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LC Five Star Member


Number of posts : 5044 Registration date : 2009-03-28
 | Subject: Classics For The Rest of Us Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:04 pm | |
| I haven't read most of the books the on the BBC's Haute Couture of Reading list that Phil posted. I have my own "classics," books that entertained me far more than Jane Austin ever could. I admit to the following as some of my all-time faves:
Private Parts by Howard Stern The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander Sheila Levine is Dead and Living In New York by Gail Parent Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Shoot Low Boys, They're Riding Shetland Ponies by Lewis Grizzard What books do you admit to liking better than Jane Austin? |
|  | | E. Don Harpe Five Star Member


Number of posts : 1979 Registration date : 2008-01-17 Age : 79 Location : Florida
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:34 pm | |
| I Hope You're Living As High On The Hog, As The Pig you Turned Out To Be. Whisperin' Bill Anderson |
|  | | Betty Fasig Five Star Member


Number of posts : 4334 Registration date : 2008-06-12 Age : 78 Location : Duette, Florida
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:39 pm | |
| Dear LC, I have to admit that I am a sap for some of the old classics. There they were in my childhood, telling stories of places and people I would never meet who had not one thing in common with my life. Today, people watch movies and the graphics take them away into an imaginary place that they actually can see. An open eyed dream. A lot of books have been written since Jane Austin. Love, Betty |
|  | | Malcolm Five Star Member


Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:43 pm | |
| It's been a long time since I've met a person who has read "The Happy Hooker." Quite a sensation when it first came out.
Malcolm |
|  | | alj Five Star Member


Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 77 Location : San Antonio
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:17 pm | |
| Cold Mountain, Cjharles Frazier The Falling Torch, Algis Budrys Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman Falls the Shadow, Sharon Kay Penman The Reckoning, Sharon Kay Penman (aka The Welsh Trilogy) The Virginian, Owen Wister Shogun, James Clavell Taipan, James Clavell Noble House, James Clavell The other four books of the Hitchhiker trilogy besides Hitchhiker's Guide..., Douglas Adams
Give me more time and I could add many more...
Ann |
|  | | Phil Whitley Four Star Member


Number of posts : 907 Registration date : 2008-04-01 Age : 78 Location : Riverdale, GA
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:24 pm | |
| I like the ones listed here much more than the BBC's offering. Gotta agree with Lewis Grizzard, LC. I think I read all of his. He was born and raised very near my old hometown. He and the radio talk show host, Ludlow Porch are kinfolk - cousins or step-brothers... I can't remember which.
I Love You, Cathy Sue Laudermilk was one of my favorites. |
|  | | LC Five Star Member


Number of posts : 5044 Registration date : 2009-03-28
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:12 am | |
| - Malcolm wrote:
- It's been a long time since I've met a person who admitted to reading "The Happy Hooker."
Fixed your post.  |
|  | | Dick Stodghill Five Star Member


Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 95 Location : Akron, Ohio
 | Subject: Re: Classics For The Rest of Us Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:32 am | |
| Anything by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and a few of their contemporaries. Specifically Hammett's The Glass Key, The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon and Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce. I agree with Ann about The Virginian.
In BBC territory I'd pick anything by P.D. James, Bill James and Conan Doyle. OK, The Happy Hooker should be on everbody's list but I missed out on Private Parts. |
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