16 thoughts on “List-mania.”

1. Where do these titles come from? Just what this one guy things you need to read/see to be cool? Because any list with five Pratchett books (much as I love Pratchett) was not issued by any reputable society or council.

   August 22, 2003 at 7:48 am Reply

   • Heh. Like I said, filched from another journal. Some major Pratchett fan must have compiled it. I included it because there are some writers I haven’t ever read. Have you, for instance, read Jacqueline Wilson? Or Anya Seton? I haven’t!
     :-)

     Anyways, the movie list is pretty good. What say?

     August 22, 2003 at 7:53 am Reply

     • No, but do I need to? I’m not aware of them as people I need to get to. I’m not even aware of them as existing. This guy puts three Jacqueline Wilson books on his list (The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Double Act, Vicky Angel), and I’ve NEVER HEARD OF HER. I’m going to assume she’s a children’s or fantasy author (probably children’s), as that seems to cover the majority of these titles, but still, I read fantasy, I read children’s books. And yet: no idea who she is.

       I do feel ashamed I’ve read Magician and Artemis Fowl, but not a single Tolstoy.

       And yes, the movie list is better. I haven’t seen 20 of them (no, 19 — Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi is Spirited Away, I’ve seen that), and they’re all movies I will get to eventually, like Schindler’s List, Seven Samurai, To Kill a Mockingbird, Notorious, the 3 Charlie Chaplins, and even Amelie and Leon and The Great Escape (those are all pretty low on the list). And Angry Men — I assume that means 12 Angry Men? Need to see that, too. He made some very good picks on the list, classics and well-known works by great directors alongside genre films and lesser seen masterpieces (like Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil, and The Apartment).

       August 22, 2003 at 9:08 am Reply

       • I normally see a lot of Jacqueline Wilsons in bookstores(even here, in india), but well, my tastes ( and from what I can see, yours too) are slightly different. So I haven’t tried her out….and I don’t want to, not right now, because I have too much of pending reading material. But of course, I might give her a try someday.

         About “do I need to read Jacqueline Wilson?” – I don’t have anything about trying new authors. Ms Wilson’s books seem to be pretty famous – some site says “Every week she receives hundreds of letters from children who enjoy her work. They love her because she doesn’t talk down to them. They can identify with her characters because they are so realistic. There are no perfect children in her world; just everyday children, with their everyday vulnerabilities and idiosyncrasies – having to deal with divorced parents and first-time adult relationships. ” That kind of rang warning bells for me….

         I think the booklist was a little too jarring because it covered a lot of genres, it’s hard to find someone who would read Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Meg Cabot and Terry Pratchett.

         I haven’t seen 20 of them
         “Wow!” is all I can say to this. :-)

         August 22, 2003 at 9:25 am Reply

2. 1984, George Orwell
   The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
   Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
   Animal Farm, George Orwell
   Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
   Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
   Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
   The BFG, Roald Dahl
   Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
   Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
   Bleak House, Charles Dickens
   Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
   Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
   Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
   Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
   Catch 22, Joseph Heller
   The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
   Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
   A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
   The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
   Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
   The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
   The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
   Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
   Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
   Dune, Frank Herbert
   Emma, Jane Austen
   Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
   Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
   The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
   The Godfather, Mario Puzo
   Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
   Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
   Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
   Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
   The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
   Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
   The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
   Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
   Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
   Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
   Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
   Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
   His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
   The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
   The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
   Holes, Louis Sachar
   I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
   Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
   Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
   Katherine, Anya Seton
   The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
   Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
   Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
   The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
   Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blighton
   Magician, Raymond E Feist
   The Magus, John Fowles
   Matilda, Roald Dahl
   Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
   Middlemarch, George Eliot
   Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
   Mort, Terry Pratchett
   Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
   Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
   Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
   On The Road, Jack Kerouac
   One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   Perfume, Patrick Suskind
   Persuasion, Jane Austen
   The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
   A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
   Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
   The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
   The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
   Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
   The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
   The Secret History, Donna Tartt
   The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
   The Stand, Stephen King
   The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
   A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
   Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
   A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
   Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
   The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
   To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
   A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
   Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
   The Twits, Roald Dahl
   Ulysses, James Joyce
   Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
   War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
   Watership Down, Richard Adams
   The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
   Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
   The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
   Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

   August 22, 2003 at 9:56 am Reply

3. I don’t really buy this list, coz it doesn’t have The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Shrek :P
   But still here’s what I have seen, I have most of the DVDs in the list, but I have a whole lot of films to catch up with…time constraints, dammit :(

   The Movies I have seen:
   Godfather, The (1972)
   Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
   Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
   Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
   Schindler’s List (1993)
   Casablanca (1942)
   Seven Samurai (1954)
   Star Wars (1977)
   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Memento (2000)
   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
   Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
   Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
   Usual Suspects, The (1995)
   Amelie (2001)
   Pulp Fiction (1994)
   Psycho (1960)
   Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
   It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
   American Beauty (1999)
   Pianist, The (2002)
   Some Like It Hot (1959)
   Matrix, The (1999)
   Taxi Driver (1976)
   Fight Club (1999)
   L.A. Confidential (1997)
   Chinatown (1974)
   Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
   Saving Private Ryan (1998)
   Se7en (1995)
   Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
   Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
   Vita e bella, La (1997)
   The Sting
   Leon (1994)
   Great Escape, The (1963)
   Reservoir Dogs (1992)
   Sixth Sense, The (1999)
   Jaws (1975)
   Amadeus (1984)
   Braveheart (1995)
   Toy Story 2 (1999)
   Shining, The (1980)
   Donnie Darko (2001)
   Princess Bride, The (1987)
   Run Lola Run (1998)

   The DVDs I have but yet have to view:
   Citizen Kane (1941)
   Rear Window (1954)
   Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
   Goodfellas (1990) American Beauty (1999)
   Vertigo (1958)
   Apocalypse Now (1979)
   Boot, Das (1981)
   Requiem for a Dream (2000)
   Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
   Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
   All About Eve (1950)
   Raging Bull (1980)
   Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
   American History X (1998)
   Touch of Evil (1958)
   Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
   Rashomon (1950)
   On the Waterfront (1954)
   Ran (1985)
   Blade Runner (1982)
   Aliens (1986)
   Strangers on a Train (1951)
   Metropolis (1927)
   Full Metal Jacket
   Notorious (1946)
   Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

   August 22, 2003 at 1:31 pm Reply

   • shiite…you have all these DVDs! wish it was as easy to copy DVDs as it was to copy CDs and i’d catch a train to mumbai just for that.
     P.S. are they contraband or original. if the former, where in mumbai, if you don’t mind telling?

     August 22, 2003 at 1:35 pm Reply

     • Oh yeah, we have a treasure chest of DVDs…in fact the DVDs occupy more space than its original inhabitants in our house. Yup, they are original…but none from Mumbai… some from US and some from Thailand.

       August 22, 2003 at 1:41 pm Reply

       • I heartily share ‘s feelings about the Treasure Chest! *sigh*

         Happy viewing! :-)

         August 22, 2003 at 11:10 pm Reply

   • I am looking for a way I can see Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi .

     American Beauty and Butch Cassidy.. – please see both!

     August 22, 2003 at 11:08 pm Reply

     • I don’t have the DVD of Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi or Spirited Away. Saw it, thanks to Kazaa ;)

       Hey I have seen American Beauty…maybe I missed it while commenting. And I wrongly mentioned I have the DVD of Rashomon, I do not :)

       Bucth Cassidy, seen in parts, had to go for tutions that day, so missed it. They used to keep showing it on Star Movies all the time, when Star TV had just started :)

       August 22, 2003 at 11:38 pm Reply

       • Oh cool! So that means I have a chance of copying the divX rip of Spirited Away from you if I am in Mumbai. :-P

         Please please please?

         August 22, 2003 at 11:40 pm Reply

         • :( I deleted the file a long time back…I saw it last October-November. I just have a 20 GB hddsk space, so I had to delete it

           But if I see a VCD, I’ll buy u one :)

           August 23, 2003 at 12:03 am Reply

           • whoops! :-P

             Thanks anyways. :)

             August 23, 2003 at 12:05 am

   • Touch of Evil & Metropolis

     You have the DVDs ? Wow ! I’m impressed with the whole list, but owning Touch of Evil and Metropolis is the sign of a true movie buff. But er…why don’t you watch them ? Or pass them on to someone who would ? ;-)

     August 23, 2003 at 4:09 pm Reply

     • Re: Touch of Evil & Metropolis

       I don’t agree. I think watching Shrek 89 times is a sign of a true movie buff. :))

       And I haven’t watched them becoz I don’t have all the time in the world. And I have a lifetime to watch all of em one by one, by then I’ll have a Touch of Evil and Metropolis in the collection too. B-)

       P:S: I consider the IMDB list quite hopeless, there are so many better films that they have left out.

       August 24, 2003 at 12:13 am Reply

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