book list
nothing like a good list of books you should have read (but haven't) to make you feel like an illiterate cretin. :)
i like that you are denied your right to joy. hehe. :D
read:
Aeschylus. The Oresteia
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness,
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Doestoevski, F. M. The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Euripides. The Bacchae
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
Homer, The Iliad
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman, The Crucible,
Orwell, George. 1984
Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved
Plato, The Republic
Sophocles. Oedipus the King,
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn
Virgil. The Aeneid
Wolfe, Tom. Bonfire of the Vanities
Genesis
Job
read in Korean:
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth
i'm having visions of grandeur of picking up a minor in creative writing and going off and being poor writing books alongside drawing pretty pictures. someone stop me. :)
Comments
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus (15th century philosopher, humanist, theologian)
Posted by: M | November 7, 2006 05:45 PM
for me... food and books go hand in hand.
mmmm.... sushi. mmmmm.... books. sushi. books. sushi! books!
clothes come later. :)
Posted by: me | November 7, 2006 10:43 PM
once i get through some of my books, i'll get more books. i put a moratorium on purchases until i return other people's stuff, get through others, etc. you know how slowly i read. "[ oh, and i don't think that "pamela," or "clarissa" (by samuel richardson) for that matter, should be on that list. such bad writing! hit-yourself-over-the-head-to-make-it-stop bad writing. even my english prof. told us it was bad...she still made us read it though. "p ptui!
Posted by: bleusky | November 15, 2006 08:50 PM