My Literary Canon...

I tried to get through Catch-22 three times and couldn’t finish. I’m sarcastic, but that book is bitterly sarcastic. A Confederacy of Dunces is great.

I tend to read more non fiction and Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman is one of my favorites.

 

For Whom the Bell Tolls
To Kill a Mockingbird
Where the Wild Things Are
Slaughterhouse Five
Heart of Darkness
The Power and the Glory
The Thin Red Line

 

You might enjoy the new biography of McMurtry. I noticed it was a finalist for the Pulitzer in biography this year. Can't recall the writer's name but he did the Joan Didion bio too -- I really liked that one.

 

Tracy Daughtery? Larry McMurtry: A Life?

 

That's the one! Daugherty is from Texas from the way back, I think, went to U of H. Great writer.

 

Yeah, I should have included Blood Meridian or the Border trilogy. All great books.

 

Brave New World
1984
Animal Farm

Rocket River