Steve Avery tries to read about 900 pages per month,and as you can see, his literary taste does not fall into any particular genre He notices the substance of the writing and can quote Charisma is when a person can convince others around him that he is as good as he thinks he is! Whereas I would know more about the author or the context, because of my anthropological training. But he has read much more than me.
I may know that Alberto Menguel who wrote the book History of Reading, is jewish, was born in Buenos aires and had once read to Jorge Luis Borges. Of course, i would know who is jewish. Steve posed the question It makes you wonder when 2000 million Christians and 1500 million Moslems have something against 14 million jews..
We had a nice discussion about curiosity and intelligence and Judaism is an evolving faith rather than taking the Bible in its literal terms. We have the running commentary. BOOKS Books read in 2009 1.
Giordano Bruno – Philosopher, Heretic. The Condition, Jennifer Haigh 3. Light Action in the Caribbean, Barry Lopez 4.
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent, Lionel Trilling 5. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf 6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Restless Genius, Leo Damrosch 7.
Hat Trick, Lisa Kusel 8. The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein 9. The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr 10.
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter 11. The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay 12. The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, Andre Comte-Sponville 13.
Gallatin Canyon, Thomas McGuane 14. Wisdom from the Robber Barons 15. The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels 16.
Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker 17. Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik 18. The Earth Hums in B Flat, Mari Strachan 19.
The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus 20. A Biography of Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser 21. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 22.
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes 23. The Passion According to G. H., Clarice Lispector 24.
American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips 25. The End of the Story, Lydia Davis 26. The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt 27.
The Limits of Power, Andrew J. Circling the Drain, Amanda Davis 29. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Lawrence G.
The Book of Fathers, Miklos Vamos 31. A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau Books read in 2010 1. The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk 2.
Last Words, George Carlin 3. Continental Drift, Russell Banks 4.
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