@Oisin Said
5. the road to McCarthy - pete mccarthy. i have never laughed while reading a book as much as i did whilst reading this. it came out a few years ago but i like to reread it often.
4. crime and punishment - fydor the prick. i've been reading this for years, i refuse to be beaten by a book, it's boring as f*** though.
3. hemmingway - for whom the bell tolls. i have a love for the spanish civil war. it's not hemmingway's best work but it really appeals to me.
2. nothing but an unfinished song - denis o'hearn. essentially it's about bobby sands. truthfully it's about so much more.
1. at the minute it's probably the gadfly, ask me next week though
Fyodor the prick????
That's actually one of my favorite books!
Bah...I admit Dostoevsky isn't for everyone. My wife, who is a much better reader than I am and I suspect is smarter than me can't stand reading him!
My last five:
5. I Don't Want to Go to Jail - Jimmy Breslin- A good, light book about the mob a la Quinton Tarantino dry humor.
4. Physics for the Rest of us - Roger S. Jones- I've always been really weak in the hard sciences and I've decided to do something about it for the hell of it.
3. Time Won't Let Me - Bill Scheft- Funny novel about a group of guys who start a garage band in school together in the 1960s and then reform in their fifties to tour again.
2. The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones- Collection of short stories. I've always liked short story anthologies because it's a book full of stuff you can read when you have a few spare minutes and put down to run off. I also write them so it's kind of like studying for me as well.
1. Yeats is Dead - 15 different Irish authors- Brilliant novel written in 15 chapters about a murder, each chapter written by a different author. Clever, hilarious, and hard to put down.
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