Book List Randomness

[eiblyn]

I'm trying to get together a list of books to read this year outside of class. I am nowhere as industrious as some of my friends (*grins at blueathena*) but I think I should be able to handle 20 books. So please add suggestions as I have no idea what 20 books are worth time reading this year. BTW...no, I really haven't read any of the things on this list. If you make fun of me, I'll be forced to cry on you.

1. Da Vinci Code


2. Civil Disobedience


3. Fellowship of the Ring


4. The Two Towers


5. Return of the King


6. Stranger in a Strange Land


7. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


8. Restaurant at the End of the Universe


9. 1984


10. Callahan's Lady


11. Lady Slings the Booze


12. The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature


13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep


14. Warriors of the Heart The review on Amazon sounded like this a definite book to go over well in my life currently...


15. The Green Consumer


16. The Half-Blood Prince


17. The Green Consumer's Shopping Guide


18. Pagans and the Law


19. Radical Honesty


20. Tailchaser's Song


21. Godbody


22. The Stranger


23. Ancestors of Avalon


24. Something MYTH,Inc


25. Reading the Tarot


26. Women Leaders in African History

Thanks to those who helped get together most of this.

Comments

[blueathena.livejournal.com]

You'll love Hitchhikers Guide. :)
I loved 1984. And its a very appropriate book to plan to read soon as a lot of people compare Bush administration to "Big Brother" in the novel.
I'll have to think of some recommendations I really think you may like. There's always the books I love, but it doesn't mean someone else will love them. I do need to write up a list of all the books I recall ever reading. I want to do that about movies too. :) Heh... me and my lists!!

[breimh.livejournal.com]

The only two I haven't read are 11. Callahan's Lady and 12. Lady Slings the Booze, but I can assure you I did enjoy the others. I'll have to look for these two, myself, though... just out of couriosity. :)

One I would personally recommend to anyone who hasn't read it is Warriors of the Heart by Dannan Perry. And another that is both fun, and full of insights is Winnie the Pooh and Problem Solving though I forget who it's by, now.

[hyroic-heelyr.livejournal.com]

youu should save seven slots for the dark tower cycle. You can borrow my copies of them. In fact, forget about all of em 'cept H2G2 and 1984 and just read all the books I hand you. then you'll have the largest understanding one can have of the series that someone can get in a year.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

I've only read 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and they're all good.

Have you read "Walden"? It's a better intro to Thoreau than "Civil Disobedience." And you should check out Emerson's essay Thoreau (written shortly after Thoreau's death), not to mention all of Emerson's essays; they truly define the American character at its best.

I found "Stranger in a Strange Land" a bit annoying. Heinlein's characters tend to be rather preachy and this gets under my skin even when I agree with their preaching.

If you Adams, you should read the whole trilogy through from start to finish. It's a lot of fun and his inventiveness is amazing. The later books in the "trilogy" aren't quite as good.

"1984" remains a classic and is still relevant today, 20 years after that date has passed (especially as Bush and company have launced an Orwellian attack on our freedoms, our language, and our history). Let me also recommend "Brave New World" another anti-utopian novel of a very different sort.

[cap22.livejournal.com]

You're missing 3 h2g2 books, but they weren't his best work.

I would add this to you're list, they are my faves:

Albert Camus - The Stranger, it's about being imprisoned in your own indifference. It gave me reason to be alive a few years ago.

Douglas Adams - The long, dark tea-time of the soul, it's about the interconnectivity of... well... everything.

Oo Oo Oo and read Smack. I dont remember the author atm, but it's about life in the 1980s brit-punk scene. Very real story.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Let me add another work by Camus (all of whose writing is worth reading): " The Myth of Sisyphus." It starts out with "There is only one truly serious philosophical question and that is suicide" and goes on to affirm the value of life lived without hope or faith.