This is hard!
So The Atheist Mama tagged me with my first meme. Wish me luck:
A book that changed my life
Hmmm. Probably something feminist. Maybe The Beauty Myth?
A book I’ve read more than once
Too many to list. I read most of my books over and over.
A book I would take with me if I were stuck on a desert island
The Lord of the Rings. Maybe Harry Potter if I could have them all in one book.
A book that made me laugh
Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Notes from Underground, Shoveling Smoke, Letters from a Nut, Me Talk Pretty One Day, etc., etc., etc.
A book that made me cry
An embarrassingly long list, but a few samples: Watership Down, Of Mice and Men, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Kite Runner, A Tale of Two Cities, Silas Marner
A book that I wish had been written
I'm looking for a good historical fiction novel written from Delilah's perspective
A book that I wish had never been written
I'm not sure I could erase even a shitty book from existence...
A book I’ve been meaning to read
I'm so instant gratification driven--when I want to read something I go get it!
I’m currently reading
The Club Dumas, Kingdom Coming
I'm adding one:
Book so disturbing I couldn't read it twice
Clockwork Orange and A Handmaid's Tale
posted by Rees @ 6:53 PM
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3 Comments:
I actually make it a point to re-read "The Handmaid's Tale" periodically...
We all should, cranky. It just freaked me out so bad. Damn, that's a scary book.
Yes, tense, we should all read it at least the once. It is brilliant.
There's a movie version, but I've only seen bits of it. I got the impression it was quite well done, but I haven't seen enough to guarantee that.
Actually, I thought the movie was awful. Atwood's prose was much more effective. Plus, it's hard to translate a novel that's pretty much entirely internal dialogue into a visual medium.
Also (and typically, if I can be forgiven a snort of derision) they beefed up Robert Duvall's role and made the Colonel much more af a character than he was in the book.
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