Sunday, April 19

Paging Mr. Spock, or rather, Not Spock

Yours Truly Dooley® has been tasked by that "Four Weddings & Two or Three Funerals" buggerer, Notting Hill bookseller Will Thacker, to list the "Ten Books That Have Stuck With Me (Like Dogshite on The Boot Heels of My Police-Issued Dr. Martens)". Whilst I'll confess to preferring an evening at the picture show to the tiresome task of plodding through a storyline on the printed page, there has been the occasional read that has left something of an impression on me, not unlike the indentation reading glasses leave atop one’s nostrils. Alrighty Almighty! Here, then, is our Top 10 to the bloody best of our recollecting:

1. Ulysses — James Joyce (Haha! Just joking!)

1. Green Eggs and Honey Ham Off The Bone — Theodore Geisel
2. Encyclopedia Brown Shoe, Boy Detective — Donald J. Sobol
3. Doctor Doolittle, Doctor’s Wife Dooless — Hugh Lofting
4. I Am, Or Was, Or Was Not Spock — Leonard Nimoy
5. How To Win Friends and Influence Shapely Female Associates — Dale Carnegie
6. The Hobbitt — John Ronald Randolph Robert Reginald Reuel Tolkien
7. Driving Miss Daisy, Stopping to Make Water — Hoke Colburn
8. Marmaduke: A Dog’s Life — Marmaduke, as told to Brad Anderson
9. (The Naughty Birds of) Peyton Place — Grace Metalious
10. Jonathon Livingston Seagull — Johann Sebastian Bach