10 Books That "Stayed" with Me

[sunclouds33]

lokifan tagged me on this challenge. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. I don't know about tagging people. If anyone is interested in doing this, consider yourself tagged- I'd love to hear about the books that stayed with you.

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’

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[velvetwhip]

I love A Little Princess!

Also, An American Tragedy is brilliant. Dreiser beautifully fictionalized the murder of Grace Brown and brought to light important issues of sex and class. It's one of the highlights of American literature.

Gabrielle

[sunclouds33]

Yes to both points. People scoff at "crime story turned into fictional story" and I see their point. However, at its best, it really does what fiction *should* do- tell an interesting and relevant story with an outline that comes from reality. And that's American Tragedy.

[velvetwhip]

Many great books have been based on actual cases: Madame Bovary, The Mystery of Marie Roget... the list goes on. Great authors use those events as the bare bones upon which they flesh out compelling tales.

Gabrielle

[davesmusictank]

I have read Fast Food Nation a good few years ago, Amazing insight, The Revenge of Gaia is one i want to read having read his previous one.

[sunclouds33]

Fast Food Nation was very insightful. It's a vivid piece of journalism and facts assembled but Schlosser takes it the next step and draws great conclusions. I love his point that the non-bio-degradable plastic and Styrofoam will last long into the future. Thousands of years from now, future generations can tell how we lived just by looking at the fast food containers. What will they think of us?

[lokifan]

I must read Collapse, it sounds amazing.

♥ SARA CREWE ♥

[sunclouds33]

Yay, Collapse is one of my favorite books and still incredibly timely. It's all awesome- but I think the highlights are the ancient civilizations of the Norse and Easter Island. And how environmental stresses contributed to the Rwandan genocide. And Australia's and China's burgeoning environmental crises. Aw hell, it's all terrific. ;-)