Light the reading lamp, it's Friday Question time again
Colder days and darker nights seem like optimum times to curl up with a book.
ROUTE 1 readers provide a literary guide by answering the following FRIDAY QUESTION:
"What is the most memorable you have read in the past couple months?"
BEKAH P. -- "Water for Elephants." Fantastic, easy read.
KERSTIN H. -- "Carrie" by Stephen King.
MIKE M. -- I was struck by John le Carré's 1963 spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" and Bob Dylan's 2004 autobiography "Chronicles, Volume One," but "Ask the Dust" by John Fante from 1939 is the most memorable. It's weird, funny, sexy, gritty, and as good as Steinbeck or Kerouac.
MARY N.-P. -- Actually, the one I'm finished now for my book club: "Three Cups of Tea" -- a true story of how to live a generous life, warts and all. It's about an American mountaineer who builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan in mountain villages so poor the students met under a tree in good weather. Totally inspiring -- one can see why it was a best-seller.
BOB H. -- "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Published in 1957, I thought it would be dated, but I find it very timely and very scary.
KERI M. -- "That extra half an inch" by Victoria Beckham (memorable, a good write, and useful because of my California trip coming up).
BRIAN M. -- "Living on the Black" by John Feinstein, about Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina during the '07 season, and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
MIKE D. -- "The Last Lecture" by terminally ill Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch. Lots of good life lessons. He died shortly after I finished reading the book.
ERIK H. -- "The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps" collects popular crime fiction from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Although there are some head-shaking, illogically formulaic stories, the collection also includes some fantastic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Norbert Davis, T.T. Flynn and Cornell Woolrich.
ROUTE 1 readers provide a literary guide by answering the following FRIDAY QUESTION:
"What is the most memorable you have read in the past couple months?"
BEKAH P. -- "Water for Elephants." Fantastic, easy read.
KERSTIN H. -- "Carrie" by Stephen King.
MIKE M. -- I was struck by John le Carré's 1963 spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" and Bob Dylan's 2004 autobiography "Chronicles, Volume One," but "Ask the Dust" by John Fante from 1939 is the most memorable. It's weird, funny, sexy, gritty, and as good as Steinbeck or Kerouac.
MARY N.-P. -- Actually, the one I'm finished now for my book club: "Three Cups of Tea" -- a true story of how to live a generous life, warts and all. It's about an American mountaineer who builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan in mountain villages so poor the students met under a tree in good weather. Totally inspiring -- one can see why it was a best-seller.
BOB H. -- "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Published in 1957, I thought it would be dated, but I find it very timely and very scary.
KERI M. -- "That extra half an inch" by Victoria Beckham (memorable, a good write, and useful because of my California trip coming up).
BRIAN M. -- "Living on the Black" by John Feinstein, about Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina during the '07 season, and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
MIKE D. -- "The Last Lecture" by terminally ill Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch. Lots of good life lessons. He died shortly after I finished reading the book.
ERIK H. -- "The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps" collects popular crime fiction from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Although there are some head-shaking, illogically formulaic stories, the collection also includes some fantastic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Norbert Davis, T.T. Flynn and Cornell Woolrich.
posted by erik hogstrom at 5:30 AM
1 Comments:
Eh. I need to read more. I've stalled out on the last two books I've opened. Maybe a few days on a plane will start me up again... any suggestions? They need to be a/ not depressing and b/not too intellectual.
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