bunrab: (alien reading)
bunrab ([personal profile] bunrab) wrote2005-11-18 08:08 pm
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book-related memery

grabbed from [livejournal.com profile] avanta7 who grabbed it from grendel1031...
...who scarfed it from supergee who hoisted it from here:

The Top 20 geek novels (bolded are the ones I've read):


The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)

Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)

Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)

American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

[identity profile] stylizedboredom.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Why doesn't it surprise me you haven't read all the Neal Stephenson and Robert Anton Wilson books? Old school geek?

[identity profile] bunrab.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that would be an excellent description of me. In fact, I think I'll make an icon of it...

[identity profile] bunrab.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
So I turned it into an icon!

from another old-school geek

[identity profile] momily.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I have read almost exactly the same books as you, and have not read any of the ones you haven't read.

What does this mean? Am I an old fart? Or just an old geek?

Re: from another old-school geek

[identity profile] bunrab.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
we're twins separated at birth.

Re: from another old-school geek

[identity profile] bunrab.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
here's the icon I turned it into!