Top 10 most influential books from my life
Several folks have been asking me to put together one of these “top 10″ lists for a while. The whole exercise was significantly more challenging than I thought it would be. I tried to use each author only once. Please feel free to post you own “top 10″ lists in the comments. I’d love to see them.
- “Crime and Punishment,” Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Gravity’s Rainbow,” Thomas Pynchon
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“Great Expectations,” Charles Dickens
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“Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” Haruki Murakami
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“The Name of the Rose,” Umberto Eco
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“The Stars My Destination,” Alfred Bester
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“The Futurological Congress,” Stanislaw Lem
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“The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,” Philip K. Dick
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“1984,” George Orwell
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“Touching the Void,” Joe Simpson
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My list wouldn’t necessarily be “influential” although there are some books here that have been quite influential and not necessarily the “heavy” ones at that.
Earth by David Brin
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlen
100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Louisiana Breakdown by Lucius Shephard
LOTR by Tolkein
Elric by Michael Moorcock
Nine Princes In Amber by Roger Zelazny
Peacewar by Vernor Vinge
And I have a masochistic urge to read Finnagan’s Wake before I die…An english professor I had in college actually said ,”why!?” when I told her that…kinda funny.
BTW - I heard about the “PUG” from Sung Kim, he says hi.
Nice, Greg! Thanks for dropping by to check out “the Pug.” Color me impressed at your ability to reel off 10 books very quickly. It took me a while. It seems like we probably have pretty similar tastes in literature - I’ve read a few of the ones you mention.
I also checked out your blog the other day. Nicely done. It seems like you’ve got a pretty high post volume too, which is always my problem. I really like the net neutrality post where you mention that MySpace is removing links to competitors sites. I left feeling better for not really using MySpace. I trust not the overlord that deletes my thoughts automatically and does not tell me.
Sung keeps trying to tell me I need to insert photos of dogs. He’s probably right…
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