Monday, May 24, 2010

LOST reading list


  • I became addicted to Lost this summer. I wanted to assemble a list of all the literary works it references. In all its glory, I present it here.

  • "Mt.Tianmu Ascended in Dreams" by: Li Bai
  • A Brief History of Time by: Stephen Hawking
  • A Christmas Carol by: Charles Dickens
  • A History of World Societies by: John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. Hill, Patricia Buckley Ebrey
  • A Separate Reality by: Carlos Castaneda
  • A Tale of Two Cities by: Charles Dickens
  • A Wrinkle in Time by: Madeleine L'Engle
  • After All These Years: A Novel by: Susan Isaacs
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by: Lewis Carroll
  • An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
  • Animal Farm by: George Orwell
  • Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by: Judy Blume
  • Bad Twin by: Gary Troup
  • Bluebeard by: Charles Perrault
  • Book of Laws by: Manu
  • Caravan of Dreams by: Idries Shah
  • Carrie by: Stephen King
  • Catch-22 by: Joseph Heller
  • Chains of Command by: William J. Caunitz
  • Civilization and Its Discontents by: Sigmund Freud
  • Dark Horse by: Tami Hoag
  • Dirty Work by: Stuart Woods
  • Domes of Fire by: David Eddings
  • Easy Prey by: John Sandford
  • Eleventh Hour by: Catherine Coulter
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge by: Flannery O'Connor
  • Evil under the Sun by: Agatha Christie
  • Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury
  • Fear and Trembling by: Sören Kierkegaard
  • Fire in the Mind by: George Johnson
  • Flowers For Algernon by: Daniel Keyes
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales by: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories by: Salman Rushdie
  • Harry Potter by: J. K. Rowling
  • Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad
  • Hearts in Atlantis by: Stephen King
  • High Hand by: Gary Phillips
  • Hindsight by: Peter Wright
  • Holy Bible: King James Version
  • Hotel by: Arthur Hailey
  • I Ching
  • Island by: Aldous Huxley
  • Julius Caesar by: William Shakespeare
  • Jurassic Park by: Michael Crichton
  • Juvenal
  • Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order by: P. L. Wilson, Nasrollah Pourjavady
  • Lancelot by: Walker Percy
  • Laughter in the Dark by: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind #1) by: Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Lord of the Flies by: William Golding
  • Lucan
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by: Arthur Golden
  • Moby-Dick by: Herman Melville
  • Mysteries of the Ancient Americas: The New World before Columbus By: Robert Dolezal
  • Nighttime is My Time by: Mary Higgins Clark
  • No Place Like Home by: Mary Higgins Clark
  • Notes from the Undergound by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • O Pioneers! by: Willa Cather
  • Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck
  • On the Beginnings of Miss Rachel and Miss Pauline by: Alfred de Musset
  • On the Road by: Jack Kerouac
  • On Writing by: Stephen KIng
  • Our Mutual Friend by: Charles Dickens
  • Pale Horse Coming by: Stephen Hunter
  • Parker's Astrology by: Julia and Derek Parker
  • Plautus
  • Prey by: Michael Crichton
  • Rainbow Six by: Tom Clancy
  • Redemption by: Leon Uris
  • Roots by: Alex Haley
  • Scientific Genius by: Dean Kenneth Simonton
  • Skinny Dip by: Carl Hiaasen
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by: Kurt Vonnegut
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by: Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by: Mark Twain
  • The Annotated Alice by: Lewis Carroll
  • The Bailey Chronicles by: Catherine Cookson
  • The Brothers Karamazov by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Chosen by: Chaim Potok
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by: C. S. Lewis
  • The Coalwood Way by: Homer Hickam
  • The Dark Tower series by: Stephen King
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh by: Anonymous
  • The Fountainhead by: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
  • The Greatest Generation by: Tom Brokaw
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by: Douglas Adams
  • The Holy Quran
  • The Invention of Morel by: Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • The Keep by: F. Paul Wilson
  • The Little Prince by: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Moon Pool by: A. Merritt
  • The Mysterious Island by: Jules Verne
  • The Oath by: John Lescroart
  • The Odyssey by: Homer
  • The Outsiders by: S. E. Hinton
  • The Pearl by: John Steinbeck
  • The Power of Beauty by: Nancy Friday
  • The Scottish Bride by: Catherine Coulter
  • The Shape of Things to Come by: H. G. Wells
  • The Sheltering Sky by: Paul Bowles
  • The Shining by: Stephen King
  • The Stand by: Stephen King
  • The Stone Leopard by: Colin Forbes
  • The Survivors of the Chancellor by: Jules Verne
  • The Third Policeman by: Flann O'Brien
  • The Turn of the Screw by: Henry James
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by: L. Frank Baum
  • Through The Looking Glass by: Lewis Carrol
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
  • Two Dollar Bill by: Stuart Woods
  • Ulysses by: James Joyce
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Valhalla Rising by: Clive Cussler
  • Valis by: Philip K. Dick
  • Virgil
  • Watership Down by: Richard Adams
  • What Katy Did by: Susan Coolidge
  • Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by: Brian K. Vaughan

Sunday, May 2, 2010

EPIC Spokane road trip :)

Over the last two days, Miss Rachel Schwartz and I journeyed to the great state of Washington, and back. It was quite the road trip. We left Provo just after nine and arrived in Spokane at ten that night. Luckily for you, we v-logged every hour. Please stay tuned for the film to be posted; as you wait, please enjoy these photographs.

[the incredible great skies of Wyoming]




[retirement dream: painting clouds just like these]


Big shout out goes to the Colton's for making this trip a possibility and making sure we were taken care of every step of the way. Thank you again!