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Finarfin  ·  4107 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

Have you read Michael Lewis's The Big Short? It's a fascinating read, and makes you feel way smarter by the end.

Here's my five (all fiction):

1. Dubliners by James Joyce; arguably the most masterful short story collection ever written

2. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway; his seminal war book

3. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey; a really beautiful and out-there novel about Oregon loggers which will always have a special place in my memory

4. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor; some of the funniest and darkest stories I've ever read

5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; just a classic, page-turning book





cgod  ·  4107 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite authors. I don't reread stuff very often but seem to knock out her short story collection every few years. A Good Man is one of her best.

Captain_Ozone  ·  4107 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I read and enjoyed The Big Short a lot. His explanations along with real life stories he attacts to it make understanding the technical stuff easy while allowing me to connect with the people in the book.

The Hemingway book you mentioned, is it anything like A Farewell to Arms? I was really interested in Hemingway for a time but forgot about him.

Finarfin  ·  4105 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's hard for me to compare the two because I read AFTA a long time ago. The main difference is FWTBT involves a lot of combat (guerilla warfare in the Spanish Civil War) whereas the other if I remember is more about escaping the combat of war. I highly recommend it; it's exciting, reads fast and is very moving.