Books I Want to Read Before I Die
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zana16A List in Progress:
The Story of Philosophy
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Guns, Germs, & Steel
The Isles
Europe: A History
Everything Neil Stephenson has ever written
Ditto to the three or so remaining Heinlein books I haven't read
Ditto E. Nesbit, Tamora Pierce, Lemony Snicket, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, R.L. Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Lynn Flewelling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Orson Scott Card
The Bible
All of 1001 Arabian Nights
From Dawn to Decadence
Lolita
The rest of the Harry Potter series--seriously, if JKR dies or something, the world will implode from the simultaneous screaming of fangirls and -boys around the globe
The Elegant Universe
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Le Deuxieme Sexe
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Sam's comment: "Isn't it boring?")
Tom Brown
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
Poisonwood Bible
more Sheri Tepper
Gaudy Night
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Le Morte d'Arthur
Films/Shows:
Schindler's List
The Dreamers
Babylon 5
Queer as Folk
Lost! (Have I mentioned yet how happy I am about this show?)
Rambo
Red Dwarf
I still haven't seen the last season of Buffy, or any of the last 2 and a half seasons of Angel
The Fog of War
Roger and Me
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
every Alexandre Dumas-based film ever made
every Sherlock Holmes film ever made
Theatre/Shows:
Wagner's Ring Cycle
Mamma Mia (yes, I know. I still want to go see it.)
The Barber of Seville
The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Assassins
Jesus Christ Superstar (shut up. I have my reasons.)
The Story of Philosophy
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Guns, Germs, & Steel
The Isles
Europe: A History
Everything Neil Stephenson has ever written
Ditto to the three or so remaining Heinlein books I haven't read
Ditto E. Nesbit, Tamora Pierce, Lemony Snicket, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, R.L. Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Lynn Flewelling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Orson Scott Card
The Bible
All of 1001 Arabian Nights
From Dawn to Decadence
Lolita
The rest of the Harry Potter series--seriously, if JKR dies or something, the world will implode from the simultaneous screaming of fangirls and -boys around the globe
The Elegant Universe
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Le Deuxieme Sexe
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Sam's comment: "Isn't it boring?")
Tom Brown
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
Poisonwood Bible
more Sheri Tepper
Gaudy Night
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Le Morte d'Arthur
Films/Shows:
Schindler's List
The Dreamers
Babylon 5
Queer as Folk
Lost! (Have I mentioned yet how happy I am about this show?)
Rambo
Red Dwarf
I still haven't seen the last season of Buffy, or any of the last 2 and a half seasons of Angel
The Fog of War
Roger and Me
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
every Alexandre Dumas-based film ever made
every Sherlock Holmes film ever made
Theatre/Shows:
Wagner's Ring Cycle
Mamma Mia (yes, I know. I still want to go see it.)
The Barber of Seville
The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Assassins
Jesus Christ Superstar (shut up. I have my reasons.)
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Date: 2004-10-10 04:19 pm (UTC)Me too, just so I can say I've seen the whole thing...I think it's a punishment thing.
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Date: 2004-10-10 06:49 pm (UTC)In regards to Wagner, I guess my goal is to see it, then do enough research so I can understand it, then see it again and be like, oh so that what the bastard meant. I've been told that this is a ridiculously naive goal. *shrug* Probably is.