sábado, 13 de dezembro de 2014

O desafio literário de Rory Gilmore



Em uma visita à Harvard, local onde ela almejava estudar desde muito criança,  Rory ficou perturbada ao descobrir que em uma biblioteca da universidade havia 3 milhões de exemplares. Fez uma cara de enjoada, e começou a passar mal. 3 milhões? Nem nem duas vidas ela conseguiria ler tanto.

RORY: Eu sou estúpida.
LORELAI: Oh, pare.
RORY: Eu sou desinformada e ignorante e. . . Eu não posso nem pensar em um segundo sinônimo para desinformado. Eu sou uma lástima.
LORELAI: Querida.
RORY: Treze milhões de volumes? Eu li tipo, o que, trezentos livros em toda a minha vida e eu já tenho dezesseis anos? Sabe quanto tempo eu levaria para ler treze milhões de livros?
LORELAI: Mas querida, você não tem que ler cada um deles. “Terça com Morrie?” Passe isso. “Quem Mexeu no Meu Queijo?” Apenas coisas que você já sabe.
RORY: Ok, mas cada adolescente que vem a Harvard é, inevitavelmente, um leitor de livros e diferentes livros, e eu quero ser capaz de conversar de forma inteligente com cada um deles e eu não posso fazer isso se eu não ler livros, pelo menos um pouco de cada gênero e sub-gênero.
LORELAI: Ok, vamos lá. Eu vou te tirar daqui.
RORY: Eu durmo muito.
LORELAI: Não, você não dorme muito.
RORY: Eu estive desperdiçando minha vida inteira.
LORELAI: Você não frito.
RORY: Eu mencionei que eu sou uma lástima?
LORELAI: Sim.
RORY: Bem, eu sou.
LORELAI: Não. 

Essa cena de A Trip to Harvard, episódio 2 da segunda temporada de Gilmore Girls, até hoje me incomoda. Mas não de um jeito ruim. Me toca. Não quero ser uma pessoa desinformada e ignorante. 

Quem nunca quis ler Anna Karenina achando que Tolstoy seria uma fácil leitura? Citar Henry James, Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, Shakespeare… foram tantos, tantos autores e livros que deixaria qualquer um tonto só de lembrar.

Na série, Rory leu ou citou mais de 300 obras. Nós listamos esses livros, e se você aceitar o desafio, que tal começar a lê-los agora mesmo?!  Apesar dos títulos estarem em inglês, a maioria deles possui versões em português, e alguns muitos você poderá baixar no Open Library (de graça e dentro da lei).

Lista de Livros da Rory Gilmore


1.1984 – George Orwell
2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
3.Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
4.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
5.An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
6.Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
7.Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
8.Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
9.Archidamian War – Donald Kagen
10.The Art of Fiction – Henry James
11.The Art of War – Sun Tzu
12.As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
13.Atonement – Ian McEwan
14.Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
15.Babe – Dick King-Smith
16.Backlash – Susan Faludi
17.Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
18.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
19.Beloved – Toni Morrison
20.Beowulf – Seamus Heaney
21.The Bhagava Gita
22.The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy
23.Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel
24.A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy
25.Brick Lane – Monica Ali
26.Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
27.Candide – Voltaire
28.The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
29.Carrie –Stephen King
30.Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
31.The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
32.Charlotte’s Web – EB White
33.The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman
34.Christine – Stephen King
35.A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
36.A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
37.The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
38.The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty
39.The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
40.A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
41.Complete Novels – Dawn Powell
42.The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
43.A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
44.The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
45.Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
46.Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
47.The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber
48.The Crucible – Arthur Miller
49.Cujo – Stephen King
50.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
51.Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
52.David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
53.David Coperfield – Charles Dickens
54.The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
55.Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)
56.Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57.Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
58.Deenie – Judy Blume
59.The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
60.The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx
61.The Divine Comedy – Dante
62.The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
63.Don Quijote – Cervantes
64.Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv
65.Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ­– Robert Louis Stevenson
66.Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
67.Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
68.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
69.Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
70.Eloise – Kay Thompson
71.Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
72.Emma – Jane Austen
73.Empire Falls – Richard Russo
74.Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
75.Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
76.Ethics – Spinoza
77.Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
78.Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
79.Extravagance – Gary Kist
80.Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
81.Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
82.The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan
83.Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
84.Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
85.The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
86.Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
87.The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
88.Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
89.Fletch – Gregory McDonald
90.Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
91.Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
92.Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
93.The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
94.The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
95.Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
96.Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
97.Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
98.George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
99.Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
100.Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
101.The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
102.The Godfather – Mario Puzo
103.The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
104.Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky
105.Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
106.The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
107.The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
108.The Graduate – Charles Webb
109.The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
110.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
111.Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
112.The Group – Mary McCarthy
113.Hamlet – Shakespeare
114.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
115.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
116.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
117.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
118.Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
119.Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
120.Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
121.Henry V – Shakespeare
122.High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
123.The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons
124.Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
125.The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
126.House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
127.The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
128.How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
129.How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
130.How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
131.Howl – Alan Ginsburg
132.The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
133.The Illiad – Homer
134.I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
135.In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
136.Inferno – Dante
137.Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
138.Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy
139.It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton
140.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
141.The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
142.Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
143.The Jumping Frog – Mark Twain
144.The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
145.Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
146.The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
147.Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
148.The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
149.Lady Chatterley’s Love – DH Lawrence
150.The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
151.Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
152.The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
153.Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
154.Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
155.Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
156.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
157.Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
158.The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway
159.The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson
160.Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
161.Living History – Hillary Clinton
162.Lord of the Flies – William Golding
163.The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
164.The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
165.The Love Story – Eric Segal
166.Macbeth – Shakespeare
167.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
168.The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)
169.Marathon Man – William Goldman
170.The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
171.Memoirs of Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
172.Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman
173.Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
174.The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
175.Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
176.The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
177.The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
178.Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
179.The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
180.Moby Dick – Herman Melville
181.The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
182.Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
183.A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
184.Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
185.A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
186.A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
187.Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
188.Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
189.My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
190.My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
191.My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
192.My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
193.The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
194.The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
195.The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
196.The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
197.Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen
198.New Poems of Emily Dickinson
199.Things Work – David Macaulay
200.Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
201.Night – Elie Wiesel
202.Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
203.The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain
204.Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski
205.Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
206.Old School – Tobias Wolff
207.On the Road – Jack Keruac
208.Peyton Place – Grace Metalious
209.The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
210.Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington
211.Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
212.Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
213.The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
214.The Portable Dorothy Parker
215.The Portable Nietzche
216.The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind217.? Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
218.Property – Valerie Martin
219.Pushkin – TJ Binyon
220.Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
221.Quattrocento – James McKean
222.A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall
223.Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers
224.The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham
225.Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
226.Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
227.Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
228.The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
229.Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman
230.The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
231.R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton
232.Rita Hayworth – Stephen King
233.Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert
234.Roman Holiday – Edith Wharton
235.Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
236.A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
237.A Room with a View – EM Forster
238.Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
239.Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi
240.Sanctuary – William Faulkner
241.Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford
242.Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James
243.The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum
244.The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
245.Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
246.The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior
247.The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
248.Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman
249.Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)
250.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
251.A Separate Place – John Knowles
252.Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
253.Sexus – Henry Miller
254.The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
255.Shane – Jack Shaefer
256.The Shining – Stephen King
257.Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
258.S is for Silence – Sue Grafton
259.Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
260.Small Island – Andrea Levy
261.Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
262.Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers
263.Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore
264.The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
265.Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos
266.The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
267.Songbook – Nick Hornby
268.The Sonnets – Shakespeare
269.Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
270.Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
271.The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
272.Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
273.Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
274.The Story of my Life – Helen Keller
275.A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
276.Stuart Little – EB White
277.Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
278.Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
279.Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett
280.Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
281.A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
282.Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
283.Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty
284.Time and Again – Jack Finney
285.The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar
286.To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
287.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
288.The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare
289.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
290.The Trial – Franz Kafka
291.The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
292.Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
293.Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
294.Ulysses – James Joyce
295.The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
296.Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
297.Unless – Carol Shields
298.Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
299.The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers
300.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
301.Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard
302.The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
303.Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
304.Walden – Henry David Thoreau
305.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
306.We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker
307.What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles
308.What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell
309.When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
310.Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
311.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
312.Wicked – Gregory Maguire
313.The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum
314.Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
315.The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
316.The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

* cópia de http://teleseries.uol.com.br/desafio-de-leitura-da-rory-gilmore-a-menina-e-seus-livros/