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I really like this top 100 must read list (warning - manly)

post #1 of 40
11/18/09 at 11:38pm
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http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14...-mans-library/

A lot can be added but I really like the selection. What do you guys think?
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post #2 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:01am
5 of the 7 from my current list are included...not bad
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post #3 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:06am
I've only read 15 of them. Although some of the choices are a little debatable, and the Iliad and the Odyssey definitely could have been separated and kicked Ayn Rand off.
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post #4 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:19am
I can't read or write.
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post #5 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:24am
There are good books in that list. I've read many of them, and will go back to reread Dostoevsky again.
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post #6 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:27am
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I'm currently having the pleasure in reading them in russian. fun fun fun
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post #7 of 40
11/19/09 at 1:10am
Decent list. Could say a lot of those are 'cliche' or whatever, but I can't necessarily disagree. There are many books that could be considered more manly, just not as mainstream.
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post #8 of 40
11/19/09 at 1:38am
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I've only read 15 of them. Although some of the choices are a little debatable, and the Iliad and the Odyssey definitely could have been separated and kicked Ayn Rand off.

blasphemy, atlas shrugged definitely belongs up there, maybe even the fountainhead
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post #9 of 40
11/19/09 at 1:50am
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blasphemy, atlas shrugged definitely belongs up there, maybe even the fountainhead

I could never get into any of her books.
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post #10 of 40
11/19/09 at 1:53am
posting to read list later.
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post #11 of 40
11/19/09 at 3:06am
Abhorrent 'philosophy' aside, Rand wrote shitty potboilers with creepy rape scenes. There's no more value to them as fiction than the lastest cat murder mystery A IS FOR ALIBI bullshit.
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post #12 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:25pm
If one is searching for a good TR bio, read Theodore Roosevelt: A Life, by Nathan Miller.
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post #13 of 40
11/19/09 at 12:26pm
Re: list

Hooray for Karamazov!
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post #14 of 40
11/19/09 at 4:07pm
I'm currently adding a few of them to my Amazon shopping list. I've only looked at the first two pages and I've read 7.
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post #15 of 40
11/20/09 at 1:42am
Rather conservative list, no? Just about every book one would expect to see on this list appears here, making it fairly common sense.

Also, very Amerocentric, but most things on the blogosphere are.
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