The vagaries of the interweb.

[policraticus]

Wending my way from colintj's debate post on literature,

http://community.livejournal.com/debate/4061228.html?nc=114

I encountered this meme, which struck my fancy. Some are ridiculously easy, some will probably puzzle. This is not by design.

1) Select 5-10 (or so) favourite books

Comments

[herbaliser]

1) The Odyssey, Homer
4) Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
6) The book of John, John
9) Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
10) Four Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome

[policraticus]

You got Jerome K. Jerome! But not the title...although I'm sure you realize the mistake. I thought that was going to be more of a head scatcher. My father actually read that to me as a bedtime story when I was little, it was one of the first books I remember actually laughing out loud to.

[midnightglobe]

7 beowulf

[policraticus]

And right you are.

[midnightglobe]

#3 sounds like bobby frost, but i don't have any of his books, just anthologies where he figures prominently, so i can't venture a stab at the title of the collection.

[policraticus]

It isn't him, but he did obliquely reference this poet in several of his works.

[anonymous]

Ahh #2, opening lines form Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. Excellent book. YOSSARIAN

[policraticus]

Yes, indeed. It is standing in for the whole series which, I blush to admit, I have read through at least 4 times, and will yet again.

Subject3

[anonymous]

Hi all!

Bye

Re: Subject3

[policraticus]

Er.... i.

Hope to see you again, soon.