Read any good books lately?

pedonbio · « **Reply #165 on:** December 24, 2005, 05:15:20 PM »

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hehe i was looking for this topic

bump ^_^

lots of works by:

- william bradford
- anne bradstreet
- edward taylor
- jonathan edwards
- philip freneau
- phillis wheatley
- washington irving
- nathaniel hawthorne
- charles dickens
- edgar alle poe
- j.r.r. tolkien
- harriet beecher stowe
- mark twain
- walt whitman
- emily dickinson
- kate chopin
- w.e.b. du bois
- t.s. eliot
- F. scott fitzgerald (minus the great gatsby)
- william faulkner
- ernest hemingway (minus the man by the sea)
- langston hughes (including poetry)
- countee cullen (poetry only)
- tennessee williams (only a streetcar named desire)
- zora neale hurston
- ralph ellison
- toni morrison
- theodore roethke
- sylvia plath
- h.p. lovecraft
- james joyce (no ulysses)
- joseph conrad (apocalypse now, outpost of progress)
- and a massive amount of short stories ^_^

Quite a list, Neo. We all would have our own lists, of course, but I have two comments:

First, I'm glad you listed Harriet Beecher Stowe. I think Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of the best-imagined, best-constructed pieces of literature in any language. It is, IMHO, vastly superior to Moby Dick. It is too often seen as a political piece of fluff, usually by people who haven't read it.

Second, alas, you left Stephen Crane off the list. He was a marvel. His first novel was denounced as pornography and had to be published privately; his second novel forever changed war literature; and he was probably America's greatest poet. And he was dead by 29.

foon4Balloons · « **Reply #166 on:** December 24, 2005, 11:46:32 PM »

Religious hit men, killer cops, Bollywood! and the name of the man who makes the best vadapav in all of Bombay.

homevintner · « **Reply #167 on:** December 26, 2005, 10:20:48 PM »

Masquerade, The Amazing Camoflage Deceptions of World War II by Seymour Reit

prinz · « **Reply #168 on:** December 27, 2005, 09:26:52 PM »

1776 by David McCullough excellent read on the first full year of the Revolutionary War ..

smiley · « **Reply #169 on:** December 28, 2005, 12:23:57 AM »

Colleen McCullogh's 6-book Rome series ("First Man in Rome", "The Grass Crown", "Fortune's Favourites", "Caesar", "Caesar's Women" and "The October Horse"). Not strictly historical, but *very* easy to read and good for making a formative period in western culture approachable.

T.H.White (of "Once and Future King" fame) on "The Age of Scandal" - 18th c. history (for work), and Roy Porter's "18th Century British History". Porter does great synoptical works (history of medicine, etc.) and it's interesting to see how he works on a smaller canvas.

notty · « **Reply #170 on:** December 28, 2005, 01:12:08 AM »

I am reading a book called Grimm's Grimmest. It's a collection of *unedited* Brothers Grimm tales.

foon4Balloons · « **Reply #171 on:** December 28, 2005, 03:25:07 AM »

The secret to a good life: knowing when your through.

Breasts · « **Reply #172 on:** December 28, 2005, 09:03:15 AM »

I'm currently reading

The final book in a damn good series.

GA_Matt · « **Reply #173 on:** December 28, 2005, 08:23:29 PM »

Don't laugh, 50 Cent - From Pieces To Weight.

Not a bad book, but there's nothing heavy in there. Next up is Stephen King & Peter Straub: The Black House.

I usualy listen to Unabridged Audio Books... makes life a little easier.

rtpoe · « **Reply #175 on:** January 17, 2006, 09:20:38 PM »

Can't let this get too far from the first page...

Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters by Ben Green.

I read this over the weekend, and now I can't stop whistling "Sweet Georgia Brown". Or imagining "Goose" Tatum sinking a hook shot from midcourt. Or picturing Marques Haynes giving his teammates a rest in a tough one-point game (a real game, not an exhibition) by dribbling the ball for the entire fourth quarter. Or them playing in front of 75,000 people in West Berlin, or doing their "Magic Circle" routine for an audience of one - Pope Pius XII.

Now to try rolling the ball across my back, from one hand to the other....

rtpoe

homevintner · « **Reply #176 on:** January 21, 2006, 09:50:59 AM »

The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker, Ph.D

no_fucking_coke · « **Reply #177 on:** January 26, 2006, 03:23:50 AM »

Arrogance ╫ Bernie Goldberg

what an idiot

homevintner · « **Reply #178 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:20:56 PM »

The Aces Talk by Edward H. Sims. Accounts and interviews with fighter pilots from 1914 -1970.

homevintner · « **Reply #179 on:** February 25, 2006, 07:01:22 AM »

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer. Thanks for the recomendation PE, it's an excellent read.

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