Lol, I wish I was still a sophomore in college.

I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion here but -

Shawshank is not typically amongst top 100 lists. It does well on audience polls, but isn’t super highly respected in the film world. It’s a fine, simple film with little complexity. It pioneered no new techniques either technically, narratively, or in performance. Had it not run forever on TNT or whatever it would largely be forgotten.

IMHO it’s the most overrated film of all time. Not to say it’s bad, it’s great comfort food. But top 100 of all time? Nah. Not even top 10 in 1994. I’d rank Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Clerks, Leon, The Lion King, Legend of the Drunken Master, Chungking Express, Satantango, Red, White, Shallow Grave, etc above it.

The issue in Qatar isn’t being unable to drink outside the stadium, even now there are “fan zones” where people can drink easily enough (not to mention in hotels and whatnot), it’s that the stadiums and their immediate environs are the only places you can’t drink out of the original plans.

Some of my favorite short story collections if looking for recs:

Isaac Babel: Odessa Stories and Red Cavalry

Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories

Herman Melville: The Piazza Tales (specifically Bartleby and Benito Cereno)

Anton Checkhov: I mean take your pick, the man was a genius

James Joyce: Dubliners (much more accessible than the more famous Ulysses, but no less powerful)

Ambrose Bierce: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Italo Calvino: Cosmicomics

Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine

Jorge Borges: Fictions and Labyrinths (although I love pretty much all of his work)

Ernest Hemingway: Complete Short Stories

You would have gotten it in 83 as that is when book one was published.