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More => Music, Movies, Politics, and Other Cheap Thrills => Topic started by: JimH on October 09, 2009, 07:13:15 pm
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When I was a kid, I was always around books. My dad worked at a very big bookstore. They bought books from college students all over the U.S., shipped them back to a warehouse, then sold them to other college bookstore managers. I had a lot of fun running around that huge warehouse when I was small, and it was the first place I worked when I was old enough. I worked in the book warehouse every summer for 7 or 8 years.
The people who came through to buy books were an interesting mix of business and academic. Just being around them, listening to their stories was a treat. I grew up knowing some of them over a number of years and I think they made a deep impression. I learned to read because of them.
A couple of days ago, my daughter, now 28 and living New York, asked me "Will you put together a list of classic books that you think I should
read? I'm in a reading mood."
Today I pulled some books off my shelves. It seemed easier and more interesting to photograph the books for her. I thought it might be interesting to share them with you.
The pictures are here (http://www.pix01.com/gallery/8D12431D-7EA0-495D-9EA2-775091458CB9/Books_for_Anna/).
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I was wondering if you had moby dick, then i clicked on the 3rd picture
There she blows.
It Is One of only few books I have ever read when I was a kid.
One Of The Others Was Catch 22
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I'm just finishing Catch-22, it's a painful read.
And for the latest in cool books, check out:
http://www.amazon.com/Damn-Good-Food-Recipes-Kitchen/dp/0873517245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255195915&sr=8-1
j
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it is interesting how one's mind gets caught up in the book and in another it is painful (most books are painful to me).
I think i was in 9th or 10th grade when i read it for English class.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, published in 1968
Was Painful
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I'm just finishing Catch-22, it's a painful read.
If you like painful, try "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo.
Where's David Copperfield? And I don't mean the magician.... :)
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I'm currently working through Plato's Complete Works, a 2000 page tome. It really is amazing at just how long ago concepts we think of as "modern", were well understood >2300 years ago. I think some of these classics are critical to evaluate today's issues against the history of yesterday.