[bksvol-discuss] Re: Another New Year's Challenge: Bookshare Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"

Just three, every time I think, yes, that's my favorite, I think of another one... 

Classics
Don Quixote, Cervantes
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

Mainstream Fiction
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
White Lotus, John Hersey
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
and tying with that, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexksandr Solzhenitsyn 

Non-Fiction
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Stephen Jay Gould
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
Madame Secretary, Madelaine Albright
Then there are all the collections of Isaac Asimov's science essays from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, but I couldn't possibly pick just one of those. 

Science fiction
Men, Martians and Machines, Eric Frank Russell (actually anything by Eric Frank Russell) 
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Heavy Planet, Hal Clement
And then there are all those interlocking series of books by Andre Norton, how could I pick just one book! 

More recent science fiction
The Probability Broach, L. Neil Smith
Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
Actually, my current all time favorite is Anathem by Neal Stephenson, but I don't know how many others would really consider this 1000 page logic puzzle "enjoyable." But, I just can't resist the idea of a world where the "monks" are mathematicians. 

But I'd probably make a completely different list in a week.

Mike

On 1/1/2011 8:27 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I didn't think I could choose three books that are my top reads, but it
wasn't that hard.  Probably because my memory is so awful that I can't
remember even one tenth of the books I've read even in the last year without
looking at the list.

1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2. The Book of Qualities by J. Ruth Gendler
3. "The Green Mile by Stephen King
This book so moved me that when I read it on audio cassette I found myself
so sad that I wanted to pick up the box of tapes and rock the book.  How
silly is that?

Mayrie



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Dear Denise,  and Booksharian Friends,

Thanks Denise for taking on stats which will be fun to follow.

If we limit suggestions to three each, I wonder if we'll even have a hundred
books since it doesn't seem we have very many active volunteers posting
these days.

After a lifetime of reading, it's almost an impossibility for me to limit my
nominations to three! All I can think about is the favorites I'm not
mentioning.

1. Watership Down, Richard Adams, imaginative, pastoral, promotes the
benefits of co operation.

2. Jurassic Park, Michael Chrichton, exciting, gripping, a world of beauty
and horror.

3. Proof, Dick Francis, informative about the spirits manufacturing and
retailing, suspenseful, a lonely, self-effacing, believable protagonist out
of his depth for a good cause. ... and I'm a nondrinker so had it not been
for this author's fine writing I wouldn't have expected to even like this
book.

I beg forgiveness from the hundreds of worthy books and authors who couldn't
fit in the above field of three.

I hope more of you will post your top threes here with your reasons for
choosing them to inspire me to select my next reads from the Bookshare
collection.

Always with love,

Lissi


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I think it sounds interesting. I'd be willing to keep a spread sheet of
people's most enjoiable book or books. I think we need to limit
submissions from a person, for example, most enjoiable 3 books?
Denise
deniset@xxxxxxx

At 02:25 PM 1/1/2011, you wrote:

Ok, so what would a Bookshare Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of
all Time" list look like?

Judy has started the conversation with "The Colonel's Ladies" by Eric
Hatch. At least 99 more to go - and one scorekeeper to capture all the
entries. Any volunteers?

Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow

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That would be a fascinating list! Hmm, a Bookshare Volunteer list of
100 most enjoyable books... how would we go about creating such a
list? smile.

Judy s., who's current top-10 favorite book is "The Colonel's Ladies"
by Eric Hatch.  It's hard to resist a smartly written book about a
small-town east coast girls' college teacher who decides that what he
needs to break out of his boring life is his own working horse-drawn
canon! It's in the collection at
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/36407


Scott Rains wrote:

Judy,

I do think that you introduced an important metric -- "enjoyability."

I wonder what a Bookshare Volunteer list of

the "100 100 Most Enjoyble Books of all Time" would look like?

Scott Rains

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