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June 25, 2006
The Fountainhead
is the book to carry with you if you want to identify with Bostonians. Since beginning the book on Wednesday (at the Red Sox game), I have had strangers of all shapes and sizes commenting on my reading choice. One man shouted at me from across the stands at the RS game, and another, not much older than I, confessed to me on the T that he had personally read it 30 times. And so continues my treck across foundational literature.
On this last Red Sox Wednesday (and the longest day of the year), I also bought:
- Cry, The Beloved Country
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- East of Eden
- The Chosen
What an outstanding summer lies before me.
p.s. does anyone else get that strange feeling in the back of your throat when you eat pancakes? As much as I enjoy pancakes initially, that unnerving sensation lingers, bringing with it feelings of guilt and nervousness about - something - I'm not sure what.
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And I really can't figure why Ayn Rand is so hot right now. Sure she developed her own philosophy and all that, but her protagonists are so-incredibly-right and her villians all so-incredibly-wrong, the strawmen caricatures of rival worldviews.
Paton and Steinbeck, however, I can heartily commend. Can I come over and read your books? :)
Posted by: funke at June 25, 2006 01:04 AM
Oh...and if you really get into "Cry, the Beloved Country," you should try "Too Late the Phalarope." The writing style is just....music.
Posted by: your friendly neighbourhood book recommender at June 25, 2006 01:06 AM
TLtP is one of the best expressions of Christianity in fiction I've ever read - it and Gilead came to me in 20th Century Christian Fiction (with Dr. Hesselink) like a revelation.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at June 26, 2006 08:42 PM