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Seven Day Reading Challenge- Day 7

6/26/2019

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Day 7 - Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens - plus books for consideration


​“No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.” 

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Charles Dickens
     I became obsessed with reading Dickens after watching a PBS series based on this book. It is my favorite Dickens book and that says something because I have actually read most of his novels, even the unfinished one. Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations are all great, and in those books Dickens has created several of the greatest characters in English literature, but Our Mutual Friend, in my opinion,  is his greatest story. 
 It was hard to settle on just seven and I have a lot of books that I could have put on this list. The following come immediately to mind.


Charles Dickens
   Oliver Twist
   Great Expectations
   David Copperfield
   
Kurt Vonnegut
   Sirens of Titan 
   Slaughterhouse Five
   Breakfast of Champions
   God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Jordan Peterson
   Maps of Meaning

Kilgore Trout
   Venus on a Halfshell

Thomas Pynchon
   Gravity's Rainbow
   The Crying of Lot 49
   Vineland

Rollo May
   Man in Search of Himself
   The Courage to Create

Carl G Jung
   Modern Man in Search of a Soul
   Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   The Undiscovered Self

Stephen King

   Salem's Lot
   The Shining
    It

Robert Temple
   The Sirius Mystery

Leo Tolstoy
   War and Peace

Sir James Frazer
   The Golden Bough

Robert Graves
   I, Claudius
   The White Goddess

Jack Kerouac
   On The Road

Feodor Dostoevsky
   The Brothers Karamazov

John Wooden
   Practical Modern Basketball

Gertrude Chandler Warner
   The Boxcar Children

Samuel Clemens
   Tom Sawyer
   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Joseph Campbell
   The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Soren Kierkegaard
​    Fear and Trembling


If you are big fan of reading, please accept this challenge to help promote literacy. I was supposed to challenge someone daily but didn't want to put anybody on the spot.


  


   




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