Time's All-Time 100 Novels

I think I will make it a goal to have read all of these before I die and sometime after I get my bachelors (because textbooks rule my life at the moment). I really think I may have made the wrong decision regarding my major but it's okay because I'll have a more stable career plus I'm too stubborn to admit it.

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book) by Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time. 4th movement, Winter by Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance by James Dickey
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Falconer by John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Herzog by Saul Bellow
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Loving by Henry Green
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel by Christina Stead
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Money by Martin Amis
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Possession by A. S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen by Alan Moore
White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

impressions of youtube channels

Community Channel. I have many good things to say about this channel. It brightens my day to listen to Nat's dorky comments and awful mom jokes. It wasn't always so pleasant though. The first time I stumbled across the Community Channel, I saw a video called hand gestures. I could not understand why the video had so many positive ratings and feedback. The video was of one girl making little hand gestures by herself. I saw little point in it. The video was not especially funny or entertaining. The girl, Natalie, did not particularly stand out aside from her Aussie accent. I decided to continue watching a few more videos to understand the phenomena of her popularity. The more I watched, the more she grew on me. The attraction became more intimate (like with Nat's mom). Now I think I can be entertained by watching a video of Nat twiddling her thumbs. She has a genuine personality that she has portrayed well through her collections of videos. I like her and will continue watching.

mememolly. Cats inspired by cats was my first video with Molly. What can I say about this? The video was disturbing and strange enough to keep me searching through her channel for more. Many of her videos give an artsy indie impression. She tries to be creative and gets away with it. She is an attractive girl with pretty eyes and a smooth voice. Some videos are inspirational (dear body inspired many responses), while others disappoint. Sometimes I wonder if she'll be half as entertaining if she were not so attractive. Nevertheless, I like watching this channel from time to time.

spricket24. She won an Emmy award, but I still don't see it. Her End of the World video was somewhat informative and entertaining, but overall, I find Karen a little annoying. Maybe her fans have seen enough of her to get over her annoying tones and gestures, but I can't seem to get pass a few videos. Just watch her Emmy acceptance speech video. I know she is just trying to be cute and funny, but it doesn't do much for me.

so this is what happened

I did not like blogger because I didn't blog on it. I switched to wordpress but I didn't blog on that either. Wordpress gave me no options for theme creativity and variability so I turned back to blogger. And that is the end of my not-very-epic blog move.

So I actually wanted a really cool update, something dramatic: I caught H1N1 after traveling the continents and I don't really know if I'll make it through. Then I go on to blog about the progression of my illness until one day I can blog no more. Instead, I am here to say that I've caught the regular seasonal flu because I was too lazy to visit the doctor for my vaccination. I am awful at coming up with quirky, exciting new things to talk about.

I am in Philly this weekend, ill and content. I have a lot of school work, but am always in search of better things to do. I spent most of my day watching youtube videos. I paid $90 for a trip home to watch Community Channel and mememolly from the comfort of my bed. It's all worth it because I get to eat my mom's cooking.


@Deb Visit me. Jul and Nia are coming to State College next weekend. It would be awesome if you could come along as well. I can promise you with hallucinogens, Jensen Ackles (on my laptop) and lots of squirrels.

I'm going to make it one of my goals to watch all the popular channels on youtube and comment on them individually. Or I can study for my Analytical Chemistry exam. This is quite the dilemma.