Jacey25's Challenge

Hi! I'm going to make this my third challenge for 2009- I am also doing the Paranormal 999 Challenge & 75 Books challenge. I will have lots of over lap into the broad challenge- 75 books but decided to add this to force myself into more expanded reading as well.
So far I think I have the following categories decided:
1. Cormac McCarthy
2. L. Frank Baum
3. Science Fiction
4. Terry Pratchett
5. Roald Dahl
6. Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic
7. Classics
8. Graphic Novels
9. Chick Lit
I don't know if I will finish by 9/9/09 though lol

Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Blood Meridian
4. All the Pretty Horses
5. The Crossing
6. Cities of the Plain
7. Child of God
8. Suttree
9. Outer Dark

I really enjoyed McCarthy's The Road. Very sparse in terms of writing style, but very powerful, in my mind.

I like that you have a Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic category. I was toying with having a similar category, so I will definitely be interested in seeing what you put up here. I was looking for some good fiction books to read in that category.

I have also read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and thought it was really good. I am going to now read a few of his others.

Will be keeping watch to see what you think of his other books.

2. L. Frank Baum
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz
3. Ozma of Oz
4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
5. The Road to Oz
6. The Emerald City of Oz
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz
8. Little Wizard Stories of Oz
9. Tik-Tok of Oz
There are more too....

#3 I will be starting I believe with Wastelands which is collected short stories. I think I may re-read The Stand again. Otherwise I have a bit of digging to do (but I enjoy researching to find stories for my categories). I am not opposed to zombie apocalypse though which I should warn you just in case that's not your cup of tea.
#3 & 4 I finished The Road this weekend actually and I was blown away by it. I really enjoyed his writing style; it was sparse but very evocative and I agree about the powerful effect of the book. My experience with that book makes me eager to read all o fhis other works- the summaries of the books actually all sound pretty interesting and i'm going to do a (mostly) reverse read of his books to try and see his style evolve.

Ooooh. I am currently slightly maybe obsessed with zombies just now. Maybe a little/lot.

Lol; one of my categories for my paranormal 999 challenge is zombies. Here's my list from that challenge:
Zombies/Voodoo
1. Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
2. Roses of Blood on Barb Wire Vines by D.L. Snell
3. World War Z by Max Brooks
4. Beserk by Tim Lebbon
5. Empire:A Zombie Novel by David Dunwoody
6. Every sigh, the end by Jason S. Hornsby
7. Zombies in my Hometown by Gary Wedlund
8. Zombie Blondes by Brian James
9. You are so Undead to me by Stacey Jay

Nice! Thanks. :)