Anders just asked for 12 desert island books, with no more than 10 minutes to think about it. I suppose if I was stranded on a desert island I would want some books I could get my teeth into, but also, things that would make me feel good; you know, something life-affirming; books that I love and feel connected to. They are not necessarily going to be the most erudite but there would need to be something thought provoking in there, and maybe something practical. So here they are:
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Nelson Mandela - The Long Walk to Freedom
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assasin
Kira Salak - Four Corners
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
The Dalai Lama - Freedom in Exile
Sylvia Plath - Ariel
Ray Mears - Outdoor Survival Handbook
Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Not sure my 12 are quite so erudite, but here goes:
ReplyDeletePrimo Levi - Is this a Man
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Tim Krabbé - The Rider
George Orwell - Down and out in Paris and London
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Douglas Coupland - Generation X
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Jerome K. Jerome - Three men in a boat
Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
JG Ballard - High Rise