Irina Rasskazova has prompted what I sincerely hope to be the last social media fad that I will post in my Facebook career. Irina has asked me to list my ten favourite books. This is a list of ten of my favourites, although there are undoubtedly millions more that make for equally worthwhile reading. I plan to read as many of those as I can in the future. 1. The Odyssey by Homer- ( a tale of a truly human hero who fights, lies and sleeps his way home before deciding promptly to set off again after 12 years of getting there.) 2. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan (Describes wonderfully a part of the world I love well. Most of Sagans characters display a shocking indifference to anything serious, which is subtly powerful ) 3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Harrowing dystopian classic) 4. Skin, by Roald Dahl ( pretty everything by Roald Dahl is worth reading, but Skin is my favourite collection of short stories by this great author) 5. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (no description needed) 6. Lignorance by Milan Kundera (An author who I feel explains human emotions like no other, Kundera discusses the emotions of mismatched memories, love and homecoming as well as discussing the dimensions of ignorance. Like holding a mirror to the world) 7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ( master of the surreal, his books are full of life and oddity, but infinitely thought provoking as he writes beautifully about human emotion. Also very funny) 8. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis (Not so much a sweeping indictment of 90s consumer culture as a grisly horror story, where everything for Patrick Bateman is a commodity. Including people) 9. The Fight by Norman Mailer (In my humble opinion the current zenith of sports journalism, Mailer documents the rumble in the jungle between Ali and Foreman. For a book about fighting, this work penetrates deeply and expertly into affairs you thought never had to do with boxing. worth a read) 10. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (known to most as the Game of Thrones books. Wonderfully written, the impression is made by the vastness of Martins imagination and his ability to create such intriguing characters, that make it hard not to return and read about them. Also Dragons.)
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:03:52 +0000
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