I made a list of every new book I read and every new movie I saw in 2008. Here it is:
Movies I've Seen In 2008 (first-time movies only)
1. Hitch
2. La Vie Est Belle
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Sweeney Todd
5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
6. Twelve Monkeys
7. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
8. The Shining
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
11. Talk Radio
12. City of Lost Children
13. No Country for Old Men
14. Delicatessen
15. Be Kind Rewind
16. Little Shop of Horrors
17. A Streetcar Named Desire
18. Long Day's Journey Into Night
19. Cabaret
20. 1776
21. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
22. Dumbo
23. Atonement
24. Network
25. Machuca
26. Of Mice and Men
27. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
28. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
29. Lonesome Dove
30. Brokeback Mountain
31. Being There
32. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
33. Repo Man
34. 1/2 of Into the Wild (BUT IT SUCKED SO BAD)
35. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
36. Milo and Otis
37. Death Lends A Hand (Columbo)
38. There Will Be Blood
39. Wall-E
40. Futurama II - The Beast With A Million Backs
41. The Muppet Movie
42. I'm Not There
43. A Little Romance
44. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
45. MST3000: Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
46. MST3000: Santa Claus
47. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
48. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
49. Koko the Talking Gorilla
50. Tremors
51. They Live
52. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (1992)
53. W.
54. When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
55. Aliens
56. Aguirre The Wrath Of God
57. The Seventh Seal
58. The Future of Food
59. Synecdoche, New York
60. Hatley High
61. After Hours
62. In Bruges
63. Sunshine
64. Labyrinth
65. Bringing Up Baby
66. Holiday
67. Slumdog Millionaire
68. The Philidelphia Story
69. Vertigo
70. The Devil Wears Prada
71. Field of Dreams
72. Sullivan's Travels
73. Eight Men Out
Books I've Read In 2008 (first-time books only, and only books I fully read cover-to-cover)
1. Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
3. The Persian Letters by Montesqueiu
4. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. Contact by Carl Sagan
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. Henry IV, Pt. I by William Shakespeare
9. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
10. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
11. Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
12. Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
13. Henry IV, Pt. II by William Shakespeare
14. Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
15. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
16. Paradise Park by Charles Mee
17. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
18. The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
19. Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
20. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
21. Master of Reality by John Darnielle
22. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
23. The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
24. Lila the Werewolf by Peter S. Beagle
25. The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle
26. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
27. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
28. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
29. Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
30. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
31. Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor
32. The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
33. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
34. The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen
36. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
37. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
38. The Misanthrope by Moliere
39. Tartuffe by Moliere
40. The Problem of Nature by David Arnold
41. Tastes of Paradise by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
42. Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
43. The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
44. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
45. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
46. Hind Swaraj by M.K. Gandhi
47. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
48. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
49. In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltes
50. Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute
51. It's Beautiful by Nathalie Sarraute
52. Liberty by Garrison Keillor
53. The Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh
54. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
55. Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous)
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"I challenge thee to a duel."
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ReplyDeleteChapbooks count.
ReplyDeleteI will not include books read for school out of personal preference; neither therefore will you for this. Unless modified for sake of my own interest: e.g. taking Adam's dream interpretation class, if he assigns "theory of dreams" and one reads "the dream-interpretation" "the dream-interpretation" counts as personal reading; similarly, Magi gives excerpts from, for instance, Howe's "Singularities," and one read "Singularities." Clear?
Books one read again do not count. "Girls on the Run" by John Ashbery cannot appear on this list because I read it before the New Year's, even though I will read it again during the course of 2009.
Books one started before 2009 but have not yet finished count. Tristram Shandy can and will appear on this list.
You'll probably win; I never read chapbooks.
ReplyDeleteSo, if we read a book for school but it falls within 'personal preference' then it counts? For instance, last year I read both Waverley and Nuclear Borderlands for school, but Nuclear Borderlands wouldn't count, because I probably wouldn't have read it on my own, it being out of my 'personal preference'?
If you are trying to say that you take courses with reading you'd want to read anyway ('I loved "Nuclear Borderlands"! I loved "Tastes of Paradise"! I loved "the Problem of Nature"! They all gave me such a thrill!') it'd be absurd to argue these are outside of your "personal preferences." It just seems more interesting, to me, to have a record of the things I read out of my own volition, instead of having on it, say, the compulsory copy of "Life Exposed."
ReplyDeleteIf you take classes with literary fiction (cf. Waverly), or other unabridged literary prose, that should count. It'd be kind of dumb of me to say that if you take the Joyce studies class "Ulysses" "Ulysses" doesn't count as something you wanted to read, et cetera...
If you are worried that I am merely trying to win by reading a greater number but smaller in terms of, say, page number, books, I am already considering to have page number included on our transcriptions. Consider it a rule ratified as of the end of this paragraph that page number is included on transcripts, whether we use them or not.
I was thinking as a pursued the University's collection of scholarly journals (now located on the Mezzanine of the Jazz building?) that articles, magazines, literary journals should also count. It'd be hard to qualify exactly how much in any respect one reads when one reads a newspaper though.
Since my reading style seems to be influencing these rules, I'll let on that I am, when compared to some, a slow but thorough reader of expository prose. It takes me longer than most to read a newspaper article, but I identify aspects of its function many others would not.
The time it takes me to read literary prose varies greatly: e.g. 2 years to read "Cosmopolis" by Don Delillo (224 pages); 2 days to read "the Last Samurai" by Helen Dewitt (544 pages); which has nothing to do with preferring one novel over the other. Not exactly speed-reading though either time. Since finishing "Cosmopolis" a first time however I have found myself able to read it in one, uncomfortably long sitting.
Poetry (in English) I read at the rate of my speech (aloud). I usually read two (around 100 pages most of them) a day, and then reread them over again, in an arbitrary process of study, usually a minimum of five times.
Daily routine is something like poetry, expository prose, and literary prose sprinkled throughout the lapses.
If you can't take him, it'll be a fair match. And fun!
What I'm gathering though from the strings of what I'm saying is you should put on your list whatever you think is appropriate and loosely follows these guidelines.
Agreed. I read little poetry but plenty of prose. I've been slowly reading The Vermont Notebook which you generously stole for me; apart from that, Four Quartets, and a few scattered Dylan Thomas and H.D. poems I've read almost no poetry recently.
ReplyDeleteWe'll include the page numbers of the books we read. Final transcripts will be based on a combination of number of books completed and the page number of said books.
Personally, though, I think it is legitimate to include books I've read as a class requirement. I constructed this list as a comprehensive record and reminiscence of all the books I read in the past year, whether or not I necessarily wanted to read them or enjoyed them. So, I propose that we DO include books read for school such as Life Exposed or the "thrilling" Tastes of Paradise, regardless of whether or not they were read of our own volition. Deal?
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