I just found the book list. Here it is:
- A Farewell to Arms, E. Hemingway
- To Have and Have Not, E. Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls, which he probably would have approved as a substitution)
- The Old Man and the Sea, E. Hemingway
- Tom Sawyer, M. Twain
- Test Pilot, J. Collins
- All Quiet on the Western Front, E.M. Remarque
- Any 1 (only) by Edna Ferber
- Any 2 (both count) by J. Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden)
- The Virginian, Owen Wister
- Any 2 of (both count) Ernest K. Gann (e.g. The Aviator, The High & the Mighty)
- The Caine Mutiny, H. Wouk
- 4 short stories, R. Lardner
- 4 short stories, E. Poe (Tell-tale Heart, Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher; Poems: Lenore, Annabelle Lee, The Raven)
- 4 short stories or 1 novel, N. Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter)
- 4 short stories, D. Runyon (Blue Plate Special, Money From Home)
- Seventeen, B. Tarkington
- The Three Muskateers, A. Dumas
- 1 (only), Z. Grey
- 1 (only), M. Albrand [? Can't read this or figure out who this is]
- Up to 3, J. London (Call of the Wild, White Fang)
- 1 (only), L. Short
- 1 (only) J. Marquand
- We, C. Lindbergh
- Treasure Island, R. L. Stevenson
- The Prince & the Pauper, M. Twain
Update: I added blue bolding for things I know I read eventually. Musing: Jack London was a socialist. I wonder if schools still assign his novels.
Update 10/28/14: I did read The Three Muskateers a couple years ago and liked it alot.
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I would have to argue the "cool" moniker.
Oh, the irony. Michael would have preferred to read this list.
Michael: you can read all these books in under 6 months.
I'm going to give it a shot. Going to go chronologically although there is an argument for reading them in the order he wrote them down. Depending on availability I'm thinking: Hawthorne, Three Musketeers, Poe, Tom Sawyer and Prince and Pauper, and Treasure Island to start.
There is just absolutely no way you went through school without having to read The Scarlet Letter. What on earth did you read in lit classes in jr high/high school?
As I told you offline, I have no memory of reading anything on the list. Since then I have recalled being fascinated with the Gold Bug in your Grandfather's collection of Poe and other short stories (small brown books, did you get those?), but I can't tell you anything about it. As far as school goes, I seem to remember we just screwed around a lot (HISD, ask LJ), particularly later in AP classes.
Nope, I didn't get the little books. As I recall, there were a couple different sets. Maybe Mom got some.
I'll set up some sort of thing to keep track of what you and I have read on the list. I'm not particularly inclined to read more, though. Have read and am reading and w ill be pitching Hemingway short stories for book club, though. His short stories are better than his novels, IMHO and in the opinion of a son of his.
Someone got those books. D doesn't have them. I'm sure I would have put dibs on them had they been available. I did get several technical tomes...
Poe stories would be great for reading out loud to B.
The only thing appropriate for reading to B these days is THE RIOT ACT.
All the more reason for some father/son reading time.
Did anyone figure out who Albrand is/was? Martha Albrand?
Scooter!!!!!!!!!!! You probably don't want any fanfare, but I couldn't contain it.
Yes, we think probably Martha Albrand.
Forwarding you an email Mike sent with Publishers Weekly best sellers from the 1920s.,,
Thanks, Steph. I'd'a bet money Dorothy Sayers was on that 20s list and I woulda lost. Guess she didn't sell that well here or that she was a decade later.
There's a new movie in the works for The Three Musketeers, starring Olando Bloom. I think filming is just about to begin.
Musketeers is the only one on the list that I haven't already read that I am inclined to read.
How about this? We each make a list -- for B and his cousin D to consider and enjoy/ignore.
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