As a high school English teacher I'm always wondering what people are reading.
So give me a couple of your all time faves if the muse strikes.

Heres a few gems from my shelf

Up In The Old Hotel-Joseph Mitchell Reads like a Tom Waits album. Tales from a Runyonesque New York by a farm boy from Carolina

Confederacy of Dunces-John Toole Funniest novel of the last fifty years

To Be The Man by Ric Flair
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
Stone Alone by Bill Wyman! (found it very interesting)

Nice change of pace topic.

1. In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
2. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
3. Positioning; The Battle for Your Mind - Al Ries & Jack Trout

1. The Three Muskateers - Dumas It's a total page turner, even though you know what's going to happen.

2. Cider House Rules - John Irving

Don't really have a third favorite. I like most of Vonnegut's stuff, and David Sedaris is always a fun read when I feel like a giggle and a laugh.

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

"Tokyo On $10/Day"- Hans Veenershcleiden
"Oprah"- Oprah Winfrey
"Gaining Weight And Feeling Great"-Dominick Proscuitto

X



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008-05-10 00:25 by Erik_Snow.

Hey Erik,

I never read anything from Buglakov other than the Master and the Margarita (I am a Stone-fan after all, so that's a must read!) Can you recommend another good one by him. Perhaps something that might have inspired Gimme Shelter or maybe Monkey Man this time. But seriously, I did like M&TM, so I wouldn't mind checking out another of his works.

Thanks!
Cindy

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

fear and loathing in las vegas- hunter s thompson

the great gatsby- f. scott fitsgerald

anything by anne rule.

CindyC Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Hey Erik,
>
> I never read anything from Buglakov other than the
> Master and the Margarita (I am a Stone-fan after
> all, so that's a must read!) Can you recommend
> another good one by him. Perhaps something that
> might have inspired Gimme Shelter or maybe Monkey
> Man this time. But seriously, I did like
> M&TM, so I wouldn't mind checking out another
> of his works.
>
> Thanks!
> Cindy
>
> Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real
> well.


"The Heart Of A Dog" is really good! Bulgakov has written a lot of crap too, so you shouldnt buy his complete works. Tolstoj and Dostojevskij is good all the way (almost).
But check out "The Heart Of A Dog". (But M&TM is my favourite by Bulgakov.)

"White Jazz" - James Ellroy
"Black Dahlia" - Jmes Ellroy
"American Tabloid" - James Ellroy
I did like "Focault's Pendulum" by Eco.
I am surprised by elwood's choice of "Dubious Battle" >I had forgotten about that book. The last sentence made that book for me. All those other books about Cannery Row by Steinbeck are beautiful.
I have come to where I like really good hard intelligent thrillers. After a lifetime of Hesse, Irving,etc I can appreciate a stonecold thriller. "Darkness Take my Hand" by Lehane is great. As are the the three Lecter novels by Harris.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Peggy Noonan

*Very Honorable Mention - Devil In The City by Erik Larson

The Stand - Stephen King
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe

Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Im Krebsgang // Crabwalk - Gunter Grass

- just three titles.....

ChelseaDrugstore Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> "White Jazz" - James Ellroy
> "Black Dahlia" - Jmes Ellroy
> "American Tabloid" - James Ellroy


Ellroy is indeed killer stuff.

I would say (in no order)

Harlot's Ghost - Mailer
Post Office - Bukowski
The Old Man And The Sea - Hemingway

(also, I would be remiss not to mention Catcher In The Rye, for that matter, everythng JDS did is indespensible)

"Post Office, "Women", "Ham On Rye", "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski........"On The Road", "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac....."High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby..."Junkie" by William Burroughs......"Ask The Dusk" by John Fante..."The Great Gadsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald.....most anything by Raymond Chandler & James Ellroy & David Goodis (wrote "Dark Passage" which became a Bogart film)...."Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley...anything by J.D. Salinger...sorry, got carried away



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2006-01-03 18:53 by Leonard Keringer.

Been on a Kurt Vonnegut binge lately.

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Natives of Hemsö - August Strindberg
Crime and Punishment - Fjodor Dostojevskij

catcher in the rye
any stanley booth stones book
hunter s thompson

hunter s thompson
Oryx and Crake: Margaret Atwood
The Day After Tomorrow: Allan Folsom
Day of Confession: Allan Folsom

The last two are written in the style of the Da Vinci Code.

the Day After tommorow is about a post WW2 conspiracy, while Day0 of Confession is about a conspiracy in the Vatican.

The secret history - Donna Tartt

The rebel angels- Roberston Davies

Of Mice and men - Steinbeck ( I used to teach english too and this ALWAYS went well.)

Currently reading 'In Harm's Way' by Martin Bell; his account of covering the warin the Balkans.

juiced up and sloppy

Just read DROP CITY by T.C. Boyle. It was really a GREAT read. Hippies, 1970, Alaska. Loved it. It just came out 2 yrs ago, so I think it's still only in hard cover.

"The Brothers Karamazov" - Doestoyevsky, hands-down the greatest novel ever written

"Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradisio" - Dante, hands-down the greatest epic poem ever written

"The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe" - McTaggart

Honorable Mention to "Man Of Honor", by Joe Bonanno and "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo

"It's just that demon life has got me in it's sway..."



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2006-01-04 07:55 by BornOnTheBayou.

"Watership Down" Richard Adams is first
after that - books by Steinbeck, Edward Abbey, and Hemingway.

-



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2007-12-23 01:27 by cirrhosis.