Meme: Guardian Top 20 Geek Books List

[serenissima]

Meme caught from 403.
The ones I've read are in bold.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip 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
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
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

[aristeros.livejournal.com]

You still haven't read the Phillip Dick "Blade Runner?" I know I tipsily told you the entire plot, pretty much, at that gross little bar a few miles from the apartment. That was the night I went onto something I thought was a poorly lit road and, it turns out, was poorly lit because it wasn't a road, but rather the pit of DOOM.

[faeri.livejournal.com]

i saw this somewhere else as well and was vaguely suprised that "nineteen eighty-four" and "brave new world" (two of my all-time fvaourite books!) were on the list.

i've only read four of them. :)

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Funny, of the ones I've read, I liked those least. :) We were assigned _Brave New World_ in 9th grade English. I read _1984_ years later, mostly because I felt I should. _Dune_ was kind of a drag too, but I liked it well enough to read the second book in the series and part of the third.

[breimh.livejournal.com]

I've read 1 through 8, 12 to 15, and 19, myself. Can you tell me more about 17, American Gods? I might be willing to read that, depending on what it's about. (And others I haven't read from the list, if others wish to point out what some of the other books are about, too.)

[403.livejournal.com]

There's an excellent review ofAmerican Gods here.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Okay, this puts it on my to-buy list.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

The review that Jss links to gives a pretty good description. It's a "journey" story -- that is, Shadow roams all over the country in the course of the story. My brother loaned me the book, and I enjoyed it very much. Which is more than I can say for _1984_ and _Brave New World_.

[nexan.livejournal.com]

What, no Lord of the Rings?