a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by user-inactivated
user-inactivated  ·  3917 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.

    I've been slowly trawling through Team of Rivals and while it's not a policy setting book or anything of that nature, it's a fascinating look book at Lincoln, Seward, etc. and how they managed to work together. For other fiction books, The Crying of Lot 49 is a great post-modern book by Pynchon that will at time screw with your head.

Both incredible books, seconded. And Crying is only ~150 pages, though since it's Pynchon every word means something and it's not as fast a read as you'd expect.

And of course East of Eden is a masterwork.