September 24, 2009
While I have hinged my life’s success on the completion of lists created by a complete stranger, please know that I’m actually even more ambitious than that. There are MANY different opinions of what the greatest all-time books and films are and no matter how hard I try, I know that I’ll never actually read every book and watch every movie. What I can do, and what I want to try to do, is read and watch most of the books and movies that are routinely referenced within our culture.
Since I’ve already completed the All-Time Greatest Films List, I have already added the films from the lists below to my Netflix account. The books, however, will have to wait. You could say that I’m just a glutton for lists and…you’d be right. I think between these lists and Richard Horne’s, I should be about covered, although there will always be someone else recommending some book I just HAVE to read.
That being said, I read Atomised this past weekend, so now I’ve read 4 books on the Horne list for 2009. I also read The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which was a lot of fun and have The Duchess by Amanda Foreman and Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser up next. (Thanks Jes!) I’ve most recently watched WALL-E, which was better than I expected, and just got from Netflix today: Yes Man, Perfume, and Changeling.
Other Film Lists:
Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 Movies
American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies
Other Book Lists:
The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 Novels
Read any good books lately or seen any good films (either recent or older)?
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