[bksvol-discuss] Re: Another New Year's Challenge: Bookshare Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:26:32 -0800
Mike and Everyone,
It is fun to see everyone's booklists. Anybody else?
Thanks to Bob and Courtney who are busy researching the Bookshare catalog to
make the list of what we have and what we need of the "Most Meaningful Books."
Shortly I will have another list to research. This one is aimed at incoming
college students.
Scott Rains
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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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> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:20 PM
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> Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Denise Thompson"<deniset@xxxxxxx>
> To:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 5:36 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Another New Year's Challenge: Bookshare
> Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"
>
>
>> 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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>>> Bokklubbene "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time"
>>>
>>> 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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