creativity is dead, etc., etc.
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intertribal1. This is probably the most creative book I've ever read:
Yeah, I'm one of those crazy people who believes in, like, Azathoth and Shub-Niggurath. Sort of. It beats regular religion - you don't have to pray, the world's going to get eaten regardless. Anybody ever read Stephen King's "I Am The Doorway"? Could totally happen, and that's why we should not go to space.
2. On IMDb, the Dark Knight is #3. All-time.
I liked TDK - nay, loved it, and it solidified my commitment to be an FSO - but it is not better than:
- LOTR
- Silence of the Lambs
- Dr. Strangelove (!!!)
- Apocalypse Now (!!!) --which is way better than Silence of the Lambs, but whatever
- Alien
- No Country for Old Men (!!!)
- Sin City
- Oldboy
- The Lion King
This is just hysteria.
3. I want to see this movie, Frozen River. I love these kinds of movies, a lot more than I used to, and I think it started with things like Mystic River (which was okay) and Jindabyne (which could've been better but was goood). I really regret not buying The Sweet Hereafter (I get chills just watching this video. There is probably something wrong with me, but the last twenty seconds! It's a flashback to the night before all the children in this town died in a bus accident). Then of course there's the totally unappreciated Wendigo and the classic and should be even more classic Picnic at Hanging Rock. Anyone who has not seen Picnic needs to. I watched it with my mother - she had seen it in college - and certain parts of it are like being on drugs. Really scary drugs. As in, I could not watch certain parts - and there's no crawling ghosts either, it's just a fuckin' rock. That's how amazing this movie is. What's really funny is that none of these movies, if you use IMDb recommendations, are linked to each other (except for Jindabyne to Mystic River, and I think that's only because both of them involve rivers). I think it's because IMDb is dumb and doesn't get it. For instance, if you liked Mystic River, you are recommended by IMDb to see Sin City. If you liked Jindabyne then you should watch The Da Vinci Code. The Sweet Hereafter? The Godfather. Picnic at Hanging Rock? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (WTF). Wendigo? Escape From New York. Well, I guess the main characters are from New York City, and go to upstate New York...
4. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike-through the books you HATE (I added this one myself).
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them (I crossed this out, because I don't force books on people, don't even force them on myself)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (almost?)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Yeah, I'm one of those crazy people who believes in, like, Azathoth and Shub-Niggurath. Sort of. It beats regular religion - you don't have to pray, the world's going to get eaten regardless. Anybody ever read Stephen King's "I Am The Doorway"? Could totally happen, and that's why we should not go to space.
I liked TDK - nay, loved it, and it solidified my commitment to be an FSO - but it is not better than:
- LOTR
- Silence of the Lambs
- Dr. Strangelove (!!!)
- Apocalypse Now (!!!) --which is way better than Silence of the Lambs, but whatever
- Alien
- No Country for Old Men (!!!)
- Sin City
- Oldboy
- The Lion King
This is just hysteria.
3. I want to see this movie, Frozen River. I love these kinds of movies, a lot more than I used to, and I think it started with things like Mystic River (which was okay) and Jindabyne (which could've been better but was goood). I really regret not buying The Sweet Hereafter (I get chills just watching this video. There is probably something wrong with me, but the last twenty seconds! It's a flashback to the night before all the children in this town died in a bus accident). Then of course there's the totally unappreciated Wendigo and the classic and should be even more classic Picnic at Hanging Rock. Anyone who has not seen Picnic needs to. I watched it with my mother - she had seen it in college - and certain parts of it are like being on drugs. Really scary drugs. As in, I could not watch certain parts - and there's no crawling ghosts either, it's just a fuckin' rock. That's how amazing this movie is. What's really funny is that none of these movies, if you use IMDb recommendations, are linked to each other (except for Jindabyne to Mystic River, and I think that's only because both of them involve rivers). I think it's because IMDb is dumb and doesn't get it. For instance, if you liked Mystic River, you are recommended by IMDb to see Sin City. If you liked Jindabyne then you should watch The Da Vinci Code. The Sweet Hereafter? The Godfather. Picnic at Hanging Rock? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (WTF). Wendigo? Escape From New York. Well, I guess the main characters are from New York City, and go to upstate New York...
4. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike-through the books you HATE (I added this one myself).
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (almost?)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:18 pm (UTC)you haven't read The Little Prince????
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, I haven't read The Little Prince. I don't know how I missed it. Did y'all read it in elementary school (or in French class, or...)? I don't know.
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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