Borrowed from an Individual of Great Resolve
New Year's resolutions are, traditionally, for the fat and the naive. HOWEVER, every book one reads and every movie one sees contributes to the well of potentially sparkling party conversation. As such, I Ross Denton M--- Richard Allen O---, being of (mumblemumble) mind and body, do hereby resolve to finally read and watch the following:
BOOKS (in alphabetical order by author)
Collected Plays Vol. I-III, Edward Albee
Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin), Anonyma
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss
So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me), Josef Martin Bauer
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote
Just Lucky I Guess, Carol Channing
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Democracy, Joan Didion
The White Album, Joan Didion
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), Michael Ende
Filme befreien den Kopf (Films Free the Mind), Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Howard's End, E.M. Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
I Claudius, Robert Graves
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
The Unicorn, Iris Murdoch
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift, Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Paris Review Interviews, Vol. II
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Nina Simone
Against Interpretation and Other Essays, Susan Sontag
The Red and the Black, Stendahl
Immensee, Theodor Sturm
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
I just made a book list since, if anything, I'd have more need of a New Year's resolution to watch fifty less movies next year.
PS, I don't have any Fassbinder books, so feel free to buy one of them for me...
BOOKS (in alphabetical order by author)
Collected Plays Vol. I-III, Edward Albee
Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin), Anonyma
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss
So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me), Josef Martin Bauer
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote
Just Lucky I Guess, Carol Channing
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Democracy, Joan Didion
The White Album, Joan Didion
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), Michael Ende
Filme befreien den Kopf (Films Free the Mind), Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Howard's End, E.M. Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
I Claudius, Robert Graves
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
The Unicorn, Iris Murdoch
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift, Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Paris Review Interviews, Vol. II
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Nina Simone
Against Interpretation and Other Essays, Susan Sontag
The Red and the Black, Stendahl
Immensee, Theodor Sturm
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
I just made a book list since, if anything, I'd have more need of a New Year's resolution to watch fifty less movies next year.
PS, I don't have any Fassbinder books, so feel free to buy one of them for me...