Friday, January 7, 2005

2004 lists


Books Read in 2004:

1. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
2. Fat ollie's Book - Ed McBain
3. Nobody's Perfect - Anthony Lane
4. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
5. Pather Panchali - Bhibutibushan Banerjee
6. And Now Let Me Sleep - PK Balakrishnan
7. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
8. The Simoqin Prophecies - Samit Basu
9. The Saint Goes On - Leslie Charteris
10. Sadie When She Died - Ed McBain
11. India Unbound - Gurcharan Das
12. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
13. Disgrace - JM Coetzee
14. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (re-read)
15. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
16. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
17. Different Seasons - Stephen King (re-read)
18. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
19. Tricks - Ed McBain (re-read)
20. Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here - Ed McBain (re-read)
21. Peter Pan - JM Barrie
22. Ten Plus One - Ed McBain (re-read)
23. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
24. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
25. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
26. The Truth - Terry Pratchett
27. Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me - Marlon Brando
28. Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel - Scott Adams
29. Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
30. Christine - Stephen King (re-read)
31. Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
32. On Writing: A memoir of the craft - Stephen King (re-read)
33. The Frumious Bandersnatch - Ed McBain


And the best of the lot: Disgrace - JM Coetzee.


Movies watched in 2004:

1. Gangs of New York
2. Munnabhai MBBS
3. Ek Hasina Thi
4. Adaptation
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
6. Election
7. Khakee
8. Maqbool
9. Minority Report
10. Airplane! (re-view)
11. No Man's Land
12. Sethuramaiyer CBI
13. Nandanam
14. Soothradharan
15. Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon
16. Y Tu Mama Tambien
17. Pi
18. Mitr-my friend
19. Pirates of the Caribbean
20. The Italian Job
21. Hulk
22. Main Hoon Na
23. Thoovanathumbikal (re-view)
24. Aayitha Ezhuthu
25. Almost Famous
26. Silent Movie (re-view)
27. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
28. Lakshya
29. The African Queen
30. Pattanathil Sundaran
31. Kal Ho Na Ho
32. Caged Heat
33. My Cousin Vinny (re-view)
34. Spider-man 2
35. Fahrenheit 9/11
36. Peeping Tom
37. Stepford Wives
38. Where's Poppa
39. Kill Bill Vol. 2
40. The Village
41. Dodgeball
42. Troy
43. Terminal
44. A Time To Kill
45. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
46. A Shot in the Dark
47. Collateral
48. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
49. Ricordati di me
50. Swades
51. Hulchul
52. Battle Royale
53. Ju-On


Best of the lot: Peeping Tom.

12 comments:

  1. How is Ini Njan Urangatte? I have a vague feel that I have read it.

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  2. I think the Malayalam original would be really good. The translation was pathetic, though.

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  3. You find Peeping Tom that cool, eh? (seeing as it ranks above Y tu mama tambien and adaptation)

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  4. ANd the worsts?

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  5. Heh heh. I can't name anything from the books as if I don't like a book I usually stop reading. From the movies, I think it would be Stepford Wives.

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  6. Oh yes, I do. Very well made movie.

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  7. Was planning to put up a post sometime back with mini reviews and stuff but got too lazy. This looks like a good place to put up my list :)

    Movies watched in Dec '04:

    1. Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal
    2. Naach
    3. 3.5/4th of Finding Nemo
    4. Requiem for a Dream

    Books read in Dec '04 again:
    1. Amitav Ghosh- The Glass Palace
    2. Dan Brown- Digital Fortress

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  8. Did you like Vernon God Little?

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  9. I read Disgrace too - in fact, it was my first Coetzee. It reminded me of that cliched story about how women raped in India have to "prove" they were raped before anything is done about it. Scary stuff.

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  10. Is that top of your head, or is there a little notebook called My-things-done-2004 :D? Btw how was Sethuramaiyer CBI ?

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  11. Not much, but I thought the ending made up for the lackluster first hundred pages.

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  12. Two little notepads really; one for books and the other for movies.

    Sethuramaiyer CBI is 'insprired by' Arthur Hailey's Detective. It's not a patch on the first movie. Rainy day - nothing else to do - dept really.

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