Sadly I have only read 1 on this list....Mark Twains Innocents abroad. I did see the movie In Cold Blood though!! But I guess that doesn't count. 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books Interesting that there is no category for Religion and the Bible is not amongst the 100 greatest books. edit: there is a category for Religion...my bad. But no Bible.
:idea: I've read 19 of the 100; parts of around 20 others and a couple of them I've never heard of...that was an English list after all. I can't give myself too much credit for reading many of them, because they were assigned to me in college. Without being directly threatened by my professors, I never would have read the following on my own: The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan The Female Eunuch- Germaine Greer On Origins of Species- Charles Darwin Some of these books were part of my studies as a Poli Sci/History major: Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank The Art of War- Sun Tzu On Liberty- John Stuart Mill Silent Spring- Rachel Carson Walden- HD Thoreau There were related books on the list that I read on my own, which weren't assigned to me, but I recommend them: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee- Dee Brown Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass- Frederick Douglass Souls of Black Folk- WEB DuBois The Medium is the Massage- Marshall McLuhan The Gulag Archipelago- Aleksander Solzhenitsyn A Brieg History of Time- Stephen Hawking Must read book for Terry: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test- Tom Wolfe This was one of the most entertaining books that I've ever read. It's the story of writer Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and his Merry Pranksters riding around in the "Magic Bus" that The Who later sang about. Kesey had been a student at Stanford who volunteered to participate in a scientific experiment using a new drug called LSD. It was all legal and his writing was making a lot of money...and then they met the Hell's Angels...and they toured with Gerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead...and then... http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/kesey.html Other Must Reads for Skyboxers: In Cold Blood- Truman Capote Innocents Abroad- Mark Twain
I wondered how many you would have read, but I never would have guessed 19 !!! Forced or not that's pretty stout!
:idea: I've always been a reader. It was the way I grew up. I had no direction at home when I was a boy, but luckily for me, my grandmother's house on the corner was very old and filled with books and magazines going back to the turn of the (19th-20th) century. My lay-about, drunken uncles were there too and they were always willing to engage me in arguments to prove how ignorant I was...