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The Dagdha was the Father God of the Tuath de Dannan, famed for his magic Harp, mighty Club and bottomless Cauldron, from which none left unsatisfied. My cauldron is for pouring my excess geekery into and hopefully will make a nourishing brain-soup.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Fifty Shades of Black and White

Never being one to miss a chance to jump on a bandwagon, I was inspired by Joe Hill's top fifty favorite books to do the same here. Like Joe's, these are in no order of preference, but unlike his, I couldn't be bothered to list the authors alphabetically- I pretty much put them down as they came to me.
I'm sure more will come to me as I think of them
  1. Foucault's Pendulum • Umberto Eco
  2. The Name of the Rose • Umberto Eco
  3. Fragile Things • Neil Gaiman
  4. The Lord of the Rings • J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. The Silmarillion • J.R.R. Tolkien
  6. The Sword of Rhiannon • Leigh Brackett
  7. Irish Folk and Fairy Tales • Michael Scott
  8. Duma Key • Stephen King
  9. IT • Stephen King
  10. The Lankhmar Stories • Fritz Lieber
  11. Something Wicked this way comes • Ray Bradbury
  12. Caves of Steel • Issac Azimov
  13. I, Robot • Issac Azimov
  14. Chronicles of Amber • Roger Zelazny
  15. The Tain • Thomas Kinsella (trans.)
  16. The Complete Fiction • H.P. Lovecraft
  17. American Gods • Neil Gaiman
  18. The Chronicles of Conan • Robert E. Howard
  19. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen • Alan Garner
  20. Elric of Melnibone • Michael Moorcock
  21. Le Morte d'Arthur • Thomas Malory
  22. The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas
  23. The White Goddess • Robert Graves
  24. New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos • Ramsey Campbell (ed.)
  25. Day of the Triffids • John Wyndham
  26. Earth Abides • George R. Stewart
  27. A Game of Thrones • George R. R. Martin
  28. The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith • Clark Ashton Smith
  29. Small Gods • Terry Pratchett
  30. Mort • Terry Pratchett
  31. Dracula • Bram Stoker
  32. The Best of Myles • Flann O'Brien
  33. Sophie's World • Jostein Gaarder
  34. The Illuminatus! Trilogy • Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
  35. Everyday life of the Pagan Celts • Anne Ross
  36. The Complete Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle
  37. Perdido Street Station • China Mieville
  38. The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
  39. Viriconium • M. John Harrison
  40. Stainless Steel Rat • Harry Harrison
  41. The Earthsea Series • Ursula Le Guin
  42. Complete Works • W.B. Yeats
  43. Death of a Naturalist • Seamus Heaney
  44. 20,000 Leagues under the sea • Jules Verne
  45. The War of the Worlds • H.G. Welles
  46. The Great God Pan • Arthur Machen
  47. Time and The Gods • Lord Dunsany
  48. 1984 • George Orwell
  49. Johnathan Strange and Mister Norrell • Susanna Clarke
  50. Gods and Fighting Men • Lady Gregory

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