15 books game

[ineffabelle]

Directions:
"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. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
3. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Nausea - JP Sartre
5. UBIK - PK Dick
6. The Divine Invasion - PK Dick
7. The Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu
8. Illuminatus! Trilogy (cheating maybe but they were published together) - RA Wilson
9. Manalive - GK Chesterton
10. The Reprieve - JP Sartre
11. Neuromancer - William Gibson
12. Cosmic Trigger - RA Wilson
13. Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
14. Dune - Frank Herbert
15. Albanian Assignment - David Smiley

Comments

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

1) dhalgren - samuel r. delany
2) let it come down - paul bowles
3) four quartets - t.s. eliot (emotionally constipated, i know, but ..)
4) secret societies and psychological warfare - michael hoffman ii
5) lanark - alasdair gray
6) the greatest story never told - lana c. cantrell
7) in dreams begin responsibilities - delmore schwartz
8) give me a break, buy this book - mike ives
9) the long goodbye - raymond chandler
10) gone to croatan: origins of north american dropout culture - sakolsky & koehnline, eds
11) flow my tears, the policeman said - pk dick
12) duino elegies (the david young translation, yo!) - rilke
13) the color kittens - margaret wise brown (it's all about the illustrations, though / which were by other people ..)
14) shadowland - peter straub
15) the western lands - ws burroughs

[blackestdarkness]

I've been meaning to read Slaughterhouse 5 for a while now. It's still sitting on my bookshelf untouched.

[adrienmundi]

1. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
(half of the world I want to live in)
2. Fear of Dreaming - Jim Carroll
(my favorite living poet)
3. How Loathsome - Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh
(the other half of the world I want to live in)
4. A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes
(made me realize academia and suffering need not go hand in hand)
5. The Power Book - Jeanette Winterson
(words fail me here)
6. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clark
(my reaction to it made me realize some important things)
7. The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
(made quite the impact on my young mind)
8. Sappho: A New Translation - Mary Barnard
(opened poetry for me)
9. Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
(made me realize I can comfortably hold my own with "experts")
10. Sexing the Body - Anne Fausto-Sterling
(gave me back science)


Maybe I've only got ten? I'm fickle, I guess.

[havva.livejournal.com]

first ones that pop to mind, in order . . .

1. einstein's dreams (alan lightman)
2. the age of spiritual machines (ray kurzweil)
3. house of leaves (mark danielewski)
4. of water and the spirit (malidoma patrice some)
5. the story of b (daniel quinn)
6. the society of mind (marvin minsky)
7. in our time (ernest hemingway)
8. the structure of scientific revolutions (thomas kuhn)
9. a wrinkle in time (madeleine l'engle)
10. hypersea (mark mcmenamin)
11. the street (ann petry)
12. ubik (philip k dick)
13. ceremony (leslie marmon silko)
14. hopscotch (julio cortazar)
15. down and out in paris and london (george orwell)

[foucaultonacid.livejournal.com]

confederacy of dunces - j kennedy o'toole
lord of the barnyard - tristan egolf
and the ass saw the angel - nick cave
bodies that matter - judith butler
slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion (for the essay on self respect at the end)
the little prince - a st exupery
the corrections - joathan franzen
adventures in capitalism - toby litt (for the story dreaming (?)foucault
house of leaves - mark danielewzki (sp)
queer in america - michael signorile
closer - dennis cooper
waiting for godot - samuel beckett
myth of sisyphus - albert camus
desolation angels - jack kerouac
the collected mafalda - quino

[alektraunic.livejournal.com]

Seek? Gnarl?

[ineffabelle]

They'd be in there with Frak if I had room for 20.