"Geek Books" meme...

[seawasp]

Ganked from gridlore. Same basic drill; bold what you've read, strike out what you don't like, italicize what you'd like to read but haven't yet...

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley

1984 entered my elite "bounce" category immediately upon completion. HHGTTG was... okay, sorta, but it beat the one joke into the ground far too long. BNW was ... interesting.

4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett

I've read several Pratchetts. They just don't work at all for me. Sorry, Pterry, I wish they did, because everything I've seen about you seems to indicate you're a cool guy.

10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland

The only one on the list I've never heard of.

11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Both bloody masterpieces. Though Ozymandias isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

Comments

[j-v-lynch.livejournal.com]

Is 15% Stephenson really necessary?

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

The Man in the High Castle is good medicine.

[http://users.livejournal.com/eryn_/]

I was tracking this back and gridlore is friends-only. If you can see where they got it, that'd be nifty.

I received a comment mentioning supergee who mentioned a Guardian article that lists the original poll results. The instructions supergee used are just to bold the books read. The instructions you used hadn't mutated before they got to me (4 steps isn't many), but I mutated them a lot by adding underlining for books I liked, blue for books I own, green for things I tried but couldn't finish, and red for things I'd never heard of.

[(Anonymous)]

That is a lot of Stephenson, but the books they picked were all
quite good.

Mr. Wasp :), try Cryptonomicon. Odds are, you'll find it quite
entertaining.