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Line 1: ----- This is a list that my students usually ask for after a semester of hearing me yack about how great literature is. I am posting it here because I frequently lose this list and have to replicate it. Also, it will be easier to update from any terminal this way. Obviously, by posting this, I am submitting it to the public ___domain (not that it is any great achievement on my part) but I would appreciate it if you didn't mess the list up. If you want to argue with me about the list (how vain of me to imagine you even care) then go to [[~~talk~~User_talk:trimalchio]]. Thanks. ----- Line 10: This is what I think someone needs to have under their belt if they want to think they lived in the [[Twentieth Century]]. It's completely idosyncratic, does not include music or vacation spots (the other great mediums of the Twentieth Century) and it stretches back to a few key Line 34: fetish for serial killers and fireballs. ~~Borken~~Broken glass, sand in the face, surfboards, hula girls, imperialism, the metropolis, and McDonalds. Line 67: *The Sketch Book [[Washington Irving]] Satyricon Petronius (read with Homer and Virgil in mind) [[Divine Comedy]] of [[Dante Alighieri\|Dante]] [[Paradise Lost]] [[John Milton\|Milton]] Grimm's Fairytales The Plays of [[Shakespeare]] Worth Seeing or Reading Line 76: *[[King Lear]] [[Romeo and Juliet]] [[A Midsummer's Night's Dream]] [[Macbeth]] [[Hamlet]] [[Richard II (play)\|Richard II]] Henry IV pt 1 Henry IV pt 2 Line 86: [[Twelfth Night]] [[Tempest]] [[Richard III (play)\|Richard III]] Horror *The [[Call of Cthulhu]] and Other Tales [[Howard Philips Lovecraft]] (Edited by ST Joshi) Line 92: House of Leaves [[Mark Danielewski]] Carrie [[Stephen King]] Tales of [[~~ETA~~E.T.A. Hoffmann]] Books on Writing Burning Down the House [[Charles Baxter]] Line 116: [[The Lord of the Rings]] [[J. R. R. Tolkien\|John Reuld Ronald Tolkien]] Secret History [[Donna Tartt]] [[In the Lake of the Woods]] [[Tim ~~OBrien~~O'Brien (author)\|Tim O'Brien]] [[The Things They Carried]] [[Tim ~~OBrien~~O'Brien (author)\|Tim O'Brien]] In Cold Blood [[Truman Capote]] [[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]] [[Hunter S. Thompson]] Line 138: China Men [[Maxine Hong Kingston]] Emigrants Sebald ''[[Neuromancer]]'' [[William Gibson (novelist)\|William Gibson]] [[The Great Gatsby]] [[F. Scott Fitzgerald\|Francis Scott Fitzgerald]] The Knife Thrower and other stories Stephen Millhauser Cosmicomics [[Italo Calvino]] Invisible Cities [[Italo Calvino]] Line 163 ⟶ 162: [[V for Vendetta]] [[Alan Moore]] [[From Hell]] [[Alan Moore]] [[Sandman (Vertigo)\|The Sandman]] [[Neil Gaiman]] Ghost World [[Daniel Clowes]] [[Astrocity]] [[Kurt Busiek]] Line 170 ⟶ 169: Why I Hate Saturn Kyle Baker Strangers in Paradise [[Batman]]: The Dark Knight Returns [[Frank Miller (comics)\|Frank Miller]] Movies Line 189 ⟶ 188: *[[Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill]] Lone Star The Outlaw Josie Wales (watch together) XA Fist ~~The~~Full ~~Outlaw~~of ~~Josie Wales~~Dollars (watch together) X[[Unforgiven]] ~~A Fist Full of Dollars~~ (watch together) X [[Unforgiven]] (watch together)▼ Tailor of Panama (watch after watching any James Bond picture) The Running Man The Limey [[Batman (1989 film)\|Batman]] ([[Tim Burton]]) [[Raiders of the Lost Ark]] Silverado Line 213 ⟶ 210: [[A Clockwork Orange]] Dune ([[David Lynch]]) ▲ X [[~~Unforgiven~~Naked Lunch]] (watch together) X [[~~Naked Lunch~~Existenz]] (watch together) X [[~~Existenz~~Videodrome]] (watch together) ~~X [[Videodrome]] (watch together)~~ Fifth Element [[Twelve Monkeys]] [[Brazil (~~movie~~film)\|Brazil]] [[Terry Gilliam]] [[Time Bandits]] The Adventures of [[Baron Von Munchausen]] Line 228 ⟶ 223: Company of Wolves (watch with a copy of Grimm's Fairytales... Dover Edition) [[Nosferatu]] [[Alien (film)\|Alien]] [[Carnival of Souls]] The Haunting (1963 [[Robert Wise]]'s follow-up film after [[The Sound of Music]]) Line 267 ⟶ 262: City Hall Velvet Goldmine (watch after [[Citizen Kane]]) [[JFK (film)\|JFK]] [[William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet\|Romeo and Juliet]] (the [[Baz Lurhman]] production) [[Macbeth]] (the [[Roman Polanski]] production) [[Glengarry Glen Ross]] Line 311 ⟶ 306: [[Fast, Cheap and Out of Control]] [[Dr. Death]] *[[The Big One (movie)\|The Big One]] [[Television\|TV]] [[Daria]] ([[MTV]]) [[Nero Wolfe]] Mysteries (A&E) Shark Week ([[Discovery]]) Ultimate Guide ([[Discovery]]) Sex and the City ([[Home Box Office\|HBO]]) [[MASH]] (in syndication) NOVA ([[PBS]]) [[The Simpsons]] ([[Fox Network\|FOX]]) [[Futurama (animated series)\|Futurama]] ([[Fox Network\|FOX]]) [[Malcolm in the Middle]] ([[Fox Network\|FOX]]) [[My So Called Life]] ([[MTV]]) [[Twin Peaks]] (AE) [[Northern Exposure]] (AE) [[Picket Fences]] (TNN) [[The Prisoner]] (Watch all seventeen episodes in order if possible) [[Wild Palms]] (the mini-series produced by [[Oliver Stone]]) ---- Line 336 ⟶ 331: <small>A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about states, cities and towns. Here they are: [[WikiProject U.S. States]] These are ''only'' suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you ''shouldn't'' feel obligated in the least to follow them. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!</small> :''See also :'' [[User:Trimalchio]]