Fifteen Books in fifteen minutes

1 Feb 2010

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

So here goes......so many books, so little time...

On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Sophies World - Jostein Gaardner
As i stepped out one midsummers morning - Anon
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Anon
The Emperor series - Conn Iggulden (three books but ill count as one)
Salems Lot - Stephen King
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Guevara
I Lucifer - Glen Duncan
The Poet - Michael Connelly
Chasing Che - Patrick Symms
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Yes Man - Danny Wallace
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
The complete works of Shakespeare - well who dya reckon.

I feel that remembering these books right now says more about me right now at this time of night than necessarliy how amazing the books were, on reflection some might be quite poor but happened to be read at a certain juncture of my growing up. Still a good reads a good read!!

2 Feb 2010

Here it is...and not in any particular order...

Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Peanuts - Charles Schultz
Cherokee Proud - Tony Mack McClure
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
Tommyknockers - Stephen King
Silence of the Lamb - Thomas Harris
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young - Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore
America's Longest War - George C. Herring
Old Farmers Almanac
Uncle John's Bathroom Readers

2 Feb 2010

1. Slugs – Shaun Hutson
2. Metamorphosis – Frank Kafka
3. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
4. Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler
5. The BFG – Roald Dahl
6. Rats – James Herbert
7. It – Steven King
8. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
9. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
10. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
11. Along Came a Spider – James Patterson
12. The Bible – The Old Testament according to Spike Milligan
13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
14. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

3 Feb 2010

1. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
2. World without End - Ken Follet
3. The hitchhickers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Aadams
4. Animal - Farm George Orwell
5. Jupiters Travels - Ted Simon
6. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance- Robert Pirsig
7. The Unaproachable Norton - Norton Owners club
8. The perfect vehicle - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
9. The Lancaster: RAF Heavy Bomber - Ron Dick
10. Ghost Rider- Neil Peart
11. The GodFather - Mario Puzo
12. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
13. Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
14. The Bourne Legacy - Robert Ludlum.
15. Bravo two Zero - Andy Mcnabb

4 Feb 2010

1. The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
2. Dune - Frank Herbert
3. Jeeves and the Tie that Binds - P.G. Wodehouse
4. Necroscope - Brian Lumley
5. The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
8. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
9. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
10. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
11. Sunglasses After Dark - Nancy Collins
12. The Mummy - Anne Rice
13. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
14. The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
15. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

4 Feb 2010

Quote by rougerogue
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1 & 2 -- The Iliad and The Odyssey, by Homer, the Richmond Lattimore translations.

2 -- Clarissa, Samuel Richardson

3 -- Persuasion, Jane Austen

4 -- David Copperfield, by what's his name. Oh right, Charles Dickens.

5 -- The Woman In White, William Wilkie Collins.

6 -- Alice in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll.

7 -- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.

8 -- Dracula, Bram Stoker.

9 -- Claudine and all the others in the Claudine series, by Colette.

10 -- L'orologio, Carlo Levi.

11 -- The Palm at the End of the Mind, the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.

12 -- The Nymph and the Lamp, Thomas Raddall.

13 -- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami.

14 -- , Vladimir Nabokov.

15 -- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos.

Tough list to make, that's for sure.

4 Feb 2010

1) Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton
2) Strange Candy, Laurell K. Hamilton
3) The Host, Stephenie Meyer
4) Montana Surender (Don't Remember the authors name)
5) Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini
6) The Masterharper Of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
7) A Gift Of Dragons, Anne McCaffrey
8) Swallowing Darkness, Laurell K. Hamilton
9) Nightseer, Laurell K. Hamilton
10) Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
11) Sign of Seven Trilogy, Nora Roberts (Very creepy, but so good!)
12) Devil In A Kilt, Sue-Ellen Welfonder
13) Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling (I know, I know)
14) The Circle Trilogy, Nora Roberts
15) Tribute, Nora Roberts

This was hard, to list only 15 books. I love reading! coffee

4 Feb 2010

Quote by gypsymoth
Quote by rougerogue
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Tough list to make, that's for sure.

Every time i make the list it has a different result i find!!

9 Feb 2010

This was tougher than I thought. Who knew I liked to read so much.

In no particular order or preference:
01. Foundation (series) - Isaac Asimov
02. The Bad Place - Dean R Koontz
03. It - Stephen King
04. I Robot - Isaac Asimov
05. Christine - Stephen King
06. Treasure Island - R L Stevenson
07. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R L Stevenson
08. Gray Lensman (series) - E E Smith
09. Richard Sharpe (series) - Bernard Cornwell
10. Animal Farm - George Orwell
11. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
12. Chronicles of Narnia (series) - C S Lewis
13. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
14. Be Your Own Napoleon - William Seymour
15. Cross of Iron - Willi Heinrich

coffee

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