stolen from boglin

[cybermule]

1. The Haunted House - Jan Pienkowski. It's just a wicked pop-up book, OK?
2. Danny, the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl. He lived in a carvan and defeated some posh people by liberating their pheasants. Story of 5 years of my life. [in my head *ahem*]
3. Milroy the Magician - Paul Theroux. This one is just deeply strange. It's about a little girl who goes to live with a health-freak magician in an airstream. And it's aimed at adults :) Paul Theroux also introduced me to the joy of travel writing, and spawned Louis Theroux :)
4. The Feynman Lectures. Hard maths made easy for chemists/physics properly explained.
5. The Lord of the Rings. Just because.
6. One of my OU course books last year, because that part of the course got me interested in both Old English and linguistics.
7. Circles of Stone - Aubrey Burl. Nice archaeology pics.
8. Fungus the Bogeyman - Raymond Briggs. This just had a profound influence on me - I am Fungus. I was going to say Eeyore, but I don't like the books at all.
9. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake. More dark fantasy.
10. Crime and Punishment. Just because I finally read it, understood it and liked it.


That was really hard - I might well change it in the morning.

Comments

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice list... So many I have never heard of and a few I want to read...

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I hadn't heard of many of yours either :)

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

There were a few I had to leave out, like Hyperspace (a book on superstring theory), The Message of the Sphinx (a discourse on how the sphinx might be as old as 12,500 BC and how it may have played a part in pharoanic ceremony), and a few miscellaenous others that I'm not remembering while I'm here at work...

Dang, woke up too early... Would have gone back to sleep put I spilled water all over my bed trying to drink while 3/4 asleep and that woke me up...

I hate when that happens...

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I spilled water all over my bed

Arse! I've done that, and it sucks.