Borrowed from an Individual of Great Resolve

Dec 31, 2009 14:32

New Year's resolutions are, traditionally, for the fat and the naive. HOWEVER, every book one reads and every movie one sees contributes to the well of potentially sparkling party conversation. As such, I Ross Denton M--- Richard Allen O---, being of (mumblemumble) mind and body, do hereby resolve to finally read and watch the following:

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available on gutenberg.org erdbeermund January 5 2010, 15:46:24 UTC
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, etc.
George Eliot: Middlemarch, etc.
F Scott Fitzgerald: Tales of the Jazz Age, The Beautiful and the Damned, This Side of Paradise
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
EM Forster, Howard's End
Gogol: Dead Souls, stories
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd, etc.
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame
Henry James: Turn of the Screw, etc.
Theodor Storm: Immensee, etc.
Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out

Plus, a million other thigns I should read.
I actually have most of the above listed books but it's nice to have them on Gutenberg so I can read them at work...

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other notable gutenberg items Letter A erdbeermund January 5 2010, 16:13:48 UTC
Jane Addams, Aeschylus, Aesop, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, Sherwood Anderson, Susan B Anthony, Aristophanes, Aristotle, St Augustine, Jane Austen

There's also quite a lot of interesting things under Anonymous. I don't foresee myself however reading the Zenith TV operation manual...

I'm sure it'd be fun if there were a random search or something. Some of this stuff is so odd and dull looking though, it's almost a wonder someone typed it up and added it to the internets.

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B erdbeermund January 5 2010, 18:56:42 UTC
Francis Bacon, Honore de Balzac, PT Barnum, JM Barrie, Charles Baudelaire, Frank L Baum, Beethoven (letters), Sarah Bernhardt, Abrose Bierce, William Blake, Giovanni Boccaccio, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Patrick Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Cullen Bryant, William Jennings Bryan, Georg Buchner, AH Bullen, John Bunyan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Burns, Richard Francis Burton, Wilhelm Busch, Lord Byron

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