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kjpepperThe College Board's 101 Greatest Works of Literature
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Bold those you have read, italicize those you want to read, strike through those you plan never to read (either again or ever).
The List:
Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop - nope, read My Antonina instead. That was pretty good.
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales - I read them in English. sundart had a class on Chaucer where she had to not only read the old english, but memorize passages of it. Of course, the accent suits her voice so I used to majorly have problems when she'd randomly start reciting it. Jamie Lee Curtis with the Italian and the Russian in A Fish Called Wanda type of problems >:D
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard - nope. Three Sisters.
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote - man that book was interminable! I much prefer the ballet.
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities - this is one I haven't read. I have read and love Great Expectations.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss - run AWAY!
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying - You know, perversely, I really liked this one. Probably won't do Faulkner again though....
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury - ...case in point.
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - had a minor obsession with this in high school.
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary - okay, this book has both been redeemed and ruined for me by my high school english class - first by the skit of the love scene during the farm auction we put on where my friend Sarah Abbas could imitate chicken noises so well she floored the entire class, second by the sexual imagery Ms. Knox kept forcing us to tease out of that book. Simultaneous giggle and ick.
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies - All I have to say is reference the monologue by Hugh Brown Shu about the ConCH people versus the ConCh people. "'ConCh' isn't a word! It's a cartoon effect!"
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man That must have been the same semester as Madame Bovary. We had to do the sexual imagery thing in that class too.
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - "It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug." (fifty points to your house if you can tell me where that quote's from!)
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior - RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild Ick, Jack London...
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Hell, yeah.
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible Same semester as above. We didn't have to tease forth the nuggets of sexuality, but we did enjoy playing them out in class skits.
Morrison, Toni - Beloved - Love the book, love the movie. Despite the creepiness of both.
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm - I used to be able to recite the Beasts of England song. And you know, I admire works of literature that say what they have to say in 120 pages or less without being a kid's book. Major bonus points for that. Clear, direct, to the point, and best of all, done in three hours.
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar - Eh, I technically fulfilled my "Read something by a Smith grad" requirement with the entire compliment of The Babysitters Club.
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales - try all of them.
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye - I think this book is required reading for New Yorkers under 18.
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - great fucking book.
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath - nope, Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels - Alls i got to say is "My dear Master Bates...."
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace - nope, but I loved Anna Karenina And hi, it's Lev, not Leo.
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple - Love the book. Love the movie. Hey, wait, how come Danny Glover and Oprah are both in scary/angsty works of literature about seriously traumatized black women directed by white guys?
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - I think you have to turn in your gay card if you don't read this once.
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oh yeah. I love this story. Also majorly get off on The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie - Believe it or not, I was in the front row of this with Calista Flockhart as Laura. Weird.
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse - No, but I've read a good chunk of her oeuvre.
Wright, Richard - Native Son - there was another one of his that I read, though I can't recall the title.
In other news, holy shit, the sun is out. The price of a really nice thuderstorm last night. :)
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sundart, birkwelch and I went down to Herrells and gorged ourselves on sundaes and other things that contain enough sugar to send an entire room into diabetic shock. Then after a quick stop at Acme Surplus (cheap things you never thought you needed and really don't but now you think you do!) We also rented four vids from Pleasant street, came home, ordered pizza and watched through Poltergeist and only made it through maybe a third of Buckaroo Banzai before turning it off in favor of the thunderstorm. I may finish it later on my own, just to see if my initial impression was justified - sometimes movies redeem themselves in the end and there's gotta be a reason why it lives in inle_rah's and gossamer_gull's enormous vid shelf other than the sight of Jeff Goldblum in a cowboy outfit that includes fuzzy chaps.
We putsundart to bed, and then birkwelch and I stayed up and watched the storm blow noisily through. And talked. I got some insight into that boy's character that may make dealing with him easier in the future, we'll see if the info applies in practice.
Agenda for today, puzzle pirates, reading, and maybe a walk, I haven't quite decided if I'm heading outside yet. Feeling roosty.
And now... Breakfast.
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Bold those you have read, italicize those you want to read, strike through those you plan never to read (either again or ever).
The List:
Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop - nope, read My Antonina instead. That was pretty good.
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales - I read them in English. sundart had a class on Chaucer where she had to not only read the old english, but memorize passages of it. Of course, the accent suits her voice so I used to majorly have problems when she'd randomly start reciting it. Jamie Lee Curtis with the Italian and the Russian in A Fish Called Wanda type of problems >:D
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard - nope. Three Sisters.
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote - man that book was interminable! I much prefer the ballet.
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities - this is one I haven't read. I have read and love Great Expectations.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying - You know, perversely, I really liked this one. Probably won't do Faulkner again though....
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - had a minor obsession with this in high school.
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary - okay, this book has both been redeemed and ruined for me by my high school english class - first by the skit of the love scene during the farm auction we put on where my friend Sarah Abbas could imitate chicken noises so well she floored the entire class, second by the sexual imagery Ms. Knox kept forcing us to tease out of that book. Simultaneous giggle and ick.
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies - All I have to say is reference the monologue by Hugh Brown Shu about the ConCH people versus the ConCh people. "'ConCh' isn't a word! It's a cartoon effect!"
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man That must have been the same semester as Madame Bovary. We had to do the sexual imagery thing in that class too.
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - "It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug." (fifty points to your house if you can tell me where that quote's from!)
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Hell, yeah.
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible Same semester as above. We didn't have to tease forth the nuggets of sexuality, but we did enjoy playing them out in class skits.
Morrison, Toni - Beloved - Love the book, love the movie. Despite the creepiness of both.
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm - I used to be able to recite the Beasts of England song. And you know, I admire works of literature that say what they have to say in 120 pages or less without being a kid's book. Major bonus points for that. Clear, direct, to the point, and best of all, done in three hours.
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar - Eh, I technically fulfilled my "Read something by a Smith grad" requirement with the entire compliment of The Babysitters Club.
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales - try all of them.
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye - I think this book is required reading for New Yorkers under 18.
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - great fucking book.
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath - nope, Of Mice and Men
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels - Alls i got to say is "My dear Master Bates...."
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace - nope, but I loved Anna Karenina And hi, it's Lev, not Leo.
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple - Love the book. Love the movie. Hey, wait, how come Danny Glover and Oprah are both in scary/angsty works of literature about seriously traumatized black women directed by white guys?
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - I think you have to turn in your gay card if you don't read this once.
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oh yeah. I love this story. Also majorly get off on The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie - Believe it or not, I was in the front row of this with Calista Flockhart as Laura. Weird.
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse - No, but I've read a good chunk of her oeuvre.
Wright, Richard - Native Son - there was another one of his that I read, though I can't recall the title.
In other news, holy shit, the sun is out. The price of a really nice thuderstorm last night. :)
sundart, birkwelch and I went down to Herrells and gorged ourselves on sundaes and other things that contain enough sugar to send an entire room into diabetic shock. Then after a quick stop at Acme Surplus (cheap things you never thought you needed and really don't but now you think you do!) We also rented four vids from Pleasant street, came home, ordered pizza and watched through Poltergeist and only made it through maybe a third of Buckaroo Banzai before turning it off in favor of the thunderstorm. I may finish it later on my own, just to see if my initial impression was justified - sometimes movies redeem themselves in the end and there's gotta be a reason why it lives in inle_rah's and gossamer_gull's enormous vid shelf other than the sight of Jeff Goldblum in a cowboy outfit that includes fuzzy chaps.We put
sundart to bed, and then birkwelch and I stayed up and watched the storm blow noisily through. And talked. I got some insight into that boy's character that may make dealing with him easier in the future, we'll see if the info applies in practice. Agenda for today, puzzle pirates, reading, and maybe a walk, I haven't quite decided if I'm heading outside yet. Feeling roosty.
And now... Breakfast.
