what books have you read for pleasure?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Taken from THE APP!</p>

<p>Pleasure: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Cat's Cradle, Mother Night, Galapagos
Dawn, Jean-Paul Sartre: An Introduction</p>

<p>I didn't list authors on the app, but here are the authors (in the order that they are listed)
Oliver Sacks, Kurt Vonnegut (times three), Elie Weisel, Arthur C. Danto)</p>

<p>Required: Death of a Salesman, Oedipus Rex
Jesus' Son, Gilead
Lies My Teacher Told Me</p>

<p>Authors once again: Arthur Miller, Sophocles, Denis Johnson, Marilynne Robinson, James Loewen</p>

<p>Newspaper thingies: The New York Times
The New Yorker Online, Newsweek </p>

<p>Art thingies/movies (I couldn't fit everything :(): The Universe Within - The Human Body Revealed
The Tempest (Cal. Shakes. Theater), 25th Hour, Lost in Translation</p>

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<p>I love Lost in Translation</p>

<p>and you just reminded me of Night by Elie Weisel; most tragic book ever</p>

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<p>Copied and pasted from app:</p>

<p>Books: Cien Anos de Soledad (untranslated), On the Road,The Rape of Nanking, Of the Farm, Of Human Bondage, Ulysses, Discipline and Punish, A Season in Hell, The Wasteland, Naked Lunch, The Accidental Masterpiece</p>

<p>Okay, so some weren't books, I enjoyed them nevertheless</p>

<p>(They were by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kerouac, Iris Chang, Updike, Somerset Maughm, James Joyce, Foucault, Rimbaud, T.S. Eliot, William S. Burroughs, and some guy I can't remember the name of, respectively)</p>

<p>Required and Enjoyed: Invisible Man, As I Lay Dying, Moby Dick, The Sun Also Rises, Life of Pi, The Stranger, The Trial, Ego and Archetype, All the King's Men</p>

<p>Too lazy to list authors</p>

<p>Publications: The Economist, Time, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Vogue, Pointe, any magazines of literature and the arts I can find</p>

<p>Entertainment: American Ballet Theatre (Swan Lake, Romeo&Juliet), Rilo Kiley concert, Irving Penn:Platinum Prints, Hirshhorn's Willem de Kooning paintings</p>

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<p>Wow, everyone's list is so serious! I put MAD Magazine as one of my publications/magazines.</p>

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<p>haha... i put Esquire and the Columbia Spectator in my publications.</p>

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<p>Why would you put the Spec in your publications? That's an incredibly douchey thing to put. Who would care what's in the Spectator, unless you're actually there? I don't know why a high school student would care about the latest controversy over the housing lottery.</p>

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<p>well, i did find all the agony over the football team's failure kinda funny. don't blame me for finding my favorite school interesting in general.</p>

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<p>Pleasure: A Painted House by John Grisham, Ender's Game by Orson Card, Jennifer Government by Max Barry, Term Limits by Vince Flynn, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain</p>

<p>Required: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell</p>

<p>Newspapers/etc.: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, Newsweek, Scientific American</p>

<p>Art: "To Fly" at the Air and Space Museum, "Modernism in American Silver" at American Art Museum</p>

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<p>I read both interpreter of maladies and the namesake...the namesake was wayyyy better</p>

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<p>are we supposed to include authors for the books?</p>

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<p>i did...
heres wat i put straight from the app
for pleasure
max haevlaar -multatuli
on the road - kerouac
snow falling on cedars - gutterson
the curious incident of the dog in the night time- haddon
n of course.....harry potter 6!!! ( duuno if i should have put dat ..hmmmm)</p>

<p>required:
if this is a man/ the truce - levi ( i thinks the american title is survival in auswitch)
Globalia - JC Ruffin
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
Bestario - Julio cortazar
20 poemas de amor - Neruda</p>

<p>newspaper stuff:
the economist, intl heral tribune, GEO (french magazine) and Le monde (french newspaper)</p>

<p>art stuff:
cecilia bartoli recital
montreux jazz festival
rijksmuseum
MOMA
le barbier de seville de Beaumarchais</p>

<p>....if u havent guessed i live in france ;)</p>

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<p>yayy!! whoo hoo for snow falling on cedars. :D love it <em>_</em> </p>

<p>i forgot to add Memoirs of a Geisha for fav books. i hope the movie does it justice....</p>

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<p>i heard 'the curious incident' is amazing</p>

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<p>Anyone into science fiction?</p>

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<p>i used to read a ton of vonnegut, but he claimed that he's not science fiction. magical realism, maybe?</p>

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<p>Dunno if you'd actually call Vonnegut magical realism, his stories have science fiction elements, though they aren't straight up scifi either. Definitely satire and black comedy though. I guess his writing is just a combo of a bunch of stuff.</p>

<p>I really like magical realism though. Just finished this AWESOME book called The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia. It was published by McSweeney's. You guys should check it out.</p>

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<p>i didnt like it?</p>
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<p>The online app left alot less room for writing down these things, would this put us online-app people at a disadvantage? This was true of most of the short answer/fill in questions on the online app, which were limited.</p>

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<p>I tried to include authors, so my characters were limited on the online app</p>

<p>Books for pleasure:
History of Sexuality Volume One - Michel Foucault
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
Henry and June - Anais Nin
Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim - Mary Dearborn
Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
Secrets of Marikio: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Confessions of an Heiress - Paris Hilton (my fluff book)</p>

<p>Required reading:
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
No Exit - Jean Paul Sartre</p>

<p>Newspapers, magazines, publications:
New York Times
Chunklet
Spin
XXL (Rap Magazine)</p>

<p>Art, shows, festivals, entertainment:
Gang Gang Dance and Slint (Live Concert 3/17/05)
Alphaville at the Museum of the Moving Image
Photography at MoMA
Sin City</p>

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<p>I read Playboy for pleasure ;) haha j/k</p>

<p>I like reading George Orwell books, they rock!</p>