Non-fiction totally counts. Totally.

[vomit_maggots]

List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you -- the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes

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[wednes]

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on Gerald's Game. While I found it an interested writing excersize, I didn't love it.

[vomit_maggots]

It just creeped me out. The dog eating the dude, the girl peeling her hand back, and especially the penis-necklace guy. "I don't believe in you, you're only made of moonlight." *shudder* It has been too long since I have read it to be more concise than that.

[lauramars]

It was a creepy. Stupid scary Space Cowboy.

[wednes]

Maybe I should give it another glance once I get back to reading. I'm not reading until my current manuscript is done...hopefully by mid-July.

[dujour]

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
Lad: A Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
Silas Marner - George Elliot
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Not necessarily in that order...except for East of Eden being, probably the most life-changing of all of them. It made me realize that some people were just evil...

Well, the first four are the most important to me to this day.

Wait - take out Kon-tiki - it's non-fiction. Replace it with, um...

[dujour]

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
and replace The Great Gatsby with To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[dujour]

Look. I read 300 books in one summer when I was 17. You don't think I can just think of 15, do you?

Evelyn Wood, you know. It worked...