One Book For Everyone
--One Book that Change Your Life: On the Road (When I said I wanted to read it, Mom rushed out and bought it, and I think she soon regretted it.) Leaves of Grass.
--One Book that I've read twice: (I used to not consider myself a two time reader, but now that I think about the books I've read twice, there are quite a few) The book that made the most sense the 2nd time through: The Sound and the Fury (In the last pages, it suddenly made sense and I turned right around and read it again... In Miami, on a bed in a warm hotel room looking out on the ocean, with a Panther sitting on the other bed, all due to "On the Road")
--One Book I'd want on a desert Island: Give me a contaner full of paper and pens, and I'd write a book called 100,001 things to do on a dessert island before you die.
--One Book that Made you laugh: Breakfast of Champions
--One Book that Made me cry: Where the Red Fern Grows
--One book I wish had been written: The further Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
--One book I wish hadn't been written: Mien Kampf is a good one.
--Currently Reading: nothing much. A little Nietzsche, some Nabakov in French, just Crumbs... they really are.
--Meaning to read: Innocents Abroad, some of the French books I brough back, Smuggler's Bible, more Dellilo, I even have a copy of L'Atlas Cloud, which is plummeting in value as the market is flooded with 2nd hand copies... I might keep mine and hope for a rebound, but it'll move very far down the list, and won't be read until I find myself, by coincidence, stuck on a desert island with nothing but the Cloud Atlas; in such a scenario I would write over the printed words.
posted by MungaChew @ 10:44 AM
2 Comments:
It is just the cryingest book. Any more I don't cry so much in books. I more or less relish the sad times as a pretty point in a character's life. But I do get a tear forming in eve the stupidest movies. The Patriot was one. I mention it because it played on our flight to Paris. Should I have admitted this?
But there have been other books. I was thinking of that book named Johnny Tremain, which took place during the revolutionary war. I think I teared up in several Hemingway novels (You know he's famous for killing his characters at the end, or at least beating most of the life out of them)... Old Man and the Sea, Islands in The Stream, To Have and Have Not.
And actually, Salinger can be tearful. I know I cried while reading Catcher.
Do you suspect that you're going to get your wish and SAlinger, when he dies, is going to unleash the biggest thing that ever hit literature? He's writing by god! He just knows exactly how to become immortal. I mean, we're not just talking about another 9 Stories either. We're talking about 5000 pages. He's got to have something incredible going on. What do you bet? 10,000 pages! Those characters have grand children now you know. They've been all over the world on adventures of self discovery. Salinger will shake the very foundations of the art. I believe the hype!
I taught Where the Red Fern Grows but I don't remember it....need to read it again....or get the audio tape...wouldn't that be a good way to cry? I'll listen and loan it to all of you for road trips with a box of Kleenex......have a good Monday. Stay cool. Katie, how was the family weekend in the Pokes?
M & J, the corner baker's rack? Do you want it?
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