2009: Film and Word
2009 Films (all virgin viewings; counting re-watches would at least triple the number)
001. Saw V | D -
002. The Duchess (plane) | B
003. Elegy | A -
004. Jane Eyre | C +
005. The Wrestler | A -
006. The Hamiltons | B +
007. My Own Private Idaho | A
008. Death Defying Acts (plane) | C
009. Wild Hogs | D
010. Firefly (tv series) | A
011. Single White Female | A -
012. Serenity | A -
013. Doubt | A
014. Teeth | C -
015. Freeway | C +
016. A Perfect World | B +
017. House of Sand and Fog | A -
018. Gran Torino (theater) | B +
019. Twilight (dollar theater) | D
020. Con Air | C +
021. La Pianiste | C
022. Hounddog | B
023. Slumdog Millionaire | A -
024. The Crossing Guard | B
025. Yes Man | C +
026. Diary of a City Priest | B
027. Waitress | B +
028. Perfect Strangers | +
029. Cold Comfort Farm | B +
030. The Room | epic
031. La Cité Des Enfants Perdus | A
032. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | B -
033. Coraline (dollar theater) | B +
034. Next | C
035. What Just Happened | B -
036. Bottle Shock | B
037. The Last Word | B +
038. Tempted | C
039. The Babysitters | B +
040. Såsom i en spegel | A
041. Shakespeare Retold: The Taming of the Shrew | A
042. Captives | B -
043. The Weather Man | A -
044. Angels and Demons (theater) | B
045. Fanboys | B +
046. New In Town | C
047. Terminator Salvation (theater) | C
048. Surviving Desire | B +
049. Star Trek (theater) | A
050. Nattvardsgästerna | A
051. The Constant Gardener | A -
052. Enemy at the Gates | B
053. Up (theater) | B
054. Un coupable idéal/Murder on a Sunday Morning | A
055. John Q | C -
056. Pumpkin | A -
057. My Life in Ruins (theater) | C +
058. Fearless | A -
059. Bride Wars | D +
060. The Omega Man | B
061. My Sister's Keeper (theater) | C
062. The Tale of Despereaux | C
063. Inkheart | C +
064. The Unborn | D +
065. Jeremiah Johnson | B
066. Vanishing Point | A -
067. The Women | D
068. RENT | D
069. The Notebook | B
070. No Reservations | C +
071. Munich | A -
072. Bart Got A Room | C +
073. Stardust | B
074. The Spiderwick Chronicles | C
075. Kinsey | B
076. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (theater) | B -
077. Knowing | C
078. Bosque de sombras | C +
079. Very Young Girls
080. Repo! The Genetic Opera | B +
081. Sunshine | C
082. Ghost Town | B +
083. 3:10 to Yuma | A -
084. The Contract | F +
085. Brüno | vile, worthless, and a depressing indication of the level to which our society has fallen
086. Public Enemies (theater) | A -
087. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | A -
088. Miss Potter | B
089. The Hangover | B
090. Charlie Bartlett | B -
091. Julie & Julia (theater) | B +
092. The Reader | B
093. Running With Scissors | A -
094. Proof of Life | C
095. Monster's Ball | C
096. Watchmen | B
097. Whisper | A -
098. Antichrist | B -
099. Little Shop of Horrors | D
100. House of Wax | B +
101. Trick 'r Treat | B
102. Child's Play | C
103. Suspiria | B
104. The Strangers | C +
105. Spider Baby | A -
106. Drag Me To Hell | B -
107. Singin' in the Rain | A
108. Them/Ils | C
109. Angel Heart | B -
110. Paranormal Activity | C
111. IT | B +/D (the last fourth sucks)
112. Shakespeare in Love | B
113. Amelia (theater) | C
114. Vanity Fair | C
115. Irresistible | B +
116. Little Children | B +
117. Asylum | C +
118. Election | B
119. The Fall | A
120. Nobel Son | B +
121. Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (theater)
122. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | C
123. The Invention of Lying | C
124. The Proposal | B
2009 Books (re-reads noted)
01. House (T. Dekker & F. Peretti; 2006) | D-
02. The Shack (William P. Young; 2007) | F
03. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Charles Darwin; 1859)
04. Gates of Eden (Ethan Coen; 1998) | B
05. No one belongs here more than you. (Stories by Miranda July; 2007) | B -
06. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien; 1937) | 2nd read; A -
07. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Humphrey Carpenter; 1977) | A
08. The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels; 1848)
09. The Road (Cormac McCarthy; 2006) | A
10. On the Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche; 1887)
11. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien; 1954) | 2nd read; A
12. Mariette in Ecstasy (Ron Hansen; 1991) | A -
13. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth (John Garth; 2003) | B
14. Civilization and Its Discontents (Sigmund Freud; 1930)
15. Black Dogs (Ian McEwan; 1992) | A
16. Fear and Trembling (Søren Kierkegaard; 1843) | pretty amazing
17. Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton; 1908)
18. The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology (T.A. Shippey; 2003) | B
19. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (T.A. Shippey; 2000) | A
20. Paula Spencer (Roddy Doyle; 2006) | A -
21. Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (T.S. Eliot; 1963)
22. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin; 1791)
23. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë; 1847) | 3rd read
24. Daisy Miller: A Study (Henry James; 1878) | 2nd read
25. The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman; 1923)
26. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville; 1850) | this might be the best book I've ever read
27. The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien; 1977)
28. The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis; 1943) | A
29. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke; 1790)
30. Dracula (Bram Stoker; 1897) | pretty much hated it
31. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche; 1885)
32. My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult; 2004) | C -
33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling; 2000) | 4th read
34. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling; 2003) | 4th read
35. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling; 2005) | 4th read
36. The Straits (Jeremy Craig; 2009) | B -
37. Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers; 1991) | 2nd read; last read when I was 13
38. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling; 2007) | 4th read
39. The Tales of Beedle the Bard (J.K. Rowling; 2007)
40. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card; 1985) | B
41. All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (Tod Wodicka; 2007) | A
42. The Assistant (Bernard Malamud; 1957) | A -
43. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger; 1945) | D
44. Bag of Bones (Stephen King; 1998) | A -
45. The Snapper (Roddy Doyle; 1992) | B +
46. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton; 1990) | B -
47. Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee; 1999) | A
48. The Ellimist Chronicles (K.A. Applegate; 2000) | 3rd read, I think
49. The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris; 1988) | 2nd read
50. Hatchet (Gary Paulsen; 1987) | 2nd read
51. Cathedral (Raymond Carver; 1983) | A
52. Dolores Claiborne (Stephen King; 1993) | A
53. The Writing Life (Annie Dillard; 1989)
54. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides; 2002) | D
55. Slow Storm (Danica Novgorodoff; 2008) | ?
56. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt; 1963) | A
57. Enchanted Night (Stephen Millhauser; 1999) | B +
58. The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia (Rezak Hukanovic; 1996)
59. Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons; 1986) | B +
60. Eleanor Rigby (Douglas Coupland; 2004) | B -
61. The Professor's Daughter (Joann Sfar & Emmanuel Guibert; 1997) | B
62. Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger; 1922) | A -
63. The Late Hector Kipling (David Thewlis; 2007) | A -
64. The Sufferings of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 1774) | what a whiner
65. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (Karen Russell; 2006) | A -
66. Home Truths (David Lodge; 1999) | B
67. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett; 1990) | C
68. Maus: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman; 1986) | A
69. Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman; 1991) | A
70. Pet Sematary (Stephen King; 1983) | 2nd read; B +
71. The Grave Robber's Daughter (Richard Sala; 2007) | this stuff gets published?
72. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Stephen Millhauser; 2008) | first half is exquisite; second half is mostly tedious
73. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury; 1953) | B
74. Changing Places (David Lodge; 1975) | B +
75. The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers; 1983) | A -
76. The Collector (John Fowles; 1963) | A
77. Under the Net (Iris Murdoch; 1954) | B +
78. Coraline (Neil Gaiman; 2002) | B
79. The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins; 2006) | C
80. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin; 1956)
001. Saw V | D -
002. The Duchess (plane) | B
003. Elegy | A -
004. Jane Eyre | C +
005. The Wrestler | A -
006. The Hamiltons | B +
007. My Own Private Idaho | A
008. Death Defying Acts (plane) | C
009. Wild Hogs | D
010. Firefly (tv series) | A
011. Single White Female | A -
012. Serenity | A -
013. Doubt | A
014. Teeth | C -
015. Freeway | C +
016. A Perfect World | B +
017. House of Sand and Fog | A -
018. Gran Torino (theater) | B +
019. Twilight (dollar theater) | D
020. Con Air | C +
021. La Pianiste | C
022. Hounddog | B
023. Slumdog Millionaire | A -
024. The Crossing Guard | B
025. Yes Man | C +
026. Diary of a City Priest | B
027. Waitress | B +
028. Perfect Strangers | +
029. Cold Comfort Farm | B +
030. The Room | epic
031. La Cité Des Enfants Perdus | A
032. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | B -
033. Coraline (dollar theater) | B +
034. Next | C
035. What Just Happened | B -
036. Bottle Shock | B
037. The Last Word | B +
038. Tempted | C
039. The Babysitters | B +
040. Såsom i en spegel | A
041. Shakespeare Retold: The Taming of the Shrew | A
042. Captives | B -
043. The Weather Man | A -
044. Angels and Demons (theater) | B
045. Fanboys | B +
046. New In Town | C
047. Terminator Salvation (theater) | C
048. Surviving Desire | B +
049. Star Trek (theater) | A
050. Nattvardsgästerna | A
051. The Constant Gardener | A -
052. Enemy at the Gates | B
053. Up (theater) | B
054. Un coupable idéal/Murder on a Sunday Morning | A
055. John Q | C -
056. Pumpkin | A -
057. My Life in Ruins (theater) | C +
058. Fearless | A -
059. Bride Wars | D +
060. The Omega Man | B
061. My Sister's Keeper (theater) | C
062. The Tale of Despereaux | C
063. Inkheart | C +
064. The Unborn | D +
065. Jeremiah Johnson | B
066. Vanishing Point | A -
067. The Women | D
068. RENT | D
069. The Notebook | B
070. No Reservations | C +
071. Munich | A -
072. Bart Got A Room | C +
073. Stardust | B
074. The Spiderwick Chronicles | C
075. Kinsey | B
076. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (theater) | B -
077. Knowing | C
078. Bosque de sombras | C +
079. Very Young Girls
080. Repo! The Genetic Opera | B +
081. Sunshine | C
082. Ghost Town | B +
083. 3:10 to Yuma | A -
084. The Contract | F +
085. Brüno | vile, worthless, and a depressing indication of the level to which our society has fallen
086. Public Enemies (theater) | A -
087. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | A -
088. Miss Potter | B
089. The Hangover | B
090. Charlie Bartlett | B -
091. Julie & Julia (theater) | B +
092. The Reader | B
093. Running With Scissors | A -
094. Proof of Life | C
095. Monster's Ball | C
096. Watchmen | B
097. Whisper | A -
098. Antichrist | B -
099. Little Shop of Horrors | D
100. House of Wax | B +
101. Trick 'r Treat | B
102. Child's Play | C
103. Suspiria | B
104. The Strangers | C +
105. Spider Baby | A -
106. Drag Me To Hell | B -
107. Singin' in the Rain | A
108. Them/Ils | C
109. Angel Heart | B -
110. Paranormal Activity | C
111. IT | B +/D (the last fourth sucks)
112. Shakespeare in Love | B
113. Amelia (theater) | C
114. Vanity Fair | C
115. Irresistible | B +
116. Little Children | B +
117. Asylum | C +
118. Election | B
119. The Fall | A
120. Nobel Son | B +
121. Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (theater)
122. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | C
123. The Invention of Lying | C
124. The Proposal | B
2009 Books (re-reads noted)
01. House (T. Dekker & F. Peretti; 2006) | D-
02. The Shack (William P. Young; 2007) | F
03. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Charles Darwin; 1859)
04. Gates of Eden (Ethan Coen; 1998) | B
05. No one belongs here more than you. (Stories by Miranda July; 2007) | B -
06. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien; 1937) | 2nd read; A -
07. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Humphrey Carpenter; 1977) | A
08. The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels; 1848)
09. The Road (Cormac McCarthy; 2006) | A
10. On the Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche; 1887)
11. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien; 1954) | 2nd read; A
12. Mariette in Ecstasy (Ron Hansen; 1991) | A -
13. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth (John Garth; 2003) | B
14. Civilization and Its Discontents (Sigmund Freud; 1930)
15. Black Dogs (Ian McEwan; 1992) | A
16. Fear and Trembling (Søren Kierkegaard; 1843) | pretty amazing
17. Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton; 1908)
18. The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology (T.A. Shippey; 2003) | B
19. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (T.A. Shippey; 2000) | A
20. Paula Spencer (Roddy Doyle; 2006) | A -
21. Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (T.S. Eliot; 1963)
22. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin; 1791)
23. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë; 1847) | 3rd read
24. Daisy Miller: A Study (Henry James; 1878) | 2nd read
25. The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman; 1923)
26. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville; 1850) | this might be the best book I've ever read
27. The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien; 1977)
28. The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis; 1943) | A
29. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke; 1790)
30. Dracula (Bram Stoker; 1897) | pretty much hated it
31. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche; 1885)
32. My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult; 2004) | C -
33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling; 2000) | 4th read
34. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling; 2003) | 4th read
35. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling; 2005) | 4th read
36. The Straits (Jeremy Craig; 2009) | B -
37. Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers; 1991) | 2nd read; last read when I was 13
38. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling; 2007) | 4th read
39. The Tales of Beedle the Bard (J.K. Rowling; 2007)
40. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card; 1985) | B
41. All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (Tod Wodicka; 2007) | A
42. The Assistant (Bernard Malamud; 1957) | A -
43. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger; 1945) | D
44. Bag of Bones (Stephen King; 1998) | A -
45. The Snapper (Roddy Doyle; 1992) | B +
46. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton; 1990) | B -
47. Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee; 1999) | A
48. The Ellimist Chronicles (K.A. Applegate; 2000) | 3rd read, I think
49. The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris; 1988) | 2nd read
50. Hatchet (Gary Paulsen; 1987) | 2nd read
51. Cathedral (Raymond Carver; 1983) | A
52. Dolores Claiborne (Stephen King; 1993) | A
53. The Writing Life (Annie Dillard; 1989)
54. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides; 2002) | D
55. Slow Storm (Danica Novgorodoff; 2008) | ?
56. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt; 1963) | A
57. Enchanted Night (Stephen Millhauser; 1999) | B +
58. The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia (Rezak Hukanovic; 1996)
59. Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons; 1986) | B +
60. Eleanor Rigby (Douglas Coupland; 2004) | B -
61. The Professor's Daughter (Joann Sfar & Emmanuel Guibert; 1997) | B
62. Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger; 1922) | A -
63. The Late Hector Kipling (David Thewlis; 2007) | A -
64. The Sufferings of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 1774) | what a whiner
65. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (Karen Russell; 2006) | A -
66. Home Truths (David Lodge; 1999) | B
67. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett; 1990) | C
68. Maus: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman; 1986) | A
69. Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman; 1991) | A
70. Pet Sematary (Stephen King; 1983) | 2nd read; B +
71. The Grave Robber's Daughter (Richard Sala; 2007) | this stuff gets published?
72. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Stephen Millhauser; 2008) | first half is exquisite; second half is mostly tedious
73. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury; 1953) | B
74. Changing Places (David Lodge; 1975) | B +
75. The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers; 1983) | A -
76. The Collector (John Fowles; 1963) | A
77. Under the Net (Iris Murdoch; 1954) | B +
78. Coraline (Neil Gaiman; 2002) | B
79. The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins; 2006) | C
80. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin; 1956)