Good Books

[BillFinn]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 1:44am

Hey,

I've got a trip to CO coming up soon meaning I will be on a plane for a good 3 or 4 hours and switching airports. Anyone have a couple of good books I could pass the time with?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 3:35am

wicked
a density or souls

broadway musicals of the 1940's

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 8:35am

Dude Where's My Country?
Stupid White Men.
Both by Michael Moore. Funny and disturbing at the same time.

Running With Scissors
Dry
Both by Augusten Burroughs
Two great autobiographies. Read Running first..it's the first part.

I think all four of those books are perfect plane reading...that should be enough to keep you busy.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 11:03am

Any book by the following:

James W Hall
Ed Mc Bain ( 82 nd Precinct)
Stuart Kaminsky - Any entry in the Toby Peters series

[DofB5]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 11:14am

Gee, there are so many, many good books out there but one of the best IMHO is:

Dune by Frank Herbert.

What kind of books do you like?

D

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 12:30pm

Holidays on Ice (David Sedaris)

Barrel Fever (David Sedaris)

Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)

Naked (David Sedaris)

Fraud (David Rakoff)

Take the Cannolli: Stories From the New World (Sarah Vowell)

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore)

Tales of the City (Armistead Maupin; or any of the subsequent TOTC novels, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Sure of You and Significant Others)

Act One: An Autobiography (Moss Hart)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 12:55pm

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Dickens was infatuated with life on the stage so there are some wonderful characters and episodes with theatricals. Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Crummles and their touring troup featuring their darling, but gin-lvoing, daughter, The Infant Phenomena (think a Victorian Kristin Chenowith).

One couldn't do better than spending time with Nicholas and all the wonderful characters of this engaging, endearing, enmormously entertaining novel.

Cheers, Bulldog.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 5:45pm

Add to Bulldog's recommendation, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Faustian legend played out in a theatre and an opium den. One of my favourite novels.

While we're talking classics, I also have to toss in....
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy also by Dreiser (and made into the film A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift.... yum)
Washington Square by Henry James (also made into a Monty film, The Heiress)
The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, A Farewell to Arms (all by Hemingway)
The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby (all courtesy of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Dubliners by James Joyce (I'm also a fan of Ulysses and finally got through Finnegan's Wake last month)
Old New York by Edith Wharton
Not Much Fun and The Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (both by Dorothy Parker)
Orlando: A Biography, Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse (all by Virginia Woolf)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forester
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Sophie's Choice by William Styron


Now you've got me started....

Play-wise, I'd also recommend reading ANYTHING by Albee, La Bete by David Hirson, anything of Stoppard's or Noel Coward or Pinter.... Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill....

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 8:19pm

Now I'm going to add that if you want to spend your time reading some plays....

Take along a collection of Oscar Wilde and read all of his plays. Ditto for Tennessee Williams.

Cheers! Bulldog.

[BillFinn]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 9:14pm

Wow, thanks for the responses guys!

The type of reading I like are To Kill A Mockingbird, Ordinary People, The Pact, We Were the Mulvaneys, Wicked, Taken, Take Me Out.

I saw Naked at Barnes and Noble a week ago ViciousCircle and I was very interested. What's that one about?

[Bway_Mill_Fan]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 9:26pm

oh you will LOVE Naked! i do! lol. its by David Sedaris and i recommend any other of his books too! its what you would consider "essay" books. life experiences of his.

[Horsey!!!]

Posted: 11/27/03 at 10:52pm

THE ART OF HAPPINESS by The Dalai Lama
TEACHINGS ON LOVE by Thich Nhat Hanh
ORDEAL by Linda Lovelace

Not sure what you like, so this short list is varied.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/28/03 at 1:40am

I second Sedaris--Naked will have you laughing out loud!

[dotmarie]

Posted: 11/28/03 at 10:36am

Bring Assassins!

How about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Little Women, Jane Eyre (I haven't read it, but I've been wanting to). I also love the Princess Diaries series, but not sure if you'd be interested in those.

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 11/28/03 at 1:18pm

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Angels in a America (its a play) Toni Kushner

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/28/03 at 3:51pm

I re-read Holidays on Ice on the train home on Wednesday. What's even more fun is to go to thislife.org and listen to Sedaris read his stuff for NPR's This American Life. Santa Land Diaries is to die for.

I'd also second the rec for Tony Kushner's Angels in America, especially with the HBO extravaganza next week. I also enjoyed Homebody/Kabul by Kushner (though not as much as Angels in America)

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 11/28/03 at 5:55pm

Buy a play or Buy a copy of the Cy Feuer story. That is one of the best autobiographies I've ever read. He is actually a very good writer.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 11/28/03 at 8:23pm

Just a little note....for those of you who are fans of David Sedaris. Try Augusten Burroughs. You'll love him. I recommended his books above.