OT: Summer Reading

[GregMitch34]

Dickens' "Hard Times"

Barney Hoskyns' "The Band"

naturally I would recommend my own book, "Joy in Mudville."

[Peter_Spaeth]

I'm reading Phil Garry's collection of "100 Greatest T206 Threads."

[Lordstan]

David McCullough: 1776 and John Adams.

[kmac32]

50 Shades of Grey trilogy. LOL

[KenBoyerCollector]

Gibson's Last Stand: The Rise, Fall, and Near Misses of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1969-1975 — it's a good read

[packs]

I've been reading Charles Bukowski's Hollywood. People consider it to be his weakest novel but I'm liking it so far.

Also have been reading John Fante's The Wine of Youth.

If you've never Fante I have to say you're missing out. I consider him to be the greatest American writer of all time. Check out Ask The Dust or Dreams From Bunker Hill.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I have not read Fante, but I cannot believe there is an American writer greater than Faulkner.

[SetBuilder]

AVOID the Al Stump Ty Cobb biography.

The guy forged Ty Cobb's journal with similar handwriting. How creepy is that...

[packs]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I have not read Fante, but I cannot believe there is an American writer greater than Faulkner.

It depends on what you like to read. If you like to have a good time while you're reading and like a laugh on nearly every page, then you'll like Fante. He's got a really unusual style. The prose jumps off the page and has a poetic quality to it even though for the most part he's using popular vocabulary and slang. He's very easy to read and relate to. I consider William Faulkner to be kind of a bore and not at all fun to read. They do share a similarity though. Fante's novels are all about one character, Arturo Bandini. Faulkners all take place in the same imagined town.

Fante also loved baseball. He brings up Nick Altrock in one of the books. I forget which one. Arturo Bandini # 1 to me.

[smotan_02]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

David McCullough: 1776 and John Adams.

Wow....good luck. John Adams is a great book (watch the miniseries after you read it). 1776 is absolutely brutal to get through, but still great in its own way. Considering those books are about the birth of societies, I would also recommend "Guns, Germs, and Steel" as a conclusion tale.

Im reading "A team for America: The Army-Navy Game that Rallied a Nation"....Go Figure.

[atx840]

I've started the fictional T206 Wagner find story, The Marinolli Treasure by Hal Lewis, a nice light read.

[barrysloate]

I'm reading past issues of the TV Guide.

[hoot-owl]

Banzai Babe Ruth by Rob Fitts--about the 1934 tour of Japan by a group of major leaguers.

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President' by Candice Millard--about Garfield's assassination

more to come--but these two are midstream.