*** 100 Books Every Monkey Should Read

Unintended Consequences
Should be required reading in high school.
I have to admit I am surprised that I have read the majority of the books on the OP list.

 

Likewise. I lost quite a few of my owned copies to a flooded basement back around 93. The worst part is that reading them was long ago, and some of the messages have been lost to consciousness.

 

Day of Infamy
Where They Have Trod
Lights Out
A Brief History of Time
War and Peace (if you can stand it.)
Mein Kampf

Any and all of Jules Verne, just for the fun of it, there are no messages.

I read Les Miserables in French too damn long ago. Misery to the Nth power, then discussed it in class. Not gonna do a rerun on that in any language.

 

Well certainly 'Unintended Consequences' should be on the list. 'Plato's Republic' should not...what a load of tripe. Recently had to go through the damn book again with my niece for one of her university courses and it was even worse now that I am grown! I would pass on the 'Malcolm X autobiography' but that is just me. Read most that is on there...didn't read 'Lives' by Plutarch probably because name sounds too close to Plato! I think I can live without 'After Virtue' by Alasdair MacIntyre also...if I don't know what morality is now then doubtful I ever will...even more doubtful if I care. Ohhhh...'Gates of Fire' by Stephen Pressfield' - what a great story and Pressfield tells it the best! (Note to self: Read again. Soon!) But, where is Kipling? And, where is 'The Razor's Edge' by W. Somerset Maugham? Damn big nose Professors obviously skewed the list again. BAH!

 

OMG! @Merkun Are you one of the few living souls that manage to finish not only 'War and Peace' but 'Mein Kampf'?!?!?!
Sir, you indeed have my respect for I have tried no less than 3X for each (more like 5X for W&P) without success. I honestly couldn't get through either of them...

 

Heh. I utterly choked on "How to win friends and influence people."

 

Frankly, there should be at least 200 titles in the 100 Books Every Man Should Read.

 

LOL The book/play/movie is one of Sass's favorites. I refer to it as "Les is Miserable"

I'm a big fan of Hemingway so pretty much any of his stuff. Whether you like the guy or not the "Killing" series by Bill O' Reilly and Martin Dugard is excellent. I have read all of them and have learned something from each book. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Auther Conan Doyle is perhaps the best of the Holmes series and all of these are good reads. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes are excellent as well. The Law by Frederic Bastiat, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde are some others

 

I have not read many of those books. I have read the authors but not the books listed. Good list for the book club, IMO.

As for the comments above, Unintended Consequences was a good book. I read it, I own it but it was not one that I would read a few times. It did not hold that huge of an impact. Good history and a nice tale but I prefer M. Bracken's books.

 

I can't speak for others but my reason for 'Unintended Consequences' was not its literary value but its historic value of 'untold' history of our government which is not taught and seldom documented. In many regards, like much of the Civil War, especially leading up to and the early days. As an amateur historian, who would have gladly been a history professor but didn't want to starve, for me its impact was absolutely tremendous, to put it mildly. As far as the story line, I concur but it chronological, in-depth facts makes it necessary reading to open the eyes, especially of the young who tend to want to believe, even need to do so. Anyway, that's my reasoning for not all books are of value due to their prose but their content also...

 

I don't know, I always figured you as more of a beasty

 

My goodness @Brokor !!! And, here we thought you were nothing but another pretty face! LOL!

 

As long as Tolkien is on the list, so should also be Grimm's Fairy Tales.

 

I think I could guess some ages by how old these book choices are. HAHA.

 

HAHA. That's because the younger ones can't read. Or maybe it's because there are no recent authors of note other than JKRowling.