Book Meme Yoinked From Karadin

[amarissia]

"This can be a quick one. 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."

"The Lord of the Rings", by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Once and Future King", by T.H. White
"The Dragon and the Unicorn", by A.A. Attanasio (sheesh, so many initials)
"The Last Unicorn", by Peter S. Beagle
"Les Miserables", by Victor Hugo
"Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by Henry Lincoln, Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent
"The Da Vinci Code", by Dan Brown
"Orthodoxy", by G.K. Chesterton
"Pilate", by Anne Wroe
"The Prophet", by Kahlil Gibran
"Lion's Heart", by Karen Wehrstein
"A Density of Souls", by Christopher Rice
"Peter Pan", by J.M. Barrie
"A Tale of Two Cities", by Charles Dickens
"The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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[robonun.livejournal.com]

1. J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
2. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
3. T.H. White, The Once and Future King
4. Michael Ende, Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story)
5. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
7. Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy
8. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
9. Frank Herbert, Dune
10. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
11. Neil Gaiman, American Gods
12. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
13. Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
14. Umberto Eco, Name of the Rose
15. Richard Adams, Watership Down

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: "Uh-oh."

Watership...Down? *catatonic* AGH! Scary monsters and the bunnies are trapped and the fields are filling with BLOOD!

Sephy: "Excuse her. Her parents allowed her to watch a questionable cartoon when she was young."

Bunnies...trapped...

*a short time later*

Ooh, I loved Foucault's Pendulum, even if the ending made me want to tear my hair out. And oh, The Name of the Rose. I read that, closed it, and said to myself, "I have no idea what just happened, only that way too much of it was in Latin."

[robonun.livejournal.com]

Oh, that wretched cartoon. Definitely not for kids, I can see why it traumatized you. I watched 10 minutes of it once, said "What the shrieking hell?" and kept on channel surfing. Try not to let it keep you away from the book.

I collect conspiracy theories like baseball cards, so Foucault's Pendulum had me hooked. ("Hey, is that a mint MK-ULTRA? I'll trade you a Trilateral Commission and a secondhand Bavarian Illuminati for it!") And The Name of the Rose was an easy one because all librarians secretly want to specialize in rare books and manuscripts but there's never enough openings for archivists, so we all have to be satisfied with a history of printing elective. Not that I'm bitter or anything. :)

[ladygunblade.livejournal.com]

Boy, that makes me feel illiterate. There are so many books I still want to read, though. I love reading, though I admit Literature class forcing me to read 15 Dutch books kind of ruined the experience a little because most of them were dull or crap.

Top of my list right now are Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, Angels & Demons by Dan Brown and so many, many more. So many books, so little time. Any recommendations which books I should absolutely read before I die?

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, depends on what you like. An alarming portion of my lsit is Arthurian stuff, 'cause I LOVE it, but that's me. Ooh, "Angels & Demons" was good, I can't wait for the movie! *dances*

Hmm, never read any Dutch books. They're not all dull, are they? If so, don't worry. You've got kickass windmills to make up for it.

Cloud: *giggles, waves*

[ladygunblade.livejournal.com]

No, not all of them. De scharlaken stad (The scarlet city) by Hella S. Haasse was very good, as was Het lelietheater (The lilytheatre) by Lulu Wang (De engelenmaker (The angelmaker by Stefan Brijs was amazing, but it's Belgian so that doesn't really count). There's just a LOT of WWII-literature, and after reading two of those you've pretty much read it all. In my opinion, at least.

Maybe it's also because I think English is more beautiful than Dutch. But indeed, we still have those windmills! Speaking of which, tomorrow is Queen's Day, maybe they're decorated! I'll snap a pic if I get the chance (read: if I'm not busy studying for exams).

Why are my replies always so long? <__<

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

*studies Dutch book titles* You know, it's like reading some English/German hybrid. Ugh, did I just make myself think of language-mpreg? That's so abstract... :)

Decorated windmills, tee hee! I better not tell Cloud or he'll explode with excitement...

[ladygunblade.livejournal.com]

late late laaaaaate reply, forgive me D:

Speaking of books, have you by any chance read "The city and the pillar" by Gore Vidal? I'm going to read it anyhow but I'm curious for someone else's opinion.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, no, what's it about? I like the title, it's enough to get me interested.

[ladygunblade.livejournal.com]

Oh hai I'm alive and should be studying history right now D:

Copypaste from internet store:
"Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940's America unveils surreptitious Hollywood affairs, the hidden life of the military in the Second World War and the underworld bar culture of New York City. With the publication of his daring thrid novel The City and the Pillar in 1948, Gore Vidal shocked the American public, which has just begun to hail him as their newest and brightest young writer. It remains not only an authentic and profoundly importatnt social document but also a serious exploration of the nature of idealistic love."

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sounds interesting...I'll add that to my list...

[tenxxxryuko.livejournal.com]

1. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
2. A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
3. Alanna the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Silver Chair/Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
6. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
7. The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Dancing on the Wind by Mary Jo Putney
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream/MacBeth by Shakespeare
11. Dragonsinger/Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
13. Skullduggery Pleasent by Derek Landy
14. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
15. The Giver by Lois Lowry.
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Any new books I should try out? I perfer supernatural, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, action, drama, and bits of romance. But I'm alright with anything else as long as it is interesting, there aren't that many typos, and has a good storyplot, characters, and/or setting. Bye!

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

"The Dragon and the Unicorn" is amazing, I would kill to be able to write like that. Plus, it's the first book of a series, so if ya like it, there's more!

I've meant to read "The Count of Monte Cristo" for awhile, is it good?

[tenxxxryuko.livejournal.com]

Hmm, "The Dragon and the Unicorn" will be on the book list I have stocked up somewhere. *looks at the clutter around me* Eh heh, oopsies?

But yes! The Count of Monte Cristo is a favorite of mine! I read the "Children's Version" of it in fifth grader, and I read the adult version of it in junior high school and high school and I've just been reading it again currently. The wonders of revenge astounds me sometimes. *chuckles*

It's a nice read, light too, just about 650 pages or so. But that's only a light read for me because I obsess over books. *looks at overflowing bookcase* But because the book was written in French originally and because old English translates so weird, there will be some of the more old fashioned words and strange sentence structure. But I got used to it, I'm getting old reading all these classics that are structured strangely, but it's still slightly weird to read in Good Ol' English. ^^ But I would recommend it, it has nice revenge and all that drag-people's-names-down-to-the-dirt thing going on, as the occasional death or two. Fun! :)

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that does sound good. Thank you!

I obsess over books too, so 650 pages isn't daunting for me either. :)

[katsumikg.livejournal.com]

OMG!! really? i have such a bad memory, and since i speak spanish as native language, i'm not sure how this'll turn out xD....ok....here goes nothing...

1)"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
2)"Interview with a Vampire" by Anne Rice
3)"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
4)"Esperando a Godot" by Samuel Beckett (i think in english it's "Waiting for Godot")
5)"Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada" by Pablo Neruda (i search for this one, it's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"
6)"Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez ("Chronicles of a Death Foretold"
7)"El diario de Ana Frank" by Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank ("The Dirary of Anne Frank")
8)"Mi Amiga Ana Frank" by Alison Leslie Gold (i found this by many names or something, but the traslation would be "My Friend Anne Frank")
9)"Graziella" by Alphonse de Lamartine
10)"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
11)"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gastón Leroux

Well, that's all my mind can tell me right now xD I haven't read a lot of books either, i think i don't reach 30 books -__-' that's kinda sad!! Sorry about some of its names, i didn't knew them in english :S so i search for them in internet, and i put them there xD

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"! I loved that one too. Good list overall, we both rock. :)

[katsumikg.livejournal.com]

u_u sorry, i read in internet once the name was "the picture of dorian gray", xD, sorry about that!!
Yesss!! i got so obssesed after reading that book with Dorian! ^__^ It's awesome!