Fifteen Memorable Books Meme

[jackshoegazer]

Here are the rules:

Don't take too long to think about it. 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Copy these instructions and tag 15 friends, including me--because I'm interested in seeing what books are in your head.

01. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
02. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
03. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
04. A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
05. Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
06. VALIS by Philip K. Dick
07. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
08. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
09. Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
10. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
11. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
12. Flashbacks by Timothy Leary
13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
14. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Thomas Wolfe
15. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Comments

[jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com]

I've read Illuminatus! and _Flowers for Algernon_ but i think the version of the latter that i read may have been abridged.

[protodisco.livejournal.com]

You tagged me on facebook, but I'll answer here.

01. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
02. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
03. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
04. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
05. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
06. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
07. Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut
08. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
09. Giles Goat-boy by John Barth
10. Tumble Home by Amy Hempel
11. You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
12. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
13. Requiem by Curtis White
14. JR by William Gaddis
15. The Brother's Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- lacking in the classics perhaps. could use some fitzgerald and like, the next ten books on my list would be william vollmann, so he deserves a spot, for sure. between the two of our lists though, we only have 2 female authors though, which is something to think about, maybe.

[fireabrokengun.livejournal.com]

Skinny Legs and All is a fabulous book. I absolutely loved it! I love anything Tom Robbins does really. I loved Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Have you read Lila?