Fifteen Titles

[theoldwolf]

Fifteen titles
Gacked from dragonet2

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you, for whatever reasons. This isn't your top 15 canon or even books you'd necessarily recommend, just books that have made their mark on you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.


The Book of Mormon
The Holy Bible
Tolkien: Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (Counts as 1)
Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks
Saroyan: The Human Comedy
Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Klemmer: The Compassionate Samurai
The Arbinger Institute: The Anatomy of Peace
Asimov: The Foundation Trilogy (Counts as 1)
Dickens: Oliver Twist
Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Ten Boom: The Hiding Place
Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
Kopp: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!
Kozol: Death at an Early Age

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

The Bible
C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
- The Screwtape Letters
- The Great Divorce
Tad Williams - Otherland
- The War of the Flowers
Jean Merrill - The Pushcart War
Peter Bowler - The Superior Person’s Book of Words (yeah, I'm a word geek)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - How I Came to Be a Writer
Richard Bradford - Red Sky at Morning
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (I read it in book form; it counts)
Matt Groening - Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life (don't read too much into that choice)
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

Tolkien: Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (Counts as 1)

"That still only counts as one!" -- Gimli

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice list. I've enjoyed a number of those as well. I also have Bowler's book, which I love dearly.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Have you seen its two sequels? I think he kinda petered out in #3, but #2 is worth a look.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

The Bible (King James version.... the man was a Scot but deserves kudos for getting a standard English text out...)
LOTR/ The Hobbit
Three Men In A Boat (Jerome Klapka Jerome)
Management & Machiavelli (Anthony Jay)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Spell For Chameleon (Piers Anthony)
The Tough Guide To Fantasy Land (Diana Wynne Jones)
Mort or Pyramids (pTerry Pratchett)


I'd find it easier to find 15 films I think...
King Kong (1933)
Stalker
A Christmas Carol (lord, but what version.... say Scrooge with Albert Finney)
Snow White
The General (Keaton)
Shrek
Any of the Ealings... say The Titfield Thunderbolt
Star Wars (the original, yes, so called part IV)
Dominion Tank Police (all acts I - IV)
Eskimo Nell
Steamboat Willie
nupnup..... running out of puff here, too.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Gotta agree on the Screwtape Letters....

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Huh, why didn't I think of A Christmas Carol? There are so many, really...

I thought about doing a 15-films meme myself, just for fun, but you've done it for me.

Lord of the Rings (That still only counts as one!)
The Ultimate Gift
The Peaceful Warrior
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
Star Trek: First Contact
Saving Grace (with Tom Conti as the Pope)
Wall∙E
Batman Begins
Superman Returns
Schindler's List
Out of Africa
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain
Dances With Wolves
2001, A Space Oddysey
Blazing Saddles

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Would that be Jonathan Kozol? Since you make me think of him, he goes first on my list:

Jonathan Kozol: Savage Innequalities
Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion
Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes
Madeline L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time (series)
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
Gerald Sittser: A Grace Disguised
Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers
Tadzeus Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Corrie Ten Boom: The Hiding Place
William Shakespeare: Hamlet
Stephen Vincent Benet: By the Waters of Babylon (short story, but it fits)
Frank Herbert: Dune (series)
C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (series)

and last, so that it rings in everyone's ears...

God: The Holy Bible

-=TK

[secoh.livejournal.com]

I'm going to list series as single entries as when I start on one I generally don't stop.

Gordon R Dickson: The Dragon and the George
Tolkien: Hobbit/LOTR
Weis/Hickman: Dragonlance
CS Lewis: Narnia series
Douglas Adams: HHGTTG
Bruce Carter: The Perilous Descent
Colin Thiele: Storm Boy/Fire in the Stone/Albatross Two (Met him when I was very young when he visited our school too!)
Terry Pratchett: Discworld series - no actually, dammit, all of them.
Anne McCaffery: Dragon Rider series
Jim Butcher: Dresden Files
The Bible
Petr Beckmann: A History of Pi
George R R Martin: Wild Cards
Stephen King: Christine
Mercedes Lackey: Dragon's Bane
David Gemmel: Legend (first of the Druss series)

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Very nice list. Glad to see that the Bible has even moved such an old reprobate as yourself.



I loved the original Dragonriders of Pern series, but didn't read past the first three. Also didn't mention the Darkover novels, of which I read the ones which came out in the late 70's and early 80's, but not the later ones; and also the Dune series, which pissed me off mightily because the ones that appeared after Herbert's death (and I loved all his work, including the Whipping Star, the Dosadi Experiment, and other such) were more or less interpolations - nobody really knows how he intended the series to end. Growf!

[secoh.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding sexist, As much as I loved Anne McCaffrey's work it was definately a feminine and matriarchal view of the world. I read them all but have to admit only a few of them I can say I thoroughly enjoyed, but those few stay with me.

I enjoyed Dune but it wasn't on my all time favorites list.


Looking at my list now it's interesting there's only one non-fiction book there. A History of Pi is a fascinating read! Even though I'm hopeless at maths, it's a great book covering how numeracy developed through the ages.