Today's QoTD is about listing your top 5 in books, music or movies. I've not the time to do any of the above, but I can make one solid reading recommendation, maybe the first of several. These will be the books that I've always loved, always recommended and will never deny.
Though I'd discovered Neil Gaiman through his Sandman run for DC Comics, Good Omens hit me like a ton of sweet bricks during the last year or so of my college career. At the last line, a perfectly executed reference to W. B. Yeats, I was thunderstruck.
And I was such a proselytizing dork about it, even reading it aloud during a one-act rehearsal. I was directing and thought that the bit about a tree audibly growing up and out of the middle of a suburban mall would be inspiring. Maybe it was, but I think I was just being humored. Since then, I've had to replace my original copy three times, having loaned it out so much and lacking the heart to ask it back.