Over the holidays, a colleague and I browsed a book fair being held in our downtown lobby. This gem was among the relatively normal selection of books.
Thought I’d share this now that Idol is moving into the competition vs. all the audition crap.
An American Idol Soul. We didn’t even bother looking inside the cover.
Okay, between packing, appointments, rebooking flights, and every other ridiculous chore I had today, I thought about the 10 novels I would recommend reading before death. Or at least before you claim to be a grown up somewhere in your 30s.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1984, George Orwell
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
- The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
While I think the AOL book list sucked, it’s not easy to compile. And even though this is my own rant based on Dan Brown delirium, I can’t help but meme it – so let me start with Erin, Jason, Ron, and Nancie. Feel free to share.
Gone With the Wind.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Atlas Shrugged.
Harry Potter…
Angels and Demons…..
The Da Vinci Code…….
Seriously? Dan Brown twice? This is truly a weird mix of books with no clear logic.
And not to pick on Mr. Brown, I enjoyed Angels and Demons, but for what sounds like such a critical list, I wouldn’t rate his work above say, that of Hemmingway, Dickens, Swift, even Austen. Should I go on? I do find the inclusion of Stephen King’s The Stand interesting.
So, I guess I must pull my own list(s) together or quit bitching. Mhm.
Great quote in last week’s EW magazine: "Patience is for the weak." Amen.
Context? Who needs context?
We never doubted its cool factor, and now Ficlets has won a award at SxSW. Nice. I really need to adjust my "to do" list and get back to authoring stories.
At the end of July there were multiple UFO sightings in England. Lots of eyewitnesses and photos. Seems legit, no? I missed the story when it was fresh thanks to my low-input vacation, but I see there was lots of buzz on Digg and various blogs.
Adding a laugh to the news article is a comment by Reg, who smartly concludes the aliens only came for the last Harry Potter book. Perhaps it was a failed distraction created by another publishing house?
Saw Order of the Phoenix at the end of vacation. Having read the last chapter and epilogue of the final book beforehand, the movie, for me, played like an interstitial in its plotting, certainly not length, making me wonder why the adult book fans even care to see the movies. Especially since the movies don’t stay true to the books.
Oh, I’ll spare the spoilers, but I absolutely adored the series ending. The end and the beginning of Sorcerer’s Stone are the only parts of the series I’ve read, but I so love what Potter has done for kids and reading. And book-shy adults, for that matter.
Posting about Satan’s Halloween party reminded me of this quote:
Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.
— Aldous Huxley
Then again, maybe we’re just a bunch of sea monkeys sitting on some kid’s desk.
Posting about Satan’s Halloween party reminded me of this quote:
Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.
— Aldous Huxley
Then again, maybe we’re just a bunch of sea monkeys sitting on some kid’s desk.
Posting about Satan’s Halloween party reminded me of this quote:
Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.
— Aldous Huxley
Then again, maybe we’re just a bunch of sea monkeys sitting on some kid’s desk.
