So anyway,
My new years resolution is to get through all of the books that keep accumulating in my room, plus the books I've downloaded to a kindle app from Amazon. I am not buying any more books until I get through this list. I keep buying books, saying I'll read them, forgetting, then buying more books.
There are a lot on here that I've read in anthologies for classes or started but never finished. Some, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I just bought a couple days ago. There are some I read when I was younger that I want to revisit. And, for some reason, I have a hard time reading books other people give to me. No matter how interesting they are, if they come from someone else they tend to get put at the back of the line.
Stars mean they were given to me by other people.
Here's the list:
1. Poems and Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
3. Paradise Lost by Milton (Probably not going to get through this one)
4. The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud
5. Le Miserables by Hugo
6. Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
8. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
9. White Fang by Jack London
10. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
11. A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
12. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
13. We The Living by Ayn Rand
14. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
15. All of the Chronicles of Narnia books
16. Selected Essays by George Orwell
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
19. Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut*
20. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
21. A Freewheelin' Time by Suze Rotolo*
22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thomson
23. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
24. Some biography of Heath Ledger*
25. Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts by David Baggett and Shawn E. Klein*
26. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNiel and Gillian McCain
27. We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists edited by Melody Berger
28. Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis*
29. 1915: The Death of Innocence by Lyn Macdonald
30. Bhagavid Gita (Some hippie-looking grad-student in the oak grove guilted me into buying this from them. A "donation" of $10)
31. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
32. The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
33. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
34. Giant Edgar Allen Poe book*
35. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
36. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
37. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
On Kindle:
1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
6. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
7. The Sea Wolf by Jack London
8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche
9. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
11. Great Expectations by Dickens
I should be getting Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh and Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel in the mail in a few days. I also need to finish Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I've been like halfway through it for months and I keep forgetting about it. They'll all be added to the list.
I feel a massive headache coming in my future, especially with all of the philosophy stuff and Milton. I think I'll save Emerson till the summer so I can sit down with a clear head and try to get through that huge text. I'm going to start with Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut now because I know I'll like it. I really hope I get through all of this, but if I get at least 1/3 of the way into something and I don't like it, I'm not reading it.
In other news, the Winter Classic was terrible. My boys lost 3-1 to the damn Caps. Their shots went in. They made less dumb mistakes. Their goalie was better. And so they won. Damn them anyway.
I was yelling so bad by the end of the game that all of my dogs migrated upstairs. Even the deaf one. Earlier in the game, I almost jumped through the tv to strangle Semin for hitting Tanger in the face with that puck. Not that it was his fault. I was just pissed.
Apparently Tanger's a female fan favorite, and it's easy to see why. Twitter was blowing up with girls worried about his face.
...The loss made me sore, but NBC just pissed me off. Whoever was directing the cameras should be fired and NBC should be banned from covering sports.
They were doing this awful overhead and panning shots during the game that made me want to drive down to Heinz Field and strangle somebody. You don't pull that during the game. I'm cool with overhead and creative camera work when there's a timeout or something, to showcase the venue and the city, but don't ever EVER do it during the game. You can't shoot hockey like it's football. It's faster. There's a lot more going on. The playing field is smaller. The object everyone's worried about is much tinier and moves much faster. More than anything though, it was the high overhead shots that were pissing me off, especially during the second Caps goal and one of the Pens power plays. I couldn't even see what was going on because the angle was terrible. Never let them cover sports again.
And I'm sick of people calling Crosby a crybaby. He's interfered with constantly because players know that when he gets the puck he's going to make a play. I'd be pissed too. He also doesn't fight all the time, so when guys give him the hard hits they give him, he doesn't do much retaliating. This isn't because he's a pansy or anything, it's because he's just not that kind of player.
He has his bitch fits at times, I'll admit. He gets frustrated. But so does everyone else. We're only talking about Crosby because he's always in the spotlight. So STFU.
And so what if he's not as badass as Ovie? Who the hell cares. You guys can go have your Russian with the missing teeth and the scraggly hair who's a good player, but can't make shots, and I'll keep clean-cut Crosby who has 32 goals this season, the most goals in the NHL. And he's young, he'll grow up. Plus, when we need a badass we have Cooke and some other guys that are more than ready to answer anyone who's talking shit. :D
Oh, and I'm really happy to see Staal playing again. He did really well.
By the way, my Steelers beat the hell out of the Browns today. 41-9.
And here's a GIF of Ovie tripping over nothing, from http://30fps.mocksession.com/OVIEFALLDOWN.gif Enjoy.
Also, the tongue picture from the preseason Letang vs Clavert fight on 9/25. Just because that fight made me supremely happy, especially the way he skated away with his sex hair and his tongue sticking out. I'm such a creep.
You can check out the fight here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1Sl6tun4Y
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