Red Mosquito

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.

I kept it mostly to fiction, and I've been reading more poetry and non-fiction over the past few years.

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.

I kept it mostly to fiction, and I've been reading more poetry and non-fiction over the past few years.

Let's get a look at your top ten nonfiction.

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.

I kept it mostly to fiction, and I've been reading more poetry and non-fiction over the past few years.

Let's get a look at your top ten nonfiction.

Something like:

Open Veins of Latin America (Galeano)
The Shock Doctrine (Klein)
Capitalist Realism (Fisher)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Friere)
Teaching to Transgress (hooks)
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Deleuze and Guattari)
Ecology Without Nature (Morton)
Debt: The First 5000 Years (Graeber)
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Brown)
Calamities (Gladman)

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Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

Mickey wrote:

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Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:Screen shotting this for later.

Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..

I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

The Ministry of Truth rears it's ugly head.

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:Screen shotting this for later.

Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..

I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

Take it easy, lil' guy. I was just riffing on the strat method. I don't actually want to read your sophomoric volumes.

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:Screen shotting this for later.

Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..

I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

Take it easy, lil' guy. I was just riffing on the strat method. I don't actually want to read your sophomoric volumes.

Yes you do.

BurtReynolds wrote:The Ministry of Truth rears it's ugly head.

*its

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:

Mickey wrote:

washing machine wrote:Screen shotting this for later.

Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..

I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

Take it easy, lil' guy. I was just riffing on the strat method. I don't actually want to read your sophomoric volumes.

Okay, maybe the Kafka one. And Ecology Without Nature.

Here's a top five non-fiction from me that no one asked for

What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Herzog on Herzog by Werner Herzog and Paul Cronin
Hiroshima by Jon Hersey
The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

The Argonaut wrote:Here's a top five non-fiction from me that no one asked for

What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Herzog on Herzog by Werner Herzog and Paul Cronin
Hiroshima by Jon Hersey
The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Forgot about Pollan, he would probably make a more considered top-10.

That was a good book, for sure.

Taking a page from ST, if I had to do my next five, so to speak, it'd probably be:

The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You (Stanford)
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country (Gass)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Murakami)
Leaving the Atocha Station (Lerner)
Never Any End to Paris (Vila-Matas)

Mickey wrote:Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

I've done The Black Notebook and Paris Nocturne and loved both. This is going to my next by Modiano. It was really between Suspended Sentences and Paris Nocturne the last time I picked on up.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Mickey wrote:Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

I've done The Black Notebook and Paris Nocturne and loved both. This is going to my next by Modiano. It was really between Suspended Sentences and Paris Nocturne the last time I picked on up.

I haven't read a lot but this one really got me. It's haunting.

Mickey wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Mickey wrote:Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

I've done The Black Notebook and Paris Nocturne and loved both. This is going to my next by Modiano. It was really between Suspended Sentences and Paris Nocturne the last time I picked on up.

I haven't read a lot but this one really got me. It's haunting.

Nice. Looking forward to it.

Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.