Daily Rantings











{July 8, 2008}  

Taken from Zong Ling’s blog.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have watched.
2) Italicize those you definitely will watch.
3) Underline the movie(s) you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blogger for the fun of it.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. WALL·E (2008)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
9. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. Casablanca (1942)
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. 12 Angry Men (1957)
13. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Rear Window (1954)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – i watched it half way through.
18. Cidade de Deus (2002)
19. C’era una volta il West (1968)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
21. The Usual Suspects (1995)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. Fight Club (1999)
24. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
27. Citizen Kane (1941)
28. North by Northwest (1959)
29. Memento (2000)
30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
31. The Matrix (1999)
32. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
33. Se7en (1995)
34. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
36. Taxi Driver (1976)
37. American Beauty (1999)
38. Léon (1994)
39. Vertigo (1958)
40. American History X (1998)
41. Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
42. Paths of Glory (1957)
43. The Departed (2006)
44. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
45. M (1931)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Alien (1979)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
50. The Third Man (1949)
51. Forrest Gump (1994)
52. Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)
53. The Shining (1980)
54. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
55. The Pianist (2002)
56. Double Indemnity (1944)
57. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
58. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
59. Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)
60. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
61. L.A. Confidential (1997)
62. Aliens (1986)
63. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
64. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
65. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
66. Boot, Das (1981)
67. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
68. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
69. Untergang, Der (2004)
70. Raging Bull (1980)
71. No Country for Old Men (2007)
72. There Will Be Blood (2007)
73. Rashômon (1950)
74. Metropolis (1927)
75. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
76. Sin City (2005)
77. Rebecca (1940)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
80. Amadeus (1984)
81. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
82. Some Like It Hot (1959)
83. All About Eve (1950)
84. The Prestige (2006)
85. Vita è bella, La (1997)
86. The Great Escape (1963)
87. The Elephant Man (1980)
88. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
89. Jaws (1975)
90. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
91. City Lights (1931)
92. On the Waterfront (1954)
93. Touch of Evil (1958)
94. The Sting (1973)
95. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
96. Blade Runner (1982)
97. Braveheart (1995)
98. The Apartment (1960)
99. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
100. The Great Dictator (1940)

Can you believe it.. I have watched NONE, i repeat NONE of the 100 movies. -.- FINE.. i’m like uber noob! * i might have watched jaws & singin’ in the rain.
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1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blogger so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller -started this, never finished it.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley -still waiting to get this book from whoever has it.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Me not exactly a book person. At least i fare better in books than movie, read twenty odd books from the list >.<



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