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Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri March 29, 2019 9:55 pm
by 4/5
08/50 Books
1. Crime and Punishment--Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
3. Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis--Russ Roberts
4. Lessons From the Great Depression: The Economic Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930--Thomas Rustici
5. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations--Adam Smith
6. I Will Teach You to be Rich--Ramit Sethi
7. Tortilla Flat--John Steinbeck
8. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care--T.R. Reid
06/50 Movies
1. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
2. The Greatest Showman (2017)
3. Big Eyes (2014)
4. Love and Other Drugs (2010)
5. All Eyez on Me (2017)
6. Double Indemnity (1944)
13/50 TV
1. Cheers, season 7
2. Cheers, season 8
3. Ozark, season 1
4. Ozark, season 2
5. Cheers, season 9
6. The Ted Bundy Tapes
7. The Handmaid's Tale, season 1
8.The Handmaind's Tale, season 2
9. Game of Thrones, season 1
10. Game of Thrones, season 2
11. Game of Thrones, season 3
12. Game of Thrones, season 4
13. Game of Thrones, season 5
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Sat March 30, 2019 3:19 am
by wease
33/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark
The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2
Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2
Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music
Deadly Edge - Richard Stark
Slayground - Richard Stark
Plunder Squad - Richard Stark
The Damsel - Richard Stark
The Blackbird - Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages)
Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark
Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark
Comeback - Richard Stark
Backflash - Richard Stark
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
Flashfire - Richard Stark
The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler
Firebreak - Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Volume 4
Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 1
Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 2
Breakout - Richard Stark
Nobody Runs Forever - Richard Stark
Ask the Parrot - Richard Stark
Dirty Money - Richard Stark
The X-Men Companion Vol 1 - Peter Sanderson
The X-Men Companion Vol 2 - Peter Sanderson
Essential Ms. Marvel Vol 1
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Essential Punisher Vol 1
7/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sin City
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Captain Marvel
The Godfather
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Sun March 31, 2019 12:46 am
by wease
33/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark
The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2
Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2
Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music
Deadly Edge - Richard Stark
Slayground - Richard Stark
Plunder Squad - Richard Stark
The Damsel - Richard Stark
The Blackbird - Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages)
Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark
Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark
Comeback - Richard Stark
Backflash - Richard Stark
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
Flashfire - Richard Stark
The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler
Firebreak - Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Volume 4
Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 1
Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 2
Breakout - Richard Stark
Nobody Runs Forever - Richard Stark
Ask the Parrot - Richard Stark
Dirty Money - Richard Stark
The X-Men Companion Vol 1 - Peter Sanderson
The X-Men Companion Vol 2 - Peter Sanderson
Essential Ms. Marvel Vol 1
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Essential Punisher Vol 1
8/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sin City
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Captain Marvel
The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon April 01, 2019 1:27 pm
by blueviper
2/50 Books
Pet Sematary - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
5/50 Movies
Blast from the Past (1999)
Game Night (2018)
The Incredibles 2 (2018)
Annihilation (2018)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) (rewatch)
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon April 01, 2019 4:59 pm
by epilogue
16/50 Movies:
1. The Avengers: Infinity War
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Ocean's 8
4. Fyre
5. Tag
6. Greta
7. RED
8. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
9. The Fate of the Furious
10. Captain Marvel
11. Justice League
12. Bohemian Rhapsody
13. Last Man
14. Darkest Hour
15. Us
16. Abducted in Plain Sight
7/50 Books:
1. The End of the End of the World - Jonathan Franzen
2. Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
3. Becoming - Michelle Obama
4. Another Country - James Baldwin
5. If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
6. Nine Stories - JD Salinger
7. I Await the Devil's Coming - Mary MacLane
11/50 Albums:
1. Around the Sun - R.E.M.
2. Accelerate - R.E.M.
3. Here We Rest - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
4. Lifers - Cody Jinks
5. Ash & Ice - The Kills
6. Canterbury Girls - Lily & Madeliene
7. My Woman - Angel Olsen
8. Horses - Patti Smith (revisiting after more than a decade)
9. How to Socialise & Make Friends - Camp Cope
10. EP - Boygenius
11. Sirens of the Ditch - Jason Isbell
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon April 01, 2019 6:48 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
03/50 movies:
1. Sicario: Soldado
2. Krull
3. The Running Man
4. Free Solo
5. Kung Fu Panda 3
6. Hotel Artemis
7. Bohemian Rhapsody
1/50 books:
1. Born to Run
Way more movies, just keep forgetting to post here. slacking on the books though
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon April 01, 2019 9:23 pm
by wease
34/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark
The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2
Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2
Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music
Deadly Edge - Richard Stark
Slayground - Richard Stark
Plunder Squad - Richard Stark
The Damsel - Richard Stark
The Blackbird - Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages)
Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark
Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark
Comeback - Richard Stark
Backflash - Richard Stark
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
Flashfire - Richard Stark
The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler
Firebreak - Richard Stark
Hellboy: Omnibus Volume 4
Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 1
Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 2
Breakout - Richard Stark
Nobody Runs Forever - Richard Stark
Ask the Parrot - Richard Stark
Dirty Money - Richard Stark
The X-Men Companion Vol 1 - Peter Sanderson
The X-Men Companion Vol 2 - Peter Sanderson
Essential Ms. Marvel Vol 1
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Essential Punisher Vol 1
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
8/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sin City
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Captain Marvel
The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon April 01, 2019 10:33 pm
by Stardog Champion
20/50 Movies
Fruitvale Station
Beautiful Boy
Mission Impossible Fallout
Venom
Ant-man and the Wasp
Sorry To Bother You
Incredibles 2
The Dark Tower
Ocean's 8
The Quick and the Dead
North by Northwest
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
BlacKKKlansman
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Friday
Molly's Game
Captain Marvel
Us
Into The Spider-Verse
16/50 Books
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower 2) - Stephen King
New Orleans Stories - edited by John Miller
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
The Waste Lands (Dark Tower 3) - Stephen King
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Origin of Others - Toni Morrison
The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - Various Authors
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 4:50 am
by LoathedVermin72
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 1:49 pm
by bada
You caught up to me.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 3:07 pm
by blueviper
Stardog Champion wrote:20/50 Movies
Fruitvale Station
Beautiful Boy
Mission Impossible Fallout
Venom
Ant-man and the Wasp
Sorry To Bother You
Incredibles 2
The Dark Tower
Ocean's 8
The Quick and the Dead
North by Northwest
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
BlacKKKlansman
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Friday
Molly's Game
Captain Marvel
Us
Into The Spider-Verse
16/50 Books
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower 2) - Stephen King
New Orleans Stories - edited by John Miller
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
The Waste Lands (Dark Tower 3) - Stephen King
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Origin of Others - Toni Morrison
The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - Various Authors
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
How did you like The Ocean at the End of the Lane? I thought it was ok, but maybe it was because I read The Graveyard Book before it. The Graveyard Book is great.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 3:08 pm
by Mickey
How much does this count for?
Literature--Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Aidoo, Ata Ama - Our Sister Killjoy
Baraka, Amiri and Fundi Abernathy - In Our Terribleness
Borges, Jorge Luis - “Las Ruinas Circulares”
Guimaraes Rosa, Joao - “As margens da alegria”
Marechera, Dambudzo - The House of Hunger
Roa Bastos, Augusto - “El Baldío”
Rulfo, Juan - “Nos han dado la tierra;” “No oyes ladrar los perros;” “La cuesta de los comadres;”
“El llano en llamas”
Saer, Juan José - “El Viajero”
Toomer, Jean - Cane
Reportage, Scholarship, Theory, Criticism, Philosophy
Augé, Marc - Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
Best, Stephen - None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, and Aesthetic Life
Césaire, Aimé - Discourse on Colonialism
Ellis, Nadia - Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
Hu, Tung-Hui - A Prehistory of the Cloud
North, Michael - The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth Century Literature
Paxton, Robert O. - The Anatomy of Fascism
Traverso, Enzo - The Origins of Nazi Violence
Articles and Excerpts
Andermann, Jens- from The Optic of the State (Ch 3 - “Maps;” Ch 6 - “Disappearing Acts:
Photography and Primitive Accumulation”)
Andermann, Jens - “State Formation, Visual Technology and Spectatorship: Visions of Modernity in
Brazil and Argentina”
Andermann, Jens - from Tierras en Trance (Ch 1)
Arendt, Hannah - from The Origins of Totalitarianism (Chs 6-7)
Asante, S.K.B. - from Pan-African Protest: West Africa and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis, 1934-1941 (Ch. 1)
Baker, Houston A. - “Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance”
Barthes, Roland - from Camera Lucida (Sections 9-11, 18-24)
Barzini, Luigi - from The Italians (“Mussolini or the Limits of Showmanship”)
Baskin, Jason M. - “Soft Eyes: Marxism, Surface, and Depth”
Bell, Lucy - “Photography, Punctum, and Shock: Re-viewing Juan Rulfo’s Short Stories”
Benjamin, Walter - from The Arcades Project (Colvolutes E, F, G, H, I)
Benjamin, Walter - “Brief History of Photography”
Best, Stephen, Heather Love and Sharon Marcus - “Building a Better Description”
Best, Stephen and Sharon Marcus - “Surface Reading: An Introduction”
Brizuela, Natalia - from Depois da fotografia (pp. 109-123)
Burleigh, Michael and Wolfgang Wippermann - from The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (Ch. 4)
Clarke, Cheryl - from After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (Intro, Chs 1-2, Excerpts
from Ch 3)
Costa Pinto, António - from The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State (Chs 1-2, 7)
Costa Pinto, António - from The Nature of Fascism, Revisited (Chs 1, 4)
Costa Pinto, António and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo - “A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture,
and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism”
Crary, Jonathan - from Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Chs.
1-2)
de Certeau, Michel - from The Practice of Everyday Life (Chs. 7-9)
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari - “Rhizomes”’
Edwards, Brent Hayes - from The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black
Internationalism (“Inventing the Black International: George Padmore and Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté”)
Fanon, Frantz - from Black Skin White Masks (“The Fact of Blackness”)
Fanon, Frantz - from The Wretched of the Earth (“On National Consciousness”)
Fleischhaur, Carl and Beverly Brannan - from Documenting America, 1935-1943 (Introduction)
Foucault, Michel - from The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 (Lecture I)
Foucault, Michel - from Discipline and Punish (“Panopticism”)
Foucault, Michel - “Of Other Spaces”
Foucault, Michel - “Space, Knowledge, and Power”
Freud, Sigmund - “The Uncanny”
Garza, Cristina Rivera - from Había Mucha Neblina o Humo o No Sé Qué (Ch 4 - “Angelus Novus
Sobre El Papaloapan”
Glissant, Édouard - from Poetics of Relation (“Section I: Approaches;” “Transparency and Opacity;”
“Section V: Poetics”)
Gramsci, Antonio - from The Gramsci Reader (“Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Bloc;”
“Popular Culture”)
Gramsci, Antonio - from The Prison Notebooks (“Notes on Italian History;” “The State;” “State and
Parties”)
Hahn, Steven - from A Nation Under our Feet (Ch 6 - “Of Paramilitary Politics”)
Harris, Joseph E. - from African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia, 1936-1941 (Chs 2-4)
Heidegger, Martin - “The Age of the World Picture”
Hobsbawm, Eric J. - “The Apogee of Nationalism: 1918-1950”
Ingold, Tim - “The Temporality of the Landscape”
Jaguaribe, Beatriz and Mauricio Lissovsky - “The Visible and the Invisibles: Photography and Social
Imaginaries in Brazil
James, CLR - “After Hitler, Our Turn”
James, CLR - “Why Negros Should Oppose the War”
Jay, Martin - from Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Intro and
Ch. 1)
Kallis, Aristotle - “The ‘Fascist Effect’: On the Dynamics of Political Hybridization in Inter-War
Europe”
Kant, Immanuel - from Critique of Pure Reason (Preface and Introductions A and B)
Kant, Immanuel - from Critique of the Power of Judgment (Excerpts from First and Second Books)
Kelley, Robin D.G. - from Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Ch 6: “Keepin’ it (Sur)real:
Dreams of the Marvelous”
Kinder, Marsha - “The Exterminating Angel: Exterminating Civilization”
Lefebvre, Henri - from The Production of Space (“Plan of the Present Work”)
Levi-Strauss, Claude - “A Writing Lesson”
Librandi Rocha, Marilia - “Sertao, City, Saudade”
Majluf, Natalia - “Pattern-Book of Nations: Images of Types and Costumes in Asia and Latin
America, 1800-1860”
Marx, Karl - from Capital, Vol. I (Chs. 26, 33)
Marx, Karl - from The German Ideology (Excerpt from Pt. I, “On Feuerbach”)
Massaquoi, Hans - from Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black In Nazi Germany (pp. 1-20)
Mazower, Mark - from No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United
Nations (Ch 1: “Jan Smuts and Imperial Internationalism”)
McKittrick, Katherine - from Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle
(Introduction, Chs 1-3)
McLuhan, Marshall - from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (“The Medium is the Message”
and “Challenge and Collapse”)
Meriwether, James H. - from Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa 1935-1961 (Chs 1
& 6)
Millichamp, Joseph - “James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Dialectic of Documentary Representation
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”
Mitchell, W.J.T. - from Landscape and Power (“Introduction” and “Imperial Landscape”)
Mosse, George - from The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in
Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich (Chs. 1-2)
Nadeau, Maurice - from The History of Surrealism (Chs. 1-2, 4, 8, 16)
Nietzsche, Frederick - from The Birth of Tragedy (“Attempt at Self-Criticism;” “Preface;” Chs. 1-18)
Nietzsche, Frederick - from The Genealogy of Morality (“Preface” and “First Treatise”)
Ong, Walter J. - from Orality and Literacy (“Writing Restructures Consciousness” and “Print, Space,
and Closure”)
Padrón, Ricardo - from The Spacious Word (Excerpts from Chs 1-2, Ch. 3)
Penny, Daniel - “#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism”
Pennybacker, Susan D. - from From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain
(Introduction, Ch 2, Conclusion)
Pratt, Mary Louise - from Imperial Eyes (Chs. 1-2)
Robinson, Cedric - from Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (“The Formation of
an Intelligentsia”)
Rosso, Alfredo - “The Political Doctrine of Fascism”
Schmitt, Cannon - “Interpret or Describe”
Silvestri, Graciela - from El Lugar Común: Una historia de las figuras de paisaje en el Río de la Plata
(Excerpts)
Sontag, Susan - “Fascinating Fascism”
Sontag, Susan - from On Photography (pp. 3-23)
Traverso, Enzo - from Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (Preface and Ch 1)
Von Eschen, Penny M. - from Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anti-Colonialism (Chs 1, 4, 7)
Films
Chicago Boys (dir. Fuentes and Valdeavellano, 2015)
Colette (dir. Westmoreland, 2018)
Eighth Grade (dir. Burnham, 2018)
Ejercicios de Memoria (dir. Encima, 2016)
The Favorite (dir. Lanthimos, 2018)
Neruda (dir. Larraín, 2016)
Roma (dir. Cuarón, 2018)
Y Tu Mamá También (dir. Cuarón, 2001)
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 3:10 pm
by Simple Torture
Mickey wrote:
Marx, Karl - from Capital, Vol. I (Chs. 26, 33)
I see you Comrade Gritty.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 3:13 pm
by Mickey
Simple Torture wrote:Mickey wrote:
Marx, Karl - from Capital, Vol. I (Chs. 26, 33)
I see you Comrade Gritty.
In a certain way that's far from the most Marxist thing on my list.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 3:15 pm
by Simple Torture
Are you prepping for exams now or what? When I was doing that, I found it impossible to keep track of what I was reading, even with the lists I made in advance. I gave up taking notes about a third of the way through (besides marginalia and dog-earing pages) knowing that 75% of the works wouldn't even show up in my comps.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 3:18 pm
by Mickey
Simple Torture wrote:Are you prepping for exams now or what? When I was doing that, I found it impossible to keep track of what I was reading, even with the lists I made in advance. I gave up taking notes about a third of the way through (besides marginalia and dog-earing pages) knowing that 75% of the works wouldn't even show up in my comps.
Yeah, I have a theory exam for my MA in May (real comps are next year). It's about 75 texts. I've been taking notes as best I can and using this document to track everything, but it is a sort of absurd exercise. But it's also a two-hour oral exam so I'm not too worried about being pinned down on specifics.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 4:10 pm
by Simple Torture
Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Are you prepping for exams now or what? When I was doing that, I found it impossible to keep track of what I was reading, even with the lists I made in advance. I gave up taking notes about a third of the way through (besides marginalia and dog-earing pages) knowing that 75% of the works wouldn't even show up in my comps.
Yeah, I have a theory exam for my MA in May (real comps are next year). It's about 75 texts. I've been taking notes as best I can and using this document to track everything, but it is a sort of absurd exercise. But it's also a two-hour oral exam so I'm not too worried about being pinned down on specifics.
Oral exams are good in that regard. I had the hardest time writing my comp exams but the orals--which were 1.5 hours, I think--flew by. Dissertation defense was a lot tougher. We didn't have oral exams for the MA program that I could recall, but mine wasn't a dual program, which might be the difference.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 4:22 pm
by Stardog Champion
blueviper wrote:Stardog Champion wrote:20/50 Movies
Fruitvale Station
Beautiful Boy
Mission Impossible Fallout
Venom
Ant-man and the Wasp
Sorry To Bother You
Incredibles 2
The Dark Tower
Ocean's 8
The Quick and the Dead
North by Northwest
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
BlacKKKlansman
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Friday
Molly's Game
Captain Marvel
Us
Into The Spider-Verse
16/50 Books
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower 2) - Stephen King
New Orleans Stories - edited by John Miller
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
The Waste Lands (Dark Tower 3) - Stephen King
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Origin of Others - Toni Morrison
The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - Various Authors
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
How did you like The Ocean at the End of the Lane? I thought it was ok, but maybe it was because I read The Graveyard Book before it. The Graveyard Book is great.
OK feels like the perfect description. It was fine for what it was. I'm glad it wasn't any longer. An expansion of that world was not something I found myself wanting. I haven't read much Gaiman, but I liked American Gods and Good Omens a lot. I'll have to check out The Graveyard Book.
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 4:25 pm
by Mickey
Simple Torture wrote:Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Are you prepping for exams now or what? When I was doing that, I found it impossible to keep track of what I was reading, even with the lists I made in advance. I gave up taking notes about a third of the way through (besides marginalia and dog-earing pages) knowing that 75% of the works wouldn't even show up in my comps.
Yeah, I have a theory exam for my MA in May (real comps are next year). It's about 75 texts. I've been taking notes as best I can and using this document to track everything, but it is a sort of absurd exercise. But it's also a two-hour oral exam so I'm not too worried about being pinned down on specifics.
Oral exams are good in that regard. I had the hardest time writing my comp exams but the orals--which were 1.5 hours, I think--flew by. Dissertation defense was a lot tougher. We didn't have oral exams for the MA program that I could recall, but mine wasn't a dual program, which might be the difference.
We have no written exams other than the prospectus (and translation).
Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu April 04, 2019 4:59 pm
by Simple Torture
Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Are you prepping for exams now or what? When I was doing that, I found it impossible to keep track of what I was reading, even with the lists I made in advance. I gave up taking notes about a third of the way through (besides marginalia and dog-earing pages) knowing that 75% of the works wouldn't even show up in my comps.
Yeah, I have a theory exam for my MA in May (real comps are next year). It's about 75 texts. I've been taking notes as best I can and using this document to track everything, but it is a sort of absurd exercise. But it's also a two-hour oral exam so I'm not too worried about being pinned down on specifics.
Oral exams are good in that regard. I had the hardest time writing my comp exams but the orals--which were 1.5 hours, I think--flew by. Dissertation defense was a lot tougher. We didn't have oral exams for the MA program that I could recall, but mine wasn't a dual program, which might be the difference.
We have no written exams other than the prospectus (and translation).
That's really interesting. I had a translation exam during my MA 2nd year (between them, actually) but it was sort of a joke--something like the opening section of a piece of criticism of your choosing. It was take-home, if I remember correctly.
I think, despite all of my delays and self-imposed fuck-ups, the written exams did help with writing my dissertation. I found myself returning to them 4 years later to mine sections for reflections on theory that I didn't want to write all over again.
