Passing it on....
Most of these streams of consciousness are inspired by lunch time conversations I have with my colleagues during the day. Note- they are subject to change without notice, often because of unforeseen events.
The conversation was movies. Movies that really hit us as a kid… this journal is on books. Same idea… Books that really hit me as a kid… well maybe not as a kid kid, but before now, in my younger days…
I was like whoa, you know a real Keanu Reeves whoa. Hey, I grew up on the beach… a real dude… and when I said whoa, it was whoa…
Yeah science fiction was everything, Clarke, Asimov, and then Stranger in a Strange Land… and I was like whoa… if you grok then you probably know what I’m talking about…your thoughts?
M Donlevy
posted by M. Donlevy @ 6:58 PM
4 Comments:
At 4:10 PM,
Jim said…
Best wishes on your efforts to become a Media Specialist. You'll be great at it, because you have a well developed taste for the obscure.
At 4:22 PM,
Jim said…
When I think back on books that impressed me when I was young, I immediately think back to the "All About" books, especially those on dinosaurs which featured my paleontologist adventurer hero, Roy Chapman Andrews. I'm surprised I didn't end up like Ross from TV's Friends.
I also remember an extensive early series of biographies on famous Americans. I don't remember the publisher, but I remember they were all bound in orange covers.Each told the life of someone like Daniel Webster or maybe Robert Fulton done for 5th graders.
At 5:43 PM,
Jim said…
I also grok Heinlein. When I was young, I devoured his "kid" creations like Have Space Suit, Will Travel. For young folks, I would also recommend a couple of space shoot-em-ups by E.E. "Doc" Smith.
At 8:06 AM,
Jim said…
You might be interested in the listing by the Time magazine critic of their "100 All Time Novels", the 20th Century works that they feel are required reading.Check this:
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
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