Books, books, books

[jwgh]

Instructions: Take one list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves and make the list up to ten by adding some more that do.

schwa242's list:

Philip K. Dick
Terry Pratchett
Joe Queenan
Douglas Coupland
George Carlin
A.K. Dewdney
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Strauss & Neil Howe
William Gibson
George Alec Effinger

My List:

Philip K. Dick
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Coupland
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Gibson
Rex Stout
Harlan Ellison
Cecil Adams
John Steinbeck
Connie Willis

Comments

[jwgh]

I did a little poking around ... it looks like the meme began here. The original list:

Terry Pratchett
Lisa Williams
Charles Dickens
Hal Clement
Diane Duane
Ian Stewart
Carl Jung
Abraham Maslow
Dava Sobel
Stephen Hawking

The only one that's on my list is Terry Pratchett (I have books by some of the others, but they weren't on Schwa's list and aren't on mine). However, Mr. Pratchett's been removed and added from various peoples' lists along the line a couple of times ...

The author on my list that has the longest unbroken chain leading up to me is J.R.R. Tolkien, with my post making the chain nine links long, if I counted right.

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Wow. I would do this, but I fear that my friends would never talk to me again.