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1)"Chairman" Mao
2) J.K. Galbraith
3) (A tie)Cervantes or Wayne Dyer
 
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I'm back.....
I only read Quixote (and liked it)
So far as my second choice goes.....I'd rather read the evil socialist/mass murderer than a self help book or anything on economics. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Didn't say I didn't ~like~ Cervantes... kinda like bein' shoved out of an aircraft: BTDT, interesting ONCE. After that it's just a slog to be endured. Tolstoy is about the same for me.
 
1.Anything on,or by Brittany Spears

2.Anything on,or by Micheal Jackson

3.Anything on,or by Anna Nicle Smith

- Doug
 
DrEntropy said:
Tolstoy is about the same for me.
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Yep......Managed to hack through Anna Karenina but not War & Peace.
I still keep it in case I am ever bedridden for an extended period of time.

I did do Crime & Punishment (Dostoevsky) back in my "five foot shelf" days.
That sucker is like self flagellation.
"Do you understand?" (inside joke)
 
+1 on Henry James. Read that in college. I will add Eliot's Adam Bede to the list, as well as Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. That last one has the dubious distinction of being the only book I ever read where I had to resort to Cliff's Notes to understand. Ooofah!

Doc, I may have to borrow your flame suit for this next one. I have a distinct aversion to the works of Jane Austen. I just hate them- Jayne Eyre in particular made me want to poke my eyes out, or at least break my glasses. The only good thing about having to slog through that was the fact that it made the jokes in The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde make sense.

By the by....you should read every book by Jasper Fforde. They are brilliant, and I am now sure that everyone here is well read enough to get the jokes.

-Wm.
 
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Now.....What 3 authors would you never read again?
(Even if someone put a gun to your head)

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1. Dostoevsky

2. Tolstoy

3. Malthus

Jeff
 
Doc, if I could borrow your fire suit now, I'd like to say, I suffer through Hemmingway, maybe I'm alone, and there's some nice prose, I just don't like the whole.
 
Herman Melville - that man knew how to butcher a sentence:

"If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth -- off lone Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.... For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils." Moby Dick
 
tony barnhill said:
Herman Melville - that man knew how to butcher a sentence:

"If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth -- off lone Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.... For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils." Moby Dick
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Ahhh, like fresh air, I love Melville.
 
William Faulkner - now, there's another man who could make a black mark on pulpwood! YUCK!
 
Bugeye58 said:
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Now.....What 3 authors would you never read again?
(Even if someone put a gun to your head)
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I can't really think of 3...but I do know one. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I truly believe that book of required reading could be responsible for a whole generation of non-readers.
 
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Well said
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William Faulkner - now, there's another man who could make a black mark on pulpwood! YUCK!
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One of only 3 people I've read ALL of....(not kidding...ALL)

1)Faulkner
2)Steinbeck
3)Vonnegut
4)Joseph Heller

People I've read almost all of....
Nabokov, Tom Robbins, Dickens, Ann Tyler, Ayn Rand & Hemingway. (I was gonna say Twain but NO)
(And some others....Can't remember....Just got back from the pub /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif )
 
Twain. Now THAT fella was PROLIFIC! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Read Moby Dick right after Robinson Crusoe, in fourth or fifth grade. Strangely, in my last year of High School I was accused of checking Moby out of the library and not returning it... threatened repeatedly with: "You'll not graduate" unless returned. I had NO idea where that came from, thought Melville a BORE when read years earlier. Library "priveleges revoked". Not a concern as the parents' "library" was far more comprehensive anyhow. Finally told the li'l gargoyle librarian he could threaten me if he had a signed check-out slip as proof or stuff his threat "someplace NASTY." Nothing more came of it. Weird experience, hadn't thought of it in years.
 
Now, Steinbeck I like....when we attended the language school in Monterey back in the early '70's, we lived in a carriage house up on Tortilla Flats while awaiting housing on Fort Ord....while there, I took the time to reread Cannery Row & wandered around the waterfront trying to find landmarks.
 
There are large swathes of Moby Dick that I really quite liked. There are larger swathes that I hated, however. The cetology chapters in particular. That said, the story itself, and the characters, are pretty darned good.

Joseph Heller was mentioned-I've only read Catch-22. Any of the others any good?

-Wm.
 
I actually loved Catch-22 and read a couple of others-

<u>Something Happened</u>- Didn't really care for it. It was real negative.

<u>Good as Gold</u>-Kinda funny in parts, obviously you need to know a little about the politics of the time and it was written a little before my political awakenings.

Neither of these came anywhere near Catch-22.
 
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