} top movies/books

ok going to do the movie/book lists on zong's blog cos i cant resist doing this kind of stuff haha. i couldnt find the top 100 list on imdb though so this is the first 100 of their top 250 list.

IMDB Top 100

Bold - have watched.
Italics - will def watch.
Underlined - watched and loved.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather II (1974)
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Casablanca (1942)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. 12 Angry Men (1957)
12. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - i love the whole trilogy, and want to own it on dvd so i can rewatch it again and again, haha.
14. Goodfellas (1990)
15. Rear Window (1954)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Cidade de Deus (2002)
18. C'era una volta il West (1968)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
20. WALL�E (2008)
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. North by Northwest (1959)
28. Citizen Kane (1941)
29. Memento (2000) - i had to watch it twice to get it... but its brilliant.
30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
31. The Matrix (1999) - a bit too confusing for me...
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. L�on (1994)
39. Vertigo (1958)
40. American History X (1998)
41. Fabuleux destin d'Am�lie Poulain, Le (2001)
42. Paths of Glory (1957)
43. The Departed (2006)
44. M (1931)
45. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - i think i want to read the book rather than watch the film.
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. Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)
52. Forrest Gump (1994)
53. The Shining (1980)
54. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
55. Double Indemnity (1944)
56. The Pianist (2002)
57. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
58. Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - so i can finally understand monty python jokes/references? haha.
60. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
62. L.A. Confidential (1997)
63. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
64. Aliens (1986)
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. Rash�mon (1950)
73. There Will Be Blood (2007)
74. Metropolis (1927) - i watched the japanese animated version of this story though, which i quite liked.
75. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
76. Modern Times (1936) - because i must watch a charlie chaplin movie in my lifetime.
77. Rebecca (1940)
78. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
79. Sin City (2005)
80. Amadeus (1984) - half-watched it in music class in ij actually, and i want to see the whole thing!
81. All About Eve (1950)
82. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
83. Some Like It Hot (1959)
84. Vita � bella, La (1997)
85. The Prestige (2006) - im glad this made the list...
86. The Great Escape (1963)
87. City Lights (1931)
88. The Elephant Man (1980)
89. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
90. On the Waterfront (1954)
91. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
92. Jaws (1975)
93. Touch of Evil (1958)
94. The Sting (1973)
95. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
96. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
97. The Apartment (1960)
98. Blade Runner (1982)
99. Braveheart (1995)
100. The Great Dictator (1940)

10/100! well thats kindof pathetic... theres a lot im interested in actually, (especially all the detective films hahah) but few that i will definitely definitely watch, that i will take the trouble to look for, esp old films.

ok now the book list! this is more time consuming than i thought hahah.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (quite proud to say that i did finish reading the books although admittedly i skipped some wordy bits.)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - i loved the first half, but after that it kind of flopped, for me.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (uhh. i may get smited if i dont italicise it.)
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
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (too daunting to italicise.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (i liked this more than the trilogy.)
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 (shouldnt this be part of no. 33..?)
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 (i liked Angels and Demons more.)
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 (to finish reading it felt like a proud achievement... the length of it makes it tedious but otherwise a good read.)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (absolutely loved it.)
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 (a must-read, has the best sherlock holmes cases.)
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

22/100, not bad... surprised that Flowers For Algernon didnt make the list! i think i watch movies more than i read books actually, but most of the films i watched didnt make the list. hahah. ah well.

(zong if you werent referring to the lists will you direct me to the right blog post... hahah.)

anyway the euro got me addicted to watching sports and i CANNOT wait for the world cup. gotten into tennis too. root for federer tonight!

2008-07-06, 10:01 a.m..
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