Say, you were in a coma.....

posted by peggedbea 1 decade 4 years 4 months ago • 1,436 views
and you were a man in your mid 50's, and your prognosis was... grim, what (fiction)book would you want your niece to read to you?

I was going to make a poll, but the poll slot is filled and I want to get the book before tomorrow evening anyway.

So, what book is it, Videosift? Gulliver's Travels? Catcher in the Rye? Portrait of Dorian Gray? Harry Potter? Cat's Cradle? Other??? Nothing because you would want everyone to just shut up and leave you the hell alone?

Let's all ponder our mortality and share what we would like the last book we might ever hear to be. And because I'm having a brain block and can't think of any good books right now that I wouldn't blush reading to my uncle, no matter how comatose he might be.

11 Comments

blankfist says...

That's a sad story. Well, if he's in his 50s, then he probably remembers being a young boy in the 60s pre-Wal*Mart era, so I'd recommend an awesome book called Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon. It's one of the best books I've ever read. It's a story about the magic of childhood, and it's fantastic.

Ryjkyj says...

I would want something exciting. I know Black Hawk Down is non-fiction and has the stigma of being an "America, F-yeah!!!"-war-book, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a legitimately awesome book. I just read War of the Worlds for the first time and that was pretty awesome. My dad is 62 and just had a great time reading Generation Kill. Of course, every time I get bored I can read Ender's Game. I don't know, I can see that you're going for something poetic and relaxing. Maybe... Sometimes a Great Notion? I don't know. Now that I'm looking, a lot of my favorite book's are non-fiction.

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