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.
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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