7.24.2011

Reading List of 30


01 - Your Favorite Book
FOUCAULTS PENDULUM by Umberto Eco

02 - Least Favorite Book
CONAN THE BARBARIAN by L Sprague de Camp and L Carter

03 - A Book that completely surprised you (bad/good)
THE POWER AND THE GLORY by Graham Greene

04 - A Book that reminds you of home
BARRIOTIC PUNK by Mes De Guzman

05 - A Non-fiction book that you actually enjoyed
TIME FLIES by Bill Cosby


06 - A Book that makes you cry
NIGHT by Elie Wiesel (this is a holocaust memoir)

07 - A Book that’s hard to read
---(it aint a book if its hard to read...)


08 - An unpopular book you believe should be a Best-Seller
THE SUMMER OF KATYA by Trevanian

09 - A Book you’ve read more than once
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN by Mitch Albom

10 - The first novel you remember reading
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

11 - The Book that made you fall in love with reading
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

12 - A book so emotionally draining you couldn’t complete it or had to set aside for a bit
THE RAPE OF NANKING by Iris Chang

13 - Favorite childhood book
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES by Hans Christian Andersen

14 - Book that should be on hs/college required reading list
THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Musashi Miyamoto

15 - Favorite book dealing with foreign culture
SHIBUMI by Trevanian

16 - Favorite book turned movie
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by JRR TOLKIEN

17 - Book turned movie and completely desecrated
DUNE by Frank Herbert

18 - A Book you can’t find on shelves anymore that you love
BARRIOTIC PUNK by Mes De Guzman

19 - A Book that changed your mind about a particular subject (non-fiction)
TO SUFFER THY COMRADES by Robert Francis Garcia

20 - A Book you would recommend to an ignorant/racist/closed minded person
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl

21 - A guilty pleasure book
THE GAME by Neil Strauss

22 - Favorite Series (Edit)
The LOTR Trilogy by JRR Tolkien

23 - Favorite Romance Novel
--- (this is weird, i hate romance books. better ask me of a porn novel instead!)

24 - A Book you later found out the Author lied about
AN IDEOLOGY FOR THE FILIPINOS by Ferdinand Marcos

25 - Favorite Autobiographical/Biographical book
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl

26 - A Book you wish would be written
I'm thinking of a novel about a group of assassins formed after a series of brutal rape and slaying of a Filipina working abroad

27- A Book you would write if you had all the resources
This may be foolish but I used to imagine about the spirits of Rock n Roll masters who died early in their career making a comeback and creating a terrible mess, a terrible void against the world of the living, the world that adores Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga...

28 - A Book you wish you never read
---(that book does not exist!)

29 - An Author that you completely avoid/hate wont read
STEPHENIE MEYER


30 - An Author that you will read whatever they put out
NEIL GAIMAN


note: my shelfari group inspired me to make and update this list and damn, i missed writing a list like this!

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