In honor of Nick Hornby's 'High Fidelity', which I just started reading:
Favorite films:
(in no particular order - I'm not quite THAT inspired, yet)
Comedy:
1. Keeping the Faith
2. The Royal Tennenbaums
3. Office Space
4. Swingers
5. High Fidelity (natch)
Other:
1. Dead Poet's Society
2. Benny and Joon
3. Fight Club
4. Hook
5. Seven
6. Shawshank Redemption
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Garden State
9. Pan's Labyrinth
10. Amelie
Artists currently listening to:
1. Electric President
2. Radical Face
3. Julius Airwave
4. Astronomicus (misspelled, but can you blame me?)
5. The Weepies
6. Alkaline Trio
7. Rage Against the Machine
8. Jason Choi
9. Bob Dylan
10. The Draft
Favorite novels:
1. The Loser
2. The Idiot (I'm sensing a trend)
3. Brothers Karamazov
4. The Heart of Darkness
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
6. The Joke
7. The Road (ahh, the simple titles)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Franny and Zooey
10. Life of Pi
11. The Count of Monte Cristo
12. To Kill a Mockingbird
13. The Tin Drum
14. Catch 22
15. Cat's Cradle
16. Slaughterhouse 5
17. Chuck Palahniuk's 'Survivor'
18. Mark Twain's 'Letters from Earth
Favorite youth* books:
1. A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books
2. Peter pan
3. Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' series
4. Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Tales of Earthsea'
5. Madeline L'engle's books
(I used to have this fantasy that my three favorite female authors would regularly enjoy tea and biscuits in an english country side or garden setting. And I would write them letters, and actually be invited to travel over and sit in with them. Seeing as how my fantasy includes three much older females and tea and biscuits, this could explain a lot of what's wrong with me. It might also explain the strange attraction cougars have for me. I was still very saddened by Madeline's passing away.)
5a. Rudyard Kipling's stories
5b. A Solitary Blue
Favorite Fantasy/Sci-Fi books:
1. Ender's Game
2. H.G. Wells' stories
3. The Forever King
4. Dark Heart (little sad when I found out that there wouldn't be a sequel due to the fact that she was writing the story with her son, who passed away)
8. The Forever King
9. The first 5 books in Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' series
10. Dune
10a. J.R.R. Tolkien
10b. George R. R. Martin's 'Songs of Ice and Fire' (maybe that's right?) series (which he seems to have given up on finishing)
(I clearly have trouble cutting names from my lists)
Most impactful religious themed books:
1. Jacques Dupuis' 'Towards a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism
2. Diana Eck's Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras,
3. Paul Tillich's 'Dynamics of Faith'
4. My 'Philosophy of Religion' anthology - notably Paul Tillich, Ninian Smart, and Wilfred Cantwell Smith
5. An arrow pointing straight to God: A biography of Rich Mullins (one of those books where, after reading, you just think you genuinely like the person)
6. Brennan Manning's 'Ragamuffin Gospel' and 'Abba's Child' (great stories on grace and belovedness)
7. Phillip Yancey's 'What's so Amazing About Grace?' (another great treatise on grace. I like a lot of the questions that yancey brings up in his books -and the mere fact that he does bring them up - and the little stories he brings from other sources, but I am usually less than overwhelmed when he attempts to answer these questions.
8. Essential Readings - Thomas Merton
9. Essential Readings - Thich Naht hanh
10. I'll include 'The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard - though really I just enjoy his writing when he's being especially sarcastic.
10a. a general wish-wash of bits and pieces of negative/apophatic theology, process theology, and Jacques Derrida