Alright, I was asked to do the book-bucket challenge by my friend and co-worker, M. Etienne Coutu. So here you have my 10 books (in no particular order): The Bible (Im an atheist, but Jesus is my favourite ethical philosopher and this is the grandest collection of great moral parables) James Joyce - Ulysses (a labyrinth. Brilliant. Hilarious. I had the pleasure of taking a semester-long course on this novel, we saw the tip of the iceberg) Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (Depth, humanity, humility from a roman emperor.) Bertolt Brecht - Life of Galileo (in the defense of truth. Lots of parallels to be drawn with the current state of things in Ottawa and its scientists) Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Ive never looked at urban space the same way since reading this book) McDonough and Braungart - Cradle to Cradle (revolutionary thinking on the way we do things) Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine (An enormous wake-up call on realpolitik. Excellent research work) Rabelais -Gargantua and Pantagruel (True genius; hilarious. If there were no Rabelais, would there be a Monty Python?) John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath (Tom Joad is a great literary hero. The poetry of desperate travel and dusty Oklahoma, just lovely) Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (rebellious love an optimism. feel-good poetry) Avec ceci, je mets au défi mon collègue, Sylvain Ouellet, qui pour nous, le caucus de Projet Montréal, est lune des plus importantes sources dinformation!
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:39:36 +0000