Bucket Lists

[Scheherazade]

Do you have one? What does yours include?

I am preparing one and desperately need suggestions.

[YesNo]

1) To get into intricate yoga positions
2) To be able to effectively mediate
3) To publish some books of poetry/prose
4) To understand quantum physics
5) To be more aware of who the people are around me
6) To navigate through the upcoming market crash

There may be others, but I can't think of them at the moment.

[Dreamwoven]

Never heard of a bucket list before. So I looked it up and found https://www.bucketlist.org. Learn something new every day...

[Scheherazade]

1) To get into intricate yoga positions
2) To be able to effectively mediate
3) To publish some books of poetry/prose
4) To understand quantum physics
5) To be more aware of who the people are around me
6) To navigate through the upcoming market crash

There may be others, but I can't think of them at the moment.Your list much more general than mine, YesNo. I have things like "Learn basic everyday Italian" or "read at least one book by 50 new authors".

Shall post the items I have included so far soon.


Glad to hear that, Dream :D

[EvoWarrior5]

I can't say I really have a bucket list, but there are a few things which I have in the back of my head that I want to have done/seen some time in my life. Primarily, I want to go on holiday to a place pretty far into the north, with snow and pine trees. And when I am there, I want to see a northern light.

[Sancho]

Hike the John Muir Trail

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Lord, where does one begin?
Without question, and let's consider this a place holder while I ponder...to find the elusive Bigfoot.
...
ponder

Ok, here's a few off the cuff:
To visit St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Hermitage in winter.
The Uffizi Gallery
Glacier National Park before the glaciers are gone.
Scotland and the Czech republic.

[Scheherazade]

Some of items in my list:

- Learn two more languages (not as well as I can speak English but just to get by). Starting to take Italian classes this year and possibly French next year.

- Visit five countries

- Northern lights!

- Finish reading all the Pulitzer winners

- Donate my hair twice more

- Get another MA if I come across an interesting topic

- Read at least 50 new authors during the next 4 years

- Inca Trail

[UlyssesE]

My bucket list is to write a bucket list, haha. I've done a lot already, so there's nothing special I absolutely feel is left to do, besides enjoy my life. Perhaps if they invent a shuttle service to visit offworld, like the moon or an asteroid? Something truly extraordinary.

[Emil Miller]

Move away from London before the bloodshed starts

Walk through the Brandenburg gate, because the last time I was there, some idiot had put a wall in front of it.

Take a long holiday on the French Riviera

Get down to revising my novel about psychological disintegration

[Helga]

Some of items in my list:

- Visit five countries

- Northern lights!



you could knock those two off your list by visiting Iceland in January or February.

I feel like everybody is talking about bucket lists these days, I don't have one, don't know what I would put on it cause all I really want is to graduate and get a decent job. I don't want to travel a lot, cause I don't like new places or changes and I can read in a few languages even though I would only speak two of them.

can 'not being alone for the rest of my life' be on a bucket list? I like being alone for now but maybe not forever.

[CWolfieVan]

Scheh, in your quest to read all the Pulitzer winners, can you say which discovery has been most rewarding?
My bucket list:
Finish a strong novel.
Finish a music album that makes more money than my last one. (~fizzle~)
Play badminton with Pj Harvey.
Jam with Radiohead.
Make another short film with my favorite people.
Watch my parents age gracefully.
Adopt a kid

[Scheherazade]

you could knock those two off your list by visiting Iceland in January or February. I have been thinking about that, actually! Is that the best time to visit?


Scheh, in your quest to read all the Pulitzer winners, can you say which discovery has been most rewarding? There has been so many rewarding books... Middlesex, The Goldfinch, A Confederacy of Dunces, Advice and Consent, All the King's Men, The Reivers.

There have been some puzzling reads as well... Such as One of Ours or Rabbit is Rich that made me wonder why on earth they were given the Prize.

[Helga]

If you want to see the northern lights it is the best time. during the summer months it never gets dark but from December and 'till January or February it's dark pretty much 18 hours a day and after Christmas is the best time to see the sky turn green, yellow and red, or even almost purple.

[CWolfieVan]

Interesting. I also have never found Updike's Rabbit books to be as intense or memorable or powerful as the work of his top rivals. I like some of his short stories. He's smooth, he's elegant. Content-wise? I've never been glued to the page.
I'm a Faulkner nut, but I've met almost NO ONE who read the Reivers. I'll keep that in mind. I do want to read All the King's Men. I was disappointed the Sean Penn film version got so roundly panned.

[prendrelemick]

The northern lights too, In fact tonight there may be a chance. It was seen in Grassington this week.

[Scheherazade]

If you want to see the northern lights it is the best time. during the summer months it never gets dark but from December and 'till January or February it's dark pretty much 18 hours a day and after Christmas is the best time to see the sky turn green, yellow and red, or even almost purple.Will definitely keep that in mind! Maybe we can spend a Christmas there :)
Interesting. I also have never found Updike's Rabbit books to be as intense or memorable or powerful as the work of his top rivals. I like some of his short stories. He's smooth, he's elegant. Content-wise? I've never been glued to the page.
I'm a Faulkner nut, but I've met almost NO ONE who read the Reivers. I'll keep that in mind. I do want to read All the King's Men. I was disappointed the Sean Penn film version got so roundly panned.I am quite fatigued with American fiction retelling the woes of middle-class white men... And Updike seems to be concentrating on that heavily... And there are few others on the Pulitzer list with, what I find to be, similar themes. Didn't know there was a movie based on All the King's Men.

The northern lights too, In fact tonight there may be a chance. It was seen in Grassington this week.Always around this time of the year?

It would be great to see the modern 7 wonders of the world (bucket list) but would require a lot of travelling... Of course, it is not the travelling itself that I have issue with but rather the money to afford those adventures. Still one can dream, right?

[Emil Miller]

Didn't know there was a movie based on All the King's Men.


Watch the 1949 version that won an Academy Award for best motion picture and another for Broderick Crawford's performance in the lead role. In comparison the Sean Penn film was very poor.
I recall reviewing the book on LitNet some time ago but I wasn't impressed with the quality of the writing which to my mind seemed rather prolix.

[Scheherazade]

I recall reviewing the book on LitNet some time ago but I wasn't impressed with the quality of the writing which to my mind seemed rather prolix.Will look up the movies.

I remember quite liking the book, actually... Did not feel that it was lengthy or wordy for that matter.

[Emil Miller]

Will look up the movies.

I remember quite liking the book, actually... Did not feel that it was lengthy or wordy for that matter.

I couldn't remember exactly what I had written about All the King's Men, so I looked it up. Here's the review:

This Pulitzer prize winning novel is something of a hybrid insofar as what should have been a riveting tale of pork barrel politics in a poor southern state, is more the narrator’s story than that of the protagonist Willie Stark: the demagogic farm labourer who claws his way up the political ladder to become state governor.
Jack Burden, the narrator, is an unlikeable individual who flunks his degree, walks out on his wife and gives up his job as reporter for a small town newspaper to become a fixer for Stark’s populist and brutally uncompromising political machine: a decision that eventually leads to scandal, suicide and assassination.
The seedy opportunists of state politics are contrasted with the upright citizens of Burden’s Landing, a residential district and Jack’s birthplace, which also has its seamy underside: as Jack discovers when on an assignment for Stark.
Unfortunately, the story is submerged in a welter of repetitious philosophical musings on his own existence and life in general that rambles on for 600+ pp; leaving the impression that the narrator’s self-indulgence has ruined what could have been a great novel.