Cheating

Came across this list in Cimatu's blog, thought I'd give it a try. Should have thought twice. Made me feel that I've left out on a lot of things. Anyway, I'll just have to find a way to prevent myself from dying. For the complete list, click.

Here's how I fared.

155. Jazz – Toni Morrison: have one, haven't read it yet
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro: started it, didn't finish
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel: at last, something familiar
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco: was 3/4 through when I gave up. Why? I ask the same question
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison: have one, haven't read it though
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro: have one, haven't read it
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez: read it, loved every bit of it
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco: have one, haven't read it though
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving: have one, haven't read it
314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: have one, lent it, haven't got it back yet, bought from the SFW in Diliman, it was translated by the late great Monico Atienza (I think)
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison: have one, haven't read it
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice: read it
324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez: read it
379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo: loved the movie (does this count?)
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez: read it, loved every Rosario
402. The Joke – Milan Kundera: have one, haven't read it
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe: have one, haven't read it
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess: saw the movie, disturbingly beautiful, will bite own tongue before reading actual book
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee: read it
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs: borrowed one, can't find it anymore, hard read
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe: read it, liked it
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding: saw the film, haven't read the book
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway: have a translated version from SWF
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell: read it, bothered by it. Shhh, Big Brother is watching
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell: read it, bothered by it, two feet good, four feet bad.
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: read it, still can't get it
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell: have one, haven't read it though
631. Burmese Days – George Orwell: currently reading it, hearting it
698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf: saw the film, haven't read the book
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce: have one, haven't read it
738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke: saw the Kurosawa (hoping that its screenplay was based on the book)
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair: have one, haven't read it
790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells: have one, haven't read it, watched the film instead (sticks and stones...)
837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky: read it, haven't finished it yet
840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy: looking for one, partly because of Murakami
861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky: have one, haven't read it
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky: read it, bothered still
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky: read it, not finished with it
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe: read it
953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade: eyeing to buy one
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift: read it
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: looking forward to own one
995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais: looking forward to own one, due of Bhaktin

I have read/have/want 43 out of 1001. (does wanting it count?)

Could someone do a list of must-read (or must-not-read, right Mr. Cimatu?) filipiniana?