The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell)
Is one of my favorite books ever. You could also do his Dream Number9, which is also pretty great, but Thousand Autumns is a better book.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
lisah - Oct 10, 2011 1:42:17 pm PDT #16578 of 28288
Punishingly Intricate
dcp - Oct 10, 2011 2:19:42 pm PDT #16579 of 28288
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Go West, Young Man!
Westering Man is a biography of Joseph Rutherford Walker, and I thought a good read.
Dana - Oct 10, 2011 2:53:17 pm PDT #16580 of 28288
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Go West, Young Man! (books about the frontier)
My Antonia.
Ginger - Oct 10, 2011 4:27:42 pm PDT #16581 of 28288
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Go West, Young Man! (books about the frontier)
As Dana says, definitely Willa Cather.
Little House books
Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy and The Light in the Forest
Last of the Mohicans (Much better than Mark Twain says)
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
Hamlin Garland's short stories in Main-Travelled Roads
The Virginian, Owen Wister
Shane, Jack Schaefer
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey
The Octopus, Frank Norris (depressing, but not as depressing as his McTeague, one of the most depressing novels of all time)
Bret Harte's short stories
The Call of the Wild, White Fang Jack London
The seminal essay on the role of the frontier is Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier In American History," which is the first chapter of his book i The Frontier in American History, which is widely available online. Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth is very readable.
Hil R. - Oct 10, 2011 4:33:35 pm PDT #16582 of 28288
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
True Grit for the frontier books.
Steph L. - Oct 10, 2011 4:43:58 pm PDT #16583 of 28288
I look more rad than Lutheranism
How many books are there supposed to be?
I thought 7, but I keep hearing 9, which makes me wonder how he can keep it going without dragging things out.
dcp - Oct 10, 2011 4:49:10 pm PDT #16584 of 28288
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Better than True Grit: Douglas C. Jones's Winding Stair and The Search for Temperance Moon.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 7:12:09 pm PDT #16585 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Shane, come back, Shane!
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 7:26:16 pm PDT #16586 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
In short, thanks for the many frontier suggestions! It's something that I came up with in Wyoming and really want to do (so I want a really tempting list).
No art theme ideas? Or are you all only wild about the Wild West?
Dana - Oct 10, 2011 7:32:07 pm PDT #16587 of 28288
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I admit to only having seen the movie, but "The Girl With the Pearl Earring"?