A Book Meme

[dizzojay]

Snagged from cassiopeia7

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't have to be "right" or "great" works, just the ones that have touched you. Feel free to snag and spread the book love!

1.  Watership Down - Richard Adams
2.  Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (and all subsequent books in the series) - Douglas Adams
3.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
4.  The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
5. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
6.  Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
7. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
8. The Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum
9. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
10 Faerie Tale - Raymond Feist

Comments

[fanspired]

Ha! My hubby's been reading his way through Bryson's collection recently, and reading them out loud a lot of the time. Very sharp and funny guy :)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Bill Bryson hasn't written a single book that I haven't loved every word of!

Notes from a Small Island is special to me because it's about Britain, and it's so brilliantly observed, I can see so much of myself and people around me in it.

[fanspired]

Yep.Hubby read me heaps from that one :)))

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Richard Adams . . . Bill Bryson

YESSSSSSSSS. \o/

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike :)

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Bill Bryson and Douglas Adams, yaaay! I miss my fellow Adams fan at work, Phil, we often quoted from the books to the bemusement of our co-workers. I found it really hard to keep it to 10, I would have also included Black Beauty and Hitchhikers if possible.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

You're right, it was a struggle to keep it at ten - I could have named ten Bill Bryson books alone, and I hadn't even included Terry Pratchett and Stephen King, and I've really enjoyed lots of their too!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Yes it was a struggle! I love this sort of meme as it gets you thinking about how important books are. We used to have a book club at my primary school and I loved the Viking books by Henry Treece, as well as all the Little House on The Prairie ones! And Mrs Pepperpot! I love historical novels too - Bernard Cornwall, Jean Plaidy and Phillipa Gregory among others. And Hay on Wye with all its marvelous book shops is one of my favourite places.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Bill Bryson is a god amongst men!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

He certainly is!

[emeraldarrows.livejournal.com]

I loved the Oz books growing up! :D

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I only read the Wizard of Oz, but I really loved it!

Hmm, just ten?

[leighannwallace.livejournal.com]

1. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
2. The Gate to Women's Country - Sheri Tepper
3. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
4. Ferny - James Long
5. Outlander - Diane Gabaldon
6. Watcher - Dean Koontz
7. Cyrano de Bergerac (ok, play not a book, but I'm stickin' it in here anyway!) - Edmond rostand
8. Deerskin - Robin McKinley
9. Thornyhold - Mary Stewart
10. Sharp Teeth - Toby Barlow

Re: Hmm, just ten?

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Some real classics here, but I haven't got around to reading any of these!

Re: Hmm, just ten?

[leighannwallace.livejournal.com]

I'd be hard put to say which is my favorite. The one I was most surprised about and absolutely love is Sharp Teeth. I picked it up thinking it was a novel, but it's actually a book length epic poem about shifters and it's absolutely wonderful.