The Weekend Recap!
Rehearsal/Set Construction was up and down. Coleman picked me up and we had a fun quest for the “mail store” and to Starbucks. Then I went out to a Play Off Party and then home for MAJOR research and writing. Blech. Midterms suck. When I got home, I found a late Christmas present from my great aunt. A BOOK. YES.
It’s “The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time” and I thought some of the bibliophiles on my flist might enjoy hearing the opinions of Daniel S. Burt, the author of “Literary 100”.
1. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
2. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
3. Ulysses (James Joyce)
4. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
5. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
6. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
7. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
8. Middlemarch (George Eliot)
9. The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
10. The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
11. Emma (Jane Austen)
12. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
13. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
15. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
16. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
17. Absolam, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
18. The Ambassadors (Henry James)
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
20. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
21. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
22. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
23. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
24. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
25. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
26. Finnegan’s Wake (James Joyce)
27. The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
28. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
29. The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
30. Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
31. The Red and the Black (Stendbal)
32. Tristram Shandy (Lawrence Sterne)
33. Dead Souls (Nickolai Gogot)
34. Tess of the D’Ubbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
35. Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
36. Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Blazat)
37. A Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
38. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
39. The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
40. Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
41. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
42. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
43. Fathers and Sons (Ivan Tugenev)
44. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
45. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
46. An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
47. Lolita (Vladimir Nobokov)
48. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
49. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
50. Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
51. The Trial (Franz Kafka)
52. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
53. The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
54. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
55. Petersburg (Audrey Bely)
56. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
57. The Princess of Cleves (Madame de Lafayette)
58. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
59. My Ántonia (Willa Cather)
60. The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
61. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
62. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
63. The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
64. A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
65. Herzog (Saul Bellow)
66. Germinal (Émile Zola)
67. Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
68. USA Trilogy (John Dos Passos)
69. Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
70. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Dolin)
71. Cities of Salt (‘Abd al-Rahman Munif)
72. The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes)
73. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
74. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
75. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Anthony Trollope)
76. The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
77. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
78. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
79. Candide (Voltaire)
80. Native Son (Richard Wright)
81. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
82. Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
83. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
84. Waverley (Sir Walter Scott)
85. Snow Country (Kawabata Yasunari)
86. 1984 (George Orwell)
87. The Betrothed (Alessandro Mansoni)
88. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
89. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
90. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
91. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
92. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
93. The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
94. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
95. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
96. The Good Soldier Syejk (Jaroslav Hasek)
97. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
98. The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
99. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
100. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
I’m planning to read all of them and as many of the 100 runners-up as well before next year. I love my great aunt SO much right now.
Sunday morning, I watched Wedding Crashers and ate waffles with Ben then did a LOT of homework and then went to the monthly dinner at Mashya’s and remind me to marry a Jew because I love Jewish mammas! After all that came FTE rehearsal, which frankly was a rather miserable experience that I don’t want to talk about.
Today has been a valley. It started out great with a fun math class, a fun discussion in British Novel, a long lunch, being hypnotized in Psychology, and a Starbucks run with Jane. Apparently, they stopped carrying chantiquos, so I had to go break the news to Soud and found Dan and Paul there, so we all had a conversation about soccer, Soud being an Arsenal fan and Dan being a Chelsea fan and me and Paul (aka, the sensible ones) being ManU fans. Then we talked about my paper and then we drew up a settlement for our Richard trial which was pretty great, actually, until we realized that without the trial, we’d have an exam. A lot of shittyness followed, but then Gough and Kelsie successfully saved my day with a Taco Bell run.
And now comes FTE rehearsal, which I am emphatically NOT enthused about… We’ll see.
It’s “The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time” and I thought some of the bibliophiles on my flist might enjoy hearing the opinions of Daniel S. Burt, the author of “Literary 100”.
1. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
2. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
3. Ulysses (James Joyce)
4. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
5. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
6. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
7. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
8. Middlemarch (George Eliot)
9. The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
10. The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
11. Emma (Jane Austen)
12. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
13. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
15. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
16. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
17. Absolam, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
18. The Ambassadors (Henry James)
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
20. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
21. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
22. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
23. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
24. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
25. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
26. Finnegan’s Wake (James Joyce)
27. The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
28. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
29. The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
30. Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
31. The Red and the Black (Stendbal)
32. Tristram Shandy (Lawrence Sterne)
33. Dead Souls (Nickolai Gogot)
34. Tess of the D’Ubbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
35. Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
36. Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Blazat)
37. A Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
38. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
39. The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
40. Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
41. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
42. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
43. Fathers and Sons (Ivan Tugenev)
44. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
45. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
46. An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
47. Lolita (Vladimir Nobokov)
48. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
49. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
50. Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
51. The Trial (Franz Kafka)
52. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
53. The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
54. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
55. Petersburg (Audrey Bely)
56. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
57. The Princess of Cleves (Madame de Lafayette)
58. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
59. My Ántonia (Willa Cather)
60. The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
61. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
62. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
63. The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
64. A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
65. Herzog (Saul Bellow)
66. Germinal (Émile Zola)
67. Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
68. USA Trilogy (John Dos Passos)
69. Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
70. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Dolin)
71. Cities of Salt (‘Abd al-Rahman Munif)
72. The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes)
73. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
74. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
75. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Anthony Trollope)
76. The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
77. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
78. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
79. Candide (Voltaire)
80. Native Son (Richard Wright)
81. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
82. Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
83. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
84. Waverley (Sir Walter Scott)
85. Snow Country (Kawabata Yasunari)
86. 1984 (George Orwell)
87. The Betrothed (Alessandro Mansoni)
88. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
89. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
90. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
91. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
92. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
93. The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
94. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
95. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
96. The Good Soldier Syejk (Jaroslav Hasek)
97. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
98. The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
99. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
100. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
I’m planning to read all of them and as many of the 100 runners-up as well before next year. I love my great aunt SO much right now.
Sunday morning, I watched Wedding Crashers and ate waffles with Ben then did a LOT of homework and then went to the monthly dinner at Mashya’s and remind me to marry a Jew because I love Jewish mammas! After all that came FTE rehearsal, which frankly was a rather miserable experience that I don’t want to talk about.
Today has been a valley. It started out great with a fun math class, a fun discussion in British Novel, a long lunch, being hypnotized in Psychology, and a Starbucks run with Jane. Apparently, they stopped carrying chantiquos, so I had to go break the news to Soud and found Dan and Paul there, so we all had a conversation about soccer, Soud being an Arsenal fan and Dan being a Chelsea fan and me and Paul (aka, the sensible ones) being ManU fans. Then we talked about my paper and then we drew up a settlement for our Richard trial which was pretty great, actually, until we realized that without the trial, we’d have an exam. A lot of shittyness followed, but then Gough and Kelsie successfully saved my day with a Taco Bell run.
And now comes FTE rehearsal, which I am emphatically NOT enthused about… We’ll see.