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Jun. 21st, 2009 02:38 amvia
ironed_orchid and others
Take no more than 15 minutes to produce a list of 15 books that have influenced you in style, ideas, relationships, language, or other ways that you find important, and/or books that have really stayed with you -- you keep thinking of that quote, you are always remembering that character, you are frequently reminded of that moment.... that kind of thing. This is not a favorites list.
In no particular order...
Damon Runyon, From First To Last
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
E.E. "Doc" Smith, Second Stage Lensman
Richard Condon, Money is Love
The Hot Rock, Donald E Westlake
The Guns of Avalon, Roger Zelazny
Down Wif Skool, Geoffrey Willans
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
In Defence of Anarchy, Donald Black
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls
The Women's Room, Marilyn French
The Naked Eunuch, Germaine Greer
Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston Women's Collective
The Black Report: Inequalities in Health, Margaret Whitehead
Take no more than 15 minutes to produce a list of 15 books that have influenced you in style, ideas, relationships, language, or other ways that you find important, and/or books that have really stayed with you -- you keep thinking of that quote, you are always remembering that character, you are frequently reminded of that moment.... that kind of thing. This is not a favorites list.
In no particular order...
Damon Runyon, From First To Last
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
E.E. "Doc" Smith, Second Stage Lensman
Richard Condon, Money is Love
The Hot Rock, Donald E Westlake
The Guns of Avalon, Roger Zelazny
Down Wif Skool, Geoffrey Willans
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
In Defence of Anarchy, Donald Black
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls
The Women's Room, Marilyn French
The Naked Eunuch, Germaine Greer
Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston Women's Collective
The Black Report: Inequalities in Health, Margaret Whitehead