fifteen books meme!

Jun 23, 2009 22:31

gacked from wesleysgirlName fifteen books you've read that will always stay with you, and don't take too much time to think about it (the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes). Copy this into your own post. (and just like WG I have included the first lines of each in my own description, because, well, it was awesome to go revisit them... ( Read more... )

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gray_ghost June 24 2009, 03:54:47 UTC
Here are mine - but I am not digging up the hyperlinks! Tried to minimize overlap between our lists.

1. The Last Samurai Helen deWitt
2. Dhalgren Samuel Delany
3. Vietnam: A History - Stanley Karnow
4. Synners - Pat Cadigan
5. The Good War - Studs Terkel
6. The Theory and Practice of Hell - Eugen Kogon
7. Twentieth Century Book of the Dead - Gil Eliot
8. A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
9. Rage - Richard Bachman
10. The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Cecil Rhodes
11. The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard Feynman
12. The Gunslinger (book 1 of the Darktower series)
13. Trouble on Triton - Samuel Delany
14. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
15. Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack

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katekat1010 June 29 2009, 06:05:39 UTC
there are like at least four of those that i would've liked to expand the list and include (especially the Womack) ... we live in a world with a lot of good books, thank god

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