw that movie Clueless<\/em> which was based on Emma so we\u2019re good, Jane?<\/p>\n

The Lord of the Rings <\/em>series by JRR Tolkien
\nI read the first one, saw the first two movies. I think I got it.<\/p>\n

Jane Eyre <\/em>by Charlotte Bronte
\nNot only have I not read this, I don\u2019t even know what it\u2019s about. At least I\u2019ve heard of it.<\/p>\n

Harry Potter <\/em>series by JK Rowling
\nI liked the warm coziness of hanging with HP in the dorm, but in book 5 he turned into a whiny little jerk.<\/p>\n

To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>by Harper Lee
\nI read this book but I don\u2019t remember much. I remember thinking that Scout kid was a little too big for her britches.<\/p>\n

The Bible <\/em>by God, Allegedly
\nI\u2019ve read this part and that. Since I don\u2019t read Greek or Aramaic, I\u2019m pretty sure what I\u2019m seeing isn\u2019t the real deal, so I\u2019m not too chuffed to read more.<\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights <\/em>by Emily Bronte
\nIf the Bronte sisters were brought back from the dead and vied for my heart or some such crap they\u2019d have to reconcile themselves to the fact that it wouldn\u2019t be the quality of one their novels over the other that swayed me, as I have read neither.<\/p>\n

Nineteen Eighty Four <\/em>by George Orwell
\nI should read this so I can irritate the crap out of intellectuals by saying George was right but 30 years too early and inverted.<\/p>\n

His Dark Materials<\/em> series by Philip Pullman
\nI have not read this but I have a son and I want to read everything he reads so if I don\u2019t read this one I bet I\u2019ll end up reading something like it. In my day it was The Chronicles of Prydain<\/em>, FYI.<\/p>\n

Great Expectations <\/em>by Charles Dickens
\nCorrect me if I\u2019m wrong, but Chaz was a serialist, right? So reading him\u2019s more about the parts than the sum, right? I mean, if you\u2019re that kinda critic. And I am. And if one was going to read a lot of Chuckle\u2019s oevre, that\u2019s a lot of parts to get to. Me, I\u2019m satisfied with my Dickens parts. Such larks!<\/p>\n

Little Women <\/em>by Louisa M Alcott
\nI have not read this book but it would be the kind of weird thing where I\u2019m awake at 2 am and for no good reason watching clips from the Winona Ryder film adaptation. And if that happens I\u2019ll tweet about it.<\/p>\n

Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles <\/em>by Thomas Hardy
\nI\u2019ve read some Hardy, easily the most readable of all the boring dead old white dude novelists. Kind of a stereotypical British version of Gabrial Garcia Marquez, in terms of readability, in my opinion. When I\u2019m old, and don\u2019t have a good memory, I will keep Hardy and Marquez by my bedside, and just read random passages until I fall asleep.<\/p>\n

Catch 22 <\/em>by Joseph Heller
\nI did a character sketch from this book, in highschool, which included taking all my clothes off (down to skivvies) in front of the whole class.<\/p>\n

The Complete Works of Shakespeare by
\nI\u2019ve read my fair share of Bill S. Not the boring ones. Not Troll boy and Crescent Wrench. Not the duller histories. Also, my vote on the \u201cits not supposed to be read, it\u2019s supposed to be performed\u201d debate is: it\u2019s not supposed to be fun, it\u2019s supposed to enact procreation, but that doesn\u2019t stop most of us.<\/p>\n

Rebecca <\/em>by Daphne Du Maurier
\nIn another review I said I don\u2019t know what Jane Eyre<\/em> is even about. Let\u2019s go up a notch: I have not even heard of this book.<\/p>\n

The Hobbit <\/em>by JRR Tolkien
\nI\u2019m going to be real honest here: the book is fine, whatever, but whenever I have occasion to think \u201cBilbo Baggins\u201d I start to giggle. It\u2019s a long story, involving memes, 4chan, my brother-in-law-n-law, and the Big Bang Theory, and I don\u2019t even like two out of those four things.<\/p>\n

Birdsong <\/em>by Sebastian Faulk
\nThis book had such a huge impact on me, in a manner of speaking, that manner being I\u2019d never heard of it so who knows how many paths it never took me down to wind up here.<\/p>\n

Catcher in the Rye <\/em>by JD Salinger
\nMy god who hasn\u2019t read this book. No review necessary.<\/p>\n

The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife <\/em>by Audrey Niffenegger
\nA girl I knew once thought this was great and asked me to read it, so I did, and I did not care for it. And in a weird twist this was one of the few girls\u2019 I didn\u2019t have a crush on, so I told her what I thought. Probably why we\u2019re not friends anymore. One of the reasons.<\/p>\n

Middlemarch <\/em>by George Eliot
\nAlthough I have not read this book, I loathe someone who has. Not anyone, just this one person in particular.<\/p>\n

Gone With The Wind <\/em>by Margaret Mitchell
\nSomeday I\u2019m going to read this novel just for the novelty of having read it, and yes, I see the pun there.<\/p>\n

The Great Gatsby <\/em>by F Scott Fitzgerald
\nI will admit I didn\u2019t really get it. I mean it was okay but I\u2019m too na\u00efve to get all the references to class and whatnot.<\/p>\n

Bleak House <\/em>by Charles Dickens
\nIn another review I said I was one and done with Great Expectations<\/em>. But I have to admit, this title is interesting. I wish Stephen King had written a book with this title.<\/p>\n

War and Peace <\/em>by Leo Tolstoy
\nToo long. Seriously. There\u2019s too much bad TV to be seduced by these days.<\/p>\n

The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy <\/em>by Douglas Adams
\nSeminal.<\/p>\n

Brideshead Revisited <\/em>by Evelyn Waugh
\nMyself, I\u2019ve never visited Brideshead, so I don\u2019t know how to revist it. Wait, is that a virginity reference. Was Madonna channelling Waugh?<\/p>\n

Crime and Punishment <\/em>by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\nSomeday I\u2019ll dip my toes in this book if only because someone for whom I have a lot of respect called this, more or less, one of the few \u201cnovels\u201d he has any kind of time for.<\/p>\n

Grapes of Wrath <\/em>by John Steinbeck
\nDid you know I\u2019m part Okie? Everybody thinks Steinbeck is the bees knees but those of us he used for his little screed don\u2019t appreciate it too much.<\/p>\n

Alice in Wonderland <\/em>by Lewis Carroll
\nWhen pedophiles take LSD. Don\u2019t laugh at that.<\/p>\n

The Wind in the Willows <\/em>by Kenneth Grahame
\nMy cousin really loved the Redwall<\/em> series when he was a kid. This novel is the adult version, right? I\u2019d be able to argue why if I\u2019d ever read it.<\/p>\n

Anna Karenina <\/em>by Leo Tolstoy
\nYes, I\u2019ll read books if a girl I have a crush on is reading it. But not this one, even though, at the time, I was so full of hormones I\u2019m pretty sure I glowed in the dark.<\/p>\n

David Copperfield <\/em>by Charles Dickens
\nI haven\u2019t read this book, but I did see David Copperfiled perform at a small theater in Las Vegas. There was a Q&A afterwards and he answered my question! I don\u2019t remember what it was.<\/p>\n

Chronicles of Narnia <\/em>seriesby CS Lewis
\nI\u2019ll admit it, I have this bias against a) knowing what a book is \u201cabout\u201d before I even read it, and b) Jesus stories. Not that I have anything against Jesus. I like main characters who are assholes (that\u2019s not blasphemy, but respect i.e. John 2:13-16)\/.<\/p>\n

Emma <\/em>by Jane Austen
\nI sort of ruined this review by having already mentioned Clueless<\/em> in my Pride and Prejudice<\/em> review. Having read neither, that probably doesn\u2019t even matter.<\/p>\n

Persuasion <\/em>by Jane Austen
\nSigh. How many books has Jane Austen written? Hint: all the ones I haven\u2019t read.<\/p>\n

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe <\/em>by CS Lewis
\nSee above re: The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>. I have not read the series at all, so I have not read this one especially.<\/p>\n

The Kite Runner <\/em>by Khaled Hosseini
\nI see this on people\u2019s book shelves and not only do I not remember what they tell me about it, I don\u2019t even remember if I asked them.<\/p>\n

Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin <\/em>by Louis De Bernieres
\nI read his trilogy, the one that starts with The War of Don Emmanuel\u2019s Nether Parts<\/em>. Oh my god those books were amazing. I should review those. And The Milagro Beanfield War triology.<\/p>\n

Memoirs of a Geisha <\/em>by Arthur Golden
\nThere was a big hulabaloo about this book a while ago so I bet could find a free version on some e-book pirate site if I wanted to. Maybe someday.<\/p>\n

Winnie the Pooh <\/em>by AA Milne
\nI have a two year old. I\u2019ve read umpteen tiny book about Winnie the Pooh, if not the OG tome. I also have not seen any of the new Star Wars<\/em> movies but they\u2019re everywhere so I feel like I have.<\/p>\n

Animal Farm <\/em>by George Orwell
\nI have not read this. It\u2019s about socialism, right? Or something.<\/p>\n

The Da Vinci Code <\/em>by Dan Brown
\nLike a drug, this book fools you into thinking you\u2019re reading something. Kind of like falling down a staircase fools you into thinking you\u2019re going somewhere.<\/p>\n

One Hundred Years of Solitude <\/em>by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\nIn another review I said Thomas Hardy was kind of a stereotypical British version of Gabrial Garcia Marquez, so I\u2019ll double-dpwn here and say GGM is sort of a wealthy Mexican version of Hardy. I mean I haven\u2019t read this one but I read Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em>, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

A Prayer for Owen Meaney <\/em>by John Irving
\nI have not read this. But Wikipedia tells me Irving has confirmed it was inspired by Grass\u2019s nove The Tin Drum<\/em>. Say, did you know Twisted Sister\u2019s \u201cWe\u2019re Not Going to Take It\u201d was insipred by \u201cOh Come, All Ye Faithful\u201d?<\/p>\n

The Woman in White <\/em>by Wilkie Collins
\nHave not read it. Is it about a ghost? A bride? A ghost bride? Now I don\u2019t want to read it just in case it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Anne of Green Gables <\/em>by LM Montgomery
\nNot only have I not read this book, if I was at a pub trivia night, and the question \u201cwho wrote Anne of Green Gables<\/em>?\u201d came up, I would drunkley buly my teammates into answering \u201cThomas Hardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far From The Madding Crowd <\/em>by Thomas Hardy
\nAfter I got done with this one I thought \u201cWell, that was no fun. I wonder what else this Hardy guy has up his sleeve.\u201d So I read Jude the Obscure<\/em>. Holy crap, dude, take some welbutrin.<\/p>\n

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/em>by Margaret Atwood
\nI didn\u2019t read this, but I saw the old movie version before the cool HBO version came out. And I did read something else by Atwood, Cat\u2019s Eye<\/em>, maybe, I\u2019m not sure. It was for grad school. I didn\u2019t do well in grad school.<\/p>\n

Lord of the Flies <\/em>by William Golding
\nI\u2019m going to read this someday just so I can write a steampunk Lego Marvel-SuperHeroes Muppet noir parody of it. I am serious<\/p>\n

Atonement <\/em>by Ian McEwan
\nI think I\u2019d like to read this one. I have a friend who recommends it. I thought I was reading it when I started reading Notes on a Scandal<\/em>, but that\u2019s because I\u2019m bad with titles.<\/p>\n

Life of Pi <\/em>by Yann Martel
\nSpoiler: he lost me when he found that \u201cisland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dune <\/em>by Frank Herbert
\nWhoa. Way better than I thought it would be. I should read more. Did you know his kid wrote a book too? It was kind of weird. Fun, but weird.<\/p>\n

Cold Comfort Farm <\/em>by Stella Gibbons
\nI haven\u2019t heard of this one. But once I made a \u201cmeme\u201d about a gibbon with lupus. I have no idea why.<\/p>\n

Sense and Sensibility <\/em>by Jane Austen
\nFor the love of god, how many Jane Austen books that I haven\u2019t read am I going to review? Maybe I should just $%^&* read one.<\/p>\n

A Suitable Boy <\/em>by Vikram Seth
\nI might be wrong about this, but I think someone gave me this book, and the age count was, like, \u201cI don\u2019t even read books I like that are this long.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Shadow of the Wind <\/em>by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
\nReally good. And what\u2019s ironic about that \u201cnano\u201d review right there is how woefully terse it is compared to Zafon\u2019s engaging, fluid style.<\/p>\n

A Tale Of Two Cities <\/em>by Charles Dickens
\nThis is how immature I am: I haven\u2019t read this book, but every time I see the title, I do the spoonerism thing to make it naughty. What if I ended up reading the whole book this way? \u201cIt was the test if wimes, it was the terst of bimes\u2026\u201d Oh brother.<\/p>\n

Brave New World <\/em>by Aldous Huxley
\nOne of my dad\u2019s favorites, so I\u2019ll read it this someday.<\/p>\n

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time <\/em>by Mark Haddon
\nA Spot of Bother was better.<\/p>\n

Love In The Time Of Cholera <\/em>by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\nStill can\u2019t believe a human being wrote this.<\/p>\n

Of Mice and Men <\/em>by John Steinbeck
\nYou know, if I could find someone who was as plain as sparse as Hemigway, as plain as Steinbeck, and as devious as Faulkner, I\u2019d eat it up like ice-cream.<\/p>\n

Lolita <\/em>by Vladimir Nabokov
\nAnd The Collector<\/em> by John Fowles and The Collector Collector<\/em> by Tibor Fischer. Go pervs go.<\/p>\n

The Secret History <\/em>by Donna Tartt
\nIn another review I mentioned a guy who I said likes Dostoyevsky. He used to love<\/em> this book. I think cause of the Greek stuff.<\/p>\n

The Lovely Bones <\/em>by Alice Sebold
\nThis is one of those books that I think might be good but then I reasd the inside flap of the dust jacket and the description makes me want to play video games instead.<\/p>\n

Count of Monte Cristo <\/em>by Alexandre Dumas
\nI think I\u2019ll read this one someday. I like sword fights. Dumas is the guy who\u2019s always writing abour sword fights, right? And I bet it\u2019s, like, free to download and such.<\/p>\n

On The Road <\/em>by Jack Kerouac
\nI like gimmicks as much as the next person. But too many finger-snapping poetry-slammist who want to secretly hump Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s corpse have turned me off of writings Kerouacian.<\/p>\n

Jude the Obscure <\/em>by Thomas Hardy
\nHoly crap was this depressing. I mean I really really liked it. I am in therapy now, and take drugs. That\u2019s just a coincidence. Listen, if you read one Hardy, read this one.<\/p>\n

Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary <\/em>by Helen Fielding
\nI know people are always saying that the book is better than movie. What if you\u2019ve never consumed either? Then which one? Based on Pride and Prejudice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Midnight\u2019s Children <\/em>by Salman Rushdie
\nI tried to read The Satanaic Verses<\/em> and it just felt just too unnecessarily complex in sentence structure, like David Foster Wallace with olive skin. So I\u2019m probably not going to try this one.<\/p>\n

Moby Dick <\/em>by Herman Melville
\nI don\u2019t need a manual on whale hunting. Abridge the good bits, maybe I\u2019ll look \u2018em over.<\/p>\n

Oliver Twist <\/em>by Charles Dickens
\nYet another Dickens novel I have not read. Book club idea: books on tape that you only listen to while going on epic walks across London.<\/p>\n

Dracula <\/em>by Bram Stoker
\nI tried to read this when I went through my Vampire phase, which unfortunetly coincided with my \u201ckeep it real\u201d phase (like eating burgers with no condiments only drinking Coca-Cola. It was a dumb phase.) I was too young for the language. Now I\u2019m too old. Ah, life.<\/p>\n

The Secret Garden <\/em>by Frances Hodgson Burnett
\nWhen an adult told the child me that this was right up my alley, since I like secrets and mazes and stuff, it only took about ten pages before I realized I couldn\u2019t really trust adultsd anymore. A coming of age story.<\/p>\n

Notes From A Small Island <\/em>by Bill Bryson
\nThis Bryson guy, he\u2019s a professional writer. It\u2019s his job. He shows up at the office and writes books and then goes home. I feel like the one I did read by him, although it wasn\u2019t this one, sufficed.<\/p>\n

Ulysses <\/em>by James Joyce
\nI am still, to this day, convinced that James Joyce secretly hated everyone who thought \u201cwriting\u201d was \u201cart\u201d and wrote this to mess with people heads. And when that didn\u2019t work, he wrote Finnegan\u2019s Wake<\/em>. And when that didn\u2019t work, he died of being Irish in the wrong century.<\/p>\n

The Bell Jar <\/em>by Sylvia Plath
\nGot to admit, there\u2019s a sneaky part of me that wants to stop taking my medication, wait for the suicidal thoughts, then read this. A sneaky, stupid, self-indulgent part of me.<\/p>\n

Swallows and Amazons <\/em>by Arthur Ransome
\nSounds like an adult film title as written by someone who thinks they get the joke of adult film titles but doesn\u2019t. Sorry if that\u2019s irreverant. Have never even heard of this novel.<\/p>\n

Germinal <\/em>by Emile Zola
\nMyabe I\u2019ll read this just to be able to use the word \u201cgerminal\u201d in sentence, correctly. Tell me if this is even close \u201cHe put his germinal hand on her shoulder and she winced, insid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanity Fair <\/em>by William Makepeace Thackeray
\nWhile I have not read this, I have read books by the food critic who writes for a magazine I often get confused with the one named after it.<\/p>\n

Possession <\/em>by AS Byatt
\nHaunting. Okay I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s right. I read this so long ago, all I remember is that it was one of those \u201cmultiple literary styles\u201d novels. Or, I was reading another book at the same time that was.<\/p>\n

A Christmas Carol <\/em>by Charles Dickens
\nHad to read this a lot as a kid, in school. Now I wonder what they were trying to teach us. This story is all over the place. I mean, do people even \u2018read\u2019 the book anymore? Just go watch the Bill Murray version.<\/p>\n

Cloud Atlas <\/em>by David Mitchell
\nStumbled across this one by accident, found it aweseome, read lots of his other stuff, also awesome.<\/p>\n

The Color Purple <\/em>by Alice Walker
\nSaw the movie. Made me really mad and sad. So did Fried Green Tomatoes<\/em>. That one I read though.<\/p>\n

The Remains of the Day <\/em>by Kazuo Ishiguro
\nI may have read this. I may have seen the movie. I may have had a sandwhich yesterday. I can never be sure about things. Anyway. did pmen just straight ask women to marry them, no fuss no muss?<\/p>\n

Madame Bovary <\/em>by Gustave Flaubert
\nAlthough I took French, I never took enough French that I had to read this book. Not sure why else people read it, unless it\u2019s, I don\u2019t know, good, or whatever.<\/p>\n

A Fine Balance <\/em>by Rohinton Mistry
\nWow this look like a long, complicated book with lots of characters and such. An Indian Tolstoy, maybe. I\u2019ve never read Tolstoy, either.<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s Web <\/em>by EB White
\nRead it when I was a kid. Who hasn\u2019t. As I said in other reviews, what where they trying to teach us back in the day.<\/p>\n

The Five People You Meet In Heaven <\/em>by Mitch Albom
\nIf someone told me those five people are Dopey, Happy, Sneezy, Lucky, and Smelly, I would read this book.<\/p>\n

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes <\/em>by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
\nI haven\u2019t read all of them, but I watched the brilliant TV series, and I did read one of those \u201cwriting as Sir ACD\u201d books, and I liked it.<\/p>\n

The Faraway Tree Collection <\/em>by Enid Blyton
\nI have not read this book but I sure do like that title. That\u2019s the kind of title I would come up with. Yes I\u2019m tooting my own horn. (Story title idea: \u2018A Collection of Self-Tooting Horns\u2019 \u2026 okay nevermind).<\/p>\n

Heart of Darkness <\/em>by Joseph Conrad
\nI started reading this because \u201cIt\u2019s short! Piece of cake!\u201d But damn, it took forever. Kind of how long it took to get from the novel\u2019s publication to the movie Rushmore<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Little Prince <\/em>by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
\nIs this a whole book, or a kids\u2019 book with pictures and stuff?<\/p>\n

The Wasp Factory <\/em>by Iain Banks
\nEverytime I try to remember if I\u2019ve read this book, I remember parts of it, then I re-read it to see if I was right, and I was, and then a few years later I go through this little pageant again.<\/p>\n

Watership Down <\/em>by Richard Adams
\nIs this a sequel to The Wind in the Willows<\/em>? All I remember is that scene in the movie, which I saw on TV when I was a kid, where the guy was hanging from the wheel and turning it and then he died. Oops, sorry, spoiler.<\/p>\n

A Confederacy of Dunces <\/em>by John Kennedy Toole
\nNot only is this book a heck of a lot of fun, and well written, and when you\u2019re done reading it you can tell your friends you read a \u201cpicaresque,\u201d but someone I really don\u2019t like hated this book, so it\u2019s even better now.<\/p>\n

A Town Like Alice <\/em>by Nevil Shute
\nThis has an intriguingh title. One of my all time favorite stories is \u2018A Rose for Emily.\u2019 If this is a whole novel like that, I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n

The Three Musketeers <\/em>by Alexandre Dumas
\nNever read it, but love that dudes named after guns are more famous for their swords. Betcha Dumas didn\u2019t plan for that.<\/p>\n

Hamlet <\/em>by William Shakespeare
\nBill contemplates suicide. I wonder what was going on in his life that he had to hash this one out in his longest play (note to self: check to see if that\u2019s true). I\u2019ll bet it was existential angst. It\u2019s the kind of uncle that would sleep with anyone\u2019s mother, let alone yours.<\/p>\n

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory <\/em>by Roald Dahl
\nThe other day I read a review of Ready Player One<\/em> that said it was basically this novel, modernized. Well, heck. I didn\u2019t much like Ready Player One<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Les Miserables <\/em>by Victor Hugo
\nRead the book, drove halfway across the country to see the musical with a girl who I thought loved me, drove halfway across town to see the musical with a girl who loved me enough to marry me. I liked the Napolean parts; they weren\u2019t in the musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This list comes from the BBC, in 2003, of England\u2019s most loved novels. I don\u2019t know why I decided to review them all. I think this was sent to me as some kind of list to check-off, to see how literate I am. Results: not very. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Have not read … <\/p>\n

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