Okay, so I’ve seen this meme done a few times around the ‘hood and on Facebook so I thought I would do it too. I don’t remember exactly who all has done this and where I stole from. I do know that Knight did it. And since I like to stalk Knight I probably swiped it from her.
Anyway, there are some pretty vague rules that I also don’t really remember, but the gist of the whole thing is you are to tell everyone 15 (or so) books that really stuck with you or made an impression on you or whatever. Not “changed your life” books, but books that you loved or hated and they stuck with you cause you loved or hated them. Or something like that. Oh and you’re not supposed to spend a lot of time on it. Yeah, I do remember that. Just real quick like come up with 15 books that have stuck with you for whatever reason.
So here they are, in no particular order…
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
North Dallas Forty – Peter Gent
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Private Parts – Howard Stern
Clear and Present Danger – Tom Clancy
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Ana Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Parliament of Whores – P. J. O’Rourke
In the Electric Mist of the Confederate Dead – James Lee Burke
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner *
Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
Shoot Low Boys, They’re Riding Shetland Ponies – Lewis Grizzard
Misquoting Jesus – Bart Ehrman
D-Day/Citizen Soldiers/Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose **
A Season on the Brink - John Feinstein
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
* Funny how something you hated sooooo much can stick with you, isn’t it?
** Just couldn’t decide which of those three to use, even though I’m sure I read D-Day first. Love Stephen Ambrose.
Okay, so for a lot of these authors, like Grisham, Thompson, Burke, Bryson and some others, I could have used any one of a number of their books. For all of them except Ambrose I went with the first one that I read.
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Aaaaaaaaand that’s it for me kiddos. I’ve got family in for the 4th of July weekend so I will be gone from the bloggerhood for the most part. I will probably wander and by and comment, but not every day.
So everyone have a wonderful Independence Day. Be safe and remember DO NOT TRY TO RE-LIGHT DUDS!
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