Accepting a tag from Nicole File, here is a non-all-inclusive list of 10 Books that Changed my life: 1: Technical Foul, co-written as an Eighth Grade project with Rich Wallace, who has succeeded in writing books for a living. So I guess it changed his life, too. 2. The Old Man and the Sea, as my Hemingway representative, and because its short. 3. Walden. I forget who wrote it. 4. The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan , who fancied himself as Lewis and Clark discovering toxic waste but not Jimmy Hoffas gravesite. 5. The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth. Should have been made into a movie. 6. From the Back of the Bus by Dick Gregory. In which, in my sheltered New Jersey suburb, I realized that there were black people. 7. Strike from Space by Phyllis Schlafly, sci-fi in which the Commies team up with the Martians to destroy All That Is Good. I knew this woman was batsh*t crazy long before the rest of you did. 8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. In which, in my sheltered New Jersey suburb, I realized that there were greedy a-holes. 9. M*A*S*H by Joseph Hooker, which is better than the movie, which is better than the TV show, which is still pretty good for a TV show. Taught me the proper way to rebel. 10: My not-yet-written CNN memoir, whose title is taken from the three most overused clichés in TV newswriting: He Was a Quiet Man, but He Sounded Like a Freight Train, and He Tasted Like Chicken. Number Three also wrote a delightful book called Cape Cod. Wish I could remember his name, but he was kind of a quiet man.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:00:34 +0000
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