Tag! I'm It?

Apparently I have been blog-tagged and am now "it". I did not know that such a thing existed until yesterday. Usually I have a tendency to simply ignore this type of pressure to perform, but since I was tagged by The Lovely Jacqueline (an altogether pleasant experience I might add) I will succumb to the peer pressure - this time. The task before us is to name the ten books we would never get rid of, not for any reason. Okay, here goes.

1) The Stand by Stephen King (unabridged edition - all ten million pages)

2) The More Than Complete Hitch Hiker's Guide To the Galaxy by the late Douglas Adams (including So Long and Thanks For All The Fish)

3) On The Road by Jack Kerouac - a bible I based my life around before I even read it

4) Rush Limbaugh Is A Big, Fat, Idiot by Al Franken

5) The Complete History Of World War II by various assorted contributors

6) The Diary Of Anne Frank - for mostly the same reasons Jacq listed

7) Passionate Purpose, Awakening the Inner Fire - A little book for Life's Big Questions by Reed Daugherity (whom I was lucky enough to have as a professor in college)

8) The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

9) The Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony. One volume of what was supposed to be a trilogy, but ended up having so many titles added that I eventually lost track. In this book the main character lived in a land where every person had one, just one, magic power. Everyone was required to demonstrate their power to the world at large by the time of their thirteenth birthday or face banishment. Our hero could not find his magical talent and after a perilous quest discovered that his power was the ability to negate any magic anyone tried to use against him. I love that.

10) Inside the Vatican by Cardinal James A. Vanderveldt - hey, he's a relative.