Book Boulevard

Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on June 25, 2004 at 19:00:19

In Reply to: Books that change our lives. posted by edta on June 13, 2004 at 05:25:42:

Plato is important but I believe he distorted Socrates, who rates much higher for me but his 'own stuff' is pretty thin on the ground.

We have let 'the guardians', and their descendents run things for WAAAY too long.

My list.

Recently

3 books by J. Ralston Saul, One is a sort of sceptics dictionary, deliciously cruel about managerialism, and market theory.

discovering Bierce in all his cruel insight, and rediscovering Mencken

Early on,

the bible, esp. the New Testament,

The Book of Common Prayer

Ovid, everything I could.

Virgil - ditto.

Rabelais

Hardy

George Eliot.

Henry Lawson.

Judith Wright.

TS Eliot,

Tolstoy,

Dickens,

Shakepeare's (fully workshopped!) plays.

Dr Johnson and Boswell,

plus Pepys,

John Aubrey, now he's a riot. Actor Roy Dottrice did a one-man show of him in old-age, I wonder if the Beeb ever recorded it?

Diary Of a Nobody.

Thurber, anything.

Milligan, everything

Das Kapital - K. Marx.

Bertrand Russell, everyone on OUTSIDE should read his short dissection / essay of being a POLITICAL person, esp. party political. thanks to him also for "undecideability" and a bunch of good bullshit filters.

And my son's want me to 'get off the net'

Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
Peace