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The 75 Books Every Man Should Read (Esquire Magazine)
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Posted on 08/21/2011 6:24:57 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
The 75 Books Every Man Should Read
An unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest works of literature ever published. How many have you read?
The 75 Books Every Man Should Read
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Unintended Consequences by John Ross.
That’s all you need.
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posted on
08/21/2011 6:50:06 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
("I can see 2012 from my house!" Jim Thompson, 7-16-2011)
To: InvisibleChurch
Unabashedly sophomoric with the obligatory moronic whitebread guilt
"O, ye slaves" pastiche.
And for what little good it does as an authors homage, "Fear And Loathing" kicks "Hell's Angels" ignorant biker ass up and down the block.
To: Young Werther
Lol. I was just going to say, The Foundation Series. All of it, including the robot books.
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posted on
08/21/2011 6:53:55 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
To: InvisibleChurch
Read 6 out of the 75. And half of those I read were crap. As for the rest that I haven’t read, they look to be crap as well.
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posted on
08/21/2011 6:54:00 AM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: GOP Golfer
To: InvisibleChurch
South of no North
Charles Bukowski
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posted on
08/21/2011 6:55:04 AM PDT
by
djf
(One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
To: InvisibleChurch
I've read the short story
A Good Man is Hard to Find and quite enjoyed it. You can read it
here. I know there's a lot of Freepers who'll read it and scream, "If only they had conceal carry!"
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posted on
08/21/2011 6:56:25 AM PDT
by
Krankor
(I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in.)
To: InvisibleChurch
Really weak list! I've read four of the books on the list, and I do a reasonable amount of reading. Of course, the list was mostly or all fiction; and I read mostly non-fiction.
I guess there was at least one non-fiction book as I noticed that a David McCullough book was on it. I just finished his Truman which was mostly very good (the exception being the treatment of Senator McCarthy). This impelled me to read Witness (highly recommended) now which I've had lying around for a long time but had never read.
Neither the Bible nor Atlas Shrugged made Esquire's cut.
ML/NJ
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posted on
08/21/2011 6:57:35 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: kaylar
75 Books Every Woman Should Read
Esquire put up a slideshow of 75 books every man should read, and it is indeed a very good list. However, it’s a very good list that’s also extremely myopic. It relies way too heavily on the old white dude cannon (particularly the WASP angst end of it) with books by Updike, Cheever, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Hemingway, McPhee, Joyce, Roth, Mailer, and the token Russians. There are only four non-white men on the list (Ellison, Rushdie, Haley, Wright) and just one woman, the incomparable Flannery O’Connor with her classic book of short stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find. The only really offensive choice on the list is Bukowski. I’ve read Bukowski, and even though he’s an old cuss, I like his writing. However, I would never call something so unapologetically misogynistic something men “should” read. Anyway, in light of Esquire’s myopia, we decided to curate a list of 20 books every woman should read. You should fill in the other 55 in the comments! http://jezebel.com/5052468/75-books-every-woman-should-read
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:03:24 AM PDT
by
flowerplough
(Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
To: InvisibleChurch
Dharma Bums by Keroauc deserves to be on the list IMHO .
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:03:46 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: sushiman
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:05:05 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: flowerplough
10/20. I did like that the ‘man’ list included Jorge Luis Borges; he’s been one of my favorite writers for 3 decades now. And Wide Sargasso Sea from the ‘woman’ list deserves its listing, and also was made into a splendid film.
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:09:08 AM PDT
by
kaylar
(It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
To: InvisibleChurch
I didn't see Sun Tsu’s the art of war or Machiavelli's The Prince on that list. Seriously if you haven't read those two you just aren't going to understand the world. Sun Tsu teaches you how to get an empire, and Machiavelli teaches you how to keep it. Be it business, politics or international intrigue you need to understand these guys. Even if you don't want to be Machiavellian it is a fair bet the other guys does. And as Sun Tsu said “Know your enemy, know yourself and in a hundred battles you will never be in peril”.
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:09:53 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: InvisibleChurch
Who selected these, a liberal woman? I would of read more of the books on the list but I think I would become an angry gay socialist if forced to read all of them. Is this a list of books to read to make a person want to shoot themselves?
To: InvisibleChurch
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:13:07 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: InvisibleChurch
Thanks, I’m always looking for reading suggestions and see a few on this list I’d like to add to my wish list. I hope I live long enough to read everything on my list!
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:15:41 AM PDT
by
McLynnan
To: InvisibleChurch
I highly recommend the following book by my favorite journalist, Ed Anger of the Weekly World News: “Let’s Pave the Rain Forests and Give Teachers Stun Guns.”
To: InvisibleChurch
I don’t click on strange links. Just tell me. Is the Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes series’ on the list? If not, it’s not worth knowing what is.
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:19:14 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: InvisibleChurch
I read about 19 of them. Masochist, I guess. I would recommend maybe 4 or 5. Long before I recommended Master and Commander I would recommend C.S Forrester.
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:19:35 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(I love that the FR spell check still flags Obama as a spelling error.)
To: InvisibleChurch
As others have mentioned, it lacks Shakespeare, the Bible and others. What I notice is that it appears to be the educated Metrosexual's reading list. I don't have time to check but I think "Moby Dick" [1851] is the oldest one listed with a few others from the 1800s (Twain, Tolstoy & Dostoyevsky). The rest comes from the last century and therefor, to my mind, lacks depth and perspective.
What I see lacking is items that would make the aforesaid Metrosexual look into the deeper values or references to idealism. While there is a place for the grit of life, one should not always dwell in it or on it. How about some poetry? How about some biography? How about some Kipling, James F Cooper, Robbie Burns and the like?
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posted on
08/21/2011 7:23:38 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(1776 to 2011, 235 years and counting in the GRAND EXPERIMENT!)
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