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.
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.