There actually is a big explosion in Jane Eyre. Kind of. Seriously.
I think you're getting The Lovely Bones confused with Sebold's memoir.
You said Nobody could make you, so here I am: I think you should reconsider Gatsby. I really think you should. I said this on Arleen's blog: everyone is very fond of saying the Great American Novel has never been written, but AFAIC we've got two: Huck Finn, and Gatsby. It's what it is to be American.
Regarding Ulysses, you are such a freaking liar. No one has ever read Ulysses. We know this, because he put some gibberish in there, just to see if anyone would notice, and no one ever did.
I heart Gatsby. It's such a beautifully written book. My dad has read the Joyce books and periodically nags me to. I will, someday...
Awright awreddy, I'll have at Gatsby again. I have a special super-duper revised edition incorproating all of Fitzgerald's secret coded messages to Zelda and his decoder and secret signal mirror besides.
How could you only read one chapter of 100 Years of Solitude? I just couldn't stop. Fucking magical.
Damn that list was ling. I almost fell asleep reading it, it was like reading Tenry David Thoreau.
revised edition
I'm against revised editions.
I'm reading 1984 now and I think it's great!
I tried to do this list, but's it way too fucking girlie. Read a paragraph of a Bronte and yer done with about a quarter of the books on the list.
Aside from Joyce and Steinbeck, where are the giants of literature? Where's Hemingway? Bukowski? Russo? Leonard? Ford? Keroauc? O'Connor? McCarthy? Burroughs? Pynchon? Where is the interesting stuff? this list is like listening to a smooth Jazz radio station.
Gripe gripe gripe.
That said One Hundred Years of Solitude was great. Read it three times. I didn't make it through Ulysses but I read Portrait of the artist as a young man twice. I read all the Tolkien stuff a half dozen times by the time I was 18 and once in the last five years, just to be more critical.
And Archer is spot on with Ayn Rand. I started it when I was thirteen but turned fourteen and immediately lost interest. There was, after all masturbating to do.
LOL, *great* commentary, even for someone who doesn't care for Steinbeck so much 
And I couldn't agree more with Throck. And I'd add Faulkner, Roth, (the other) Ford, Maugham, Eliot, Bellow, Capote...
Diana Gabaldon. OUTLANDER!!!
I was obsessed with Jamie and Claire. When I was 12. And working at Walmart.
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