-Katie-

This is a thread dedicated to the books Rory has read on the show and how we have been inspired by how she reads all the time.

I'll try looking up a list of all the books she as read on the show.

This can be a thread of how we relate to Rory and her reading habits - I have nowhere near the amount of books she has but still.

Our favourite of all the shirts Rory has worn over the years. And yes, reading is sexy!

xallyx

I love reading to so it's fun for me to hear all those book references on GG. GG.net has closed down , and I think they had a list there...but I found this list at http://chilton.smithereen.net/rorylist.html:

Pilot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Kill Me Now
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken

Love and War and Snow
Emma by Jane Austen

Rory's Dance
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Complete Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

Forgiveness and Stuff
The Metamophosis by Franz Kafka.

Paris is Burning
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson.

Double Date
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath.

Star Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

P.S. I Lo...
Ulysses by James Joyce.

Red Light on a Wedding Night
Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals by Anne Collet.

Road Trip to Harvard
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee.

Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
Howl by Allen Ginsberg.
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

Like Mother, Like Daughter
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
The Last Empire Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal.
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty.
Savage Beauty: the Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

A Tisket, A Tasket
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.


I've only read Emma out of that list, but I've heard of most of them. I'll make it a goal of mine to read through a few over the summer (I live in Australia so summer is...well technically it started 4 days ago... )... But I still have school for 4 more days, after that I'm gonna get some reading done

Ally

Tery

What a great idea for a thread!

The only books I've read out of the list are The Metamorphosis & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I loved the first one, but I barely remember the second one, it's been a long time since I read it.

Ally, like you, I'll try to read some during my Christmas vacation.

kostilicious

I read a lot, but I realized I didn't read one single book Rory read!!

-Katie-

Wow...I have not read any of those books! (And I am a bit of a bookworm myself!)...I tried reading "The Fountainhead" but I ended up giving up. Maybe I should try it again.

Annush87

I haven't read any of these! I've heard of almost all of them and even tried to read Moby Dick but never finished it Well, I don't really read a lot

-Katie-

Alright everyone. We need to inspire each other to read these books.

Someone pick a book off that list for me to read and I will do so, by taking it out from the library.

water lilies

I love reading, but I've only read "The Metamophosis" by Franz Kafka out of that list. It's a really good book though.

Katie, I suggest you read that one.

xallyx

Maybe we should have like a lil' book club thing, where we read a book over the holiday period then have a small discussion when we all finish...

Airie

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Madame Bovary
The Metamorphosis
Howl
The Sound & the Fury

Ones I shall definitely pursue...

Moby Dick
Emma
Anna Karenina
Ulysses
On The Road
The Last Empire

All the books I'm gonna pursue, I've read other stuff by the author of them, except I haven't read Kerouac and Tolstoy.

Gore Vidal is so brilliant. He's in that class with Norman Mailer.

Ooh! A book club would be an AWESOME idea!

To anyone considering Ayn Rand...DON'T. I read "Anthem" before A-Tisket A-Tasket, so I totally knew where Jess was coming from when he was declaiming her. *shudders*

kostilicious

Now I remember we read Kafkas Metamorphosis in School.. but that's it

-Katie-

Oooh I like that idea. Which book should be first? Should we go in order of the list above?

The possibilities are endless.

Ice Queen follower

Great idea for a thread

Out of the list I've read...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Ulysses by James Joyce
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I've actually been trying to read the book list off the Rory Book Club page, at thewb.com. you can get the page here

Ice Queen follower

We totally should!! It will be fun, and hehe we'd all feel like Rory. Me smart, me read book.

What book should we do?

Airie

OOH! Holidays On Ice is up on that!!! I love David Sedaris so very much. Although...Holidays On Ice isn't his best. It's a compilation of his Christmas stuff from Barrel Fever and Naked, and...well, some of it is autobiographical essays and some of it is fiction...all of the fiction comes from Barrel Fever, it's the only one with fiction in it, the rest are just essays...well, anyway, the fiction isn't very good. IMO, of course. But I definitely recommend the essays from Barrel Fever, as well as Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family In Corduroys & Denim.

Edit--OOH!!! ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY IS ON THE LIST, TOO!!!!