In Reply to: Books that change our lives. posted by edta on June 13, 2004 at 05:25:42:
1) Johnny Got His Gun/Dalton Trumbo
2) The Power and the Glory/Graham Greene
3) Bread and Wine/Ignazio Silone
4) In Dubious Battle/John Steinbeck
5) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men/James Agee
6) Hear Me Talkin' to Ya/Nat Hentoff & Marshall Stearns
7) On Native Grounds/Alfred Kazin
8) Moby Dick/Herman Melville
9) Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man/James Joyce
10) The Thin Red Line/James Jones
11) To The Finland Station/Edmund WilsonBe forewarned: These books generally-but not all-have a decidedly political bent, so if you are a big supporter of the current administration in Washington or have spent the past week in deep mourning for Ronald Reagan, you probably won't enjoy them. But you will miss some great literature.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Books that change our lives. - suretyguy 19:22:23 06/13/04 (1)
- If you've been "outside" you'll know where I'm coming from. - edta 19:06:37 06/16/04 (0)