Crossover from Facebook
I don’t like memes and I don’t often do tagging that is nothing more than a thinly-disguised meme. Even in Facebook, I don’t respond to all the tags. There are, however, those that I like either because they fun, or they share information that are valuable or interesting, or both. Like this one.
The rule: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes…
1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery – every time I read it, the meanings just get deeper.
2. Tai Pan by James Clavell – Read it several times already and I still think if I had lived during those times, I’D BE THE BOSS OF DIRK STRUAN HAHAHAHA
3. Noble House by James Clavell – Where I learned the term “drop dead money” and decided I’d have mine.
4. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende – never has fantasy and reality been woven together so wonderfully
5. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan – Women as mothers and daughters from an Asian perspective. It’ll always be Amy Tan’s best work.
6. Rosales Saga (Po-on; The Pretenders; My Brother, My Executioner; Mass; Tree) by F. Sionil Jose – Can’t separate these five, sorry, they really have to be read one after the other.
6. American Gods by Neil Gaiman – Just read it; I don’t want to spoil your fun.
7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
8. Green Darkness by Anya Seton – Read this in second year high school. It still haunts me. Beautiful.
9. Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy (The Crystal Cave; The Hollow Hills; The Last Enchantment) – never mind the fourth book, The Wicked Day, corny na yun
10. Shibumi by Trevanian – While my classmates were reading Tolkien, I was reading Trevanian. Enough said.
11. Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart (non fiction) – Story of insider trading scandals involving Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken and other Wall Street biggies (criminals, actually) in the 80s
12. The Constant Gardener by John le Carré – Forget the movie which turned it into a mushy love story. This is a story about a British diplomat whose activist wife was murdered after she threatened to expose the conspiracy involving drug tests conducted on poor Africans and how governments turned a blind eye in anticipation of profiting from the drug as the test subjects died from side effects.
13. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara – Che wasn’t only handsome, he was a prolific writer too!
14. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli – It was required reading in college but it got me hooked.
15. The Art of War by Sun Tzu – Is there any need to explain?
Now if I had 30 minutes instead of 15, I’d have included James Michener’s Sayonara, Taylor Caldwell’s Captains and the Kings, Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, Stephen King’s Hearts In Atlantis and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
What’s your 15? I’m not tagging, just curious.
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I unashamedly took my cue from you and listed my 15 books in my own blog. He he.
Saw it hehehe
There’s a lesser known book by Richard Bach, “There’s No Such Thing As Far Away”… wonder if anyone’s familiar with it.
Hi Connie – - Here’s my list. It would probably be very different if I had more than 15 minutes to think about it.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
3. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
4. Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan (his last book)
5. Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare (first Shakespeare play I read)
6. Hard Times by Studs Terkel (plus many other books by him)
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (I’ve read all of Kidder’s books)
10. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
11. Memoirs by Elie Wiesel
12. All books by Stephen Jay Gould
13. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
14. The Meaning of It All by Feynman
15. El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal
Oh, I completely forgot “To Kill A Mockingbird”! Loved that one too.
eto po yung akin:
1. Poon
2. The Pretenders
3. My Brother, My Executioner
4. Mass
5. Tree
6. Ermita
7. The Hunt for Red October by Clancy
8. Clear And Present Danger by Clancy
9. A Time to Kill by Grisham
10. We are not Afraid – eto hango dun killing ng 2 whites at 1 black sa mississipi na mga civil rights activies; yung killing na kung saan binase, ata, yung mississipi burning
11. Pillar of the Earth by Ken Follet
12. Dekada 70 ni Bautista
13. The last Temptation of Christ – nakalimutan ko pong sumulat
14. Noli at Fili
15. Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum – natatawa ako dun sa Yao Ming na character dahil kay Yao Ming sa NBA
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Hirap pag under time constraint ano? Ako din, I forgot so many that I didn’t recall until as late as a day later.
makes me want to go out and buy all these books!!!!
Tip: Since most of the books are dated, you might find them in Booksale.
Mine would be:
1. The Little Prince
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
4. The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene
5. The Art of War
6. The Prince
7. If Tomorrow Comes – shieldon
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabo
9. Kafka by the Shore – Murukami
10. Collection of Illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe
11. The Possibility of an Island – Houllebeq (not sure of the spelling)
12. Time to Kill – Joh Grisham (along with other grisham books)
13. Slaughter House 5 – Vonnegut
14. How to Travel with a Salmon – Eco
15. Memories of my Melancholy whores
I really love books. One of my dreams is to get so rich that it will allow me to spend the rest of my days to just read books and write.
“One of my dreams is to get so rich that it will allow me to spend the rest of my days to just read books and write.”
Sama ko dyan hehehe
Hi again, Connie:
Here’s my list:
- Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)— I can still recite Shylock’s famous lines from there…
- The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery) — who can forget that one?
- The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
- The Art of War
-The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)— Exquisite!
- Frames of Mind, (Howard Garner)
-Emotional Intelligence (David Goleman)
-Creating Minds (Howard Garner)
-How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci (forgot the author)
-Quest for a Theory of Everything (Stephen Hawking)
-Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) —this is what I’ve been reading for the past weeks already, I even bring it in the car
- A Weekend with Van Gogh
- Gauguin, Escape to Eden
-Drawing People (Bradley)
-Figure and Portrait
— then there is one book about the artist’s mind, I also read that for a long time, pero now I can’t recall the title na…parang merong creativity exercises
and how could I forget, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Have you read Demons & Angels? It was published ahead but I read The Da Vinci Code first. Angels & Demons is so much better.
Unfortunately, I haven’t read Angels and Demons. Yet. I’ll do a lot of reading, later and it happens to be one of those on my list. By the way, I couldn’t forget pala when I read that opus of Dan Brown, kasi 17 hours ko yata binasa…that means: I couldn’t put it down.
Ooooppsie, sorry… Howard Gardner pala… that’s the same person who did Multiple Intelligences
I wrote a column about Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory a while back… can’t find it in the newspaper archive. Forgot what title I used kasi hehehehe
Sige, if you find it, please let me know…am very interested about this.
Thanks again.
Hi,Connie…thanks for asking.Reminded me to go to the local library and check out some books.
Here’s my list.
>The Diary of Ann Frank
>The Good Earth—Pearl Buck
>Valley of the Dolls—-Jacqueline Susann
>Gone With The Wind—-Margaret Mitchell
>Charlotte’s Web—-E.B. White
>Short Stories Of I.V. Mallari
>The Godfather—Mario Puzo
>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—Stephen Covey
>Simple Abundance; Romancing The Ordinary—Sarah Ban Breathnach
>Like Water For Chocolate—Maria Esquivel
>The House of Spirits—Isabel Allende
>Anatomy of An Illness—Norman Cousins
>The Purpose Driven Life—-Rick Warren
>The Sayings of Confucius
>Little Women—-Louisa May Alcott
Uy, The Godfather. I love that one too. I remember finding my mother’s paperback copy and she was hesitant to let me read it because I was still in high school. I think the hesitation had more to do with the sexy parts than the violence. hehehe
We were forbidden to read The Good Earth…I read it anyway
when I was 16…I had to go to confession…really!
Lately, I can’t help but to read again the novels that I’ve enjoyed reading and all of them are thrillers.
By Irving Wallace:
1. The Man – About the first black POTUS. It was released in 1964.
2. The Plot
3. The Seven Minutes – About what is pornographic.
4. The Word – Released in 1972. Readers can compare this with Dan Brown’s novels.
5. The Pigeon Project
6. The R Document – Similar with Morris West’s The Salamander
(Up to now, I’m still looking for his “The Almighty” novel)
BY Lawrence Sanders:
1. Tetralogy of First to Fourth Deadly Sins
2. McNally’s serals.
I consider myself fortunate to have found three non-fiction hardbounds for P100 each at National Book Store – “How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must)” and “Godless” by Ann Coulter. The other one is “Bias” by Bernard Goldberg.
Have a nice weekend…
I’m generally a lurker here (commented once or twice) but I’d like to answer this. Hehe.
1. The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
2. Angela’s Ashes (McCourt)
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
4. Lincoln (Donald)
5. A Long Walk To Freedom (Mandela)
6. The Brothers Karamasov (Dostoyevsky)
7. The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
8. Gone With The Wind (Mitchell)
9. The Little Prince (de Saint Exupery)
10. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
11. The Name of the Rose (Eco)
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
13. To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)
14. The World According to Garp (Irving)
15. Oh The Places You’ll Go (Dr. Seuss)
I thought you stopped blogging!?!
After almost half a year of absence, I resumed blogging two weeks ago. Nakaka-miss din pala ang blogging.
Hurray!
I already put this in my facebook page but I wanted to share here (hope you dont mind). I find all your (and your readers’) books different from what I do love to read and collect but interesting nonetheless. Lately I have been encouraged by my husband to read the books of Ben Elton and I must say now, I need more than just 15 to complete my list.
1. “Lipstick Jungle” – Candace Bushnell
2. “Confessions of a shopaholic” – Sophie Kinsella
3. “Swapping Lives” – Jane Green
4. “Da Vinci Code” – Dan Brown
5. “Until the real thing comes along” – Elizabeth Berg
6. “Jemima J” – Jane Green
7. “The Last Promise” – Richard Paul Evans
8. “Zoya” – Danielle Steele
9. “Crossings” – Danielle Steele
10. “Count of Monte Cristo” – Alexander Dumas
11. “Les Miserables” – Victor Hugo
12. “Blood Red” – Heather Graham
13. “The Lottery Winner” – Mary Higgins Clark
14. “How to cook a tart” – Nina Killham
15. “Kane and Abel” – Jeffrey Archer
Re Mary Higgins Clark. Have you read “A Stranger Is Watching”?
I dont think I have. Im guessing its a nice read? Ill take note of it so I can get it the next time I visit the bookstore.
Yep, for me, better than most of her other books.