Talia (sometimes Thalia) ([info]tinuviel8994) wrote,
@ 2009-06-01 22:54:00
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Dear Everyone,

I am leaving to Iceland June 22nd. I plan to bring a few pairs of jeans, sneakers, Tevas, no laptop, no phone, and a lot of books. Since I will be on a farm in the middle of nowhere, with eighteen hours of daylight and nobody I know, I will presumably have a lot of time to read. But I want these books to be special.

So recommend me some books that have changed your life. One to three, since I obviously can't bring (or read) all of them. I don't care the category or the nation of origin, poetry or play, essay, manifesto or novel. I also don't care if you think I've read it before--chances are, I haven't. Just give me something that will knock my sheep-crap-sodden socks off in the land where geyers spring and the Northern Lights shine.

Can you do it? Yes you can!

Love,
Talia



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[info]syncopated_time
2009-06-02 02:21 am UTC (link)
I am slowly sipping the following chapter by chapter: The Invitation, by Oriah.

I can think of lots of other good ones but none that I would call life-changing... I'll think about it more.

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[info]luhtarian
2009-06-02 03:30 am UTC (link)
Lolita.

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[info]batyatoon
2009-06-02 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston changed the way I see a lot of things.

The last book to knock my socks off was The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. Of course it also made me cry, a lot, and not just in the fun way.

I think very highly of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.

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[info]chatalaine
2009-06-02 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Tracks, by Robyn Davidson. She went across the Australian Outback alone, with camels. And she's a hell of a writer.

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[info]schiarire
2009-06-03 07:36 am UTC (link)
That is a great but terrible question to ask! Here are two from me:

Michel Foucault, Discipline + Punish.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure.

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[info]tomato_greens
2009-06-03 10:08 pm UTC (link)
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.

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