Liam Proven ([info]lproven) wrote,
@ 2009-06-30 18:54:00
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15 Books
Incipient FB meme - this should propagate through to there, though. No idea if it's catching on on LJ, though. I'm very out of touch.

This, for me, is a rough list in order of most-reread-ness. If you took the position in reverse order, it's about how many times I've reread them, very roughly - so a good dozen-plus times for the top handful, down to at least once or twice at the bottom.

Destructions:
Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me. (To write a note, go to your profile page and click on Notes, then click on "Add a Note")


1. The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. The Dark Side of the Sun - Terry Pratchett
3. Strata - Terry Pratchett
4. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
5. Red/Green/Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
6. Life Before Man - Spinar & Burian
7. Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
8. The Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien
9. Neuromancer – William Gibson
10. Eon – Greg Bear
11. Zodiac - Neal Stephenson
12. Dune – Frank Herbert
13. Gaia: a new look at life on Earth - James Lovelock
14. A Bike Ride - Anne Mustoe
15. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson




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[info]drasecretcampus
2009-06-30 08:33 pm UTC (link)
My list on FB and at http://faustus.dreamwidth.org/260156.html#cutid1

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[info]liam_on_linux
2009-06-30 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Interesting. I found /Naked Lunch/ completely unreadable, myself, and never got more than about ¼ of the way through it.

Of yours, I've read:

1. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
5. J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company
7. Joanna Russ, The Female Man
10. Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
11. Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
12. Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

Only Milne was in any way memorable; the rest I found quite forgettable, myself, I'm afraid. I've read pretty much all of Ballard, Dick, Delany & Vonnegut but I'm not actually very fond of any of them. I've even gone back and re-read some Dick to see what I'd missed when I was younger and I thought it was overrated nonsense 2nd time around, as well.

Confirmed Philistine, me. :¬/

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[info]devilgate
2009-07-01 05:02 pm UTC (link)
It says something about Facebook as a platform for communicating with people, that the creator of the meme felt they had to instruct people on how to add a "note". Imagine an LJ meme that included instructions on how to add a post to your journal.

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[info]lproven
2009-07-02 01:08 am UTC (link)
Y'know, that's a bloody good point...

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[info]sbisson
2009-07-02 01:11 am UTC (link)
Here are mine: http://sbisson.livejournal.com/956078.html

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