May 30, 2008

Tag Hueueuer!

As Ludwig, who is the Tagger puts it, "In one stone, two mangoes!"
Two tags.

Offspinner Tag (Explanation for joke follows. Keep reading.)

Zarra complicated, it is. Listen carefully.

1. Pick up the nearest book.

Hmmm. There are two books on this table. Compositions of Mudduswami Dikshitar by Dr. T.K. Govinda Rao and The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Hmmm. After much thought, (taking into consideration factors of complications of Devanagari script on blog) I have decided that the 'nearest' book is The White Tiger. Read it, I say. Great fun, it is. It is. It really is.

2. Open to page 123.
Opened.

3. Find the fifth sentence.
Found.

4. Post the next three sentences.
'Ha! Don't lie to me, sister-fucker. I know you're completely lost here.'

5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
As mentioned earlier, Ludwig tagged the world, and the world includes me. I, in turn, tag the world. I tag Whoever wants to be tagged. In other words, I Tag Hueueuer!


The Doosra (Now you get the joke? Huh? Huh?)

Again, complicated. Why don't they have 'Tell us about the 5 times you peed in your pants' anymore?

The following is a list of books, "most of them sitting unread in people's bookshelves to make them look smarter". The rules are: bold the ones that you have read, underline the ones you have read in school, italicize the ones you have started but didn't finish.

Um, we never read any books in school. We got five marks for writing our address without spelling mistakes!

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi: a novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice
16. Jane Eyre (Related to Jagannath Iyer?)
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs and Steel
20. War and Peace
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assasin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway
28. Great Expectations
29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
37. The Canterbury Tales
38. The Historian: A Novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault's Pendulum
44. Middlemarch
45. Frankenstein
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. Anansi Boys
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible
53. 1984
54. Angels and Demons
55. Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility (!)
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels
65. Les Miserables
66. The Correction
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved
82. Slaughter House- five
83. The Scarlett Letter
84. Eats, Shoots and Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake
87. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88. Cloud Atlas
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. On the Road
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Values
98. The Aeneid
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity's Rainbow
101. The Hobbit
102. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers

Man, there's an awful lot on that list that I've never even heard of! And I always thought that a list of books "sitting unread in people's bookshelves to make them look smarter" would contain some arbit poetry nonsense also!

As earlier, Ludwig tagged the world, and the world includes me. I, in turn, tag the world. I tag Whoever wants to be tagged. In other words, I Tag Hueueuer! (I'd specifically like to know missquoted's list - because she claims to have finished every book she's ever started, but rest of the world is equally Tagged. Taggered. Taggerered.)

7 replies:

Anonymous said...

Nice! Although, in tag #1, I am envious that you got away with 3 short sentences! No long lines that snake down the page with no full stop in sight.

aandthirtyeights said...

@Lekhni
The new Rushdie was away by the bedm unfortunately. The relevant lines on page 123 were quite funny!

woenvu said...

i was going to do this tag, but decided not to embarrass myself with the 100 book list. i've read. um. 8 of them. though tried to start around 20 more. hehe. i shall maintain an appearance of being literate. :)

Anonymous said...

The blogger didn't let you underline, no? :)

aandthirtyeights said...

@bobo
When my count of books on the list reached 20, I decided it wasn't embarrassing to do the tag!

@anon
eh?

ad libber said...

I will take up the tag, mostly because I am dying to know what the first tag will end up in.
The second one takes guts. I am still counting :P

aandthirtyeights said...

I see you did have the guts finally!