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inquisHere are the current top 50 books from www.whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read. Pass it on:
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (and it was a bit shite)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
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A movie meme posted on a few of my LJ friends' pages had the idea of saying if you'd seen any of the 178 (?!) movies listed, and seeing over 70 suggests you had no life. However the list was generally derided on content, so I figured a *better* movie list would be in order.
So, using their categories as a benchmark, I've chosen the top ten (or thereabouts, due to multi-categorisation) movies on all 19 categories on the IMDB; if you've seen more than, shall we say half (85) then you are officially a movie buff!
If you fancy doing this yourself, feel free, I'm just doing this to see if I can match the *28* that I saw on the previous list!
() The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
() Shichinin no samurai (1954)
(1) Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
(2) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
(3) Star Wars (1977)
(4) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
(5) C'era una volta il West (1968)
() The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
(6) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
(7) The Matrix (1999)
(8) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
(9) Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
() Modern Times (1936)
() City Lights (1931)
() Singin' in the Rain (1952)
(10) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
() Simon (2004/I)
() Babam Ve Oglum (2005)
() Safety Last! (1923)
(11) Some Like It Hot (1959)
() It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
() Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
() Belle et la bête, La (1946)
(12) Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
() Faust (1926)
(13) The Wizard of Oz (1939)
() Mononoke-hime (1997)
() A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
() Ángel exterminador, El (1962)
(14) Batman Begins (2005)
() Duck Soup (1933)
() A Night at the Opera (1935)
() Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (1964)
() Swing Time (1936)
() Blaue Engel, Der (1930)
(15) The Lion King (1994)
() The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
() The Court Jester (1956)
() Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
() Beauty and the Beast (1991)
(16) Rear Window (1954)
() Cidade de Deus (2002)
(17) The Usual Suspects (1995)
() North by Northwest (1959)
() Memento (2000)
(18) Psycho (1960)
() The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
(19) Vertigo (1958)
() Fight Club (1999)
() M (1931)
() Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
() The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
() Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
() Apocalypse Now (1979)
(20) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
() The Great Escape (1963)
(21) The Incredibles (2004)
() Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
(22) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
() Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
() The Godfather (1972)
() The Godfather: Part II (1974)
(23) Pulp Fiction (1994)
() 12 Angry Men (1957)
() Goodfellas (1990)
() Rashômon (1950)
(24) Taxi Driver (1976)
() Chinatown (1974)
() Double Indemnity (1944)
(25) Léon (1994)
() Sunset Blvd. (1950)
() The Third Man (1949)
() The Maltese Falcon (1941)
() Touch of Evil (1958)
() Strangers on a Train (1951)
() Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
() The Big Sleep (1946)
() Notorious (1946)
() Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
() The Killing (1956)
() Citizen Kane (1941)
(26) Se7en (1995)
() Rebecca (1940)
() L.A. Confidential (1997)
() Diaboliques, Les (1955)
() Donnie Darko (2001)
() Oldboy (2003)
() Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
() The Lady Vanishes (1938)
() Z (1969)
() Schindler's List (1993)
() Paths of Glory (1957)
() Untergang, Der (2004)
() Hotel Rwanda (2004)
() The Pianist (2002)
() Boot, Das (1981)
() Idi i smotri (1985)
() Kumonosu jô (1957)
() Napoléon (1927)
() Vita è bella, La (1997)
(27) Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation (1996)
() Finding Nemo (2003)
() Toy Story 2 (1999)
() Hotaru no haka (1988)
() Mimi wo sumaseba (1995)
() Shrek (2001)
() Kurenai no buta (1992)
(28) Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
() Toy Story (1995)
(29) Monsters, Inc. (2001)
() Chagrin et la pitié, Le (1969)
() My Flesh and Blood (2003)
() Nuit et brouillard (1955)
() No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
() The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
() Hearts and Minds (1974)
() Promises (2001)
() Bowling for Columbine (2002)
() Nema-ye Nazdik (1990)
() The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
(30) Alien (1979)
(31) The Shining (1980)
(32) Aliens (1986)
() Jaws (1975)
() Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (1920)
() The Night of the Hunter (1955)
() Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
() Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
() Onibaba (1964)
() Frankenstein (1931)
(33) Casablanca (1942)
() Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
() Metropolis (1927)
() Brief Encounter (1945)
() The Apartment (1960)
() On the Waterfront (1954)
() The General (1927)
() The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
() The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
() It Happened One Night (1934)
() High Noon (1952)
() The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
(34) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
() Unforgiven (1992)
() Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
() The Wild Bunch (1969)
() Red River (1948)
() The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
() The Searchers (1956)
() My Darling Clementine (1946)
() Hud (1963)
() The Kid (1921)
() Harvey (1950)
() Bringing Up Baby (1938)
() The Cameraman (1928)
() A Christmas Story (1983)
() Our Hospitality (1923)
() Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
() The Circus (1928)
() Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
() The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
(35) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
() Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
() American Beauty (1999)
() To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
() All About Eve (1950)
() Million Dollar Baby (2004)
(36) Requiem for a Dream (2000)
() American History X (1998)
() Greed (1924)
() Voyna i mir (1968)
() Crash (2004)
(37) Reservoir Dogs (1992)
(38) Amadeus (1984)
() Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
() Campanadas a medianoche (1965)
() The Message (1976)
() Fargo (1996)
() The War Game (1965)
() Amores perros (2000)
(39) The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
() A Clockwork Orange (1971)
(40) Blade Runner (1982)
(41) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
() Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
(42) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
(43) Back to the Future (1985)
(44) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
() King Kong (1933)
(45) Young Frankenstein (1974)
It took me an hour and a half to design this list, in NeoOfficeJ, due to it going slowly, and due to the fact that most of the films have so much cross-categorisation that, for example, I had to use the 50th best rated Drama film to make a top 10 of Drama (cos I already had 40 of them earlier in the list). Mind you it was still rated 8.4 so it's still a top-notch film. Whatever it was.
Out of the list, my own personal favourites that I've seen are Casablanca, Bridge on the River Kwai, Se7en, and the incredibly depressing Requiem for a Dream.
