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

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

YES! I did. About the very rich man who could see the future (or something like that, it's been a while) and looked into the mirror and saw his own death in the form of a bloot clot moving towards his heart.

I think.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - that's the one. He learns to see through cards after he reads a book on yogic mysticism in a friend's library.

That's so neat - you're the only person I know who's read that. Or at least, the only person who I didn't harrass into reading it :)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I think I was about eihgt last time I read it though - I'm surprised I remembered as much as I did :p