100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library

Celinio · Eligible to vote! Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 15 Gender:

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential -mans-library/

I thought that you too would like to take a peek at this link. I think it's a great list, don't you ?

Chris OConnor · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

Yes, that is a pretty nice site. Thanks for sharing it. I am going to move this thread out of the BookTalk Announcements forum and into the Fiction Book Suggestions & Polls forum. It definitely is not an announcement about BookTalk so it doesn't belong in the Announcement forum, but I am not sure if that 100-book list includes non-fiction books. For now I will put it in the Fiction section.

Biomachine · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:28 am Post subject:

There's a few books on that list I have yet to read. The Master and Margarita seems like an interesting book. I'll have to check it out when I'm not so swamped with other books to read.

President Camacho · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:15 am Post subject:

Master and Margarita was a good book. In the beginning the devil and his small crew run a muck in Russia and that's really fun to read about. The middle of the book towards the end really slows down, though, with the introduction of the master. Man, it slooooows! Then it picks up right at the end with some crazy crazy craziness. So crazy that you wonder if the author just wants to wrap things up in a hurry.

The book is worth reading for the first half of the book alone. The flash backs that witness Jesus are made exciting by the fact that the devil was a part of it all. The devil and the cat make the book.

I'm sure there is some message that I should have taken away from the book. Something like temptation and damnation or something. I have a hard time getting things like that out of fiction books.

ralphinlaos · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Celinio.

I think it's an excellent list with not a lot of surprises (well, four books on Teddy Roosevelt did surprise me a little). Still, I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a list half as comprehensive; well-balanced between American and non-American authors and between fiction and non-fiction.

Something for everyone!

Ralph


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