Books are a narcotic.*

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
3b) Strike books you HATE
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.

Ganked from lienne, although fallen_iceangel also had it, except #3 read "hate", thus my addennum 3b.

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Links of the Day:
Great novels' quotes
Le Petit Prince, in French or Spanish, here and there's songs about it too.


* Franz Kafka

This global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.*

From de Graaf, H.J., C.J.M. Musters, W.J. ter Keurs. (1996) Sustainable development: looking for new strategies. Ecological Economics 16: 205-216

...of changes in our physical environment: the facts have changed or, to be more precise, the facts as we perceive them have changed. [...] However, the difference between "human caused" and "non-human caused" is not always clear and not crucial when trying to deal with preventing problems in the first place.

Take that Global Warming is Just a Phase bastards and suck on it. It doesn't really matter who's fault it is, just as long as we don't drown.

PS: Book list meme on previous post, if you find that more entertaining. Sucks to be in different time zones, yo.

ETA: Am feeling absolutely miserable. ( Read more... )

ETA 2: I'd meant to post this in the morning, when I first read it, but duuuude, xkcd rules everything, always. Don't get the reference? Watch the Discovery Channel Commercial of Win: The World Is Just Awesome. I loves it, boomdeyada :)


* Anon. or uncredited