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Friday, June 30, 2006

The ones I meant

So here are the books I meant before I thought about it:
Title Author Read
1984 George Orwell Y
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY John Irving Y
A TOWN LIKE ALICE Nevil Shute
ANIMAL FARM George Orwell Y
BRAVE NEW WORLD Aldous Huxley Y
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Evelyn Waugh
CATCH-22 Joseph Heller Y
DUNE Frank Herbert Y
GONE WITH THE WIND Margaret Mitchell
LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding Y
ON THE ROAD Jack Kerouac
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE JD Salinger
THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck
THE GREAT GATSBY F Scott Fitzgerald
THE LORD OF THE RINGS J.R.R. Tolkien Y
THE MAGUS John Fowles Y
THE STAND Stephen King Y
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee Y
WATERSHIP DOWN Richard Adams

- which leaves me only 7 to get through - hardly I challenge so I'll stick with my original (or second original) list of choices.
So long as I'm allowed to leave out most of Terry Pratchett's output. Why so many of his? All on the BBC list I'm sad to say. I expect it's more a reflection of the type of people who fill in surveys rather than his true worth.
And I suppose the same can be said for the U.S selection of Robert Heinlein - tho havng read him I'd say is more suited to being on this list than our own T.P.

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