Note to Self
To Read, preferably before I'm 30 (feel free to add on):
Or, If you can carry all of the serious books you've ever read, you're not an intellectual;
Or, Gosh, There's a lot of dystopia in this list.
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Eric Schlosser)
Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
The Sheep Look Up (John Brunner)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Prince (Niccoli Machiavelli)
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud)
Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
The Anti-Christ (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Eryxias (Plato?)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Invisible Monsters or Haunted or Choke or Fight Club(Chuck Palahniuk)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45 (Milton Mayer)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Paul Kennedy)
The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)/ Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
The Bhagavad Gita
Post Office (Charles Bukowski)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
So as I composed this list I nibbled some chocolate that's 70% cacao with "100% Colombian Coffee Bits" in, and y'know, I may have discovered a chocolate bar I won't be able to finish in one sitting. Tis a LOT less bitter than I was expecting it be however; that means that next Imma go for the 90% cacao.
I also got to see V for Vendetta Saturday, and I'm surprised to say that I muchly enjoyed it. Normally I'm too pedantic to enjoy a dramatisation when I can enumerate the plot details that have been changed from the original form. Whoo.
To conclude, let's have three cheers for LJ's relatively new autosave feature, which saved my already-extensive list when Firefox mysteriously froze up on me when I first began this entry.
Or, If you can carry all of the serious books you've ever read, you're not an intellectual;
Or, Gosh, There's a lot of dystopia in this list.
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Eric Schlosser)
Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
The Sheep Look Up (John Brunner)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Prince (Niccoli Machiavelli)
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud)
Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
The Anti-Christ (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Eryxias (Plato?)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Invisible Monsters or Haunted or Choke or Fight Club(Chuck Palahniuk)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45 (Milton Mayer)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Paul Kennedy)
The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)/ Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
The Bhagavad Gita
Post Office (Charles Bukowski)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
So as I composed this list I nibbled some chocolate that's 70% cacao with "100% Colombian Coffee Bits" in, and y'know, I may have discovered a chocolate bar I won't be able to finish in one sitting. Tis a LOT less bitter than I was expecting it be however; that means that next Imma go for the 90% cacao.
I also got to see V for Vendetta Saturday, and I'm surprised to say that I muchly enjoyed it. Normally I'm too pedantic to enjoy a dramatisation when I can enumerate the plot details that have been changed from the original form. Whoo.
To conclude, let's have three cheers for LJ's relatively new autosave feature, which saved my already-extensive list when Firefox mysteriously froze up on me when I first began this entry.