Reading for pleasure

[chickenfeet]

via a_d_medievalist

One book that changed your life?

There are many candidates. The shortlist might be Sartre's The Roads to Freedom, Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Abbott's Flatland.

One book you have read more than once?

One! There are some books I've read five or more times. Let's go with Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time.

One book you would want on a desert island?

Either Desert Island Survival for Dummies or In Search of Lost Time. It's probably the only way I'll ever force myself to read the wretched thing.

One book that made you laugh?

I'll go with Lodge, Changing Places.

One book that made you cry?

Jeffreys and Jeffreys, Methods of Mathematical Physics

One book you wish had been written?

Tensors for Dummies

One book you wish had never been written?

Mein Kampf

One book you are currently reading?

Penrose, The Road to Reality

One book you have been meaning to read?

I want to read Simon Raven's Alms for Oblivion series but Oblivion is exactly where Canadian distributors seem to have consigned it.

added A really obscure book you have read

There are lots. Take your pick from Simonov, Days and Nights, Coates and Topham, Industrial Democracy in Great Britain or Hodgson, Trotsky and Fatalistic Marxism.

Comments

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Meant to ask this before: should I spot copies of Alms for Oblivion in e.g. the local rather good charity bookshop, would you like me to pick them up for you? (Because I saw at least 1 vol of the recent omnibus edition there and thought that there must be someone somewhere who would like it.)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

That would be very kind. Thank you.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

How funny! I almost put down Changing Places!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It became even funnier when I learned that cassandre is a protege of 'Maurice Zapp'.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

how very funny! And scary.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

I have most or all of the Ravens and am happy to mail them to you. Although not until after 14th.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

That's an extremely kind and generous offer. Maybe if you sent me the first of the Alms for Oblivion series and then I can decide if I like it?

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

Do I have your address? I can pick it up chez parents when I'm down on Saturday.