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.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
I heart irony!
If they’ll let me, Kushiel’s Dart.
Otherwise, Ender’s Game.
The Lord of the Rings
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.
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.
The thread makes me think of this poster.
This is a cool idea. My choice would be The Vintage Bradbury.
What I’d really like to do would be to hold up two books: Starship Troopers and The Forever War.
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David Foster Wallace rules.
I’ll go with Infinite Jest
Probably The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach.
Second choice would be Ken Grimwood’s Replay
1984
Probably The Stand by Stephen King.
I would, of course, not be sitting, in the picture.
I’d be holding A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Medusa, of course.
Either George McDonald Fraser’s The Pyrates or Larry McMurtry’s Somebody’s Darling.
Catch-22.
The Phantom Tollbooth or* Barchester Towers*. I’d love to be on a READ poster.
American Gods, Jane Eyre, or Till We Have Faces.
The Shining, by Stephen King, or The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.