Thursday, September 30, 2010

Autumn IV: Let the Games Begin

i need a project. i've got all the time in the world and no particular commitment except an attempted commitment to the gym, which seems to fail at every given chance. so, here's an idea. 26 books, 15 months. not your everyday new york times best selling list, or booker prize nominees. not that i have anything against those.. but usually i find that such books can be read on the side while the rest of life happens. the books i'm talking about are the ones we hear about as the classics, the ones everyone knows are the greats and we all use for some reference or the other and some point or the other, the ones that some people pretend to have read, few actually have and most people (comme moi) aspire to read. and so, here's the list...

1.  Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2.  Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
3.  Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.  War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
5.  The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6.  Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
7.  Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
8.  Ulysses - James Joyce
9.  Hamlet - William Shakespeare
10. King Solomon's Mines - Sir H. Rider Haggard
11. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
14. Midnights's Children - Salman Rushdie
15. Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov
16. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
17. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
18. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
19. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
20. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
21. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
22. East of Eden - John Steinback
23. The Divine Comedy (all three parts) - Dante Alighieri
24. Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
25. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
26. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

its quite a mixed bag this list. but here it is... and so... let the games begin.

5 comments:

CrazyDiamond said...

Whoa! Well, all the best and all that jazz. I like the reading project counter thingy on the side.

Can I get the leftovers from each conquest? :)

Heathcliffs Girl said...

What got abandoned..

K said...

@CD: it's going to cost you. ;-) but i'm easily bribable.

@Heathcliffs Girl: The first one i tried. Living to tell the tale. hehe. hopefully, i get better.

Heathcliffs Girl said...

:) sure! Madam Bovary is superb. Annoying and yet awesome

K said...

@Heathcliffs Girl: I can't wait to get to that one to be honest. I think i'll pick it up next.