CuriousByNature Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Pretty much anything by Bill Bryson - I find his travelogues immensely readable, informative and funny. cany10011, + BenjaminNicholas and Rod Hagen 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ g56whiz Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 21 hours ago, Benjamin_Nicholas said: Ah, the Kilimanjaro of reads. I've gotten through it once and agree that a second reading is in order (at some point). No. Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is the Kilimanjaro of reads or Melville's Moby Dick if you're a masochist. + BenjaminNicholas and + WilliamM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 1 hour ago, g56whiz said: No. Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is the Kilimanjaro of reads or Melville's Moby Dick if you're a masochist. I'll add to that the complete works of Marcel Proust. If you can get through that, you can get through most anything. musclestuduws and + g56whiz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 (edited) I have tried more than once to get through Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but have never succeeded; even my abridged version is 900 pages of tight print. I keep telling myself that someday when I am recovering from some illness that keeps me in bed or in a rocking chair for weeks, I will finally read the whole thing. Edited July 3, 2021 by Charlie Danny-Darko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 9 hours ago, Charlie said: I have tried more than once to get through Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but have never succeeded; even my abridged version is 900 pages of tight print. I keep telling myself that someday when I am recovering from some illness that keeps me in bed or in a rocking chair for weeks, I will finally read the whole thing. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Lucky said: Why? Because every classically educated gentleman should be familiar with the most noted history of the Roman Empire. + BenjaminNicholas, BgMstr4u, Danny-Darko and 4 others 1 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 21 hours ago, g56whiz said: No. Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is the Kilimanjaro of reads or Melville's Moby Dick if you're a masochist. The Magic Mountain is not as difficult as Thomas Mann's Doctor Faust. TMM has quite a few comic pages/paragraphs musclestuduws 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Coolwave35 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. cany10011 and rn901 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 4:57 PM, Benjamin_Nicholas said: I'll add to that the complete works of Marcel Proust. If you can get through that, you can get through most anything. I could never get through Remembrance of Things Past until I picked up volumn two and started there. + BenjaminNicholas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) I finished it, but only because I began reading on the last page! Just kidding! I never even picked the book up. Edited July 16, 2021 by Lucky musclestuduws, samhexum and + g56whiz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BgMstr4u Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 (edited) I’ve reconciled myself to not finishing Proust. It’s not a book so much as it’s a world. So reading A la recherche du temps perdu is a bit like visiting a great city as a tourist. Every time I go there it’s a bit more familiar, but there’s always so much I haven’t seen yet. Edited July 17, 2021 by BgMstr4u + WilliamM, + BenjaminNicholas and musclestuduws 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 1 hour ago, BgMstr4u said: I’ve reconciled myself to not finishing Proust. It’s not a book so much as it’s a world. So reading A la recherche du temps perdu is a bit like visiting a great city as a tourist. Every time I go there it’s a bit more familiar, but there’s always so much I haven’t seen yet. I helps a lot to buy a book with a list of characters and a brief biography of each character. + BenjaminNicholas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 These: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Creatures-Sam-DAllesandro/dp/0976341115 https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science/dp/0192860925 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H1Z6B58/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 + BenjaminNicholas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/16/2021 at 11:23 AM, Lucky said: I finished it, but only because I began reading on the last page! Just kidding! I never even picked the book up. Have you read Thomas Mann "Death in Venice?" Marcel Proust has many, many more gay characters. In fact, if they aren't gay, they are bisexual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Trebor Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Just finished reading ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr! Great book set in France during WW2. Highly recommended! MikeBiDude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ IronMaus Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 I read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse every few years. Its a different journey every time. On the Road has a similar effect if I wait long enough to read it again. I've read the entire Sandman series 4 times - only gets better and better. raife, + BenjaminNicholas, + WilliamM and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FrankR Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 20 hours ago, IronMaus said: I read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse every few years. Its a different journey every time. On the Road has a similar effect if I wait long enough to read it again. I've read the entire Sandman series 4 times - only gets better and better. I just finished the "Iron Druid" series for the 3rd time. Because Oberon is so bloody hilarious! (The author happens to be a big fan of Neil Gaiman). + IronMaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealAvalon Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 On 5/15/2021 at 11:37 AM, Benjamin_Nicholas said: If you're an avid reader, there's always those group of authors and stories that you keep coming back to. For me, it's Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Even though he eventually became mostly a television talk show couch-fixture, I credit Capote for starting an entirely new genre of writing that has remained successful to this day. It's also just a brilliantly written book. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. The film adap was just okay, but the book was riveting. David Merrick: The Abominable Showman by Howard Kissel. Great stories in the days when theatre producers could get away with anything. If you have come from a PR background, watching Merrick's cat & mouse game of keeping his shows on top is fascinating. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is as long (and bitter) as the old testament, but it's worth a read. It's refreshing to see a bio that's straight-forward, pulls no punches and has the blessing of the subject all the way onto his deathbed. It's an opus, but it's an easy read. The phone book. Haha. I'm keeping one as a historical curiosity. My Tender Matador is a book I've read over and over. I've recently re-read a bunch of stuff, Of Mice and Men, Cat's Cradle, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, A History of God. + BenjaminNicholas and Rod Hagen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 On 9/4/2021 at 2:04 PM, RealAvalon said: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Love that book. Movies and songs that vortex (bad verb, sorry) here and there and/or loop back to the beginning, more of that please. The Cure song Disintegration, is a great example of that phenomenon, as are several Godspeed You Black Emperor songs. So is the play, Copenhagen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Stephen King’s “The Stand”. Multiple times. rn901 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Death in Venice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn901 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Native Son by Richard Wright, Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, The Odyssey by Homer, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, the Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, 10 Days that Shook the World by John Reed, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt, The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, Tales of the City by Amristead Maupin Edited September 28, 2021 by rn901 + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn901 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 I have spent a good chunk of my escorting income on books lol, sometimes to my detriment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 On 8/30/2021 at 3:51 AM, Trebor said: Just finished reading ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr! Great book set in France during WW2. Highly recommended! His latest, Cloud Cuckoo Land, seems a bit too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 On 9/27/2021 at 5:16 PM, rn901 said: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Native Son by Richard Wright, Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, The Odyssey by Homer, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, the Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, 10 Days that Shook the World by John Reed, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt, The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, Tales of the City by Amristead Maupin The thread title says it is about books you read repeatedly. Are you saying that you read the above repeatedly? Where would you get time to escort? 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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