15 books game

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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

[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.