Books N Movies Rants

Started as a blog of a father trying to create the perfect list of books and movies that his son should read and watch. Now it is that and some general rants. Scroll down for the lists. If you have a list of 10 books and 10 movies please send it to me.

February 14, 2006

Current Book & Movie Lists

Current Book List

Lord of the Rings Trilogy - 5 votes
Moby Dick - Melville - 5 votes
Ulysses - James Joyce - 3 votes
100 years of solitude - Garcia Marquez - 2 votes
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 2 Votes
Animal Farm - Orwell - 2 Votes
Any book - Kurt Vonnegut - 2 votes
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 2 votes
Dune - 2 votes
Geek Love - 2 votes
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - 2 Votes
Illuminatus! - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shae - 2 votes - First book to receive multiple votes & first book put on the list
Junkie - William S. Burroughs - 2 Votes
Odyssey - 2 votes
Silence of the Lambs- 2 Votes
The Stand - S. King - 2 Votes
The Stranger - Albert Camus - 2 votes
The World According to Garp - 2 Votes
Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett - 2 votes
Watchmen - 2 votes
Wuthering Heights - 2 votes
1984
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
A good biography on Abraham Lincoln
Alone---Byrd
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Anything by Kipling
Anything by Cussler
As Told at the Explorers Club
Athletic Shorts - Chris Crutcher or anything else by him
Battle Cry Freedom
Belladonna - Karen Moline
Beowulf
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Borstal Boy
Catcher and the Rye - Salinger
Civil War - Shelby Foote
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Collected Star Man comics - James Robinson
Collected Stories - Franz Kafka
Collected Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters - John Waters
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky
Don't smoke grass on my father's lawn (son of Charlie Chaplin),
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheir 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72, - Hunter Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson
Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel - Groucho and Chico Marx
Fountainhead
Getting Things Done
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Gone with the Wind
Good Earth
Good Omens - Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchet
Great Gatsby
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
Gulliver's Travels
It - S. King
Rose Madder - S. King
Portable Beat Reader - many writers (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs)
Kane & Abel
The Prince
Still Life with Woodpecker - Robbins
Lance Armstrong's first book
Monkey, A Journey to the West
Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Wizard of Oz series - Frank L Baum
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
L.A. Confidential - James Elroy
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat - John Gibbons (non fiction)
The Pirate Lafayette,
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Iliad - Homer
Maltese Falcon
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Snow Ghosts (also called The Snowstorm)
The Trial - Kafka
Middlemarch - George Eliot
On the Road
The Son Also Rises - Hemmingway
Oxbow Incident
Paradise Lost
Three Musketeers
White Noise
Foucault's Pendulum
Pharmakopia
The Tipping Point
Love in the time of Cholera
Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Madam Bovary
The Rites of Spring - Madras Eckstein
The Proud Tower
Dreadnought - Robert Massie
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Big Sea - Langston Hughes
Winter Soldier - Robert Ketchum
The Cousins' War
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
In Dubious Battle - Steinbeck
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1
Green Arrow, Archers Quest - Brad Meltzer, Phil Hester
For Whom the Bell Tolls---Hemingway
Tom Sawyer - Mark Tawain
In the Heart of the sea---Plhilbrick
The Firm---Grisham
Shackleton
Flyboys---Bradley
Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Science and Human Values - Bronowski
Confronting Silence - Toru Takemitsu
Poetics of Music - Igor Stravinsky
The Dilbert Principle or The Way of the Weasel - Scott Adams
The Abs Diet - David Zinczenko
The Illuminati Papers - Robert Anton Wilson
The Big Book of Conspiracies - Robert Anton Wilson
Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
DareDevil - Frank Miller
Tomb of Dracula - Marv Wolfman
Swamp Thing - Alan Moore
The Collected Calvin & Hobbes
I know why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
How The Dead Live - Will Self
The Hear is Deceitful Above All things - JT Leroy
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Walden - Thoreau
Warriors of God
Winnie the Pooh
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Zen and art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Here is the current movies list:

Star Wars: Episode 4 A New Hope - First movie put on the list - 4 votes
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy - 4 votes
Casablanca - 3 votes
A Wonderful Life - 2 Votes
Blade Runner - 2 Votes
Clerks - 2 Votes
Star Wars 5 - Empire Strikes Back - 2 votes
Exorcist - 2 Votes
Ghost Dog 2 - votes
Gone With the Wind - 2 votes
Jaws - 2 votes
Manchurian Candidate (original) - 2 votes
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - 2 Votes
Rashomon - 2 votes
The 10 Commandments - Original with Charlton Heston - 2 votes
The Godfather - 2 votes
The Sound of Music - 2 votes
Wizard of Oz - 2 Votes
Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein
Animal House
Aliens
Apocalypse Now
Barbarella
Battle of the Bulge - Henry Fonda
BeastMaster
Bells of St. Mary's
Bowling for Columbine
Brain Candy
Brazil
Bridge of the River Kwai
Bridges of Madison county
Children of Paradise
Citizen Kane
Clash of the Titans
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Dogma
Dracula (Original with Bella Ligousi)
Dune
Fight Club
For a Few Dollars More
Forest Gump
Goodfellas
Hello Dolly
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Kung Fu - David Carradine, Made for TV
Manchurian Candidate (remake)
Modern Times
Moulin Rouge
Nightmare Before Christmas
North By Northwest
Office Space
Out of Africa
Princes Bride
Project A - Jackie Chan
Psycho
Re-animator
Rear Window
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn
Royal Tenenbaums
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs
Seven Samurai
Singing in the Rain
Star Wars 6 - Return of the Jedi
The Big Lebowski
The Cocoanuts with The Marx Brothers
The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
The Godfather 2
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Incredibles
The Passion of the Christ
The Quiet Man
The Seventh Seal
The Shining
The Thin Man
The Thing (original)
The way we were
The Wolf Man
The Zero Effect
Texas Chainsaw Massacarre - (original)
They were expendable
West Side Story
Young Frankenstein
Zatoichi

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