To celebrate their 80th year, Heywood Hill on Curzon Street, London is having a drawing. The winner will receive a new hard cover book every month for the rest of his or her life. All you have to do is give your contact information and the title of the one book that has meant the most to you and why.
Contest Entry Here
Bookstore in London? No thanks. Their tomes will all be in arabic before I die.
I entered! Thanks for this.
Thank you!
Don’t have enough book shelves as it is. The used bookstore went out of business and had a big sale, got a bunch of great technical books for dirt cheap. Stacks all over the house.
I want to win because I enjoy reading. The result of the contest doesn’t matter. I will always have bookmarks in an array of tomes.
Wow, what a fun contest! Thanks for this awesome tip, Dr. Tar. 😀
You know, this could be a great excuse to talk about books at iOTWReport 😉
The book that meant the most to me was “Fear of Flying” by Erica Jong.
Everybody thinks it’s a book about sex and fucking. It’s not. It’s a book about literature and writing.
Runner-up, “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth–who surprisingly had many of the same roadblocks Jong encountered, despite being a man.
I always wanted to write a book about an affair between Isadora Wing and Alexander Portnoy, and another between Adrian Goodlove and Mary Jane Reid.
What would you do with that many books? I’m sure they would be written by liberals.
Pushing liberal talking points. I bought a book about 30 years ago.
It was about how to work on my Mercedes diesel engine.
Yes, but I get to choose the books that I want to read. You can never have too may books. I want to be a living book like Guy Montag in Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 so I can carry on the literary tradition after civilization is destroyed and everyone forgets the past and how to read.
Haywood Hill takes particular pride in finding books you personally want to read, not what they think you should be reading.
I had a hard time picking one book; there’s Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and “The Fountainhead” then George Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal House” I liked Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” then there are the Arkardy Renko novels from Martin Cruz Smith and Micheal Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels.
I finally settled on and got all pretentious by choosing “The Great Gatsby.” Its a good story, but the real aspect to appreciate is how well it’s written.
One of my favorite new authors is Michael D. O’Brien, a Canadian Catholic writer who has written some great books like Sophia House, The Fathers Tale and some others which are great books. They’re long books but very well written and full of a lot amazingly graceful theological insights into the human condition. Also Walter Wangerin, who knew a Lutheran minister could write such good books, he’s become one of my favorites over the last year or so.