The Other World

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The list - revised by Splenetic to include only the fictional works or otherwise justified, not too heavily culturally biased books.

*Aho, Juhani: Juha
Austen, Jane: Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo
Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decamerone
Bulgakov, Mihail: Saatana saapuu Moskovaan
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan, apinain kuningas
Camus, Albert: Sivullinen
*Canth, Minna: Anna Liisa
Carpelan, Bo: Axel
Carroll, Lewis: Alicen seikkailut ihmemaassa
Cervantes, Miquel de: Don Quijote
Chandler, Raymond: Pitkät jäähyväiset
Christie, Agatha: Kymmenen pientä neekeripoikaa
Dante Alighieri: Jumalainen näytelmä
Dickens, Charles: Loistava tulevaisuus
Dostojevski, F. M.: Rikos ja rangaistus
Dumas, Alexandre: Monte Criston kreivi
Flaubert, Gustave: Rouva Bovary
Garcia Marquéz, Gabriel: Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys
*Gibson, William: Neurovelho
Goethe, J. W. von: Nuoren Wertherin kärsimykset
Goscinny – Uderzo: Asterix ja Kleopatra
Grass, Günther: Peltirumpu
Grimm, J. & W.: Grimmin sadut I-III
Haanpää, Pentti: Noitaympyrä
Haavikko, Paavo: Talvipalatsi
½*Hawking, Stephen: Ajan lyhyt historia
Hellaakoski, Aaro: Valitut runot
Hemingway, Ernest: Ensimmäiset 49 kertomusta
Hotakainen, Kari: Buster Keaton – elämä ja teot
Hugo, Victor: Kurjat
Ibsen, Henrik: Nukkekoti
Irving, John: Garpin maailma
Istanmäki, Sisko: Liian paksu perhoseksi
Jansson, Tove: Kuinkas sitten kävikään?
Joensuu, Matti Yrjänä: Harjunpää ja rakkauden nälkä
Jotuni, Maria: Rakkautta, suhteita
Joyce, James: Odysseus
Kafka, Franz: Oikeusjuttu
Kianto, Ilmari: Punainen viiva
*Kivi, Aleksis: Seitsemän veljestä
Kross, Jaan: Keisarin hullu
Kundera, Milan: Olemisen sietämätön keveys
Kunnas, Kirsi: Tiitiäisen satupuu
*Lander, Leena: Tummien perhosten koti
Lehtonen, Joel: Putkinotko
Leino, Eino: Helkavirsiä ja hymyilevä Apollo
Levanto, Marjatta: Nykytaide suurin piirtein
Liksom, Rosa: Yhden yön pysäkki
*Lindgren, Astrid: Peppi Pitkätossu
Linna, Väinö: Tuntematon sotilas
*Lönnrot, Elias (toim.): Kalevala
Marx - Engels: Kommunistinen manifesti
Meri, Veijo: Manillaköysi
Miller, Henry: Kravun kääntöpiiri
Milne, A. A.: Nalle Puh
Molière: Saituri
Montaigne, Michel de: Esseitä
Montgomery, Lucy M.: Pieni runotyttö
Morrison, Toni: Paratiisi (odd choice, but okay...)
Parkkinen, Jukka: Kaupungin kaunein lyyli
Proust, Marcel: Kadonnutta aikaa etsimässä 1 (oh, please.. if I start reading this I have to read the rest of them too!)
Päätalo, Kalle: Viimeinen savotta
Raittila, Hannu: Ei minulta mitään puutu
Remes, Ilkka: Karjalan lunnaat
Runeberg, J. L.: Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat
Rushdie, Salman: Keskiyön lapset
Saarikoski, Pentti: Tiarnia-sarja
Saisio, Pirkko: Elämänmeno
Salama, Hannu: Juhannustanssit
*Salinger, J. D.: Sieppari ruispellossa
Salmelainen, Eero: Suomen kansan satuja ja tarinoita
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, Tanskan prinssi
Sillanpää, F. E.: Elämä ja aurinko
Skiftesvik, Joni: Puhalluskukkapoika ja taivaankorjaaja
Steinbeck, John: Vihan hedelmät
Strindberg, August: Palkkapiian poika
Sund, Lars: Colorado Avenue
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliverin retket
Södergran, Edith: Runoja
Tawaststjerna, Erik: Sibelius
Tervo, Jari: Pyhiesi yhteyteen
*Tolkien, J. R. R.: Taru sormusten herrasta
Tolstoi, Leo: Anna Karenina
Topelius, Zachris: Välskärin kertomukset
Tsehov, Anton: Lokki, Vanja-eno, Kolme sisarta, Kirsikkapuisto
Tuuri, Antti: Pohjanmaa
Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finnin seikkailut
Viita, Lauri: Kootut runot
Vilkuna, Kustaa: Vuotuinen ajantieto
*Voltaire: Candide
Waltari, Mika: Sinuhe egyptiläinen
Westö, Kjell: Leijat Helsingin yllä

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Heinäveden lukion kirjallisuusdiplomi
(http://www.peda.net/veraja/heinavesi/lukio/aidinkieli/nimeton)

A. Maailman kirjallisuuden klassikot

Dante Alighieri: Jumalainen näytelmä, osa helvetti
Sofokles: Kuningas Oidipus
Ovidius: Metamorfooseja
Homeros: Odysseia
Shakespeare: Hamlet/Kuningas Lear
Boccaccio: Decamerone
Cervantes: Don Quijote
Rabelais: Suuren Gargantuan hirmuinen elämä
Moliére: Don Juan/Tartuffe
Jonathan Swift: Gulliverin retket
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust 1-2/Nuoren Wertherin kärsimykset
Edgar Allan Poe: Kultakuoriainen ja muita kertomuksia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Émile eli kasvatuksesta
Alexandre Dumas: Kolme muskettisoturia
Jane Austen: Kasvattitytön tarina/Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo
Dostojevski: Rikos ja rangaistus
Tšehov: Kirsikkapuisto/Kolme sisarta/Lokki
Strindberg: Neiti Julie
Dickens: David Copperfield/Oliver Twist
Émile Zola: Nana
Baudelaire: Pahan kukkia
Leo Tolstoi: Sota ja rauha/Anna Karenina
Herman Hesse: Arosusi/Narkissos ja kultasuu
Kafka: Linna/Oikeusjuttu

B: 1900-luvun kirjallisuutta

Federico Garcia Lorca: Andalusian lauluja/Mustalaisromansseja/Veren häät (Ooo... nice title, the last one... very promising..)
Albert Camus: Sivullinen
*J.R.R. Tolkien: Hobitti eli sinne ja takaisin/Taru Sormusten herrasta
Jean-Paul Sartre: Inho
Milan Kundera: Olemisen sietämätön keveys
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys
Umberto Eco: Ruusun nimi
Peter Høeg: Rajatapaukset/Kertomuksia yöstä/Lumen taju
Kurt Vonnegut: Teurastamo 5/Kissankehto
Günter Grass: Peltirumpu
*J.D.Salinger: Sieppari ruispellossa
Italo Calvino: Jos talviyönä matkamies/Paroni puussa
Virginia Woolf: Rouva Dalloway/Majakka/Aallot
T.S. Eliot: Autio maa
James Joyce: Odysseus (lukio?!)
Henry Miller: Kravun kääntöpiiri
Andreï Makine: Ranskalainen testamentti
John Irving: Ystäväni Owen Meany/Garpin maailma
**Toni Morrison: Minun kansani minun rakkaani/Jazz
*Nadine Gordimer: mikä tahansa suomennettu teos ('Burgherin tytär')
Yasunari Kawabata: mikä tahansa suomennettu teos

C: Suomen kirjallisuuden klassikot

Aleksis Kivi: Kootut runot
Juhani Aho: Rautatie/Juha/Papin tytär
*Minna Canth: Papin perhe/Anna-Liisa
Eino Leino: Helkavirsiä 1-2
Otto Manninen: Kootut runot
Edith Södergran: Runot
*Maria Jotuni: Huojuva talo
*Aino Kallas: Suden morsian
Joel Lehtonen: Putkinotko
Ilmari Kianto: Punainen viiva
Frans Emil Sillanpää: Nuorena nukkunut
P. Mustapää: Kootut runot
Aaro Hellaakoski: Kootut runot
Volter Kilpi: Alastalon salissa (LUKIO??!!!)
Pentti Haanpää: Noitaympyrä
Veijo Meri: Peiliin piirretty nainen
Eeva-Liisa Manner: Kootut runot
Pentti Saarikoski: Kootut runot
Mika Waltari: Sinuhe egyptiläinen
Lauri Viita: Moreeni/Betonimylläri
Väinö Linna: Täällä Pohjantähden alla

D: Kotimaista nykykirjallisuutta

Hannu Salama: Juhannustanssit
*Timo K. Mukka: Maa on syntinen laulu
Leena Krohn: Rapina/Tainaron
Bo Carpelan: Alkutuuli
*Kari Hotakainen: Klassikko/Juoksuhaudantie
Pirkko Saisio: Elämänmeno/Punainen erokirja
Jörn Donner: Isä ja poika
*Leena Lehtolainen: itse valittu teos ('Kun luulit unohtaneesi')
*Reijo Mäki: itse valittu teos ('Pitkä lounas')
Anna-Leena Härkönen: Karusellimatka/Akvaariorakkautta
Reidar Palmgren: Jalat edellä
Anja Kauranen: Sonja O. kävi täällä
Pentti Holappa: Ystävän muotokuva
Pirjo Hassinen: Jouluvaimo/Kuninkaanpuisto
Johanna Sinisalo: Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi
Joni Skiftesvik: itse valittu teos
Rosa Liksom: itse valittu teos
Juha Seppälä: itse valittu teos
Riku Korhonen: Kahden ja yhden yön tarinoita
Raakel Liehu: Helene
Lars Sund: Erikin kirja

Wow... I want an upper secondary school like this!

And I seem to specialise in reading the ones outside the list but by the list's authors... have to try and concentrate on the classic ones from now on.

Apparently, I'm nearly addicted to reading (http://www.teos.fi/teos5v/index.php?p=test):

"Pistemääräksesi tuli: 9 pistettä

Alat lähestyä korkeaa kulutustasoa. Lukemisen päiväannoksesi on keskiverron yläpuolella. Jos arvostat täyteläistä ja aromikasta luettavaa, suosittelemme Elina Halttusen romaania 'Saaressa kaikki hyvin'."

"Täyteläistä ja aromikasta"? What am I shopping for, wine? But I suppose that's true; finished the 19th book this year. I guess that's above average.

Boring, boring, booooring....

No place for an atheist, absolutist gay student not with kids in such a alcohol-based holiday as this.

Boring, boring, booooring...!!!

"Ehkä riivaajia ei ollut. Oli vain ihmisiä, jotka menivät helposti rikki. -- Ihmisiä, jotka loivat kuvitelmia, kun maailma uhkasi murskata."

Religion fucks people's minds up so badly!

'Itsevalaisevat' has got to be the creepiest novel I've read since Lionel Shriver. Actually, this is more disturbing than that. Just finished reading it; got it on Monday afternoon and started reading it at seven p.m. Now I'll be surfing online, playing Minesweep, listening to Judas Priest and drinking a lot of caffeine because I am not going to sleep after this, my subconscious is fucked up enough as it is. I may be taking a small excursion to the place this takes place, just to see if it's there.

You have got to read this.

(via Paholaisen Asianajaja)

It has been a very informative and educative week for me, and it will continue next week. I just finished reading Katja Boxberg and Taneli Heikka's pamphlet 'Lumedemokratia' and the main thing I can say is that I learned more from them in one week than I learned during the twelve years in elementary school and upper secondary school. Apparently Finlandisierung was (and continues to be) the driving ideology through which history is perceived and taught. I strongly suggest you read the book, and perhaps get to know other books by Barrikadi. That and Terra Cognita are beginning to earn the title of the most worthy publishing house I know (okay, let them share the first place as they serve a different purpose and do a good job in gaining their own ends).

'Lumedemokratia', people. It's not perfect but it's important. Remember that title when you go to the library next time.

Six feet under is the best series ever! I loved it the first time it run but now, watching the re-run I see bits and pieces here and there that remind me of my family. Father dies and through difficulties all remaining members of the family find some way to .. well, I wouldn't say 'grow' in my family's case but you probably get the idea.

My mother. It's all so weird, her having a boyfriend and having her act like a teenage girl, like her children were her conservative parents =). It seems she's beginning to enjoy her life. To meet her friends, have hobbies, meet new people, doing things she hasn't done, if not ever, then at least not in a long time. She seems happy. Her parents apparently think she's moving on too fast but... so what? If that makes her happy, then so fucking what? She spent twenty years of her life in a marriage with a escalating abusive drunk of a husband, she kept the household and her husband's firm going on, so I think she fucking well deserves to do whatever makes her happy now! The stroke, the name calling by my grandmother... and she enjoys her life. Good for her.

And my little brother? You should see the difference between his rooms, what he had three years ago and what he has now. And the difference in his behaviour, and dressing, and... everything! Okay, so I don't approve of the minibar in his room (19 as he may be) but it seems he's happy, too. His come a long way from the kid who woke up in the middle of the night when his drunken father "walked" into his room with our shouting mother behind him and fell half on my brother's bed, half on the bedside table breaking the lamp, making my brother push him off his bed to the floor. And me watching the scene from the doorway (my sister was somewhere else, I think).

My little sister... I don't know if Father's death had such a clear impact on her as it did on Mother and my brother. I mean, she moved to another town to study in a university at the same time. This really shows exactly how close we are. I don't really know, we've never talked about that. Outwardly she seems to be doing as fine as ever. I guess she never really was as miserable as the rest of us, or at least she never showed it through her appearance. I guess she's fine, too. Perhaps even better.

The world-famous British physicist Stephen Hawking has been hospitalised. As Myers put it, it is "a serious business for a 67 year old man with ALS". But then again, when he was first diagnosed with the illness, he was given two years to live. This was over forty years ago in 1962, so one might say he's a tough cookie. Read 'A Short History of Time' when you have time (because time you're going to need if your school physics and chemistry classes were a long time ago); he writes well and starts from the basics so no worries on that department. You might learn that the assumption of nature being more fantastic when you don't know about it is actually bullocks: it's much more fantastic when you *do* know these things!
(via Pharyngula)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/20/world/AP-EU-Britain-Hawking.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

I heard Billie Holiday's version of 'Gloomy Sunday' for the first time less than twenty hours ago. On my way home earlier this evening I was humming the song, gazed at the setting sun and the sky and it felt as if I had known of the song for years and years. It was a nice feeling. That is one of the songs -and singers- I want to be played at my funeral.

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