Book Meme

Some time back, JoBloggs highlighted a Book Meme which I thought I'd reply to, but time gets away from you...

1. One book that changed your life.

Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

2. One book you've read more than once

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the RIngs
(A ritual annual reading since age 12)

3. One book you'd want on a desert island

Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
(I'd have plenty of time to come up with an alternative model...)

4. One book that made you laugh

Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat

5. One book that made you cry

Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry (Trilogy)

6. One book you wish had been written

Isaac Asimov, The Jesus I Never Knew

7. One book you wish had never been written

Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, Left Behind

8. One book you're currently reading

Jaroslav Pelikan, Whose Bible Is It?

9. One book you've been meaning to read

David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission

10. Tag five people:

Mark
Paul
Darren
Craig
Cheryl

Comments

[Mark]

Did it a while ago.... but failed miserably to stick to the 'one book' thing...

http://markjberry.blogs.com/way_out_west/2006/08/book_meme.html

[Adele]

Hi Linz
Reading this made me think you'd raided my bookshelf! I've barely meet anyone who's read Escher Godel and Bach. I trace my postmodernist impulses back to that 15th birthday gift!
Thought I'd unlurk and say thanks for your thoughts - enjoy reading what you've got to say.

[cheryl]

i'm getting to this... all my books are in boxes...!

[Stephen]

And if you've enjoyed "Escher Godel and Bach" then "The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul" by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett is also a good read. Essay-based so you can dip into it when you want to.

[linzc]

Yes, because of my academic interest in personhood I have read a lot of cognitive science including most everything by Dennett as well as the rare Hofstadter epics (have you read 'Le Ton Beau De Marot'?).