Here's mine:
1. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 1869
I haven't read it, but I have picked it up. It's so heavy I put my back out.
2. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser 2002
This book turned me off pink slime for life.
3. A brief history of time, Stephen Hawking 1988
I read it. All of it. And that's two years of my life I'll never get back.
4. Les Patterson's Australia, Sir Les Patterson 1972
A drunken misogynistic ramble that offended me as a woman, and I'm a man.
5. Killing me softly, Nicci French 1999
Because the movie was so much better. Ok, the movie was dreadful, but Heather Graham took her gear off.
6. Quotations from Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong 1966
I can't read Chinese, I really don't know what I was thinking.
7. Activities of federal law enforcement agencies toward the Branch Davidians : joint hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session
by United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime; United States Congress House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice 1996
Before I finished reading the title I fell asleep and hit my head on the bedside table. I recommend you wait until it comes out in paperback.
8. The Walrus was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues of 1969 by R. Gary Peterson 1998
Delusional claptrap written by a supercilious buffoon whose fifteen minutes of fame thankfully ran out after 90 seconds. Everybody knows Ringo was the walrus, duh.
9. I Want to Tell You: My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions
by O.J. Simpson 1995
Simpson's diatribe made me even more upset that he was found not guilty. The book alone is worth jail time.
10. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 1957
I would rather bash myself over the head with this than read it again.
Mine in no particular order:
ReplyDeleteBryce Courtenay - Tandia
Peter Benchley - Jaws
Richard Flanagan - Gould's Book of Fish
Maurice Edelman - Disraeli Rising
Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner - Child of the Sun
Tolstoy - The Cossacks
Edward Behr - The Last Emperor
Kathy Lette - Men - A User's Guide
Jean Auel - The Shelters of Stone
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Nice list, Helen.
DeleteI quite enjoyed One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest but the movie was so much better I couldn't go back to the book again.
As for Kathy Lette, I haven't read anything of hers since Puberty Blues. She speaks in more sound bites than Tony Abbott - each time she comes on tv these days I have to mute the volume!
1. Finnegans Wake-Widely regarded as a literary masterpiece...I gave up because its too damn difficult. it's not brilliant, it's the ramblings of a pissed Irishman.
ReplyDelete2. Mein Kampf-not for any other reason other than the name of the author and what he stood for.
3. 1984-this book got me addicted to dystopia novels and I will always feel darker everytime I remember the passage where O Brien is telling Winston he will never feel a human emotion again.
4. the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. This book was first written in 1989. Thirteen books, 23 years later and one dead author later...the series still isn't finished...and I'm addicted.
5. Einstein's General Theory of relativity...Enough said!
6. 50 Shades of gray...If it had been written for men and was being read by men it would be considered porn! and women the world over would be condemning it...and it was crap.
7. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons. Not a bad war novel but spoilt by all the soppy love scenes.
8. Great Expectations. I'm reading it to my wife and some of the passages are almost incomprehensible...Great story but I think Charles was on the gin sometimes.
9. The chronicles of Thomas covenant by Stephen Donaldson. Boooooring!
10. Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying...I can't read!
regards,
Antony Butchart
Did you read Mein Kampf, Anthony? If so, you deserve some sort of a medal for perseverance. Could there be a more indulgent, less comprehensible rant? Maybe something written by Gaddafi could compete with Hitler but not many others.
DeleteI cheated with Einstein and listened to the audio book. I remember something about trains...
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