Without a computer at post, the ones at the cyber cafe dont count, I have a lot of time to read. Other volunteers who have computers find that they watch more movies, in comparison to the zero I watch in my house. Reading has become an addiction for me. I liked to read before I came here and now Im a full fledged addict. I really feel bad for those people who dont like reading, you really dont know what youre missing. Anyway here are the lists Ive complied. Every book I read I give it a star rating, 5 stars is really good, 1 star how did this book get published? Here we go!
Best Books, from best of the best down, 5 star rating
1 Travels With Charley, everyone should read this book
2 Desert Solitaire
3 East of Eden
4 Water for Elephants
5 A Walk in the Woods
6 The Long Walk
7 A Sand County Almanack
8 The Monkeywrench Gang
9 Into Thin Air
10 The Kite Runner
11 Treasure Island
12 The Da Vinci Code
13 Twilight/ New Moon/ Eclipse
Worst Books, in order of badness one or two star rating
1 An obvious Enchantment, the book is worse than the title
2 The Sheltering Sky
3 Running with the Family
4 The Perks of Being a Wall Flower
5 Gullivers Travels
Ok books in no particular order, 3 star rating
Angelas Ashes
Saving Fish from Drowning
Jaibird
Wicked
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Village of Waiting
Heyday
Slapstick
The News From Paraguay
Dark Star Safari
Lake Wobegon Days
Required Reading for anyone who calls themself an Environmentalist
1 Desert Solitaire
2 A Sand County Almanack
3 The Monkeywrench Gang, what the environmental movement should be
4 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, The ocean is nature too
Required Reading for anyone who calls themself an American
1 Travels with Charley, read this book before you die
2 A Walk in the Woods
3 The Kite Runner, To better understand what its like to be from a different culture and move to the states
Required Reading for anyone who calls themself an Adventurer
1 The Long Walk
2 Into Thin Air
3 Moby Dick
4 Treasure Island
5 Travels With Charley, Get the hint read this book
5 Dark Star Safari
The book that took the most time to read
The Fountainhead, 20 Days
Average Amount of time it takes me to get through a book
3 Days
Current Book
The Grapes of Wrath
There you have it the book review, you will get the next one after the next 50 books are read.
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4 comments:
I certainly don't read enough and perhaps your reviews will inspire me. I do like Steinbeck but I've never read "Travels with Charley". It looks like that will have to change. I must say that I do like Vonnegut more than you do.....maybe my generation!! I smiled when I saw "Treasure island" on your "best" list and "Gulliver's Travels" on your "worst" list. I used to read my kids books every night before they went to bed and found that some of the "classics" (like "Treasure Island") were GREAT and some were really bad (like "Gullivers Travels" which we all agreed to quit about 50 pages into it).
Good for you and the reading. You continue to get smarter and smarter!!
Stay healthy, Mark Loehrke (Carly's dad)
Im impressed! Thats quite the reading list! Do you have the last twilight book? I can send it back to VT with my mom and you can get it in July. Have you read any of Dan Brown's other books? Let me know if you want me to send you any books, I have three 6' bookshelves full of books - not all reading books, but a good deal of them are! I have a couple of books that are excellent if you enjoy historical fiction.
Please write something after you read Grapes of Wrath so I know you haven't slipped into the depths of depression. It is a great book, but watch out. Have something happy planned ahead!
PS I have read Travels with Charlie, I think our book group actually read it, too, but I missed that night, and it was long ago. It is a good one.
I am about 50/50 on having read the rest of them, and have read only Gulliver's Travels on your bad list. I must say it was a bit of a struggle, kind of dated, which I don't particularly mind, but it was kind of like listening to someone else's dream that you are not in. Boring.
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