Nathan Comstock's 49 Book challenge

The list isn't quite done yet, but Michael wanted to see it. Comment with anything else you want me to read. By the way, I lost NaNoWriMo, but I'm gonna keep working on Telepsis as soon as finals week is over.

Nathan Comstock’s 50 Book Challenge

Fiction
1. Franz Kafka, The Castle
2. Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
4. Dante Algieri, Purgatorio
5. Dante Algieri, Paradiso
6. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
7. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
9. J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
10. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
11. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
12. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
13. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
14. Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
15. Robert Luis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
16. Voltaire, Candide
17. Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events
18. Christopher Moore, Lamb
19. Robert Rankin, The Brightonomnicon
20. Terry Goodkind, Wizard’s First Rule
21. Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy
22. Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
23. Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
24. Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
25. Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
26. Orson Scott Card, Homecoming
27. J.K. Rowling, (Harry Potter Book 7)
28. Isabella Allende, Zorro
29. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
30. Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
31. Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
32. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
33. Larry Niven, Ringworld
34. Neil Gaiman, American Gods
35. Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Shadow Thieves
36. Harry Turtledove, In the Balance
37. Jeffrey Eugenides, Virgin Suicides
38. Maria Doria Russel, The Sparrow
39. Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

Non-Fiction
1. Jared Diamond, Collapse!
2. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
3. Mark Kurlansky, Cod
4. Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
5. Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
6. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
7. Irving L. Janis, Groupthink
8. Reinhold Niebler, Moral Man and Immoral Society
9. Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
10.John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Jahopi square (or whatever it is)

So, Ashley did one of these, and it looked like a pretty cool idea - finding out what others think of you. So please click here. It won't take five minutes.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Ander42

Monologue

This is my audition monologue for The Magical Lamp of Aladdin. It is from the novel Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. I have recut it rather liberally.

Ah, Mr. Lipwig. You are aweake, I see. And still alive, for the moment. Shall I tell you about angels? I know two interesting facts about them.
Oh, yes, you were hanged. A very precise science, hanging, and Mr. Trooper here is a master. The slippage and thickness of the rope, whether the knot is placed here rather than there, the relationship between weight and distance - oh, I'm sure the man could write a book. You were hanged to within half an inch of your life, I understand. Only an expert standing right next to you would have spotted that, and in this case, that expert was our Mr. Trooper. No, Alfred Spangler is dead, Mr. Lipwig. Three hundred people would swear they saw him die. And so, appropriatly, it is of angels which I wish to speak with you.
The first interesting thing about Angels, Mr. Lipwig, is that sometimes, very rarely, when a man has made such a foul and tangled mess of his life that death seems like the only sensible option, an angel appears to him, or should I say, unto him, and offers him the chance to do it all over again, only this time, to do it right. I should like you to think of me as... an angel.
I am offering you a job, Mr. Lipwig. Alfred Spangler may be dead, but Mr. Lipwig has a future. It may, of course be a very short one, if he is stupid. I am offering you a job, Mr. Lipwig. Work, for wages. I realize the concept may be unfamiliar to you.
Oh, and one more thing. Should you decide to take advantage of my generosity, I should like you to remember the second interesting thing about Angels. The second interesting thing about Angels, Mr. Lipwig, is that you only ever get just the one.

New Names

A few people now have new names. The list so far:
Marten - Wind Hedgehog
Ashley - Fire Rat
Thomas - Water Rhino
Kaylee - Water Llama
Courtney - Fire Octopus
Amanda - Ether Raccoon
My Dad - Fire Porcupine

I am Earth Ferret. Others will be added as the list grows.

Update # 1:
Sarah Mo - Water Panda
My Mom - Fire Penguin
Sasha - Water Horse
Amy - Fire Dragon

Update #2:
Josh - Fire Siberian Tiger
Marcus - Fire Antelope
Amanda G - Wind Eagle

Update #3:
Jonah - Earth Duck (woot! another earth)
Daniel - Wind White Rhino
Alice - Water Lark
Sarah Mc- Water Tiger

Final update of the night:
My Grandma is Earth Bear

Best CD ever

I've just burned the best CD ever. It's called Broadway Lover's Pizza, and it contains:

1. I Need to Know - from Jekyll and Hyde
2. God Save the People - from Godspell
3. Man of La Mancha - from Man of La Mancha
4. Prayer - from Scarlett Pimpernel
5. Heaven on their Minds - from Jesus Christ Superstar
6. Falcon in the Dive - from Scarlett Pimpernel
7.As Good as You - from Jane Eyre
8. Confrontation - from Les Miserables
9. The World Has Gone Insane - from Jekyll and Hyde
10. Defying Gravity - from Wicked
11. Alas for You - from Godspell
12. She Cries - from Songs for a New World
13. To Each his Dulcinea - from Man of La Mancha
14. No Good Deed - from Wicked
15. Aldonza - from Man of La Mancha
16. Farewell Good Angel - From Jane Eyre
17. Flying Home - from Songs for a New World
18. Gethsemane - from Jesus Christ Superstar
19. Javert's Suicide - from Les Miserables
20. Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - from Les Miserables
21. The Impossible Dream - from Man of La Mancha

Yes Man of La Mancha has about a 4th of the songs. That's because it's quite possibly the best musical ever. I almost put Knight of the Woeful Countenance on there too. Awesomest CD yet.