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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 01:04pm on 05/09/2005
If you'd like to join in this week's edition of Humiliation, please reply to this post with the name of a children's or young adult book you have never read.

If you'd like to know how the game is played, I've posted rules and helpful hints here.

House rules reminder:
  • The theme is Children's and Young Adult Literature.
  • If you don't think a book qualifies, explain why. My decision on whether or not a book counts is final. It's only a game.
  • You may not enter with The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or Hamlet. They were the top three in the last game I hosted.
  • Prize(s) will be awarded, if the winner(s) are willing.
  • You do not have to be on my friendslist to play. That's why this is a public post.


Entries close around 1 pm (in the UK) this Wednesday, September 5th when voting will begin.

It's more fun if you all choose different books, but you're allowed to compete with the same book as someone else if you really want to.
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posted by [identity profile] carmen-sandiego.livejournal.com at 12:11pm on 05/09/2005
Ooh, me! *waves hand*

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Yes, I admit it. It's part of the reason I still haven't seen the new movie, or the old one - I just can't do it without having read the book first!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 12:34pm on 05/09/2005
Your comment is proof you haven't read the book: it's called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
 
posted by [identity profile] vschanoes.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 05/09/2005
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It just always looked really, really boring to me.
 
posted by [identity profile] aerinah.livejournal.com at 02:07pm on 05/09/2005
It's actually an awesome book. I HATE plants and gardens and outdoors and growing things, and I LOVE this book. Please give it a try someday.
 
posted by [identity profile] square-egg.livejournal.com at 12:17pm on 05/09/2005
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. I've heard about it at great length, including the spoilers, bet never cracked it open in my life!
 
posted by [identity profile] of-remedye.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 05/09/2005
oh, you should read it ...
 
posted by [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com at 12:18pm on 05/09/2005
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
 
posted by [identity profile] momiji.livejournal.com at 12:33pm on 05/09/2005
The Wizard of Oz. Or any oz books for that matter :)
 
posted by [identity profile] of-remedye.livejournal.com at 07:21pm on 05/09/2005
read them.
 
posted by [identity profile] aquitaineq.livejournal.com at 12:47pm on 05/09/2005
Anne of Green Gables, never read it, but say the tv version.
 
posted by [identity profile] of-remedye.livejournal.com at 07:21pm on 05/09/2005
read it.
 
posted by [identity profile] tammabanana.livejournal.com at 12:53pm on 05/09/2005
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie. Er... that is the one of that big series that everybody's supposed to read, isn't it? I'm just going by the fact that they named the TV show after it... I haven't read any of them. ;P
 
posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 02:06am on 06/09/2005
Ooh! Please ma'am, I know!

Actually, I probably don't. But that's about the third in the series:
Little House in the Big Woods
Some preposition The Banks of Plum Creek
Little House on the Prairie
Some preposition The Shores of Silver Lake
Farmer Boy
And a couple of others. Contrary to what one might expect, On Golden pond in not one of them.
 
posted by [identity profile] griffinick.livejournal.com at 01:15pm on 05/09/2005
I admit it...

Harry Potter. Any of them.

It is considered children's/young adult, isn't it?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:36pm on 05/09/2005
Yes, it certainly does count as a young adult novel. Would you like to compete with the first HP book, or one of the others? I suspect the largest number of people have read the first one, although I could be wrong.

Also, [livejournal.com profile] lazyknight has requested to compete in absentia with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorceror's Stone, but there's no reason why you can't also.
 
posted by [identity profile] tisiphone.livejournal.com at 01:28pm on 05/09/2005
Charlotte's Web. I know what happens in the end, and I don't want to read it.
 
posted by [identity profile] pittenweem.livejournal.com at 01:33pm on 05/09/2005
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. I have read Alice in Wonderland but never the second book.
 
posted by [identity profile] snowdrifted.livejournal.com at 01:36pm on 05/09/2005
Little Women.
 
posted by [identity profile] haggisthesecond.livejournal.com at 01:54pm on 05/09/2005
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, by Maurice Sendak. It always looked too scary.
 
posted by [identity profile] evieb.livejournal.com at 02:04pm on 05/09/2005
Hmmm ... I don't thing HP will be beaten.

Alice in Wonderland
 
posted by [identity profile] aerinah.livejournal.com at 02:06pm on 05/09/2005
Hmm. I guess I'll go with Beatrix Potter. I haven't read anything by her.

If I have to choose just one book, let's make it The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
 
posted by [identity profile] lady-octavia.livejournal.com at 02:16pm on 05/09/2005
Treasure Island, I started it once but never finished it. I wonder if it coulud ever live up to the Muppet version?
 
posted by [identity profile] pittenweem.livejournal.com at 02:26pm on 05/09/2005
That's just shocking!
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posted by [personal profile] bob at 02:36pm on 05/09/2005
the book with a lion, a witch, a wardrobe and four seemingly annoying kids.
 
posted by [identity profile] vschanoes.livejournal.com at 06:12pm on 05/09/2005
God, yes. I dutifully read all the damn Narnia books when I was a child and was bored to tears by every single one.
 
posted by [identity profile] andromakie.livejournal.com at 03:40pm on 05/09/2005
Treasure Island. I keep meaning to.
 
posted by [identity profile] retsuko.livejournal.com at 03:50pm on 05/09/2005
Tuck Everlasting. ^-^;;
 
posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 04:12pm on 05/09/2005
Had to think really hard about this one, as my dad's a librarian who, when I was a kid, worked in a children's literature collection ;)

Watership Down. It always seemed too depressing.
 
posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 04:12pm on 05/09/2005
James and the Giant Peach
 
posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 04:13pm on 05/09/2005
not to mention anything by FHB. I woke up planning on using The Secret Garden, but it's already there -- and I just can't bring myself to use A Little Princess!
 
posted by [identity profile] angevin2.livejournal.com at 04:30pm on 05/09/2005
Bridge to Terabithia -- I don't remember who wrote it. I occasionally think I'm the only decently-read person of my generation for whom it doesn't figure into memories of major book-induced childhood trauma.
 
posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 04:50pm on 05/09/2005
I think I've *heard* of it ...
 
posted by [identity profile] verlaine.livejournal.com at 04:35pm on 05/09/2005
Pollyanna
 
posted by [identity profile] morganlf.livejournal.com at 05:41pm on 05/09/2005
Black Beauty. I never understood why it was considered a classic...it's a horse!!!
 
posted by [identity profile] of-remedye.livejournal.com at 07:18pm on 05/09/2005
it's good ...
 
posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 06:10pm on 05/09/2005
Brer Rabbit (had to google the spelling). I have no idea what the books are actually called.
 
posted by [identity profile] vschanoes.livejournal.com at 06:13pm on 05/09/2005
Well, it's folklore. Do folklore and fairy tales count?
 
posted by [identity profile] henchminion.livejournal.com at 06:55pm on 05/09/2005
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander.
 
posted by [identity profile] of-remedye.livejournal.com at 07:17pm on 05/09/2005
whoah, that is a great book ...
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