Cult Books
The Telegraph has a list of the fifty best cult books. Here's their description of how they determined the cult status of a book:In compiling our list, we were looking for the sort of book that people wear like a leather jacket or carry around like a totem. The book that rewires your head: that turns you on to psychedelics; makes you want to move to Greece; makes you a pacifist; gives you a way of thinking about yourself as a woman, or a voice in your head that makes it feel okay to be a teenager; conjures into being a character who becomes a permanent inhabitant of your mental flophouse.
Of the books on their list that I've read, only one (Chariots of the Gods) reached cult status for me, although I enjoyed a lot of the other titles.
Labels: chariots of the gods
posted by Amanda at 12:11 PM
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Amazingly, I have read (and Loved all of them, in each their own way) :
Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
The Story of O – Pauline Reage
The Stranger – Albert Camus
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
I rarely have read anything from lists like these. Thanks for the link!
I know! Usually those lists make me feel illiterate, but I've read several of those titles, too.
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