Comments on: Four Formerly Essential Books http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/ The Somewhat Amusing Blog of Ian Stewart Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ian Stewart http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-699 Ian Stewart Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:46:13 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-699 Wait, so the rest didn't hold up? ;) Wait, so the rest didn’t hold up? ;)

]]> By: Clemens http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-698 Clemens Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:21:20 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-698 Well. Grapes of Wrath is still a pretty good book. Well. Grapes of Wrath is still a pretty good book.

]]> By: Ian Stewart http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-697 Ian Stewart Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:26:30 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-697 Brad, that's the series I grew up reading. I'll have to re-read some <cite>Doc Savage</cite> one of these days. Either that or get an office in the Empire State Building with a Gyro-copter pad. Ted, <cite>The Waste Land</cite> is one of those poems that gets a lot of love and attention from teenage earnestness, isn't it? But like you say about Ulysses, even if all you get is the gloss, what gloss! S.O.S., I was all over Dylan when I was a teenager, so that's kind of second-hand Beat. In fact, it's often like photo-copied beat (+ photo-copied T.S. Elliot, cf. <cite>Desolation Row</cite>) Elliot and Kelli: See it's not so bad to fling a Bible at your Belle or Beau. :) Brad, that’s the series I grew up reading. I’ll have to re-read some Doc Savage one of these days. Either that or get an office in the Empire State Building with a Gyro-copter pad.

Ted, The Waste Land is one of those poems that gets a lot of love and attention from teenage earnestness, isn’t it? But like you say about Ulysses, even if all you get is the gloss, what gloss!

S.O.S., I was all over Dylan when I was a teenager, so that’s kind of second-hand Beat. In fact, it’s often like photo-copied beat (+ photo-copied T.S. Elliot, cf. Desolation Row)

Elliot and Kelli: See it’s not so bad to fling a Bible at your Belle or Beau. :)

]]> By: Kelli Stewart http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-696 Kelli Stewart Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:30:35 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-696 Hey Elliot, The Bible was the book I gave Ian. Hey Elliot,
The Bible was the book I gave Ian.

]]> By: S.O.S http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-695 S.O.S Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:12:09 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-695 I was all over Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation from 16 years on. I was all over Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation from 16 years on.

]]> By: Elliot http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-694 Elliot Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:08:12 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-694 It's interesting to realize the difference between books that we *think* of as essential, and those that formed us subconsciously. Like, in my case, the Bible. I wouldn't necessarily include it in a list of books to give to my girlfriend. But it's shaped me. It’s interesting to realize the difference between books that we *think* of as essential, and those that formed us subconsciously. Like, in my case, the Bible. I wouldn’t necessarily include it in a list of books to give to my girlfriend. But it’s shaped me.

]]> By: ted http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-693 ted Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:40:32 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-693 My suggestion to a lady would have been <i>The Waste Land</i>, which may seem less embarrassing, but I think actually more so, considering the elements of its content that I did not fully comprehend at the time (cf. sterility). My suggestion to a lady would have been The Waste Land, which may seem less embarrassing, but I think actually more so, considering the elements of its content that I did not fully comprehend at the time (cf. sterility).

]]> By: Brad K. http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-692 Brad K. Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:01:20 +0000 http://upperfortstewart.com/2007/08/09/four-formerly-essential-books/#comment-692 About age 17 I was reading 'Doc Savage', Bantam was republishing the pulp magazine stories as a series of paperbacks. T. Lobsang Rampa's Tibetan monastery books, 'The Saffron Robe, The Third Eye come to mind. In addition to Have Spacesuit Will Travel, perhaps The Door Into Summer. Great Heinlein. At least until Stranger in a Strange Land. From then on the became 'strange', not sf. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was great. I remember reading one of the 007 books. Bond wasn't a book to make much of an impression. About age 17 I was reading ‘Doc Savage’, Bantam was republishing the pulp magazine stories as a series of paperbacks.

T. Lobsang Rampa’s Tibetan monastery books, ‘The Saffron Robe, The Third Eye come to mind.

In addition to Have Spacesuit Will Travel, perhaps The Door Into Summer. Great Heinlein. At least until Stranger in a Strange Land. From then on the became ‘strange’, not sf. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was great.

I remember reading one of the 007 books. Bond wasn’t a book to make much of an impression.

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