23/04/2013, 10:15. Maria Clara Lima
Notícias
Gilmore Girls

Gilmore Girls é uma série conhecida pelas inúmeras referências à cultura pop. Personalidades, filmes e livros eram citados com tamanha naturalidade que fazia cada um de nós sentirmos um pouco estúpidos. Mas talvez, a cultura Gilmore tenha sido de fato o maior legado do seriado, por despertar nos fãs a curiosidade por trás das curiosidades.

Rory Gilmore, a menina que devorava livros, tinha uma relação íntima com cada obra que passava em sua vida. Os livros eram seus amigos mais próximos, e isso não é um exagero. A garota tinha livro de bolsa (para não ficar sozinha nas ocasiões sociais), livro de cabeceira (para consolá-la nas horas mais difíceis), livros para cheira, livros que ficam tristes, livros para queimar, deixar em baixo da cama ou de castigo. Rory Gilmore era uma menina apaixonada por livros. Dos clássicos aos menos tradicionais, ela não deixava passar nenhum. Claro, Rory tinha alguns autores preferidos, mas não ousava dizer isso abertamente, para não causar ciúmes aos outros autores. Livros também têm ouvidos.

Em uma visita à Harvard, local onde ela almejava estudar desde muito criança,  Rory ficou perturbada ao descobrir que em uma biblioteca da universidade havia 3 milhões de exemplares. Fez uma cara de enjoada, e começou a passar mal. 3 milhões? Nem nem duas vidas ela conseguiria ler tanto.

RORY: Eu sou estúpida.

LORELAI: Oh, pare.

RORY: Eu sou desinformada e ignorante e. . . Eu não posso nem pensar em um segundo sinônimo para desinformado. Eu sou uma lástima.

LORELAI: Querida.

RORY: Treze milhões de volumes? Eu li tipo, o que, trezentos livros em toda a minha vida e eu já tenho dezesseis anos? Sabe quanto tempo eu levaria para ler treze milhões de livros?

LORELAI: Mas querida, você não tem que ler cada um deles. “Terça com Morrie?” Passe isso. “Quem Mexeu no Meu Queijo?” Apenas coisas que você já sabe.

RORY: Ok, mas cada adolescente que vem a Harvard é, inevitavelmente, um leitor de livros e diferentes livros, e eu quero ser capaz de conversar de forma inteligente com cada um deles e eu não posso fazer isso se eu não ler livros, pelo menos um pouco de cada gênero e sub-gênero.

LORELAI: Ok, vamos lá. Eu vou te tirar daqui.

RORY: Eu durmo muito.

LORELAI: Não, você não dorme muito.

RORY: Eu estive desperdiçando minha vida inteira.

LORELAI: Você não frito.

RORY: Eu mencionei que eu sou uma lástima?

LORELAI: Sim.

RORY: Bem, eu sou.

LORELAI: Não. 

Essa cena de A Trip to Harvard, episódio 2 da segunda temporada de Gilmore Girls, até hoje me incomoda. Mas não de um jeito ruim. Me toca. Não quero ser uma pessoa desinformada e ignorante. Quem nunca quis ler Anna Karenina achando que Tolstoy seria uma fácil leitura? Citar Henry James, Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, Shakespeare… foram tantos, tantos autores e livros que deixaria qualquer um tonto só de lembrar.

Na série, Rory leu ou citou mais de 300 obras. Nós listamos esses livros, e se você aceitar o desafio, que tal começar a lê-los agora mesmo?!  Apesar dos títulos estarem em inglês, a maioria deles possui versões em português, e alguns muitos você poderá baixar no Open Library (de graça e dentro da lei).

Lista de Livros da Rory Gilmore

1.1984 – George Orwell
2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
3.Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
4.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
5.An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
6.Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
7.Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
8.Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
9.Archidamian War – Donald Kagen
10.The Art of Fiction  – Henry James
11.The Art of War – Sun Tzu
12.As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
13.Atonement – Ian McEwan
14.Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
15.Babe – Dick King-Smith
16.Backlash – Susan Faludi
17.Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
18.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
19.Beloved – Toni Morrison
20.Beowulf – Seamus Heaney
21.The Bhagava Gita
22.The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy
23.Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel
24.A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy
25.Brick Lane – Monica Ali
26.Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
27.Candide – Voltaire
28.The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
29.Carrie –Stephen King
30.Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
31.The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
32.Charlotte’s Web – EB White
33.The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman
34.Christine – Stephen King
35.A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
36.A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
37.The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
38.The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty
39.The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
40.A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
41.Complete Novels – Dawn Powell
42.The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
43.A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
44.The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
45.Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
46.Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
47.The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber
48.The Crucible – Arthur Miller
49.Cujo – Stephen King
50.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
51.Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
52.David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
53.David Coperfield – Charles Dickens
54.The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
55.Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)
56.Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57.Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
58.Deenie – Judy Blume
59.The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
60.The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx
61.The Divine Comedy – Dante
62.The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
63.Don Quijote – Cervantes
64.Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv
65.Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ­– Robert Louis Stevenson
66.Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
67.Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
68.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
69.Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
70.Eloise – Kay Thompson
71.Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
72.Emma – Jane Austen
73.Empire Falls – Richard Russo
74.Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
75.Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
76.Ethics – Spinoza
77.Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
78.Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
79.Extravagance – Gary Kist
80.Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
81.Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
82.The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan
83.Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
84.Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
85.The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
86.Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
87.The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
88.Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
89.Fletch – Gregory McDonald
90.Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
91.Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
92.Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
93.The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
94.The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
95.Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
96.Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
97.Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
98.George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
99.Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
100.Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
101.The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
102.The Godfather – Mario Puzo
103.The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
104.Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky
105.Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
106.The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
107.The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
108.The Graduate – Charles Webb
109.The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
110.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
111.Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
112.The Group – Mary McCarthy
113.Hamlet – Shakespeare
114.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
115.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
116.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
117.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
118.Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
119.Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
120.Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
121.Henry V – Shakespeare
122.High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
123.The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons
124.Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
125.The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
126.House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
127.The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
128.How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
129.How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
130.How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
131.Howl – Alan Ginsburg
132.The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
133.The Illiad – Homer
134.I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
135.In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
136.Inferno – Dante
137.Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
138.Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy
139.It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton
140.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
141.The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
142.Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
143.The Jumping Frog – Mark Twain
144.The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
145.Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
146.The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
147.Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
148.The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
149.Lady Chatterley’s Love – DH Lawrence
150.The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
151.Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
152.The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
153.Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
154.Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
155.Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
156.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
157.Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
158.The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway
159.The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson
160.Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
161.Living History – Hillary Clinton
162.Lord of the Flies – William Golding
163.The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
164.The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
165.The Love Story – Eric Segal
166.Macbeth – Shakespeare
167.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
168.The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)
169.Marathon Man – William Goldman
170.The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
171.Memoirs of  Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
172.Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman
173.Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
174.The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
175.Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
176.The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
177.The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
178.Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
179.The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
180.Moby Dick – Herman Melville
181.The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
182.Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
183.A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
184.Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
185.A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
186.A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
187.Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
188.Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
189.My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
190.My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
191.My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
192.My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
193.The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
194.The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
195.The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
196.The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
197.Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen
198.New Poems of Emily Dickinson
199.Things Work – David Macaulay
200.Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
201.Night – Elie Wiesel
202.Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
203.The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain
204.Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski
205.Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
206.Old School – Tobias Wolff
207.On the Road – Jack Keruac
208.Peyton Place – Grace Metalious
209.The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
210.Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington
211.Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
212.Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
213.The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
214.The Portable Dorothy Parker
215.The Portable Nietzche
216.The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind217.? Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
218.Property – Valerie Martin
219.Pushkin – TJ Binyon
220.Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
221.Quattrocento – James McKean
222.A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall
223.Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers
224.The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham
225.Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
226.Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
227.Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
228.The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
229.Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman
230.The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
231.R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton
232.Rita Hayworth – Stephen King
233.Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert
234.Roman Holiday – Edith Wharton
235.Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
236.A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
237.A Room with a View – EM Forster
238.Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
239.Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi
240.Sanctuary – William Faulkner
241.Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford
242.Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James
243.The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum
244.The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
245.Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
246.The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior
247.The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
248.Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman
249.Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)
250.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
251.A Separate Place – John Knowles
252.Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
253.Sexus – Henry Miller
254.The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
255.Shane – Jack Shaefer
256.The Shining – Stephen King
257.Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
258.S is for Silence – Sue Grafton
259.Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
260.Small Island – Andrea Levy
261.Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
262.Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers
263.Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore
264.The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
265.Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos
266.The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
267.Songbook – Nick Hornby
268.The Sonnets – Shakespeare
269.Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
270.Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
271.The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
272.Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
273.Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
274.The Story of my Life – Helen Keller
275.A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
276.Stuart Little – EB White
277.Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
278.Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
279.Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett
280.Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
281.A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
282.Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
283.Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty
284.Time and Again – Jack Finney
285.The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar
286.To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
287.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
288.The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare
289.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
290.The Trial – Franz Kafka
291.The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
292.Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
293.Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
294.Ulysses – James Joyce
295.The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
296.Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
297.Unless – Carol Shields
298.Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
299.The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers
300.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
301.Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard
302.The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
303.Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
304.Walden – Henry David Thoreau
305.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
306.We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker
307.What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles
308.What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell
309.When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
310.Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
311.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
312.Wicked – Gregory Maguire
313.The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum
314.Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
315.The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
316.The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

Ufa! Quantos livros! Mas não se desespere, ainda dá tempo de se transformar em uma garota ou garoto Gilmore!

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