This is sort of a cool meme, or at least one that makes you think, to list a book you like for an author corresponding to each letter of the alphabet. I noticed some letters where I have lots of favorites--M, P, K--and in some places there wasn't that much choice and it was more a book I liked ok but had some problems with. There was one letter where I could only think of an author who I dislike. But still.

A - Allende, Isabel: Portrait in Sepia
B - Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
C - Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
D - Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
E - Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
F - Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
G - Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet
H - Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
I - Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House
J - Joyce, James: Dubliners
K - Kawabata, Yasunari: Snow Country
L - Lem, Stanislaw: The Cyberiad
M - Murakami, Haruki: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
N - Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O - O'Connor, Flannery: Collected Works (short stories)
P - TIE Proust, Marcel: In Search of Lost Time, and Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow
Q - Quinn, Daniel: Ishmael
R - Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
S - Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash
T - Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
U - The only author I can think of that I've read is some short stories of John Updike. I don't like his writing style, on top of which his book reviews in the New Yorker always give away the plots of the books. Sorry, Updike, I just do not like your writing.
V - Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat's Cradle
W - Woolf, Virginia: The Waves
X - Xingjian, Gao: Soul Mountain
Y - Yeats, William Butler: Collected Poems
Z - Zukav, Gary: The Dancing Wu Li Masters

For the purposes of this meme, it's lucky that Ron loaned me Soul Mountain back when I lived in Berkeley.

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newsbean, this is your photo. It is the Market Street Bridge, as viewed from the Chestnut Street Bridge. The buildings on the left are both part of the Amtrak 30th St. station.

Please respond to this post with an anonymous comment that has 3-5 facts about you. I have three chances to guess who you are. If I get it wrong, please add another fact.

Personal note: Um... please adjust obscurity of facts based on how well we know each other.

Also, this gives you the brief opportunity to post anonymously on my lj.

The first five people to respond to this post, will get some form of art, by me. I make no guarantees about quality, type, or timely delivery but I will assure that I will give it good effort. The only catch, of course; as with most memes, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own journal as well.

(Since I suck at drawing you can bet these will be photos, but I will take a photo PERSONALLY FOR YOU. Happy now, Chih?!)

Chih, this is for you!

Guilt	What is yours?	Explain yourself
Culinary:	Salt and vinegar potato chips	Especially kettle-cooked. I know potato chips are basically crunchy, salty fat, but they are SO DAMN TASTY.
Literary:	Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire	This is a fantasy webcomic with lots of puns, drama, and magic. But I really like it, and the system of magic is really interesting. I had to really search for this; I guess I don't have much literary guilt.
Audiovisual:	Xena: Warrior Princess	This show had it all: funny episodes, strong female characters, silly costumes, and a complete lack of historical accuracy. I would still watch it if I could.
Musical:	Linkin Park	Linkin Park is a good example this sort of fluff hard rock that I like, which has little musical merit and frequently awful lyrics. But I like the way it sounds, and it pumps me up.
Celebrity:	Wil Wheaton	I care almost not at all about celebrities, but then I realized I do subscribe to the RSS feed for Wil Wheaton's blog. He's a pretty good writer, great at times, and he's led an interesting life.

Now I tag:-

chickyboo evergreenheart hans_meinigel littleevil505 and yfdp


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The Johari Window meme is actually one of the coolest to hit livejournal in a while. Try mine, and post it yourself.

If you've friended multiple journals by the same person, delete all but the "main" one.
Bold the name of everyone you know or have met in "real life."
Italicize the name of everyone you've spoken to on the phone.
Underline the name of everyone you've chatted with online.
[Bracket] people you've known, online or off, for more than five years.
Turn family members red
Pass it on.

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