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shoebucket

100 Books Meme

Apr 18, 2007 09:18

Courtesy of akujunkan: Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you plan on reading.

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shorty_man April 18 2007, 13:58:41 UTC

I agree with you on 'The Great Gatsby'. Also 'Tuesdays with Morrie' was a bit lame..

akujunkan April 18 2007, 17:07:28 UTC

Oh man, I wish I'd had the option of taking a Scifi Lit class at any point in my academic career! Out of curiosity, what were some of the other books assigned? (Curious, because Dune obviously wasn't one of them, and so many people act like it's the gold standard of the genre.)

shoebucket April 18 2007, 18:41:26 UTC

Yeah, my instructor specifically said we were going to avoid Dune, but I forget for which reasons (probably something about how it was so mainstream). While I'm sure there were more to the list, here are the ones which I pulled from my bookshelf remembering they were in our class:

Small Gods (Terry Pratchett)

A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)

The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)

Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick - this book was the inspiration for Blade Runner)

selections from Reave the Just, and Other Tales (Stephen R. Donaldson)

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the class. :-)

krupptastic April 25 2007, 17:09:39 UTC

hot damn, you read Small Gods? I'm a wee bit obsessed with Pratchett myself. I wish I got to read him in class.

I did me a list too. There were a lot of Utopian Lit books on there, eh?

And sorry, I hadn't gotten around to friending you yet... I just started this dang thing, and I barely have any time to work on it. Usually I'm posting when I should be working.