A while ago somebody posted a list of fifteen books they had liked on the Internet, the rule being that it had to be put together in fifteen minutes.
A while ago somebody posted a list of fifteen books they had liked on the Internet, the rule being that it had to be put together in fifteen minutes.
Others followed suit. I thought what a great idea and did the same, my rules being no Mona Lisa equivalents, like Hamlet, and thry didn’t have to be “great,” just to have had a great effect on me.
And I forgot to post it. I just came across it. Here it is. Perhaps others would like to do the same?
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And let us salute the inventor who was NOT me. Will somebody please tell me who it was?
Anthony Haden-Guest
Top fifteen
In A Free State by V S Naipaul
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Almost anything by JG Ballard
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Princess Casamassima or The Bostonians by Henry James
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
Freaky Deaky or La Brava by Elmore Leonard
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes by Harry Graham
The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh. Or The Cutting Room
The longer nonsense poems of Edward Lear
The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Underworld USA Trilogy by James Ellroy
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
