Oooh boy! A Top Ten!

[Adam J. Thornton]

Actually, my promise of top ten books was merely to sucker you all into
reading this message so you'd know that my four disc set _Thank You For The
Music_, which could be entitled _The Compleat ABBA_, has arrived, and I'm
glad, I tell you, glad, glad, glad!

But, rarely one to renege on my promises, in no order to speak of:
_GR_, The Man
_Labyrinths_, The Blind Librarian
_The Tempest_, Billy Boy
_Lives of the Artists_, Vasari (OK, so literarily, maybe it ain't much, but
                                it's just so damn entertaining!)
_Moby-Dick_, Melville
_Opus Pistorum_, Henry Miller (yes, pure, vile smut.  *SO* vile that it's
                               both screamingly funny and eminently
			       rereadable, and how many pornographic works
			       can you say *that* about?)
_Duino Elegies_, Rilke
"The Ballad of East and West", Kipling (if I must choose a book, whichever 
                                        poetry anthology this piece
					appeared in.  The pinnacle of
					Victorian poetry, from the days
					when colonialism was, dammit,
					*fun*.)
_Gargantua and Pantagruel_, Rabelais (Potty humor for Humanists)
_Aeneid_ (Book Six), Vergil

Adam

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