Ha ha ha....Don't kill yourself....Bring something that won't turn you into a hyper-paranoiac. I worry about your sanity!

thanks sin. good to see ya back on the books board too. been quiet round these parts, and if any of the m/c forums are to be killed, books would be first to be lined up and shot.

So lets go mental and write a lot about books ha ha.

Wait, i am already mental...I think someone's watchimg me...I gotta go..

It's too late. Run for your life!!

The forums live!

Gotta go to class, but I will post another top 10 later today.

So how many top tens do you have? A top 100?

whooo, there's a challenge...especially with my library far away in Oz.

But I will do it!! I will give a top 100....may take a while...haha

Ha! It's easy. Just compile all your other top ten lists?
I'm horrible at ranking things. Even finding a top 10 bands of the 2000's was hard for me.

I just close my eyes and grit my teeth, and know that to leave things out of a list doesn't mean they aren't still on the bookcase in the other room...

Unless you or yr dad were round...probably like some of my stuff, wouldn't ya?

Ha. I always forget something else I should have put in...and then I can't just stick it in, because I have 8 already and I can't put them at #9...

The lesson learneth: don't rate 'em. just list 'em!

I know, but I couldn't even pick albums - so I had to do something other than just list 10 random bands...

I'm working on a Top 100 right now.

I will post the first 50 very, very soon.

Very, very soon meaning never? Or am I in the wrong thread?

I'm a slave to the China work machine at the mo'.

I haven't forgotten. I'm ashamed of my slackness with the list, but quite proud of my unbelievable work hours!!

So give us an update? How's it going?

No order. No sense. No matter.

Thomas Pynchon Gravitys Rainbow
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
William Faulkner Sanctuary
William Golding Lord of the Flies
William Golding The Inheritors
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Alex Garland The Beach
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Albert Camus The Outsider
Dante The Divine Comedy
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Herman Melville Mardi
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818 ed.)
Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy
William Blake Collected Poems
J.G.Ballard The Drowned World
Homer The Odyssey
Homer The Iliad
Virgil The Aeneid
David Attenborough Life on Earth
Jane Austen Emma
Susanna Clark Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Montaigne Essays
Descartes Discourse on Method
J.D.Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
William Shakespeare Collected Works
Ann Wroe Pilate
Edward O. Wilson ConsilienceThe Holy
Daniel Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Joseph Conrad Victory
Cervantes Don Quixote
The King James Bible
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Edgar Allan Poe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe
Apuleius The Golden Ass
Italo Calvino If, on a winters night, a traveller
Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Jim Thompson The Killer Inside Me
Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics
Bertrand Russell Why I am not a Christian
Tacitus Annals
Copernicus On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs
Vico New Science
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Herge Tintin - Tintin & the Picaros
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen
William James Varieties of Religious Experience
Graham Greene The End of the Affair
Graham Greene A Burnt Out Case
Robert Silverberg A Book of Skulls
Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity
Artur Schopenhauer The World of Will & Idea
Franz Kafka The Trial
Franz Kafka The Castle
Magnus Mills All Quiet on the Orient Express
Magnus Mills Three to See the King
Magnus Mills The Scheme for Full Employment
David Hume Treatis of Human Nature
Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle
Soren Kierkegaard Either/Or
Spinoza Ethics
Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Edwin Muir Collected Poems
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Nicoli Machavelli The Prince
Brian Moore The Colour of Blood
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky

I realize this is only 80, but I have to go to class. I'll put the other 20 up later.
This list is compiled off the top of my head, so a number of the canonical works are there due to them being most easily memorable.
However, if I was home with my collection, I'm sure the list would include a bunch of wierd stuff which doesn't immediately come to mind.

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Read five, going to read Blake's poems. Guess I've got some work to do

Here's my advice.
Drop outta school, get a well made backpack, fill it with books and hitch round America....

or maybe not. Your dad would kill me if you listened to me ha ha

Ha!
How could I fit 75 books in a backpack?

True, true.....damn real world items.

When are we going to have electronic plug ins which relate info directly to our synapses?

Till then, ya cld probably jam 7 or 8 at a time in a good backpack.

But seriously, I'm thrilled that you're going for Billy Blake next. His books of prophecy are full of the most extraordinary imagery.
I particularly like the Book of Urizen. I find his visions terrifying, even on a bright sunlight day sitting in the garden. He writes as if he has been to these places, walked with demons and transcribed the events.
As essential in the history of poetry as Dante, in me 'umble.
Take your time, re-read his best stuff a few times, he repays the revisit.