tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post5206183946244431833..comments2023-12-07T05:29:15.607-05:00Comments on Kissing Suzy Kolber: KSK Mock Draft: Books We Like! Featuring Whatshisface from DeadspinBig Daddy Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12272879759155473844noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-65190694109331287542008-04-01T14:06:00.000-04:002008-04-01T14:06:00.000-04:00very good list...I've already bought a few and dec...very good list...I've already bought a few and decided to make it easier for others. contains all the books from the draft as well as 20 or so commenters. left off some of the "classics" and basically did the first 20 commenter selections with some exceptions. amazon is a bitch that is why the comments are either erased or annotated<BR/><BR/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R12HI9NJK0DOX6/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm%5Fbb=Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-58310570667071352262008-03-31T10:18:00.000-04:002008-03-31T10:18:00.000-04:00Forgive me if its already been posted, but I'm too...Forgive me if its already been posted, but I'm too lazy to read 200+ comments to check.<BR/><BR/>Maddox: The Alphabet of Manliness.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186074671025691884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-40307937596508185492008-03-30T20:26:00.000-04:002008-03-30T20:26:00.000-04:00Maj wins.World's End? Fuckin' A right. You pick ...Maj wins.<BR/><BR/><I>World's End</I>? Fuckin' A right. You pick my favorite book, you win.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15398931203483061703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-43955605385351701002008-03-30T18:47:00.000-04:002008-03-30T18:47:00.000-04:00Wow. No Will Self in this crowd. Interesting.Wow. No Will Self in this crowd. Interesting.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09382805574263570177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-60228763402577695292008-03-29T19:06:00.000-04:002008-03-29T19:06:00.000-04:00The Alchemist - Under 200 pages, really quick read...<EM>The Alchemist</EM> - Under 200 pages, really quick read with a good story and it's got this whole "fuck seizing the day, seize your DESTINY" vibes going on.<BR/><BR/><EM>The Sun Also Rises</EM> - If I figure out how to make the mundane bullshit sound compelling, I'll be a goddamn millionaire.<BR/><BR/><EM>I Am Legend</EM> - Only one way to describe this book: It typifies the notion that "The book is better than the movie."Mr. Held Overhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267337235861718498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-75063643017155722872008-03-29T16:57:00.000-04:002008-03-29T16:57:00.000-04:00A Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey. One of the best...A Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey. One of the best ever. <BR/><BR/>Pemulis... I knew you were named after that guy. He's my favorite.<BR/><BR/>Great post.Kennethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822449936450212892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-50608266998060539112008-03-29T16:43:00.000-04:002008-03-29T16:43:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kennethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822449936450212892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-6214875423410414582008-03-29T16:27:00.000-04:002008-03-29T16:27:00.000-04:00The fact that Drew got both Catch-22 and A Confede...The fact that Drew got both Catch-22 and A Confederacy of Dunces makes everybody else failures by comparison except me and undead zombie horde. He took HHGTTG, I'm taking Restaurant At The End Of Universe. Milliways, motherfuckerJayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09845566019644544418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-17617374015429482492008-03-29T13:36:00.000-04:002008-03-29T13:36:00.000-04:00I'm late, very late to the party, but the one book...I'm late, very late to the party, but the one book I'd pick is still here.<BR/><BR/>Atlas Shrugged. You dont like Ayn Rand? Fuck you then.Wormfatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07537842856722272940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-85933217610094282632008-03-29T12:40:00.000-04:002008-03-29T12:40:00.000-04:00The Island > Brave New World. But Huxley is off t...The Island > Brave New World. But Huxley is off the board.<BR/><BR/>I'll go with a classic and take one that has certainly been assigned in high school anyway. Utopia. Thomas MoreMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02069031942564729520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-83595847314709420192008-03-29T08:38:00.000-04:002008-03-29T08:38:00.000-04:00Alright. We've got four more posts up (with only o...Alright. We've got four more posts up (with only one book chosen) but fuck it. I came late to this (fuck you, computerless job) and I have to go hand out free cheese all day at the Craft Brew festival, so I'm picking again. Under the Volcano, because I don't want the little shits to get too happy from Still Life.HOLLA(R)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04266192208375341606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-6782900766497683952008-03-29T04:37:00.000-04:002008-03-29T04:37:00.000-04:00World War Z sucks. I threw the book down about 3/...World War Z sucks. I threw the book down about 3/4's the way through because it was too absurd to endure any longer. The zombies are discribed as moaning staggering, uh, zombies, but at the same time, we are supposed to beleive that they nearly took over the entire world and couldn't be stopped? Ummm...just get a rifle, line the fuckers up, and drop them their slowly shuffling asses one by one. What's so hard about that? In fact, one story is of a female Herc pilot that ejects over a contaminated forest. She walks around and blunders into a nest of zombies but survives by standing on a car and dropping 60 or 70 undead with headshots from her service pistol. WTF? And the entire U.S. Army couldn't stop them in New York or wherever they were flooding out of? Bullshit. Stupid premise. If he had described the zombies as more like the 28 days zombies, all running around like steroidal freaks, I'd have bought it, but no he makes them out to be, basically, old people with egg shell heads.<BR/><BR/>This one selection makes me call this entire draft into question.jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09063321937021274933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-52128488204724209862008-03-28T23:19:00.000-04:002008-03-28T23:19:00.000-04:00Sorry to rain on everybody's parade, mine included...Sorry to rain on everybody's parade, mine included, but high school students don't and won't read anything. Typically, in a Western Civ class of entering freshman, I'm lucky to have two students who read even one book their last year in high school. I had an entire class refuse to read a book with 43 pages of text. No shit, I pointed out that they would fail the test on the book unless they read it. They didn't care. Three-quarters of the class failed the test and most of them failed because didn't answer a single question. Teaching in universities is like being on the cutting edge of the decline and fall of Western Civilization.Spatulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11854980811662099891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-67062565647561411902008-03-28T22:01:00.000-04:002008-03-28T22:01:00.000-04:00"white teeth" by zadie smith is worth it, since "o..."white teeth" by zadie smith is worth it, since "on the road" already was picked.<BR/><BR/>btw... I did have to read "the things they carried" for a high school class and it is fucking amazing...especially the chapter where one of the characters drives around a lake for an entire night after coming back from the war. <BR/><BR/>"northern lights" and "july,july" are good o'brien books tootoemastyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13394425324505377835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-15381833233137407542008-03-28T21:24:00.000-04:002008-03-28T21:24:00.000-04:00oh my god this was lame.oh my god this was lame.Ken Dynamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01061339942941183172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-10121703746616408652008-03-28T20:14:00.000-04:002008-03-28T20:14:00.000-04:00Pemulis, nicely done for getting my two favorite b...Pemulis, nicely done for getting my two favorite books, you bastard (the name doesn't hurt, either). Anyway, I'll tack on an (extremely late) pick of Still Life With Woodpecker, because even stupid high school kids can read that, and it will teach them about the joys of blowing shit up and anal sex.HOLLA(R)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04266192208375341606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-72030167303118338202008-03-28T20:11:00.000-04:002008-03-28T20:11:00.000-04:00I jumped back in later to take either Eggers, Frea...I jumped back in later to take either Eggers, Freakonomics, and I really wanted House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski but they've all been taken.<BR/><BR/>Seems you all have better taste and timing than I thought. And I apologize for cockblocking with Vonnegut, but it was too tempting...especially after Drew grabbed Confederacy of Dunces. <BR/><BR/>Stupid Gay Mafia.dick_goziniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13421968746754769244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-39111851403020699652008-03-28T19:35:00.000-04:002008-03-28T19:35:00.000-04:00Looks like I need to read the rules better. I'll t...Looks like I need to read the rules better. I'll take <I>Bear V Shark</I> by Chris Bachelder.ianalbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13019513985718377525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-79183824962717973682008-03-28T19:32:00.000-04:002008-03-28T19:32:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.ianalbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13019513985718377525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-40917921123736680002008-03-28T18:08:00.000-04:002008-03-28T18:08:00.000-04:00As much as I hate to waste In the Name of the Rose...As much as I hate to waste In the Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco has a book of essays on the art of storytelling called On Literature that would be required if I was teaching a creative writing class.Spud Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01828174480159980539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-71732270376338864872008-03-28T18:05:00.000-04:002008-03-28T18:05:00.000-04:00Since I can't take anything by Conrad, Vonnegut, T...Since I can't take anything by Conrad, Vonnegut, Twain, or Salinger, and <I>To Kill A Mockingbird</I> and <I>Invisible Man</I> are off the board, I will take <I>Moby Dick</I> (but I'd tell the kids to skip the Cetology chapter).smurphettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04182518749886034192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-37000297612486143102008-03-28T18:01:00.000-04:002008-03-28T18:01:00.000-04:00Anybody cover Mailer? The guy was a jerkoff, but ...Anybody cover Mailer? The guy was a jerkoff, but The Naked and the Dead is a pretty powerful novel. It's set in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, but reads like it could be a novel of the Vietnam War.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't really deliver on the nudity, though.Whisk E. Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04302287536270268286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-17285666081986074832008-03-28T17:59:00.000-04:002008-03-28T17:59:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Spud Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01828174480159980539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-78381998055130527082008-03-28T17:33:00.000-04:002008-03-28T17:33:00.000-04:00I've resisted until now, but I have to take E.P. T...I've resisted until now, but I have to take E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class for three reasons: 1) I'm sick to death of everybody in this country thinking they're all in the middle class (the Whopper Flopper and Bill Gates are actually in the same class?); 2)it's 836 pages written by a British historian; and 3) I am the ueberhistorian. Mwahaha.Spatulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11854980811662099891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30356100.post-73163120855735714382008-03-28T17:23:00.000-04:002008-03-28T17:23:00.000-04:00Joining the Draft late, but loving most of the pic...Joining the Draft late, but loving most of the picks (minus Rand and Roth.)<BR/><BR/>I'll take: "Fathers and Sons" by Turgenev"; "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Tolstoy and because I'm not above having my mind blown and having fun at the same time anything by Philip K. Dick-- perhaps A Scanner Darkly-- a nice anti-drug book.Mr. Millshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14825350692603939046noreply@blogger.com