tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post2325492653170755799..comments2024-03-28T16:21:30.329-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Your ten desert island books? pattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83426705823023000382015-11-29T21:30:06.615-05:002015-11-29T21:30:06.615-05:00I remember reading it too. it was deliciously wick...I remember reading it too. it was deliciously wicked!pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-57138967082271215742015-11-29T21:06:09.491-05:002015-11-29T21:06:09.491-05:00Forever Amber. I found it on my parents' books...Forever Amber. I found it on my parents' bookshelf about 1949, and later took it to a boy scout camp where I got into trouble reading it by flashlight. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-8839265891653766442015-11-27T10:53:52.815-05:002015-11-27T10:53:52.815-05:00Good list!Good list!pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-77391992846741375322015-11-27T10:48:22.803-05:002015-11-27T10:48:22.803-05:00SHOGUN - Clavell
THE WHITE DRAGON - McCaffrey
THE ...SHOGUN - Clavell<br />THE WHITE DRAGON - McCaffrey<br />THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES - Doyle<br />ISLANDS IN THE STREAM - Hemingway<br />THE ODDESSY - Homer<br />DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD - Hillerman<br />COLLECTED STORIES - Chandler<br />THE COMPLETE CALVIN AND HOBBS - Watterston<br />THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF BLACK MASK STORIES<br />DUNE - HarrisonRick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83091528115986096252015-11-26T21:32:58.284-05:002015-11-26T21:32:58.284-05:00You're right, Todd. Okay, I
ll get back to my ...You're right, Todd. Okay, I<br />ll get back to my list.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65585268835372365072015-11-26T14:42:28.325-05:002015-11-26T14:42:28.325-05:00I've yet to read a Chabon I like better than h...I've yet to read a Chabon I like better than his brilliant S. Holmes during WW2 novella, THE FINAL SOLUTION, but I like that one a lot. i bought a remainder of his TELEGRAPH AVENUE the other week.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-67017883547654979922015-11-26T14:38:56.474-05:002015-11-26T14:38:56.474-05:00Patti has two collections and the anthology that i...Patti has two collections and the anthology that is THE BIBLE on her list, Rick...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-25870137963162905752015-11-26T14:08:56.292-05:002015-11-26T14:08:56.292-05:00So, no collections means no short stories, since a...So, no collections means no short stories, since any book of short stories is by definition a "collection"? I have a partial list, but want to include a single volume collection of short stories. Clarify, please?Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-69165128335533191212015-11-26T13:59:13.560-05:002015-11-26T13:59:13.560-05:00I second THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND KL...I second THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND KLAY - SO wonderful.<br /><br /><br /><br />Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-62981343674778869932015-11-26T13:21:28.328-05:002015-11-26T13:21:28.328-05:00Well, if I can only take ten books to the desert i...Well, if I can only take ten books to the desert island, forced at gunpoint, that would be exactly when I would probably want some sure things that seem rich enough in memory to be worth rereading. To be stranded on an island with only my ten books, presumably, as companions would be pretty dire...to have one of those books be as shallow as Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY or as devoted to celebration of the author's ability to chew on his hangnails as INFINITE JEST would be just that much more dire. It would be pretty sad even if one or two of those books were misfires by good to brilliant writers...say, THE WANDERER by Fritz Leiber or his THE SILVER EGGHEADS (a flawed attempt at panorama and a slight satire) or several of the novels by Davidson or Knight, when they were not quite willing to invest in the work to the same degree as they did to their brilliant shorter work (Davidson would produce perhaps two or three fully successful novels, Knight eventually started getting serious about novels, or realized how to do so, only by the end of his career with his last several).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-80125683616065812742015-11-26T11:12:21.319-05:002015-11-26T11:12:21.319-05:00Been such a long time since I heardbGardner's ...Been such a long time since I heardbGardner's name.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-27985650638890227692015-11-26T11:04:52.445-05:002015-11-26T11:04:52.445-05:00If you haven't read it, Michael Chabon's T...If you haven't read it, Michael Chabon's <i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</i> is a long book I can recommend. John Gardner's <i>The Sunlight Dialogues</i> was good, too.Barry Erganghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04305184548497082776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-32960313171555386542015-11-26T10:24:45.542-05:002015-11-26T10:24:45.542-05:00I am looking for long books I have not read. I am ...I am looking for long books I have not read. I am not a rereader. I am betting you have read all of the books on your list. Wouldn't you rather try something new?pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-73134103801913364032015-11-26T09:56:46.884-05:002015-11-26T09:56:46.884-05:00Wallace somewhat overrated. Tartt vastly so by som...Wallace somewhat overrated. Tartt vastly so by some. Both better than, say, William Vollmann, but not enough.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-77838437151876145062015-11-26T09:54:21.889-05:002015-11-26T09:54:21.889-05:00Patti, as the song lyric notes, Baby, the RAIN (by...Patti, as the song lyric notes, Baby, the RAIN (by Maugham) must fall...<br /><br />Ten books that somehow omit anthologies and multivolume sets:<br /><br />Avram Davidson, THE ENQUIRIES OF DOCTOR ESZTERHAZY<br />Jorge Luis Borges, THE ALEPH AND OTHER STORIES 1933-1969<br />Joanna Russ, THE FEMALE MAN<br />Fritz Leiber, THE SECRET SONGS<br />Kate Wilhelm, DEATH QUALIFIED<br />Italo Calvino, ITALIAN FOLKTALES<br />Harlan Ellison et al.,PARTNERS IN WONDER<br />Collections of Dorothy Parker, Theodore Sturgeon, and Jane Yolen or Damon Knight or John Simon or Muriel Spark are likely.<br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65930192447909897252015-11-26T09:36:11.580-05:002015-11-26T09:36:11.580-05:00Of course, Patti, you Poe collection and THE BIBLE...Of course, Patti, you Poe collection and THE BIBLE are collections. Or did you mean George couldn't bring his complete Wodehouse?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65673943144169330162015-11-26T07:04:13.888-05:002015-11-26T07:04:13.888-05:00Somerset Maugham keeps turning up in my life latel...Somerset Maugham keeps turning up in my life lately. Odd how that happens. Yes, long ones are the key. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-75088854058360669512015-11-25T23:17:37.401-05:002015-11-25T23:17:37.401-05:00Speaking of book bags, Somerset Maugham wrote a st...Speaking of book bags, Somerset Maugham wrote a story called "The Book-Bag". Maugham traveled a lot and would fill a large duffle bag full of books, often dumping them on the floor of his room and picking out something to read. He said reading was like a vice or a drug that he had to have.<br /><br />If I had to pick 10 novels, I'd pick long ones that are my favorites like WAR AND PEACE, MOBY DICK, DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME(I'm cheating on this as it's 12 novels that make up one gigantic novel). Short novels wouldn't last long.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-77641957035171030152015-11-25T16:24:05.289-05:002015-11-25T16:24:05.289-05:00You just have this one bag. A guy with a gun says ...You just have this one bag. A guy with a gun says fill it fast.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-76009624679238995262015-11-25T16:16:23.626-05:002015-11-25T16:16:23.626-05:00I've been thinking about this all morning, and...I've been thinking about this all morning, and can't come up with a list without some collections (such as The Complete Sherlock Holmes - 56 stories and 4 novels). I'll keep thinking.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-19634282031608988542015-11-25T10:52:01.084-05:002015-11-25T10:52:01.084-05:00Oh, this is an interesting question, Patti. I must...Oh, this is an interesting question, Patti. I must say, though, that I don't think I could choose just ten. Hmmmmm....<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-51542610260653786462015-11-25T10:06:51.178-05:002015-11-25T10:06:51.178-05:00length was a big factor.length was a big factor.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-52061979184647263622015-11-25T09:59:33.052-05:002015-11-25T09:59:33.052-05:00I'd have to choose books from writers that I k...I'd have to choose books from writers that I know I like but still haven't read everything they wrote (Trollope, Balzac, Zola); and I'd try to FINALLY read Remembrance of Things Past (would that count as one book or seven?).Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-1631247273299345192015-11-25T09:05:54.122-05:002015-11-25T09:05:54.122-05:00MIDDLEMARCH is one of those books I've never r...MIDDLEMARCH is one of those books I've never read but always mean to. I love LONESOME DOVE but overall, I'd find it hard to narrow down a list to 10 books.<br />Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.com