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2013-02-26, 2:51 p.m.:
My Classics list (for life!): OK, for The Classics Club, I will shorten this to 50 books--fifty classics I will read in the next 5 years. This list is the raw data. This list represents a lifetime of classics reading! But, dammit, I refuse to sacrifice my lowbrow genre reading for any old classics, no matter how classic they might be. I'm just gonna read like a house on fire. I may have to give up the bottom 20% of my bad-TV viewing. I'm looking at you, 'The Lying Game.' 1. Clarissa
2. Leaves of Grass
3. Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
4. Les Miserables
5. Doctor Zhivago
6. Der Blechtrommel
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz
8. Der Zauberberg
9. Plato�s Republic
10. Herodtotus: The Histories
11. North and South
12. Dante�s Inferno
13. The Divine Comedy
14. Orlando Furioso
15. Moby Dick
16. The Idiot
17. The Possessed
18. Demons
19. Dombey and Son
20. Little Dorrit
21. Nicholas Nickleby
22. The Old Curiosity Shop
23. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
24. Martin Chuzzlewit
25. Our Mutual Friend
26. The Pickwick Papers
27. Hard Times
28. The Man Who Was Thursday
29. Gulliver�s Travels
30. Don Quixote
31. The Three Musketeers
32. Brave New World
33. Gravity�s Rainbow
34. The Odyssey & The Illiad (in new translation)
35. The Woman in White
36. Walden & Civil Disobedience
37. Sherlock Holmes�The Complete Novels and Stories
38. Things Fall Apart
39. Disgrace
40. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
41. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
42. Mrs. Dalloway
43. Invisible Man
44. The Rabbit Series
45. Robinson Crusoe
46. Cry, The Beloved Country
47. An American Tragedy
48. The Phantom of the Opera
49. Crossing to Safety
50. The Hound of the Baskervilles
51. My Name Is Asher Lev
52. Ethan Frome
53. Les Fleurs du Mal
54. The Maltese Falcon
55. How Green Was My Valley
56. The Big Sleep
57. The Portrait of a Lady
58. The Red and the Black
59. The Return of the Native
60. Blood Meridian
61. Suttree
62. Sister Carrie
63. I Capture the Castle
64. The Promise
65. Wives and Daughters
66. Lord Jim
67. We
68. Pnin
69. Pale Fire
70. Speak, Memory
71. A Remembrance of Things Past
72. Ada, or Ardor
73. Boswell�s Dr. Johnson
74. The Alchemist
75. Cold Comfort Farm
76. Nana
77. Little Men
78. 2001: A Space Odyssey
79. Mary Barton
80. Effi Briest
81. Mephisto
82. Doktor Faustus
83. Infinite Jest
84. Light in August
85. The Sea, The Sea
86. Agnes Grey
87. The Adventures of Augie March
88. A High Wind in Jamaica
89. The Waves
90. Absolom, Absolom!
91. Death With Interuptions
92. The Life of Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
93. Hunger
94. The Way We Live Now
95. Beloved
96. The Secret Agent
97. The Overcoat
98. Carmilla
99. Cat�s Eye
100. Irrungen, Wirrungen
101. Uncle Silas
102. The Good Soldier
103. Play It As It Lays
104. Kabale und Liebe
105. The Grass Harp
106. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
107. The Castle of Otranto
108. Paradise
109. Kindred
110. A Room of One�s Own
111. Wild Seed
112. The Red Badge of Courage
113. The Last of the Mohicans
114. Lonesome Dove
115. Horseman, Pass On
116. Out of the Silent Planet
117. The War of the Worlds
118. The Food of the Gods
119. The Mysterious Island
120. The Elementary Particles
121. Whatever
122. Kitchen, N.P. Asleep (Banana Yoshimoto)
123. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
124. Runaway Horses
125. Confessions of a Mask
126. The Sounds of Waves
127. The Temple of Dawn
128. The Decay of the Angel
129. The Master of Go
130. The Gossamer Years
131. Heat and Dust
132. Cloud Atlas
133. The Enchantress of Florence
134. The Satanic Verses
135. Simplicissimus
136. Michael Kohlhaas
137. Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
138. Deutschstunde
139. Glaeserne Bienen
140. Stahlsturm
141. The Virgin in the Garden
142. Babel Tower
143. Ulysses
144. Finnegan�s Wake
145. Darkness at Noon
146. Under the Volcano
147. The Way of All Flesh
148. Henderson the Rain King
149. The Golden Bowl
150. The Wings of the Dove
151. The Ambassadors
152. As I Lay Dying
153. All the King�s Men
154. Point Counter Point
155. Nostromo
156. Pale Fire
157. Zuleikha Dobson
158. The Alexandra Quartet
159. Angel of Repose
160. The Death of the Heart
161. Midnight�s Children
162. The Magnificent Ambersons
163. The Cunning Man
164. Mulengro
165. Citizen of the Galaxy
166. Double Star
167. V.
168. The Little Country
169. Greenmantle
170. On the Beach
171. Memory and Dream
172. Yarrow
173. Someplace To Be Flying
174. Moonheart
175. Love in the Time of Cholera
176. The Savage Detectives
177. 2666
178. The Feast of the Goat
179. The Charterhouse of Parma
180. The Black Sheep
181. Daniel Deronda
182. The Diary of Nobody
183. The Riddle of the Sands
184. Scoop
185. The Pursuit of Love
186. The Plague
187. The Quiet American
188. Herzog
189. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
190. Lanark
191. Waiting for the Barbarians
192. Money
193. LA Confidential
194. Wise Children
195. American Pastoral
196. His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, etc.)
197. The Book of Disquiet
198. A Sentimental Education
199. Children of Gebelawi
200. Confessions of Zeno
201. Decameron
202. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
203. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
204. Essays by Michel Montaigne
205. Gilgamesh
206. The Golden Notebook
207. History
208. Mahabharata
209. The Mathnawi
210. Memoirs of Hadrian
211. Njaals Saga
212. Old Goriot
213. The Orchard
214. Pedro Peramo
215. The Possessed
216. The Ramayama
217. Season of Migration to the North
218. The Recognition of Sakuntala
219. Zorba the Greek
220. Norwegian Wood
221. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
222. Kafka on the Shore
223. 1Q84
224. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
225. The Pillow Book
226. Dark Water
227. Foe
228. The Children�s Book
229. The Bostonions
230. Still Life
231. The Bell
232. Under the Net
233. The Uniform
234. The Nice and the Good
235. The Good Apprentice
236. The Biographer�s Tale
237. Die Stechlin
238. Frau Jenny Treibel
239. Summer
240. The Custom of the Country
241. The House of the Seven Gables
242. Old New York
243. The Known World
244. Lost in the City
245. All Aunt Hagar�s Children
246. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty and Other Essays
247. Have Space Suit, Will Travel
248. Ubik
249. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Erdritch
250. VALIS 0 comments
2013-01-25, 11:13 p.m.:
My 13 favorite musicals: 1. Sweeney Todd
2. Candide
3. A Little Night Music
4. Wicked
5. Les Miserables
6. Evita
7. Miss Saigon
8. Kismet
9. West Side Story
10. Camelot
11. Legally Blonde
12. Oklahoma
13. Carousel Musicals I love and/or am obsessed with but which for some reason or other I just can't put on this list: Runaways
Jesus Christ Superstar
Man of La Mancha
The Music Man
The Book of Mormon 0 comments
2013-01-25, 11:01 p.m.:
"My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in, occasionally leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people�s necessities." George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 0 comments
2013-01-15, 6:37 p.m.:
Sylvia Plath, from her journals: �Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars�to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording�all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...� A woman just doesn't fade into the background; a woman observer/writer/witness is marked. No woman could ever be Nick Carroway. But as Nick Carroway was always how I saw myself. Everyone else saw something else. 0 comments
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