Books Circa 1950 or Before

Post by **Speaker to Animals** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:17 pm

GloryofGreece wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:12 pm
Speaker to Animals wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:14 pm
GloryofGreece wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:18 pm

The author seems like a real interesting dude. Do you like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth ... f_Cerberus
I have not read that.
Its making me want to read/listen to it on audible eve more when I see remarks about how racist and sexist it is or the author was! haha. I've never read it though. Tarzan that is. Seems like a story right up my alley.

His stories are usually about masculinity. If you want to see how awesome they are, read any feminist review of his novels, especially Princess of Mars.

Post by **GloryofGreece** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:13 pm

Speaker to Animals wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:17 pm
GloryofGreece wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:12 pm
Speaker to Animals wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:14 pm

I have not read that.
Its making me want to read/listen to it on audible eve more when I see remarks about how racist and sexist it is or the author was! haha. I've never read it though. Tarzan that is. Seems like a story right up my alley.
His stories are usually about masculinity. If you want to see how awesome they are, read any feminist review of his novels, especially Princess of Mars.

I like the idea of rejecting civilization and going back to being " wild".

Post by **Speaker to Animals** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:18 pm

GloryofGreece wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:13 pm
Speaker to Animals wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:17 pm
GloryofGreece wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:12 pm

Its making me want to read/listen to it on audible eve more when I see remarks about how racist and sexist it is or the author was! haha. I've never read it though. Tarzan that is. Seems like a story right up my alley.
His stories are usually about masculinity. If you want to see how awesome they are, read any feminist review of his novels, especially Princess of Mars.
I like the idea of rejecting civilization and going back to being " wild".

Check out The Way of Men.

Post by **GloryofGreece** » Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:38 am

Speaker to Animals wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:18 pm
GloryofGreece wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:13 pm
Speaker to Animals wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:17 pm

His stories are usually about masculinity. If you want to see how awesome they are, read any feminist review of his novels, especially Princess of Mars.
I like the idea of rejecting civilization and going back to being " wild".
Check out The Way of Men.

Is Burroughs a superior writer to Robert E Howard?

Post by **Ex-California** » Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:33 am

The complete works of Bernard de Voto

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L. Morgan

Alas, Babylon

Will Durant books

Mark Twain books

Gibbon's Fall

Alexis de Tocqueville

Herbert Asbury

Other random books about American West history that I can't remember off the top of my head right now

Post by **GloryofGreece** » Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:52 am

California wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:33 am The complete works of Bernard de Voto

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L. Morgan

Alas, Babylon

Will Durant books

Mark Twain books

Gibbon's Fall

Alexis de Tocqueville

Herbert Asbury

Other random books about American West history that I can't remember off the top of my head right now

Tarzan series is surprisingly good storytelling.

Mark Twain's " autobiographies" just volumes and volumes of his diatribes and dictations are sometimes hilarious always entertaining.

Post by **C-Mag** » Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:08 am

California wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:33 am The complete works of Bernard de Voto

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L. Morgan

Alas, Babylon

Will Durant books

Mark Twain books

Gibbon's Fall

Alexis de Tocqueville

Herbert Asbury

Other random books about American West history that I can't remember off the top of my head right now

That's a lot of serious reading. I'm impressed.

Post by **DrYouth** » Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:09 pm

Here's my list.

Dostoyevsky - Anna Karanina, the Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Dickens - Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist,
Pearl Buck - The Good Earth
Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden
James Joyce - Dubliners
Hemmingway - For whom the bell tolls
Melville - Moby DIck
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Mary Shelly - Frankenstein
HGWells - War of the Worlds

Post by **TheReal_ND** » Tue Apr 30, 2019 3:59 pm

DrYouth wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:09 pm Here's my list.

Dostoyevsky - Anna Karanina, the Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Dickens - Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist,
Pearl Buck - The Good Earth
Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden
James Joyce - Dubliners
Hemmingway - For whom the bell tolls
Melville - Moby DIck
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Mary Shelly - Frankenstein
HGWells - War of the Worlds

I appreciate your Dostoevsky and Steinbeck list. I too have read those. I recommend cannery row and the idiot fwiw. Not as good as the ones you listed but still good if you like those authors.

Post by **GloryofGreece** » Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:34 pm

Good stuff

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/06797337 ... asin_image

And
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/08050266 ... 0DER&psc=1

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