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What I Read
- Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
- John Fowles: The Magus
commitment/freedom;love/sex. - James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Bernard Malamud: The Fixer
Worthy Pulitzer winner; importance of individual actions to fix wrongs. Skim some of the prison descriptions but pay attention at the end. - Jerome K. 1859-1927 Jerome: Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)
Entertaining trip up the Thames. - Tom Brokaw: The Time of Our Lives: A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream
Very enjoyable read, and pertinent to the current U.S. situation. - Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
Beware, there is usually both good and evil in all of us! - Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Not a pleasure to read, because Heathcliff is so evil! - Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust (New Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)
A new author for me, and kind of a pessimist even by my standards. - Kate Chopin: At Fault
Be careful when you give others advice on how to live their lives! - Erik Larson: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Life in Berlin in 1933-38 with U S Ambassador William Dodd and his family. - Henry James: The Ambassadors
OK for my first James but maybe my last. Makes me want to go back to Paris! - David McCullough: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Fulfills my interest in history, Paris, biography, and travel; and I love McCullough's style. - W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
One of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. - F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night
Rich Americans in Europe in the 1920's - Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
There are a few books every young man should read, this is one of them. - Jeff Rasley: Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
Adventure trekking in the Himalayas in Nepal and more! - Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
- Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 2011. I loved this book, the writer's concept of time, of life and it's pauses. - Daniel Woodrell: Winter's Bone: A Novel
America's rural poor, wonderfully written.
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