Backlog

This page contains the ever-growing list of things I’d love to try. Books, games, movies, anything goes. I try to keep it up-to-date.
Trivia: italics may indicate what I intend to go through next!

Books

Books are great. Books are cool. I have little time to read them, though…
None of these are a guaranteed read, I just heard that these might be interesting.

• East of Eden
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• All the Light we Cannot See
• Dune (2nd book and onwards)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (4th book and onwards)
• Disco Ely- okay fine not the funniest joke
• Dying Inside
• Martian Chronicles
• Infinite Jest
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Of Mice and Men
• The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged to make fun of capitalists more efficiently
• The Things They Carried
• Deep Work
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Russian literature

“Вставай, проклятьем заклейменный, весь мир голодных и рабов…”

• Me after having to read Bulgakov at school, probably

• Достоевский
  • “Идиот”
  • “Братья Карамазовы”
  • “Игрок”
• Толстой (Лев)
  • “Война и мир”
  • “Анна Каренина”
  • “Севастопольские рассказы”
  • “Воскресение”
• Толстой (Алексей) - “Гиперболоид инженера Гарина”
• Булгаков - “Белая Гвардия”
• Чернышевский - “Что делать?”
• Пастернак - “Доктор Живаго”

Computer Science related

• Crafting Interpreters (I even bought it physically!)
• The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
• Game Programming Patterns
• Defensive Security Handbook
• This is How They Tell Me the World Ends
• Unix: A History and a Memoir
• Linux From Scratch
• Governable Spaces
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Games

I am currently trying to play less of these, but there are a bunch I’m nonetheless interested in experiencing – mostly those with less focus on “gameplay”, and more on telling a story or acting as a fun puzzle.

• Quintessence: The Blighted Venom
• Do You Remember My Lullaby?
• Stardew Valley: Expanded (a mod)
• Placebo Love
• A Highland Song
• The Forgotten City (saw it compared to Outer Wilds)
• The Case of the Golden Idol (allegedly similar to Return of the Obra Dinn)
• Animal Well (giving metroidvanias another chance?)
• Eliza and more “traditional” Zachtronics games
• Chants of Sennaar
• Baba is You
• The Witness
• 1000xRESIST
• Neva
• Not For Broadcast
• Suzerain

Movies, TV, Video

I think it’s safe to say I’m not a movie person at all. This list is a combination of popular movies with an interesting premise, ones recommended by friends and a couple I put off for years.

• The Shawshank Redemption
• Better Call Saul
• Breaking Bad
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Godfather 1 & 2
• Interstellar
• The Matrix
• Bladerunner: Literally Me One
• Fight Club
• Requiem for a Dream
• Memento
• Children of Men
• 12 Angry Men
• Jaws
• The Green Mile
• Primer
• The Truman Show
• Ex Machina
• The Lighthouse
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Zone of Interest
• Yes that was 4 A24s in a row
• No the above isn’t a movie title
• Dune 2
• Arrival
• My Cousin Vinny
• Shutter Island
• Apocalypse Now
• Aftersun
• Look Who’s Back
• About Time
• Source code
• Something by Ghibli, perhaps Grave of the Fireflies
• I was told to watch other Ghibli stuff too
• Night At The Museum (here and below, special thanks Nick!)
• Independence Day
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended)
• Spider-Man trilogy (Sam Raimi)
• Something about that Bat Man guy (Morbius?)
• The Magnificent Seven
• A Man Named Otto
• Barbie (what a time to be alive, huh)
• Jingle All The Way
• Cinema Paradiso
• City of God
• I’m Still Here
• Raiders of the Lost Ark

Done

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