KellyNPatterson's Profile

Kelly's Top 10 Books:
Tao de Ching (Lao Tzu), The Razor's Edge (WS Maugham), Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie), 100 Years of Solitude (GG Marquez), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Lord of the Flies (W Golding), The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoffman), Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond), Opening Skinner's Box (Lauren Slater), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein), The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)--and yes, "this goes to 11" (re:  Spinal Tap)

"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins, re-reading Stephen Mitchell's translation of the "Tao de Ching" (my 15th time!) And collection of essays from Krishnamurti

"Laughing At Oxygen" (The Name the Mhehe, of Tanzania, Gave Me); Or, the Name the LaKota Sioux Gave Me:  "Tornado Maker's Daughter"

Carmen San Diego of "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?"

Yes, I go through books like most people go through toilet paper:  Tao de Ching (Stephen Mitchell's translation) Tao of Pooh The Razor's Edge Hero with a Thousand Faces The Kite Runner Opening Skinner's Box  anything by Aldous Huxley Milan Kundera Dr. Seuss Shel Siverstein Kurt Vonnegut Umberto Eco George Orwell Nikos Kazantzakis Margaret Atwood Rumi Kahlil Gibran and Krishnamurti The Mosquito Coast Lolita The Origins of Satan anything by Emerson Thoreau Gabriel Garcia Marquez Salman Rushdie Mario Vargas Llosa Pablo Neruda  Octavio Paz  Camus Nietzsche Le Petit Prince Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Isaac Asimov (non-fiction) Fritjof Capra Jonathan Swift The Marabouk Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh  B.E.Ellis Al Franken Bill Bryson  J M Coetzee  Chinua Achebe  Wole Soyinka Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron The Poisonwood Bible Anais Nin Milton's Paradise Lost The Constant Gardener Viktor Frankl Philip Roth John Irving Lord of the Flies When Nietzsche Wept Kafka Nabakov Chekov Vaclav Havel Nygugi's Devil on the Cross Anne Sexton Bertolt Brecht Oscar Wilde Samuel Johnson The Desiderata Thich Nhat Hanh anything by the Dalai Lama Beyond Beef by Jeremy Rifkin The Tipping Point Heart of Darkness A Clockwork Orange Jorge Luis Borges Cervantes Flaubert Thomas Mann Proust Rilke the Fountainhead Saul Bellow E.M. Forster Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Iris Murdoch The Sheltering Sky Ken Kesey Ray Bradbury The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Coupland Roald Dahl Bluejean Buddha A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond  anything by Mark Twain Out of Africa West with the Night David Sedaris Christopher Moore Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Freakonomics, Chuck Palahniuk, Doris Lessing

In a hammock, by the beach, in Hawaii or Port St John's (South Africa), or on a sailboat off the coast of Zanzibar, or in a warm ski-lodge in Vancouver, or in a tent at Big Sur, and on the Metro in Paris...well just about anywhere, I guess