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Saturday, February 12, 2022

Books to Read

Fifty Books Every Man Should Read - according to the woke website Cool Material. 

Homer’s The Odyssey

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

James Joyce’s The Dubliners

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

George Orwell’s 1984

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (“read”)

The Plot Against America – revisionist history from Philip Roth

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adama (read)

Preacher – Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Ramarqu

Maus – Art Spiegelman

Candide – Voltaire

Two Pints – Roddy Doyle

The Virginian – Owen Wister

Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore. A funny but respectful postmodern interpretation of the gospels, they say.

That Thing You do with Your Mouth – David Shields and Samantha Matthews

No Matter the Wreckage – Sarah Key

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson

My Struggle (series) – Karl Ove Kausgard

The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

Naked Pictures of Famous People – Jon Stewart

My Documents – Alejandro Zambra

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (read)

The Tain, an ancient Irish epic.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

Pastoralia – George Saunders

Dune – Frank Herbert

2666 – Roberto Bolano

A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan

I am Legend – Richard Matheson  

Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. Interesting this woke website accurately says Crichton “relies on science, and knows his stuff” (which he does). Crichton also wrote “State of Fear” about how climate change is a crock – back in 2009. Also a great read. Put that one on your list.

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My Super Bowl pick: I don’t really have a dog in the hunt. Rooting for UGA’s Matt Stafford and Sony Michel. Stafford has game and is deserving, and I like his little receiver, who gave a grateful speech while accepting the offensive player of the year award. Joe Burrow has lived a charmed life, but I’ll be jinxing him by wearing a number 9 Bengals jersey to our Super Bowl party. Looking forward to the food and fellowship, but it will be hard to concentrate on the game. We’ll leave the party by the end of the third quarter (I hope) and watch the end at home. Says here Joe B overcomes my jinx, and Cincinnati finally wins the big one. That kicker from Fort Payne by way of Florida will help decide the outcome.

Johnson Ferry link to see renovation renderings and vision for the space. Check it out here

LLOYD MOSEBY  [B-R Bio] was an All-Star and Silver Slugger outfielder. Was the first player to win the Most Improved Player Award twice for Toronto, in 1983 & 1987. His nickname derives from his exploits as a basketball player. “Shaker” Moseby was adept at shaking off defenders. He and “Black Sox” scandal ringleader Chick Gandil are alumni of the same high school: Oakland High School in Oakland, California.

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