Great Books???

[Stinky Wizzleteats]

 
Great thread so far...

The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz
Tietam Brown - Mick Foley (the wrestler)
Tides of War - Steven Pressfield (reading this at the moment)
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Magician - Raymond E Feist

[cyrus buelton]

He never said she hadn't read it. He said she wondered why you thought it should be required reading.

totally missed that one.


Sorry about that 750.


EDITED*******

didn't mean to call him 620.

[cyrus buelton]

She has read it, at least four times. She just found the comment interesting and was curious as to why you thought it should be read.

I misread your post, apologize to your SO for me.


I think it is important to read as a lot of our Government is based off the philosophy and ideas in this book.

but then again, I like history, so that is probably what makes me believe everyone should read this book.

It is hard as make the beast with two backs to read, but informative.

[hihhs]

Ha..that's great.  Many of us have stories like that where we put out foot in our mouth. Definitely was a classic book, though.  Laugh out loud all the way through..

The sad thing is I am an admirer of John Updike's writing.
I don't know why my brain insists on doing those kinds of things.

[DCXCV]

What's this, the 4th book thread?  Hopefully none of these are repeats.

in no particular order:

Mine All Mine - Adam Davies
Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips
The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers
Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington
Fool - Christopher Moore (and anything else he writes)
Inversions - Iain M. Banks

As an aside, Banks has the best space ship names ever.


Glen Cook is my current favorite.  Black Company series, Dread Empire series, and the new Instrumentalities of the Night series which is politically, religiously and geographically complicated to start, but you settle into it.  Third book due out in the fall.

Can't go wrong with anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk or Steven Pressfield.

[LMT]

The Tennis Partner- Abraham Verghese
Gilead- Marilynne Robinson
Best Tales of the Yukon- Robert Service
Willa Cather- Everything

[lazylightnin717]

Sometimes a Great Notion- Ken Kesey
The Painted Word- Tom Wolfe
The Things They Carried- Tim O'Brien
The Art Instinct- Dennis Dutton