The List. BACKDATED
I'm refusing to stay depressed. It takes too much energy.
I am going to start a list of the books, authors and poets I either want to read, have been told I should read, or that I'd like to revisit. Anyone who has suggested something to me, please reiterate! Anyone who wants to suggest or command, feel free. When I say I wantwantwant these, I'm not kidding. I just cheered because I got an e-mail full of suggestions.
Anna Akhmatova
Allen Ginsberg
Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne Sexton
Pablo Neruda
Rat Bohemia - Sarah Schulman
A Portrait of an Artists as a Young Man - James Joyce
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sharon Olds
Louise Gluck
Diane DiPrima
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Knife-Thrower and Other Stories -Stephen Millhauser
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
The Lighthouse at the End of the World - Stephen Marlowe
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Love-Artist - Jane Alison
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Porcelain Dove - Delia Sherman
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin - Kate Chopin
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackary
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams
All the Names - Jose Saramago
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Candide - Francois Marie Voltaire
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing---super saturated red motif
Gwendolyn Brooks
Nikki Giovanni
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Contact - Carl Sagan
Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Stephen Dunn
Marie Howe
Thomas Lux
Laughable Loves - Milan Kundera
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Funeral Rites and Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
Seven Red Sundays - Ramon Jose Sender
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Czeslaw Milosz
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eoin Colfer
The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Our Mutual Friend - Dickens
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy
Story of O - Pauline Reage
The Celetstine Prophecy - James Redfield
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Plague of Angels - Sheri Tepper
Dreamed of a walled City - Lisa Huang Fleischman
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The dragon Quartet - Marjorie B kellogg
Possession - A. S. Byatt
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb
.....
The "Rec Me These and I Shall Either Point and Laugh or Hate You" List:
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Atlas Struggled - Ayn Rand <-It scared me. Mmkay?
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
Moby Dick - Herman Melville.
ANYTHING STEINBECK.
Other things that it is useless to rec:
Anything Millay, Parker, Pratchett, Poe, Shakespeare, King or Rice. Read it. You can tell me your faves, though. :)
As Always,
Ravie
A PSA That Really Has Nothing To Do With Any of You But Is A Random Outburst of Rage:
For the purpose of this list, I have not used the proper MLA, or any proper citation usage. I would like to point out, though, that QUOTATIONS NEVER DENOTE NOVELS. NO. NO. NO. IT MAKES THE BABY JESUS CRY.
ALSO? D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y. kthnxbai.
I am going to start a list of the books, authors and poets I either want to read, have been told I should read, or that I'd like to revisit. Anyone who has suggested something to me, please reiterate! Anyone who wants to suggest or command, feel free. When I say I wantwantwant these, I'm not kidding. I just cheered because I got an e-mail full of suggestions.
Anna Akhmatova
Allen Ginsberg
Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne Sexton
Pablo Neruda
Rat Bohemia - Sarah Schulman
A Portrait of an Artists as a Young Man - James Joyce
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sharon Olds
Louise Gluck
Diane DiPrima
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Knife-Thrower and Other Stories -Stephen Millhauser
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
The Lighthouse at the End of the World - Stephen Marlowe
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Love-Artist - Jane Alison
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Porcelain Dove - Delia Sherman
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin - Kate Chopin
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackary
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams
All the Names - Jose Saramago
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Candide - Francois Marie Voltaire
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing---super saturated red motif
Gwendolyn Brooks
Nikki Giovanni
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Contact - Carl Sagan
Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Stephen Dunn
Marie Howe
Thomas Lux
Laughable Loves - Milan Kundera
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Funeral Rites and Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
Seven Red Sundays - Ramon Jose Sender
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Czeslaw Milosz
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eoin Colfer
The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Our Mutual Friend - Dickens
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy
Story of O - Pauline Reage
The Celetstine Prophecy - James Redfield
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Plague of Angels - Sheri Tepper
Dreamed of a walled City - Lisa Huang Fleischman
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The dragon Quartet - Marjorie B kellogg
Possession - A. S. Byatt
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb
.....
The "Rec Me These and I Shall Either Point and Laugh or Hate You" List:
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Atlas Struggled - Ayn Rand <-It scared me. Mmkay?
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
Moby Dick - Herman Melville.
ANYTHING STEINBECK.
Other things that it is useless to rec:
Anything Millay, Parker, Pratchett, Poe, Shakespeare, King or Rice. Read it. You can tell me your faves, though. :)
As Always,
Ravie
A PSA That Really Has Nothing To Do With Any of You But Is A Random Outburst of Rage:
For the purpose of this list, I have not used the proper MLA, or any proper citation usage. I would like to point out, though, that QUOTATIONS NEVER DENOTE NOVELS. NO. NO. NO. IT MAKES THE BABY JESUS CRY.
ALSO? D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y. kthnxbai.