Another book rote
Jun. 10th, 2009 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The infamous "they" suggest this diversion: "List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you: list the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes. Don't take too long to think about it."
I found it diverting. My list contains some works that are not lifechanging high literature, but are truly memorable to me, so I think that's fair.
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
- Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
- The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Once and Future King - T.H. White
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
- The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
- A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
- The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
- Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- How Much for Just the Planet? - John M. Ford
I found it diverting. My list contains some works that are not lifechanging high literature, but are truly memorable to me, so I think that's fair.
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Date: 2009-06-10 02:53 pm (UTC)Whee! I knew I adored you for a reason. :-)
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Date: 2009-06-10 03:15 pm (UTC)Other cent: although there's only two titles of your Top 15 that I put on my list too, I think I've read more of your list than of anyone else's I've seen yet (12.5 out of 15). Therefore I approve :-)
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Date: 2009-06-10 03:23 pm (UTC)(And since I thought it might be Once and Future King, I see that it could be said to be half on your list, as well.)
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Date: 2009-06-10 10:21 pm (UTC)My understanding is that T.H. White wrote Sword in the Stone first, as a standalone, and then later got the
urgeto write the longer, fuller work, at which point he went back and made some changes to what was now become his preamble (some by necessity, some by change of mind). Me, I devoured the original Sword (one of only three books I had in English, while in Alsace at age 9), but I never have been able to get into Once & Future. De gustibus, and all that.