this is me trying to be a lover of literature.
LIST OF BOOKS TO READ!
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (omg, it's by CLARKE?)
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft (I love the fact that these authors seem familiar only because Sir Javier mentions/discusses them a lot in leap class.)
Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
City of God - E.L. Doctorow
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Loclos
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Hallucinating Focault - Patricia Duncker
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
Howards End - E.M. Forster
Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (omg, it's by ASIMOV?--I love you, English leap. :()
In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
Le Père Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
Middlemarch - George Eliot
News from Nowhere - William Morris
Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell ( ;) Well. Yeah.)
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughes
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hamlet - William Faulkner
The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Red Room - August Strindberg
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louise Stevenson
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Years - Virginia Woolf
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
I got these titles from The List of 1001 Books You Need to Read Before You Die which obzedyon mentioned one time. So I went ahead and looked at it. And wow. That's a lot. And guess what? Neither William Shakespeare nor JK Rowling are in there. Gasp.
I got motivated and sorta realized that I need to read more. Because I hardly ever read; I'm lazy like that. :( So yeah, I must read.
On the bright side, I've already read nine titles from that list! Woohoo nine! Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Quo Vadis (by someone, I'm not sure. Oh yeah, fellow MC seniors! Is that the same as the Quo Vadis text we were given in English class?), Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Wooow. It's amusing how most of those titles were requirements for school. :/ YES I REALLY NEED TO READ SOME MORE.
Goal for this month: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell because Sir Javier brainwashes people.
PS: The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce. LMAO. It's funny. :"> (Quote: "BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk; BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends; BRUTE, n. SEE HUSBAND; COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness; CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about everything else.")
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (omg, it's by CLARKE?)
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft (I love the fact that these authors seem familiar only because Sir Javier mentions/discusses them a lot in leap class.)
Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
City of God - E.L. Doctorow
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Loclos
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Hallucinating Focault - Patricia Duncker
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
Howards End - E.M. Forster
Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (omg, it's by ASIMOV?--I love you, English leap. :()
In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
Le Père Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
Middlemarch - George Eliot
News from Nowhere - William Morris
Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell ( ;) Well. Yeah.)
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughes
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hamlet - William Faulkner
The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Red Room - August Strindberg
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louise Stevenson
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Years - Virginia Woolf
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
I got these titles from The List of 1001 Books You Need to Read Before You Die which obzedyon mentioned one time. So I went ahead and looked at it. And wow. That's a lot. And guess what? Neither William Shakespeare nor JK Rowling are in there. Gasp.
I got motivated and sorta realized that I need to read more. Because I hardly ever read; I'm lazy like that. :( So yeah, I must read.
On the bright side, I've already read nine titles from that list! Woohoo nine! Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Quo Vadis (by someone, I'm not sure. Oh yeah, fellow MC seniors! Is that the same as the Quo Vadis text we were given in English class?), Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Wooow. It's amusing how most of those titles were requirements for school. :/ YES I REALLY NEED TO READ SOME MORE.
Goal for this month: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell because Sir Javier brainwashes people.
PS: The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce. LMAO. It's funny. :"> (Quote: "BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk; BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends; BRUTE, n. SEE HUSBAND; COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness; CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about everything else.")