Quienes me conocen saben que una de mis series de televisión favoritas es Las chicas Gilmore. La he visto varias veces. He tomado nota en un cuaderno de los mejores diálogos o frases (los llamados gilmorismos). Incluso he visitado los estudios de la Warner para estar un rato en la plaza de Stars Hollow (aunque me consta que el plató fue inspirado por un pueblo real llamado Washington Depot.
Como ejemplo de la brillantez del guión de la serie, aquí transcribo uno de tantos diálogos que pueden escucharse en un capítulo (dicen que los guiones de cada capítulo ocupan el doble de páginas que un guión normal, por lo rápido que hablan todos):
–Debería traer la salsa de carne, ¿no?–¿Para qué?
–Para la pizza.
–Acabo de volver de Italia.
–¿Y?
–Y allí pueden matarte por echarle eso.
–¡Pero esto es América! Donde destrozamos la cultura de otros países en nuestra asquerosa búsqueda de una supremacía moral y militar.
–Tienes razón. Trae los condimentos imperialistas.
Para los fans, como yo, del cafeínico speech de sus personajes (sí, aquí todo el mundo es brillante, como en las series de Aaron Sorkin) y las continuas alusiones a la cultura pop, en decir, fans de Las Chicas Gilmore versión Premium, os propongo el siguiente desafío. Leer los 339 libros diferentes que Rory sale leyendo en algún momento en la serie. Después de ver Las chicas Gilmore incluso me apeteció matricularme en Yale, así que ya os imagináis lo conveniente que me parece el desafío.
Aquí tenéis la lista completa (y aquí la fuente y todas sus portadas):
1 – 1984
2 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3 – Alice In Wonderland
4 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
5 – An American Tragedy
6 – Angela’s Ashes
7 – Anna Karenina
8 – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
9 – The Archidamian War
10 – The Art of Fiction
11 – The Art of War
12 – As I Lay Dying
13 – Atonement (novel)
14 – Autobiography of a Face
15 – The Awakening
16 – Babe: The Gallant Pig
17 – Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
18 – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
19 – Bel Canto
20 – The Bell Jar
21 – Beloved
22 – Beowulf
23 – Bhagavad Gita
24 – The Bielski Brothers
25 – Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
26 – A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
27 – Brave New World
28 – Brick Lane
29 – Brigadoon
30 – Candide
31 – The Canterbury Tales
32 – Carrie
33 – Catch-22
34 – The Catcher in the Rye
35 – Charlotte’s Web
36 – The Children’s Hour
37 – Christine
38 – A Christmas Carol
39 – A Clockwork Oragne
40 – The Code of the Woosters
41 – The Collected Stories
42 – The Comedy of Errors
43 – Complete Novels
44 – The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
45 – Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
46 – A Confederacy of Dunces
47 – The Count of Monte Cristo
48 – Cousin Bette
49 – Crime and Punishment
50 – The Crimson Petal and the White
51 – The Crucible
52 – Cujo
53 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
54 – Daughter of Fortune
55 – David and Lisa
56 – David Copperfield
57 – The Da Vinci Code
58 – Dead Souls
59 – Demons
60 – Death of a Salesman
61 – Deenie
62 – The Devil in the White City
63 – The Dirt
64 – The Divine Comedy
65 – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
66 – Don Quixote
67 – Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway
68 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
69 – The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
70 – Eleanor Roosevelt
71 – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
72 – Ella Minnow Pea
73 – Eloise
74 – Emily the Strange
75 – Emma
76 – Empire Falls
77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective
78 – Ethan Frome
79 – Ethics
80 – Europe Through the Back Door
81 – Eva Luna
82 – Everything Is Illuminated
83 – Extravagance
84 – Fahrenheit 451
85 – Fahrenheit 9/11
86 – The Fall of the Athenian Empire
87 – Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
88 – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
89 – The Fellowship of the Ring
90 – Fiddler on the Roof
91 – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
92 – Finnegans Wake
93 – Fletch
94 – Flowers for Algernon
95 – The Fortress of Solitude
96 – The Fountainhead
97 – Frankenstein
98 – Franny and Zooey
99 – Freaky Friday
100 – Galapagos
101 – Gender Trouble
102 – George W. Bushisms
103 – Gidget
104 – Girl, Interrupted
105 – The Gnostic Gospels
106 – The Godfather
107 – The God of Small Things
108 – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
109 – Gone with the Wind
110 – The Good Soldier
111 – Letters to Judy
112 – The Graduate
113 – The Grapes of Wrath
114 – The Great Gatsby
115 – Great Expectations
116 – The Group
117 – Hamlet
118 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
119 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
120 – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
121 – Heart of Darkness
122 – Helter Skelter
123 – Henry IV, Part I
124 – Henry IV, Part II
125 – Henry V
126 – High Fidelity (novel)
127 – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
128 – Holidays on Ice
129 – The Holy Barbarians
130 – House of Sand and Fog (novel)
131 – The House of the Spirits
132 – How to Breathe Underwater
133 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
134 – How the Light Gets In
135 – Howl
136 – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
137 – The Iliad
138 – I’m With the Band
139 – In Cold Blood
140 – Inferno
141 – Inherit the Wind
142 – Ironweed
143 – It Takes a Village
144 – Jane Eyre
145 – The Joy Luck Club
146 – Julius Caesar
147 – The Celebrated Jumping Frog
148 – The Jungle
149 – Just a Couple of Days
150 – The Kitchen Boy
151 – Kitchen Confidential
152 – The Kite Runner
153 – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
154 – The Last Empire
155 – Leaves of Grass
156 – The Legend of Bagger Vance
157 – Less Than Zero
158 – Letters to a Young Poet
159 – Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
160 – Life of Pi
161 – Little Dorrit
162 – The Little Locksmith
163 – The Little Match Girl
164 – Little Women
165 – Living History
166 – Lord of the Flies
167 – The Lottery
168 – The Lovely Bones
169 – Love Story
170 – Macbeth
171 – Madame Bovary
172 – The Manticore
173 – Marathon Man
174 – The Master and Margarita
175 – Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
176 – Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
177 – Me Talk Pretty One Day
178 – The Meaning of Consuelo
179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy
180 – The Merry Wives of Windsor
181 – The Metamorphosis
182 – Middlesex
183 – The Miracle Worker
184 – Moby Dick (book)
185 – The Mojo Collection
186 – Moliere: A Biography
187 – A Monetary History of the United States
188 – Monsieur Proust
189 – A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister
190 – A Moveable Feast
191 – Mrs Dalloway
192 – Mutiny on the Bounty
193 – My Lai 4
194 – My Life as Author and Editor
195 – My Life in Orange
196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe
197 – My Sister’s Keeper
198 – The Naked and the Dead
199 – The Name of the Rose
200 – The Namesake
201 – The Nanny Diaries
202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
203 – New Poems of Emily Dickinson
204 – The New Way Things Work
205 – Nickel and Dimed
206 – Night
207 – Northanger Abbey
208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
209 – Novels 1930-1942
210 – Notes of a Dirty Old Man
211 – Of Mice and Men
212 – Old School
213 – On the Road
214 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (novel)
215 – One Hundred Years of Solitude
216 – The Opposite of Fate
217 – Oracle Night
218 – Oryx and Crake
219 – Othello
220 – Our Mutual Friend
221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
222 – Out of Africa
223 – The Outsiders
224 – A Passage to India
225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
226 – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
227 – Peyton Place
228 – The Picture of Dorian Gray
229 – Pigs at the Trough
230 – Pinocchio
231 – Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
232 – The Polysyllabic Spree
233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker
234 – The Portable Nietzche
235 – The Price of Loyalty
236 – Pride and Prejudice
237 – Property
238 – Pushkin: A Biography
239 – Pygmalion
240 – Quattrocento
241 – A Quiet Storm
242 – Rapunzel
243 – The Raven
244 – The Razor’s Edge
245 – Reading Lolita in Tehran
246 – Rebecca
247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
248 – The Red Tent
249 – Rescuing Patty Hearst
250 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
251 – R Is for Ricochet
252 – Rita Hayworth
253 – Robert’s Rules of Order
254 – Roman Fever
255 – Romeo and Juliet
256 – A Room of One’s Own
257 – A Room with a View
258 – Rosemary’s Baby
259 – The Rough Guide to Europe
260 – Sacred Time
261 – Sanctuary
262 – Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
263 – Daisy Miller
264 – The Scarecrow of Oz
265 – The Scarlet Letter
266 – Seabiscuit: An American Legend
267 – The Second Sex
268 – The Secret Life of Bees
269 – Secrets of the Flesh
270 – Selected Hotels of Europe
271 – The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell
272 – Sense and Sensibility
273 – A Separate Peace
274 – Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275 – Sexus
276 – The Shadow of the Wind
277 – Shane
278 – The Shining
279 – Siddhartha
280 – S Is for Silence
281 – Slaughter House Five
282 – Small Island
283 – The Snows of Kilimanjaro (book)
284 – Snow White and Rose Red
285 – Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
286 – The Song of Names
287 – Song of the Simple Truth
288 – The Song Reader
289 – Songbook
290 – The Sonnets
291 – Sonnets from the Portuguese
292 – Sophie’s Choice
293 – The Sound and the Fury
294 – Speak, Memory
295 – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
296 – The Story of My Life
297 – A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
298 – Stuart Little
299 – The Sun Also Rises
300 – Swann’s Way
301 – Swimming with Giants
302 – Sybil
303 – A Tale of Two Cities
304 – Tender Is the Night
305 – Terms of Endearment
306 – Time and Again
307 – The Time Traveler’s Wife
308 – To Have and Have Not
309 – To Kill a Mockingbird
310 – Richard III
311 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
312 – The Trial
313 – The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
314 – Truth and Beauty
315 – Tuesdays with Morrie
316 – Ulysses
317 – The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
318 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
319 – Unless
320 – Valley of the Dolls
321 – The Vanishing Newspaper
322 – Vanity Fair
323 – The Velvet Underground and Nico
324 – The Virgin Suicides
325 – Waiting for Godot
326 – Walden
327 – Bambi
328 – War and Peace
329 – We Owe You Nothing
330 – What Colour Is Your Parachute?
331 – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
332 – When the Emperor Was Divine
333 – Who Moved My Cheese?
334 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
335 – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
336 – The Wizard of Oz
337 – Wuthering Heights
338 – The Yearling
339 – The Year of Magical Thinking
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