Let's get literary up in here.
- The Hank Thompson Trilogy: Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things, A Dangerous Man; Charlie Huston
- The Joe Pitt Casebooks: Already Dead, No Dominion, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Every Last Drop, My Dead Body; Charlie Huston
- The Lost, Jack Ketchum
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/Order of the Phoenix/Half-Blood Prince/Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
- This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper
- The Ruins, Scott Smith
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
Love the Charlie Huston - never read the Harry Potters.
ReplyDeleteI definitely want to add the Mitch Albom books.
ReplyDeleteI would delete an Albom tribute immediately; he's a hack.
ReplyDeletehttp://joaj34.blogspot.com/2009/02/mitch-albom-talentless-hack-swindle.html
Yikes, just read your post. Kind of reminds me of the Dave Chapelle stand up where he had stopped in a Mississippi restaurant and was trying to choose something to eat. "The Chicken!" "Now how did he know that? All this time I thought I liked chicken because it was juicy and delicious when truly I was genetically predisposed to liking chicken."
ReplyDeleteI've never claimed Albom was an author for the ages, but speaking for myself only (and as a person who doesnt enjoy reading often) I was begged to read 5 people and was so engrossed in it that I had to rent the movie afterwards. Not only that, I went out and bought Morrie and For One More Day as well. (BTW, didin't like Morrie)
I guess what it really comes down to is where it hits ya, and 'For One More Day' hit me like a load of bricks. I really found a lot of myself in the lead character. Also, the sentimentality really gets to me and helps to release a lot of pent up frustration that often times gets held back.
More importantly, can you believe that I have read 3 books since college?
So, in review, Oprah sucks, I'm a fag, and Mitch Albom can die in card catalog hell. But at least we know he will meet 5 important people when he gets there.
"So, in review, Oprah sucks, I'm a fag, and Mitch Albom can die in card catalog hell. But at least we know he will meet 5 important people when he gets there."
ReplyDeleteAwesome reply!