Thread: A Good Book

Finished reading "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius a couple of weeks ago( should be required reading in my opinion). Last night started into reading "City of God" by St. Augustine. As you can tell, very much into philosophy and thought provoking literature.

Some of my favorites are :

Nuremburg Diaries
Moby Dick
Les Miserables
Centennial
Dogs of War
The original Day of the Jackal
Kalhil Gibran
And I have a ten volume set of Edgar Allen Poe

This is all old material but then, so am I...................

Jerry

Since there haven't been too many modern classics mentioned, I'll name some of my favorites:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-- Kesey
Catcher in the Rye-- Salinger
A Clockwork Orange-- Burgess
The Bell Jar-- Plath

And also, Don Quixote, possibly the greatest novel of all time.

I am about 2/3 of the way through Steve Jobs and I have to say it is really good.

Very interesting to hear from so many people who knew him and not just there view of him but the stories of the relationship they had with him.

Originally Posted by Earthdawn

I am about 2/3 of the way through Steve Jobs and I have to say it is really good.

Very interesting to hear from so many people who knew him and not just there view of him but the stories of the relationship they had with him.

I hope you read this book with your iPad!
It is the right way to honor Steve!

I enjoy the southern writer, Michael Malone, "Handling Sin" is some of the best humor in current fiction and the crime novels "Time's Witness" and "Uncivil Seasons" are classic. I've just started reading "Alfred Jarry - A Pataphysical Life" by Alastair Brotchie, not sure I understand any of this, but then that's part of the charm of the avant garde!

My first necro-post.

1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
2. The Divine Comedy by Dante
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus

My favorites:

- Gabriel Garcia Márquez: Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude), Amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the times of cholera) and others
- Lev Tolstoi: Guerra y Paz (War and peace)
- Paul Auster: Brooklyn Follies

Hello jolgar:

Forgive me, my friend, but War and Peace was written by Leo Tolstoy.

I guess as a Lit teacher I'm required to do this, right??

1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
3. The Stranger - Albert Camus