I’ve read the list. I’ve also read War and Peace, in Russian, all 3 pounds of it. I’ve read The Rise and Fall of The Roman Empire. Browning’s poems; Service’s poems (more to my dark taste than that of Frost, whom I’ve also read); Carl Sandburg’s works; Mark Twain’s works; Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dickens, and Orwell; Huxley; Aristotle, Socrates and Pythagorus; writs of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and the follies of Bacchus; Roman philosophers and Euclid; a few writings of Madame Blovetsky, Crowley, Gardner and Buckland, mixed with Mather and Whitefield; Hammett, Spillane, Chandler, and Poe. To ensure that my American Spirit stays true to Freedom, I have read ‘Das Kapital’ and ‘Mein Kampf’, and paid attention to the speeches given by a certain Premier Kruschchev, when he endangered me and my fellow Americans.
OK, you deserved a standing O for your impressive reading!
I’m slogging through War & Peace now. I was going to give it up, but I’ve decided to persevere. Like every other Russian work I’ve read, I’m sure it’s better in Russian. Although the translation I’ve got does a good job with that one guy with the speech impediment.
“a few writings of Madame Blovetsky...”
Did you mean Madame Blavatsky?
I read some by her, and Annie Bessant, and others from the TS, as I was raised in that evil stuff.
Ed
“and paid attention to the speeches given by a certain Premier Kruschchev, when he endangered me and my fellow Americans.”
Did you read “JFK & The Unspeakable” yet? If yes, I’d like your opinion on what the author says about JFK and Nikita. If not, and you read the book someday, since you lived through it, I’d still be interested in your opinion.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler... now you’re talking. These two were masters of the English language and each could crank out a story with the best of them. I think I’ve read every story these two wrote, and if I missed one it wasn’t for lack of trying.
And the Win Wenders film ‘Hammett’ starring Frederic Forrest and Peter Boyle is well worth seeing.