Top Ten Novels

Posted on November 10, 2003 | Filed Under Ink and Quill

Another Top Ten List.

  1. The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
  2. The Book of the Dun Cow – Walter Wangerin Jr.
  3. The Warhound and the World’s Pain – Michael Moorcock
  4. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  5. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  6. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis
  7. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  8. The Foundation Trilogy – Issac Asimov
  9. Ulysses – James Joyce
  10. The Ililad and the Odyssey – Homer (technically a poem, sue me.)

Honorable mentions: Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut, The Sun also Rises – Ernest Hemingway, Les Liaisons Dangereuses – Choderlos de Laclos, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliver – Stephen R. Donaldson, The Fifth Head of Cerberus – Gene Wolfe
*Not in any particular order.

Top Ten Rock Songs

Posted on November 3, 2003 | Filed Under Giggles and Grins

I didn’t have enough gratuitous crap up here for Mindcrime (he thinks blogs are gay and worthless) so I thought I’d throw this out.

  1. Blood Red Skies – Judas Priest
  2. The Battle of Evermore – Led Zeppelin
  3. War Pigs – Black Sabbath
  4. Eyes of a Stranger – Queensryche
  5. Baba O’Riley – The Who
  6. Magic Carpet Ride – Steppenwolf
  7. Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones
  8. Veteran of a Thousand Psychic Wars – Blue Oyster Cult
  9. Hotel California – The Eagles
  10. Fat Bottom Girls – Queen

Honorable mentions: Master of Puppets – Metallica, Rock of Ages – Def Leppard
*These songs are listed in no particular order.