fave books

[bar_bar_ella]

*cough* This started as a comment on f13tch3r's journal. I got a little carried away. A bit. Maybe. :) I had to re-edit the comment about four times before LJ would let me actually post it there 'cos it was too long! :D Anyway, I thought it might be useful to post it here, just for whatever future reference

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[penguin2]

But but but Hamlet's not a book!

:D

[bar_bar_ella]

I have several editions on the shelves that disagree with that. ;D

(does that mean Another Country's not either? *wink*)

[penguin2]

Hee. Actually, we have a collected Willie - now that's a book :D

In no particular order:
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Insomnia - Stephen King
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Watershed - Arthur Koestler
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Double Helix - Francis Crick and James Watson
The Story of English - ed. Crum/Cran/MacNeil
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Yes, I'm serious.
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
The Final Programme - Michael Moorcock
Bellwether - Connie Willis
Shogun - James Clavell
The Magic Goes Away - Larry Niven
I, Claudius/Claudius the God - Robert Graves
Gray's Anatomy. Yes, again, I'm serious.
A Short History of Planet Earth - Ian Plimer
Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
...and the twentieth title keeps changing...

[bar_bar_ella]

Heeee, my collected Wicked Will is actually two rather lovely, leatherbound, heavy books... :) I almost put my copy of The Sonnets on this list, too, actually.

Oooh - your list has got me thinking why I didn't include at least one bloody dictionary! Dammit. ;D So many lost hours just flipping through various ones... *sigh*

[penguin2]

I just read out both our lists to Himself and got some...funny looks. Nice funny looks :-)

[bar_bar_ella]

The best sort!

Oh hey - there's no Pterry on your list! Was that the changing number twenty? :)

[penguin2]

Nah - you notice I left out pretty much all multiple-volume stuff (although I included the Graves books because they're essentially one long novel). I could put together a list of my fave Pterrybooks, though...oooooh, that reminds me - Good Omens should be on that list above! That's the twentieth for the moment :-)

[f13tch3r]

I just stumbled upon this comment. I know it was ages ago but I LOVE your book list. So much so that I felt compelled to let you know.

[penguin2]

Glad to see we share some interest...

;-)