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by Carmella on April 8th, 2007

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I'm buying a book along the lines of '1000 things to see/do before you die'. There are a lot of these types of books for sale, which one would you recommend?

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  • by Perryman on April 9th, 2007

    Perryman

    Stick with that very book "1000 things to see/do before you die".You can't always beat the real thing.

    I have it at home. My son loves it, my wife loves it, and her friend loves it.

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  • by hijklmno on April 9th, 2007

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    The french writer Georges Perec gave a reading on French radio called "Some of the things I really must do before I die."

    I think it's very inpsirational in that it's a completely *normal* list and unique to Perec. Don't rely on someone elses "1000 things". Make your own list!

    Here's what Perec said:

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    First of all there are things very easily done, things I could do as from today, for example

    1. Take a trip on a bateau-mouche

    Then things a tiny bit more significant, things that involve decisions, things that I tell myself that, were I to do them, would perhaps make my life easier, for example

    2. Make up my mind to throw out a certain number of things that I keep without knowing why I keep them

    or else

    3. Arrange my bookshelves once and for all
    4. Acquire various household appliances

    or again

    5. Stop myself smoking (before being forced to)

    Then things linked to a more profound desire for change, for example

    6. Dress in a completely different way
    7. Live in a hotel (in Paris)
    8. Live in the country
    9. Go and live for quite a long time in a foreign city (London)

    Then things that are linked to dreams of time or space. There are quite a few:

    10. Pass through where the Equator crosses the International Date Line
    11. Go beyond the Arctic Circle
    12. To have an “out-of-time” experience
    13. To take a trip in a submarine
    14. Take a long trip on a boat
    15. Make an ascent or a journey in a balloon or airship
    16. Go to the Kerguelen Islands (or Tristan da Cunha)
    17. Ride a camel from Morocco to Timbuktu in 52 days

    Then, among all the other things I don’t know yet, there are certain ones I’d like to have the time to discover properly

    18. I’d like to go to the Ardennes
    19. I’d like to go to Bayreuth, but also to Prague and Vienna
    20. I’d like to go to the Prado
    21. I’d like to drink some rum found at the bottom of the sea (like Captain Haddock in The Treasure of Red Rackham)
    22. I’d like to have time to read Henry James (among others)
    23. I’d like to travel along canals

    Next there are lots of things I’d like to learn, but I know I won’t because it would take me too long, or because I know I would succeed only very imperfectly, for example

    24. Find the solution to the Rubik cube
    25. Learn to play the drums
    26. Learn Italian
    27. Learn he trade of printer
    28. Paint

    Then things connected with my work as a writer. There are a few of them. For the most part these are vague projects; some are perfectly possible and depend only on me, for example

    29. Write for very young children
    30. Write a science-fiction novel

    others depend on things I might be asked to do

    31. Write the script for an adventure film in which, for example, you would see 5000 Kirghiz tribesman riding across the steppes.
    32. Write a serial novel
    33. Work with a strip cartoonist
    34. Write songs

    There’s one more thing I’d like to do, but I don’t know where it belongs, it’s to

    35. Plant a tree and watch it get bigger

    Finally there are things it’s impossible to envisage from now on but which would have been possible not so long ago, for example

    36. Get drunk with Malcolm Lowry
    37. Make the acquaintance of Vladimir Nabkov

    etc. etc.
    There are lots of others for sure.
    I gladly stop at 37.

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  • by Sarita1 Goes Bollywood on April 9th, 2007

    Sarita1 Goes Bollywood

    Why not just get that book? I have seen it at Barnes and Noble and it seems like a good book.

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  • by Sarita1 Goes Bollywood on April 9th, 2007

    Sarita1 Goes Bollywood

    The one I saw, is small but thick and very colorful. If I see it again I'll get you the exact title. It was in the travel section...

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