Top Ten Favourite Books

[lady_windermere]

I joined bookworms_cafe which is for people who love discussing books. People with many interests in books are there, but I thought I would make a list of my ten favourite books.

Thought I would start a little Meme, listing my favourite books. They are in no particular order, as it can depend on my mood where each are at any one time.

Rules
1) No poems
2) No plays
3) Only one book from each author

So here goes

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Kinky Friedman Crime Club by Kinky Friedman
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood

Anyone else?

Comments

[gillo]

For Wild

Importance

is head and shoulders above the others. Ask me to choose a Stoppard or a Shaw, though - that would be hard!

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For Wilde, I am a bit of an expert on. I usually beat the Mastermind contestents.....really impressed my dad!

Or a Sheridan....to choose a Sheridan!

[gillo]

I've taught

The Rivals

seven times in the last eight years at Upper Sixth level, and I've directed

The Critic

twice as a school play. I don't know the others quite so well.

As for Wilde, I know his stuff pretty well, though I've only directed

Lady Windermere

and

Importance

. I can quote very large chunks of the latter off the top of my head!

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Oh very good choices, I love those plays. My user name comes from an Oscar Wilde play, A Woman Of No Importance. I really pretty much like all his works. His Fairy Tales were great as well.

[gillo]

I love

The Selfish Giant

particularly - I used to read that to my girls when they were little.

Such a talented, tragic figure. Did you know they even changed the surnames of his children so they wouldn't be tainted after his trial? And even so, one of them was rejected by Oxford because of the link? (But his great-grandson Lucien went to Magdalen and was given Oscar's rooms in college. Some justice eventually.)

Sorry - Wikipedia-induced wittering there.

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My favourite fairy tale was "The Remarkable Rocket", I even managed to get a reference into my Higher English story.

He had quite a life, and tragic as well as short. He had the same condition as my husband Malfran's Syndrom. Some of the symtomes are tall with enlongated etremities. Can cause an early death, as the blood is prone to clot, and rupture the heart.

I enjoy reading about authors lives, I sometimes find them more interesting that the author's themselves. I know you like him, but I find Dickens Life more interesting than his stories.