Thursday Thirteen 10/19/06
Thirteen Books Everyone Should Read
1. The Bible
2. The Koran
3. Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Idylls of the King
6. Merchant of Venice
7. The Giving Tree
8. A Prayer for Owen Meany
9. The Twelfth Angel
10. Gulliver's Travels/The Dead Baby Cookbook (Either one will give a taste of Swift's social satire)
11. The Chosen
12. A Bridge Too Far/The Longest Day
13. The Reluctant Messiah
1. The Bible
2. The Koran
3. Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Idylls of the King
6. Merchant of Venice
7. The Giving Tree
8. A Prayer for Owen Meany
9. The Twelfth Angel
10. Gulliver's Travels/The Dead Baby Cookbook (Either one will give a taste of Swift's social satire)
11. The Chosen
12. A Bridge Too Far/The Longest Day
13. The Reluctant Messiah
Labels: Thursday Thirteen
posted by Frustrated Writer | 7:25 PM
5 Comments:
Hmmm...looks like I have a few books to add to my "need to read" list. I have only read 4 of the thirteen listed. Sigh, "L" will be soooo embarassed!
I've read #1. yup. all of it.
love nos. 4, 6, 7, 10, and 13.
I've never read #5, but heard it's good. I'll have to check it out.
this is not a boring list, mark. these are the best kinds of 13s in my opinion. they give me good ideas.
#6 is Shakespeare, right? Please kill me for asking such a stupid question.
My TT is up.
LS, absolutely! I could have named Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, MacBeth, Midsummer's Night Dream, or a host of others, but the Merchant of Venice had such a clever twist in it and stayed playful throughout, much like the Taming of the Shrew. I thought is was Shakespeare at his most creative. Oh, Othello would be excellent too.
Interesting choices.
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