Moi, Je M'appelle Lolita

Today I watched the re-make of the Stanley Kubrick film Lolita, which is based on Vladimir Nabokov's book. It's really sad and gross, but it's a good movie once you can get past the whole incest/statutory rape thing. Here's part one.

Library Escapades

So I was unaware that a lot of the books on my list are freakishly long. No really. I'll have to read them one at a time and maybe I'll finish by the time I graduate.

Anyway so I went to the library today to A: check out those books and B: do research for my UHC paper. This was my first legitimate trip to the library. After complaining for a good twenty minutes and refusing to ask anyone for help I looked around until I sort-of-kind-of found stuff I can use for this paper on Doris Lessing. Finding the books on my to-read list was an absolute nightmare - not as far as "do they have them?" but more like "where are they in this gargantuan library?" I got two of them: Ada and Mrs. Dalloway. I have them till March 10th. Isn't that a little long?

Books I Covet

Lately I've realized I'm relatively illiterate, considering I stopped reading anything other than Sparknotes at the start of my junior year. I made a list of books I should read - tell me if you've read any of them. I want to know if they're worth my time.

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov

Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek

Summer - Edith Wharton

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan

           

First post

I love to copy off my biffle, guy in college (http://guyincollege.com) so I made a blog. Let's see how often I update.