Comments on: How Much Do You Read? What’s the Best Book You’ve Ever Read? https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/ Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Elephant's Child https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24295 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:28:39 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24295 This is fun. I knew you were all readers, but you like books I haven’t heard of and will have to look up. I’m making a list!

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By: Mike Schirman (@hey_sherm) https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24294 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:10:40 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24294 Empire of the Summer Moon / S C Gwynne best book this year!

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By: Infidel (@AZlibrarian) https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24289 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:54:57 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24289 Also loved Anthony Burgess’s bks “Earthly Powers” & “End of the World News.” He was very sarcastic & very smart.

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By: Infidel (@AZlibrarian) https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24288 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:51:17 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24288 Just finished “Robogenesis” by Daniel Wilson about the coming robot war. That was fun. Now I’m reading “The Zhivago Affair” about the international kerfuffle over “Dr. Zhivago.”

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By: The Elephant's Child https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24282 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:38:05 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24282 I’m just finishing Dexter Filkins “The Forever War” which is excellent. I never seem to read anything when it first comes out. You would probably enjoy Alvin Kernan’s autobiographical “Crossing the Line” Raised in the mountains of Wyoming, he naturally went to sea when he got out of high school. December 8, 1941 found him a seaman on the USS Enterprise. At Midway he was on the Hornet, and subsequently managed to be in the middle of practically everything in the Pacific. After the war, GI Bill and he eventually became a distinguished professor at Yale and Princeton, How that came about is in his second book “In Plato’s Cave” where he found himself in the middle of the battles of the transformation of higher education. Also “The Unknown Battle of Midway” which I haven’t read.

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By: Lon Mead https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24279 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:39:58 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24279 I’m a rather voracious reader… I’ll read anything recommended to me by someone I trust (I’ve hit a couple titles you’ve suggested!). Histories are my biggest thing; I’ve just had occasion to re-read a biography of Huey Long, and I’m just finishing a “The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty”, by Wilfred Sheed. It’s about the songwriters and musicians from the Golden Age (the early 1900’s to the late 40’s).

For escapism, I read (and re-read) Tolkien, Bradbury, Asimov… David Eddings has a couple of good series that I like to read. I LOVE Agatha Christie (partial to Poirot), and Sherlock Holmes and anything related to the canon.

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By: Michael Wilson https://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/how-much-do-you-read-whats-the-best-book-youve-ever-read/#comment-24277 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:09:18 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39692#comment-24277 Manalive by G.K.Chesterton is my favorite thing ever produced by a human. I can’t hold it up as “the best” work of literature by wordsmith in standards (which is not to say Chesterton was not a staggeringly excellent writer. he was.)

But I’m definitely in the 2nd camp. people give me things to read all the time and I find that from strangers to best friends of nearly 30 years, nobody seems to have a decent bead on what I’m going to enjoy or take hold of. so I just ignore them, unless it’s a really attractive girl who physically puts a book in my hands.

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