Books I Own (By Topic)
Submitted by xfanatic50 on Sun, 01/18/2004 - 08:57
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- I Couldn't Live Without...
- Hell's Angels by Hunter Thompson
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Carl Sagan
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
- The Classics...
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- The Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Much Needed Political Humour...
- Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
- Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore
- Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
- When I Need a Laugh...
- About a Boy by Nick Hornby
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
- Scandalous Oral Histories...
- Please Kill Me: The Complete Oral History of Punk by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil
- Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
- The Essentials...
- All of the Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Books by Douglas Adams
- Bought on a Whim...
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving
- The World According to Garp by Joh_n Irving
- A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
- The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
- A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
- Non-fiction and Wierd Stuff...
- Bjork (a photo book)
- A Dream of Passion by Lee Strasberg
- Laurel's Kitchen (a guide to vegetarianism and cooking with whole foods)
- Diet For a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
- Man And Superman by Bernard Shaw
- An Idiots Guide to Screenwritin
- Endangered Species: Writers talk about their craft,their vision, their lives by Lawrence Grobel
- Hiroshima: Why America Really Dropped the Atomic Bomb by Ronald Takaki
- On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison (The movie JFK was based on this book)
- Two Minutes a Day For a Greener Planet by Marjorie Lamb
- Jump the Shark: When Good Things Go Bad by Jon Hein
- The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine
- Somehow TV or Film Related...
- The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sons of Entropy
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Angel Chronicles
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Xander Years
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Return to Chaos
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Immortal
- All Three Back to the Future Novelizations
- An A-Team Novelization
- Plus many assorted Textbooks
If I were to make a list of all the books I own I'd probably fill up Listology's storage space. Just glancing at your list, here are some of the books I own that you also have:
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Oddly, though, I haven't read these three, yet. Have you? Did you enjoy them?
1984 is one of my favourite books... A Prayer For Owen Meany was OK but not great. I bought Franny and Zooey cuz I loved Catcher in the Rye... but I haven't got around to reading it yet.
Oh, I loved a Prayer for Owen Meany. 1984 is indeed fantastic. I read Franny and Zooey years ago and actually remember almost nothing of it.
I also loved Catcher in the Rye. That prompted me to buy Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger, which in turn led to my purchasing of Franny and Zooey. Have you had a chance to read Nine Stories?
no... if I like Franny and Zooey as much as Catcher in the Rye, I'll probably read it though.
As much as I love authors like Salinger and Huxley and Kesey does anybody else find a lot of the fiction from that period written by men to be very chauvinistic? I've always sort of gotten a wierd, anti-female vibe from the writing in that era.
I've only read Salinger out of the three in your post, but I never noticed a chauvinistic approach to their writing. I'd have to read it again to find out, though. It's a Sin of the Time, I suppose.
I can see Salinger, but Holden hates everyone not just women. Don't confuse people who dislike most people with misogynists as woman are people too:)
I once loaned my favorite novel to a girlfriend, who was a stauch femninst. The novel was Journey to the Center of the Night by Celine. Sure, Celine talks poorly of women: he talks poorly of everyone!