 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.” 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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