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Upon checking the 100 Books to Read Before You Die website, I found a list of classics I need to read before I kick the bucket. How many have you read?
Yes, Grammarly, I meant to say kick the bucket. I'm not saying pass away. I shall not go gently into that good night. I will rage against the dying of the light.
Here are the ones I've read.
1984
Anna Karenina
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Brave New World
The Catcher in the Rye
Cloud Atlas
The Color Purple
Dune
Ender's Game
The Giver
Gone Girl
The Great Gatsby
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Grapes of Wrath
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Hobbit
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Kite Runner
The Little Prince
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Lovely Bones
To Kill a Mockingbird
That's 23 out of 100. I read some of these books decades ago and can't remember much about them. It certainly wouldn't hurt me to get my Austen on this fall. I think I'll save the Dickens for the winter months.
1 comment:
Love this post, Cara! I've read 1984 four times and saw the old, old, old B&W version of it and the new one w/Richard Burton. Talk about bleak.
Read The Great Gatsby, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Brave New World in high school.
I saw The Lovely Bones - wow, powerful stuff. Saw Gone Girl, too. Good movie. Not even a gun to my head would make me read Dune. Forced myself to watch the old movie with Kyle MacLaughlin. After 30 minutes I moved on. Worse movie ever. Stupid. Simplistic. How Frank Herbert ever got famous off of this mystifies me.
As far as sci fi goes, these are the best movies (IMO): Gattaca, Avatar (LOVED IT), Idiocracy (we're living it in real time now), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland version), The Andromeda Strain, Predestination (totally awesome), Jurassic Park, The Matrix (WOW), Dark City (so inventive), Terminator (first one), Planet of the Apes, Caesar, Blade Runner (an absolute classic), and 2001: A Space Odyssey - WOW.
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