Jessi is making me list the ten most influential books in my life. Or the ten books i liked reading the mostest. The rules are fuzzy, but so is this screen when I take off my reading glasses. Here they are, in no particular order: 1.The Tolkien trilogy (counts as one!) I first read it in junior high and have never stopped. The movies make me want to move to Middle Earth (New Zealand)! 2. To Kill a Mockingbird. Whoever really wrote it. I didnt read it until I had seen the movie a zillion times...a CHIFFEROBE! 3. Slaughterhouse Five. My first Kurt Vonnegut book, but not my last. 4. Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett, for the same reason as Jessi (who I passed it on to after reading it). 5. The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins. It didnt change my philosophy, but it did help me get off the fence. The Selfish Gene, by the same Englishman who wrote number five. An interesting hypothesis indeed. 6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson. I love gonzo journalism! 7. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin. Not an easy read, all that flowery Victorian prose; but damn, he nailed it! 8. Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein. When you are a kid who thinks about life elsewhere, Heinlein has your back. 9. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle. I read it in the fifth or sixth grade and it was good. 10 Andersonville, McKinley Cantor. it made me weep to think that humans could treat other humans that badly, but it opened my eyes to the horrors of war. Honorable mentions to Robert E. Howard for any Conan book, Isaac Asimov for any of his wonderful sci fi books, E. O. Wilson, and the most honorable mention of all to William Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language. he was really Sir Henry Neville, you know.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:50:52 +0000
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