I'm doing 39 things
So I only have 1 more book (Gone With the Wind) to read on Time’s 100 best English-language novels (since 1923) and need some help choosing my next books to read and was hoping to get suggestions from other folks on 43 Things. I read fiction and non-fiction in just about any genre, so am open to most any books. Here is a list of some of my favorite books: Catch-22, Crime and Punishment, John Dies in the End, House of Leaves, Hunger Games trilogy, Infinite Jest, Moby Dick, Candide, The Painted Bird, The Road, Watership Down, The Tender Bar, The Magus, Animal Farm, Watchmen, Harry Potter series, Snow Crash, The Natural, Slouching Toward Fargo, Running with Scissors, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Sandman series, A Clockwork Orange, Pale Fire, Midnight’s Children, Lord of the Rings trilogy
fritopia's Life List
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1. Send Spam around the country
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2. Post randomness
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3. finish my North American Alphabet Tour.
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4. Run a 5k
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5. Make a slideshow of all my t-shirts
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6. Meet my kidney recipient
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7. go to a Spurs game.
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8. Finish Time's 100 best English-language novels (since 1923)
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9. Read 13 books suggested by other 43 Things folks
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10. Go to new Yankee Stadium
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11. Get a passport
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12. Visit Australia
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13. List 43 quirks
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14. Play in a flag football tournament
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15. list 100 things that make me happy
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16. Complete the 100 push ups program
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17. Get a random pen pal that I will never meet
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18. Write a book
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19. Join an improv group
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20. lose 10 more pounds
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21. Write 12 letters of insanity
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22. Play all the board games I own
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23. Learn to swim
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24. Write the merry letter
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25. Take the Mensa test.
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26. pay off my student loans
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27. try stand up comedy
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28. learn how to drive stick-shift
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29. go paintballing
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30. go to the super bowl
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31. write letters for the world needs more love letters
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32. join a dodgeball league
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33. Go to the IMAX theater
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34. eat an apple a day for a year
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35. visit all 50 states
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36. get another tattoo
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37. Go to a Sporting KC game
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38. Create a Battleshots board
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39. write thank you notes
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How I did it: If you plan on doing this, I would advise starting earlier in the day than 6:00 p.m., choose Coors Light as the 12 ounce can is a little taller than the other 12 ounce cans out there, play drinking games to keep yourself busy and not counting cans, don't open the new can until it's taped to the old tower and find somebody to help you tape the cans together. Enjoy. Read how I did it…
How I did it: Not only did we make the semi-finals but we finished 8th overall out of 62 teams and advanced to the finals. Luckily we saved the best for the trivia finals as we won the whole thing taking home a $2000.00. Not too shabby for worthless knowledge. Read how I did it…
How I did it: Wrote down one of those things that I felt I needed to tell somebody but didn't want to burden anyone with it, so off to post secret it flies. Good luck postcard, hope your travel is a safe one. Read how I did it…
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Not only did I get to see Diablo the honey badger (who was on Letterman), I also got to see two red pandas, a 4 month old baby tiger, and even got to feed Henry, the Indian Black Rhinoceros (which was pretty cool to be so close to a rhino that you could pet him. Definitely worth going to Tanganyika Wildlife Park outside of Wichita, KS!
