Because some of you are not my facebook friends ....
Here are the instructions....
Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you.
First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own note, and be sure to tag the person who tagged you.
If you can't read, just list the picture books you looked at.
1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics)
2. Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories
3. The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics)
4. The Golden Book Encyclopedia by Various Authors
6. Deschooling Society (Open Forum)
8. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
10. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection (Every Sherlock Holmes story written by Doyle!)
11. The Great Gatsby
12. The Storm: an African Exploration
13. All Quiet On The Western Front
14. The Archaeology of Human Origins: Papers by Glynn Isaac
15. Man the Hunter
Comments
Okay, since you're being less coy here, I will as well. Yes, I did notice. Three and a third.
Posted by: Stephanie Z | July 20, 2009 9:04 PM
Dune
1984
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
V for Vendetta
A Brave New World
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Doors of Perception
Heaven and Hell
John Keats (Gittings)
In the Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
A Bear Called Paddington
The Art of War
The Godmakers
Endymium
Matilda
Arabel's Raven
Breaking the Spell
Wesley's Works
On Being and Essence (not in Latin)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Dosadi Experiment
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
The Demon Haunted World
Cosmos
Crewel Lye
Tarot
Book of the Dead
Book of Living and Dying
The Foundation Trilogy
The Heart of Addiction
Posted by: DuWayne | July 20, 2009 10:02 PM
Oops, I thought you meant the ones we could think of in fifteen minutes - fuck it, I like twisting memes anyways...And damn, I wish I had gotten Vonnegut in there - but you did, so I don't feel bad. I'll go ahead and post this list on my blog as well - though not right now.
I would do so on facebook, but apparently I have to get a new password every fucking time I login, because FF won't remember, nor will the cookies...So Fuck FB...
Posted by: DuWayne | July 20, 2009 10:08 PM
Here's a few titles I popped out in a short time. I hope they make sense to you:
Process and Reality
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
The Black Swan
Thirty Nine Steps
The Time Machine
Lord Jim
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Conditioned Reflex Therapy
The Crooked Timber of Mankind
The Myth of Sisyphus
All of Sherlock Holmes
The Phenomenon of Man
Ovid Metaphorsoses
Perfumes - the Guide, Turin and Sanchez
That's a few, over many years. Many many omitted. Quick choices. Different list tomorrow. Does it tell you anything?
Posted by: Richard Lubbock | July 20, 2009 11:00 PM
A few titles...
Origin of Species
Dune
Rivers in Time
Foundation (Trilogy)
Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
Canticle for Liebowitz
Ringworld
Rocket for the Reich
Face of Battle, The
Son of the Morning Star
Vigilantes of Montana, The
A Call of Distant Mammoths
Caesar's Commentaries (in English)
Chanur's Pride (Tetrology)
When Life Almost Died
and a couple more
Extinction
Inferno
Roma
and on and on...
Cheers!!!
Posted by: Ron | July 20, 2009 11:48 PM
Mine are here. I limited myself to 15.
Posted by: Stephanie Z | July 21, 2009 12:12 AM
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Elric of Melniboné
The Crucible of Time
Illuminatus!
Principia Discordia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Der Sandmann (E.T.A. Hoffmann)
The Pit and the Pendulum
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Call of Cthulhu
White Light
Stephen King's Dark Tower series
War of the Spider Queen series
Posted by: DrMcCoy | July 21, 2009 5:24 AM
In no particular order:
Dracula
The Stand
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hunt for Red October
A Brief History of Time
Misquoting Jesus
The Elegant Universe
The Red Queen
The Ancestor's Tale
The How and Why Wonder Book of Dinosaurs
The various essay collections of Stephen Jay Gould
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Banvard's Folly
Your Inner Fish
The Great Mortality
Posted by: Jay | July 21, 2009 7:27 AM
The Pencil of Nature
Looking at Photographs
Crime and Punishment
1984
The Baroque Cycle
The Visualization of Quantitive Data
Snow Crash
Like Water for Chocolate
Universal Principles of Design
The Demon Haunted World
The New York Times World Atlas
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Burnham's Celestial Handbook
The Oxford English Dictionary
Red Alert
Posted by: Nick Dvoracek | July 21, 2009 11:27 AM