#BookBucketChallenge Got tagged by Shu Kei so here is my list. In choosing ten amongst the books that inspired my life, I decided that main criteria should be: what comes to mind first; how much I can quote from memory; how often I re-read them/how ragged my copy is; and how much they actually affected the course of my life. I tried not to think too hard. To my great surprise, there is only one book ABOUT music - though there are certainly pieces of music and recordings that influenced my life as decisively as these books! (Maybe I should start a music bucket challenge?) In any case, here goes: 1. T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (especially Prufrock, La Figlia che piange, Portrait of a Lady, The Waste Land, the 4 Quartets. Old Faber edition and the Faber font is very much part it it.); 2. Robertson Davies, Whats Bred in the Bone (amongst the three books of the Orpheus trilogy this hits closest to home); 3. 白先勇， 臺北人 (孽子a close second); 4. 張愛玲， 短篇小說集 （半生緣 a close second); 5. 金庸， 神鵰俠侶（my first 金庸 at the age of 9 - and what a world it opened!) 6. 宋詞三百首 箋注， ed. 唐圭章 (I almost picked 王國維， 人間詞話）； 7. John Donne, Complete English Poems (Penguin edition of series ed. Christopher Ricks) 8. Shakespeare, Othello (hard choice; but here the quotation factor and the Verdi opera come into play); 9. 錢鍾書， 七綴集 (the Laocoön essay does it); 10. Joseph Kerman, Opera as Drama. I am sure a crucially important book has slipped my mind - but I can change this later, right? Over to you - people whose book lists I would like to see!
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:31:38 +0000
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