80 books every man should read (esquire article)

[oats]

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feat...-books#slide-1


I got 15 as a generous figure, since it includes books I "read" for school (I mostly read them, but filled in the gaps with class discussions and wikipedia at times). Asterisks mark those ones.

dubliners
naked and the dead
*invisible man
*call of the wild
heart of darkness
midnight’s children
huck finn
what we talk about when we talk about love
a good man is hard to find
*the things they carried
grapes of wrath
for whom the bell tolls
*as I lay dying
slaughterhouse 5
lolita

@God Of War READ ALL 80 OF THESE, HAPPY NOW?!

[God Of War]

Originally Posted by oats

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feat...-books#slide-1


I got 15 as a generous figure, since it includes books I "read" for school (I mostly read them, but filled in the gaps with class discussions and wikipedia at times). Asterisks mark those ones.

dubliners
naked and the dead
*invisible man
*call of the wild
heart of darkness
midnight’s children
huck finn
what we talk about when we talk about love
a good man is hard to find
*the things they carried
grapes of wrath
for whom the bell tolls
*as I lay dying
slaughterhouse 5
lolita

@God Of War READ ALL 80 OF THESE, HAPPY NOW?!

lmao YES

[God Of War]

Originally Posted by oats

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feat...-books#slide-1


I got 15 as a generous figure, since it includes books I "read" for school (I mostly read them, but filled in the gaps with class discussions and wikipedia at times). Asterisks mark those ones.

dubliners
naked and the dead
*invisible man
*call of the wild
heart of darkness
midnight’s children
huck finn
what we talk about when we talk about love
a good man is hard to find
*the things they carried
grapes of wrath
for whom the bell tolls
*as I lay dying
slaughterhouse 5
lolita

@God Of War READ ALL 80 OF THESE, HAPPY NOW?!

aye is slaughterhouse 5 really good?

[Tommy Topper]

So that's nothing, I have read all 80 in a week bro.

[uh-oh]

i read some pages of moby dick as a kid. not sure if it was a legit version, i mean i guess it has to be? it was a novel but it had like a cool picture in black and white every chapter sort of.

i tried reading "the road" thought it was terrible tho

so yea basically i read none of these. im surprised the shining was included over the STAND tho

the stand is the only steven king shit i read tho admittedly, i've only seen the jack nicholson shining movie

but the stand is too illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllll

but yea i figured i wouldve read at least 1.

no where the red fern grows????? every man should read it and learn the love between a HICK and his dogs. RIP OLD DAN AND LITTLE ANN

[God Of War]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

i read some pages of moby dick as a kid. not sure if it was a legit version, i mean i guess it has to be? it was a novel but it had like a cool picture in black and white every chapter sort of.

i tried reading "the road" thought it was terrible tho

so yea basically i read none of these. im surprised the shining was included over the STAND tho

the stand is the only steven king shit i read tho admittedly, i've only seen the jack nicholson shining movie

but the stand is too illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllll

but yea i figured i wouldve read at least 1.

no where the red fern grows????? every man should read it and learn the love between a HICK and his dogs. RIP OLD DAN AND LITTLE ANN

old yeller and where the red fern grows is for sure classics

[oats]

Originally Posted by God Of War

aye is slaughterhouse 5 really good?

it's good, really good. other people tend to like it more than I do, but it's definitely a classic.

[Certain]

Oh, it's a slideshow filled mostly with the most obvious choices possible.

Nope.

[oats]

Originally Posted by Certain

Oh, it's a slideshow filled mostly with the most obvious choices possible.

Nope.

half are pretty obvious, a quarter are hipster obvious (hunter thompson et al), and a quarter are underrated. quit hating or make your own list.

[Certain]

I just don't want to click 80 times. I don't have a list because I haven't read nearly enough books.

[oats]

fair enough, I do hate that style of article

[Certain]

OK, assuming this is the same list, I've read The Grapes of Wrath, Blood Meridian, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dubliners, The Call of the Wild, The Professional, Slaughterhouse-Five, Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Lolita. That's 12.

[Dominate]

I fucking hate it when websites make you click to look at each item on a list.

Clicked Certain's link. I have read none of those books except maybe some of Moby Dick when I was too young to grasp it properly. Saw the movie version of some. w/e.

[Strikta]

All Stephen King shit is the real deal.

[Eŋg]

the adventures of huckleberry finn
the dharma bonus
midnight's children
heart of darkness
dubliners
invisible man
the brothers karamazov
the grapes of wrath
what we talk about when we talk about love

nine. surprisingly few? i used Certain's list because i can't afford that many clicks. i have a lot to read, generally, but none of my omissions on that list really bothered me. recommendations?

[Diode]

Originally Posted by God Of War

aye is slaughterhouse 5 really good?

yes, but the sirens of titan is better.

[Diode]

using certain's list:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover) (i hate this book and i hate steinbeck's writing)

[Diode]

i've seen the film version of many more of these, however.

[Diode]

Originally Posted by oats

half are pretty obvious, a quarter are hipster obvious (hunter thompson et al), and a quarter are underrated. quit hating or make your own list.

i would say most hipsters probably haven't read hell's angels. they've probably read fear and loathing in las vegas and possibly the rum diary.

i loved the rum diary as a book. they made too many changes in the film for me to want to see it.

i have an original, full color paperback release of the curse of lono.

<3 <3 <3

[Vulgar]

I ain't read shit on did list cept like two books.