#marquez/kennedy thesis

[usermarquez]

john f. kennedy, 1946 x marc márquez, 2023

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BBC 100 books tag

To answer @papofglencoe​‘s question about the weird nature of this list (particularly the redundancy of authors as well as Shakespeare/Hamlet and Narnia/TLTWATW), this list was voted by the public, per the BBC’s site:

In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

Below and on the next page are all the results from number 1 to 100 in numerical order!

BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the ones you’ve read (and italicize the ones on your reading list).

I’m changing the rules because the social scientist in me wants more input, and because there were 11 books on this list I’ve never even heard of.

* = haven’t read the book but saw the movie ? = never heard of this book b + i = read part but never finished

And if I can rec one book on this list, it’s The Secret History.

Thanks @thegirlfromoverthepond and @papofglencoe​ for the tag.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible (people have bolded this but I bet you haven’t read all of it) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare (ditto what I said re: Bible) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk  ? Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis  *Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ? Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood  Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel  Dune - Frank Herbert *Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ? The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ? A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov  The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville *Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ? Ulysses - James Joyce (my college bf wrote his thesis on this, which I had to read twice, so I’m counting it) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ? Germinal - Emile Zola ? *Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt ? A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell *The Color Purple - Alice Walker *The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ? Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ? Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ? Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ? *The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I’m going to tag @sunsetsrmydreams​ and any of my followers who have actually read this whole post.

[usermarquez]

I’d love to know more about your JFK Marc thesis. I find it fascinating . I mainly think of JFK and his “alleged” affair with Marilyn Monroe and the investigation of his assassination (I’ve been to that area before and there’s a small museum)

SJSJSJS JUST SAW THIS SORRY 😭😭 so there’s no thesis except my brain was like…. youngest us president jfk = youngest world champion marc and now i’m trying to find as many parallels as i can </3

men get reincarnated and so are their dogs. in every lifetime they would still find each other…..

i used to have a kennedy hyperfixation when i was 12…. forgot it….. and then picked it up again last year when i saw pictures of jfk and rfk and got me thinking…… wow they’re kinda marc and alex coded…. likeee craazy do people see the vision…..

what do u mean this is not them !!!

^ this is literally alex with julia if they were rich and julia was a terrible person

one of my fav things is learning that jfk was a bad student??? the same man who made like one of the best speeches in the 20th century (ask not what your country can do yada yada) actually used to get a C on his public speaking class during high school ????? giving marc flopping his way through 125cc before unleashing his insanity to the world

ALSOOO jfk hurt his back during the war and suffered the effects for years…. had to have surgery… but even after he still suffer bc it would flare up now and then….. it reminds me of marc hurting his arm had to have surgery and suffering for years because of it…..

also the marilyn affair…. i actually have no opinions except it reminds me even tho i actually find jfk interesting i still hate men… *sighs*

ALSO omg THE ASSASINATION SITE sooo cool……. i wanted to go when i was doing exchange in us but the ticket was sooo expensive and i only had like $500 for like four months bc scholarship money…… BUT i went to his presidential library in boston and i was like ooh aahing the whole time it was fun felt like full circle from back when i was 12…. ALSO think if i’m a white woman in the 60s america i would probably weep and build a whole kennedy shrine in my house…….. BSSNSNS my friends are already calling me a kennedy groupie……

[usermarquez]

someone asked me why i like jfk and rfk so much and i’m like “you know” *waves hands around* but the truth is they just kinda reminded me of marc and alex so…..

[usermarquez]

mini brain rot.... look away pls but this and alex/marc 2020 when marc was stuck home bc of his injury and alex had to navigate honda by himself despite it being their dream (sharing a team)