Read any good books lately? Or somewhere in your lifespan?
Okay. A request to any reader or lurker of this here blog.
Recommend for me a book that I ought to read. Preferably a book that dovetails a bit with any number of themes I’ve tried to have with this blog, or suggesting that I should try to have with this blog. Preferably not a tome. Preferably not a dissertation or pure polemic. (Semi – polemical is okay.) Fiction or non-fiction.
I’ll see if this request gets me anywhere.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Arabia by Jonathan Raban ~ Raban’s first travel book (if Soft City isn’t a travel book), a five month trip around the Arab world in the ’70s. There’s no in-print US edition, but it’s not terribly hard to find used (2 copies listed on the Powells website).
The Clear Cut Future ~ A broad selection of stories and essays from Oregon’s Clear Cut Press. One of the stand-outs is a memoir of a low-level Enron executive.
Nervous People and Other Satires by Mikhail Zoshchenko ~ Short stories and satirical profiles of Soviet life. Apparently one of Chris’s favorites.
I’ll also mention something odd that I haven’t read that I just picked up for Using Books inventory:
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic ~ It’s a Marxist critique of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics.
April 3rd, 2006 at 7:10 am
I have indeed read “How to Read Donald Duck”.
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:35 pm
I have a vague recollection that I may have recommended one or more of those books to you at some point in the past.