well i have racked my brains this weekend thanks to Aicnoel Nnylf and Laura Jane Smith who nominated me for this 10 book thing! heres the blurb.. In your status list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Dont take more than a few minutes and dont think too hard. They dont have to be the right books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way and I nominate Tucky Taylor Jennie Shales Sarah Jane Jennings David Rhys Johns and John Nathan Pappas to step up to the plate next. Heres mine: Animal Farm by George Orwell. although it was required reading in school, it has still stayed with me since my teenage years and I periodically reread it. four legs good, two legs bad! Plague Dogs/Watership Down by Richard Adams. Loved both these books when i was a kid and couldnt decide between them for this list. changed the way I viewed animals forever. Hans Christian Anderson Fairy stories - fuelled my imagination from childhood upwards and I still have dreams and nightmares about some of those stories. I will never forget the Tinderbox and the dog with eyes as big as saucers - haunts my dreams even now. The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. woke me up to dictatorships and the bizarre and random things that can happen to people around the world on a whim of policy and bad government. people suffer, for no good reason. Its the hardest book i ever had to get through but taught me so much. all his other books are good too. cancer ward is excellent. Far from the Madding crowd by Thomas Hardy. I love all Hardys books so was very hard to choose just one but I do like the character of Bathsheba in this one so this can be the pick of his wonderful crop of romantic, disappointed lives in archaic rural idyllic settings. The Plague by Albert Camus. another book that just grabbed me and never let me forget about it. Its glimpse into the human side of life with all its peculiarlities especially when faced with a crisis is always interesting. I like this mans absurdism. The stranger is another great classic of his. (it was a hard choice between this and kafkas trial - both wonderfully depressing books) One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. a book thats hard to put down once you start. Very magical in a humanist way. Don Quizote by Miguel de Cervantes. such a wonderful book that taught me the power of my own imagination and how sometimes its OK to live inside your own head. sometimes things are much better there. I love these adventures and they have always stayed with me. a wonderful read. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. again so hard to choose a book thats a favourite from all his classics. I love his books almost as much as Hardys so hard to choose but i do love the characters in this one from Peggotty to Betsy Trotwood and Mr Micawber and even the bad uriah heep. And finally... my favourite author of all time The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. although i love all his books, its his short stories that fascinated me from a young age and have always remained with me. His vast imagination and his way to find magical spaces within the most mundane settings as well as his tales of ordinary circumstances in fantastical settings have shown me how easy it is to see things in different lights and with new eyes. He is a continuing source of inspiration to me.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:35:42 +0000
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