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 Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:45 pm
Fill it in! What kind of list would you make? Hit list? Grocery list?
Eh, any kind. Celebrity Soul you want to own list....
Me? I'm gonna make a list of everyone who makes a list.
1: Shadow Elven Mage
2: Orange Blossom
3: Bogus Burger
4: jagjaglover
5: Mooby the Golden Sock
6: [Ralph]
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:50 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|I would make a Things I Want To Read list:
- The Iliad
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Great Expectations
- Wuthering Heights (even though I'm sure I'll hate it)
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (or whatever it's called, I don't quite remember)
- The Odyssey (again, because the last time I read it I was only ten or so)
And that's just the very beginning.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:12 pm
Things I Should Have Done Today Instead of Procrastinating
clean my room
wash the dishes
homework
pleasure reading
play video games
put CDs onto my mp3 player
make my bed
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:48 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|That's a formidable list you have there. ^.^ I personally try not to do most of those things, but I am one of the laziest people ever, so that's understandable.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:35 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:56 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|I should have a List of Muscles I Need To Know Stuff About For My Exams, but I can't be bothered putting one together.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:29 pm
I've made lists like those before, Shadow! They didn't help me much though.
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Bogus_Burger Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:03 pm
TI I highly recommend the Wheel of Time. I'm eagerly awaiting what Mr. Jordan says will be the final book. It think it's slated for spring of '08. I found Wide Sargasso Sea a bit disappointing, but considering how much I disliked the class I read it in, I have a bias against it.
Here's a list of books I hope to get around to reading (or finishing)
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
The Complete Stories of Roald Dahl
Ryonosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon
Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby
Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano
Joseph Heller's Good as Gold
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables
Stephen Crane's Maggie, Girl of the Streets
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward (just bought it today!)
Sinclir Lewis' It Can't Happen Here
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey
V.S. Naipaul's The Writer and the World
Doris Kearns Goodwin's A Team of Rivals
Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker
Don Delillo's White Noise
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
Franz Kafka's Amerika
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville's Billy Budd and Other Stories.
And Aldous Huxley's Now More Than Ever
Now I understand there are several titles on here that I should have read already considering I have a BA in English now. You're probably thinking, wtf, what a noob,or something like that. I have read bits and pieces of the story collections on there. As for the others: Dorian Grey, Seven Gables, Farewell to Arms, on the road, and invisible man, I just never encountered them in a class and didn't pick them up for pleasure, excepting On the Road. I've tried several times to get through that book and I always find my mind wandering.
It's funny that I look forward to the more obscure stuff probably more than I do the more commonly read stuff. maybe I'll make a list of obscure stuff I've read.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:09 pm
 <[[ Your fury and your glory and your deepest, darkest fears...
|---> The Picture of Dorian Grey is fantastic. I couldn't put it down. Of course, I love Oscar Wilde, so I'm a bit biased.
The name "Nathaniel Hawthorne" rings a bell...I have a feeling that I have some kids' versions of Ancient Greek legends by him sitting around somewhere.
There are a few books on your list that I've heard of and do plan on reading some day: for example, I want to read the works of Poe and Roald Dahl (whom I loved very much as a child). Also, just randomly, I want to read Through the Looking Glass, because I read Alice in Wonderland as a kid and loved it.
And now I feel like reading, so I'll probably do that when I get home instead of studying the muscles of the upper limb and trunk... <---|
Cheer up, emo kid. ]]>
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:44 am
[Shadow.Elven-mage] <[[ Your fury and your glory and your deepest, darkest fears...
|---> The Picture of Dorian Grey is fantastic. I couldn't put it down. Of course, I love Oscar Wilde, so I'm a bit biased.
The name "Nathaniel Hawthorne" rings a bell...I have a feeling that I have some kids' versions of Ancient Greek legends by him sitting around somewhere.
There are a few books on your list that I've heard of and do plan on reading some day: for example, I want to read the works of Poe and Roald Dahl (whom I loved very much as a child). Also, just randomly, I want to read Through the Looking Glass, because I read Alice in Wonderland as a kid and loved it.
And now I feel like reading, so I'll probably do that when I get home instead of studying the muscles of the upper limb and trunk... <---|
Cheer up, emo kid. ]]> Hawthorne is most known for The Scarlet Letter, which I read in High school and disliked. I took a class centered around the darker American Romantic writers, specifically Melville, Hawthorne and Poe in which we read some of his stories from The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories, and loved the stories we read. The class overall was amazing. We read the stories in the context of Freudian and Jungian psychology, specifically the concept of the psyche being divided into two realms: Conscious and Unconscious, or Superego and Id for Freud. The professor who taught the class had been, and just recently published a book I still want to get, Emerson and Eros which discusses Emerson within a similar context (He was not only a huge Emerson enthusiast, but also a very well-published and knowledgeable Emerson scholar). Sorry if that turned into a really big ramble, but that should give you an idea of how great that class is, and it probably explains why I want to go back and read something I thought I'd never be able to get through. The Romantics on both sides of the Atlantic are just so damn interesting though.
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:08 am
Things I'm paying for:
Fall tuition + fees: $1,748(or something like that)
Gas: about $20-21/tank
Textbooks: about $400 for 3 books!!!!!(I'm used to paying $150-200 for an entire semester's worth. How I miss being an English major)
Big Calendar about $5
Legal pad holder- About $3
FNM alternating $5/$15 every other week
dinner on Fridays $5-7
School District Application Fee $50
2 copies of Undergrad official transcript, both for the SAME EMPLOYER $20
TExES exam (I think it's $80) (English/Language Arts/Reading content area)
Criminal background check/fingerprinting (no clue how much that costs)
Oil change (probably about $30-$40)
New suit(s) and dress shoes and some nice-looking clothes
A printer
Cheatyfacing postage
Stamps
Envelopes
toothpicks
Peppermint Oil (the bottles almost half empty!)
Lorwyn Prerelease (probably between $25 and $65)
Spring Tuition+ Fees (probably the same as Fall)
Textbooks for spring
Morningtide Prerelease
A round-trip ticket to Scranton, Pennsylvania
Compare this to:
My sources of income:
Bank interest.
Wait, I don't even have a savings account anymore!
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:25 am
I'm glad to see a round-trip ticket to Scranton is on your list. And don't worry. You will have an income before you know it. smile And then you can come visit me!
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:39 am
My list of those I know and love on gaia:
Mooby
Blossom
Shadow
BB
You the reader.
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Bogus_Burger Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:12 pm
hey good idea Jagjag
here's a list of people I know in real life here at TLS:
Orange Blossom (of course)
Mooby the Golden Sock
Demiimp
Jagjaglover
DramaguyCJM
Gwennblackfeather
Inkaholic
I think that's it.
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