books

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Here's a short bit of meme...


top ten books read:

1. Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Hobbit - Tolkein
4. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
5. The Jungle Book (& assorted stories) - Rudyard Kipling
6. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradburry
7. 1984 - George Orwell
8. The Giver - Lois Lowry
9. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
10. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (though I'm not finished yet, so it's placed low)

Comments

[dragolyn.livejournal.com]

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Oh! I love this book! I bought it when it was first published and have probably read it about two dozen times since then. Did you see there is a... not a sequel, I guess, but a book published by LL set in the same 'verse? I haven't read it... sorta worried that it'll take away from the greatness of The Giver.... but I'll get around to it eventually.

Great books. 1984 is a particular favorite of mine, as is Ender's Game. And Kipling's always good.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've only read The Giver once, but it was the first of those "censorship is the first evil" books (of which there are at least three on my list) I read. I think I read it for fun in sixth grade. Never seen the sequel. Anyway, I remember loving it. I read 1984 just last year, by choice for a book report, and it (along with Frankenstein) was far more enjoyable and interesting and thought-provoking a read than any of the stupid old English ::cough::Bronte::cough:: books I was forced to swallow ((how disgusting is it that in the three books of that type I was forced to read, all the supposed "strong women" were only allowed to be happy when they'd suffered much and were finally "rewarded" through their penitence by getting the forgiveness and love of their big, strong, emotionally fucked up man?--sorry, OT rant.))

My favorite ever book quote came from 1984: "Sanity is not statistical." ::shiver:: Love that line! And "doublespeak". Such an appropriate word for today's not-popularly elected political officials.

I got the version of The Jungle Book that I have now, oh-- god-- probably before middle school. I was young. Young enough that I didn't even understand a lot of the subtext. It's a paperback, with three Mowgli/wolf-child stories about about six or eight others, inlcuding Rikki Tikki Tavi. But I loved it--such beautifully worded writing. And the poems/songs in the beginning! Lovely. Makes me want to reread it again.

Ender's game has an untouchable special place in my heart. I read it at 14 and I wished then that I'd known about it at 11, but was also glad I'd found into it before I became any more of a grown up.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Also, if you haven't yet, read the first two on my list. They kick unbelievable ass. For reasons to long and squealy for me to get into right now. They just--do. Stephen King... I swear, if he never writes another page except the last four of the promised Dark Towers books, and throws down his pen promptly after, I won't utter a word besides "Thank you."