You're on a READ poster;What book are you holding?

[well he's back]

To further explain - the American Library Association has a series of posters showing famous peeps from many fields. The individual is shown holding up a book and the poster encourages "READ". Now, if you were on such a poster and could choose any one book to promote, what would it be?

I could make this harder by saying don't take a book that already taken (Orlando Bloom holds LOTR; Keira Knightley holds Pride&Prejudice), but that's no fun.

[DianaG]

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

I *heart* irony!

[Jayn_Newell]

If they'll let me, Kushiel's Dart.

Otherwise, Ender's Game.

[Dr. Rieux]

The Lord of the Rings

[NightRabbit]

I would hold up Moby Dick. I have a special place for it in my heart- I first read it in one whirlwind month a few years ago. It particularly spoke to me at the time because I felt like I was in a period of chase, myself, and bound to some personal grudges I had a hard time letting go of. I've since read it a couple more times and the language of it just wraps me up like a cupcake and frosts the top of my head. Er, figuratively, that is.

[Zsofia]

God, I love the READ posters. I'd have a hard time choosing between Brideshead Revisited, The Stars My Destination, and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

[Steve MB]

The thread makes me think of this poster (http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=QOW3001).

[Frosted Glass]

This is a cool idea. My choice would be The Vintage Bradbury.

[OtakuLoki]

What I'd really like to do would be to hold up two books: Starship Troopers and The Forever War.

[Dumbguy]

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do AgainDavid Foster Wallace rules.

I'll go with Infinite Jest

[RealityChuck]

Probably The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach.

Second choice would be Ken Grimwood's Replay

[feppytweed]

1984

[Justin_Bailey]

Probably The Stand by Stephen King.

I would, of course, not be sitting, in the picture.

[Antigen]

I'd be holding A Prayer for Owen Meany.

[CalMeacham]

Medusa, of course.

[silenus]

Either George McDonald Fraser's The Pyrates or Larry McMurtry's Somebody's Darling.

[Sunshine and Smiles]

Catch-22.

[eleanorigby]

The Phantom Tollbooth or Barchester Towers. I'd love to be on a READ poster.

[Orual]

American Gods, Jane Eyre, or Till We Have Faces.

[Dung Beetle]

The Shining, by Stephen King, or The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

[Little Plastic Ninja]

The Norton Anthology of Short Stories.

Failing that, Flowers for Algernon or Catch-22.

[Glory]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (although a Prayer for Owen Meany was a contender, but rats, it was taken by Antigen).

[AuntiePam]

The Dollmaker by Harriett Arnow

[detop]

To Serve Man by Damon Knight :D

[Shamozzle]

For Whom The Bell Tolls

[pinkfreud]

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daughter_of_Time).

[freekalette]

Munro Leaf's Gordon the Goat.

[Mr. Rosewater]

Something by Vonnegut, I think.

[ACC_Expat]

Henry Adams's Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

(great question!)

[Lobsang]

The God Dellusion.

Or perhaps the His Dark Materials Box set.

[Hellestal]

An upside-down book. Don't care which.

[Llama Llogophile]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

One of the most purely FUN books I've ever read, interspersed with some interesting concepts.

[pinkfreud]

Something by Vonnegut, I think.God bless you, sir.

[Argent Towers]

Crash by J.G. Ballard

[Astroboy14]

God bless you, sir.
HA! :D

[Danalan]

How about The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore.

[Idlewild]

Story of O. It's very important to warp young minds.

[DoctorJ]

Definitely Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Or The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Or Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food.

[toadspittle]

I didn't specify.

http://www.alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_sn=catalog&_pn=product_detail&_op=2510

[ZebraShaSha]

The Illustrated Guide to the National Library Association's READ Poster, Classic to Romantic Period.

[Queen Bruin]

The Odyssey.

[OtakuLoki]

To Serve Man by Damon Knight :D


Please tell me you'll be in a kitchen for this shot. Please!

[FriarTed]

The Chronicles of Narnia, with myself pointing to The Lion.... and a caption saying "READ.... this one first."

[detop]

Please tell me you'll be in a kitchen for this shot. Please!

Will in front of the fridge do ?

[Zabali_Clawbane]

Depending on my mood that day, either Catfantastic (http://www.amazon.com/Catfantastic-Andre-Norton/dp/1567311539/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207005053&sr=8-1), (I love the take on the portrait of Shakespeare on the cover!) The Hound of the Baskervilles (http://www.amazon.com/Hound-Baskervilles-Aladdin-Classics-Arthur/dp/068983571X/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207005281&sr=8-2), or The Decameron (http://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Penguin-Classics-Giovanni-Boccaccio/dp/0140449302/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207005302&sr=8-2).

[OtakuLoki]

Will in front of the fridge do ?


I was thinking in front of the knife rack, actually... :o :D

[Tess Trueheart]

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin.

Or, you know, Winny de Puh (I'm practicing my Spanish by reading children's books, and I love that this one calls heffalumps "pelifantes"). :cool:

[eleanorigby]

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daughter_of_Time).


I like you. :)

[NicePete]

Either Cat's Cradle or Cryptonomicon.

[N9IWP]

The Necronomicon :D

Canticle for Liebowitz is a good idea, as is Farenheit 451


Brian

[BrassyPhrase]

The John Varley Reader by, ummmm John Varley of course!

[GuanoLad]

Either The Dragonbone Chair, or Maskerade.

[Raguleader]

Beat To Quarters/The Happy Return by CS Forester :cool:

[Darth Sensitive]

One of the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane.

[blondebear]

Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey.

[Dung Beetle]

The Chronicles of Narnia, with myself pointing to The Lion.... and a caption saying "READ.... this one first."
I almost went with something like that myself. Good idea!

[Martini Enfield]

Probably King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.

Naturally I'd be wearing a Pith Helmet and dressed like a 19th century explorer. :D

[BrainGlutton]

The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy. (http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Doctor-Eszterhazy-Avram-Davidson/dp/0913896284)

[Cervaise]

Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women.

First, because it's a truly great book, and it deserves more love; and second, because the title gets a WTF? second look.

[DoctorJ]

Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women.

First, because it's a truly great book, and it deserves more love; and second, because the title gets a WTF? second look.
Agreed. Ricky Jay is a national treasure.

[MrDibble]

If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - a book about reading.

[vibrotronica]

This one. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/98157122@N00/48652636/)

[koeeoaddi]

A Spy in the Land of the Living. It's my own novel and since you can see it, right there on the poster, one assumes that it has actually been completed and published. :p

[yanceylebeef]

Either Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" or "Good Omens by messrs Gaiman and Pratchett.

Or "How to Goodbye Depression" a guide to curing depression by contracting the anus one hundred times per day. As much fun for the Engrish as it is for the subject.

[Kizarvexius]

Master and Commander. And I'd have the rest of the series stacked precariously next to me.

[simply_cats]

Probably The Stand by Stephen King.

I would, of course, not be sitting, in the picture.


Ditto this :)

[Hockey Monkey]

I'd be holding one of the following with the rest stacked up beside me, and the background would be stacks at the library:

Torpedo Juice - Tim Dorsey
The Stand - Stephen King
The Complete Works of the Brothers Grimm
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell

[SpazCat]

The Barnes & Noble edition of Vanity Fair with the original author's illustrations or this completely different book. (http://www.amazon.com/Want-Closure-Your-Relationship-Start/dp/B0013L8BOC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207076597&sr=8-1)

[Raguleader]

Master and Commander. And I'd have the rest of the series stacked precariously next to me.

I just got this visualization of a guy on one of these posters leaning on the stack of books you mention. :D

[KRC]

I'm trying to read "How The Other Half Lives," but Riis's convoluted Victorian sentences make it a bit difficult.