I feel like Moby-Dick is having a moment this summer. Loving reading+listening this version (free to access) including audiobook and generative notes and discussion, which are a lot of fun with a book of this depth and complexity: https://volume.pub/moby-dick?src=quo
I am also in my "back to classics" era. Feels refreshing to see The Count of Monte Cristo and Moby Dick on the list. I think it's really inspiring to go back to titles that made literature popular.
Summer reading lists are quietly the best travel planning documents. Half the fun of a book like this list’s picks is realizing the setting is bookable — read it, then go stand where chapter three happens. Which pick is everyone starting with?
I tried reading Range three times, but every time I just could not force myself past the second chapter. Really do not understand the hype around this book.
"Pocock is the most interesting character in the book."
Joe Rantz is the book - Pocock's shell designing and building is only an interesting aside.
Pocock is dwarfed by the young man, Rantz, who is the boat's leader and who is abandoned by his father at 15 and then has to reach inside to make something of himself. I mean if an author spends half the book on Rantz and his personal story and development into a man, don't you think he did that for a reason?
It's like saying, "I just read the New Testament and the most interesting person is Pontius Pilate or Judas."
I feel like Moby-Dick is having a moment this summer. Loving reading+listening this version (free to access) including audiobook and generative notes and discussion, which are a lot of fun with a book of this depth and complexity: https://volume.pub/moby-dick?src=quo
Moby Dick and Lonesome dove trending for sure.
I am also in my "back to classics" era. Feels refreshing to see The Count of Monte Cristo and Moby Dick on the list. I think it's really inspiring to go back to titles that made literature popular.
Summer reading lists are quietly the best travel planning documents. Half the fun of a book like this list’s picks is realizing the setting is bookable — read it, then go stand where chapter three happens. Which pick is everyone starting with?
I tried reading Range three times, but every time I just could not force myself past the second chapter. Really do not understand the hype around this book.
Very interesting list.
Great list.
Didn't know books needed character sheets... now I need one for every recommendation.🤌
This is a great lineup. I just finished John Eliot Gardiner's biography of Bach which is excellent.
https://www.amazon.com/Bach-Castle-John-Eliot-Gardiner/dp/1400031435
I wrote a post about it here if you want the crunchy nuggets upfront:
https://jarombra.substack.com/p/soli-deo-gloria
About Boys in The Boat - Big disagreement there.
"Pocock is the most interesting character in the book."
Joe Rantz is the book - Pocock's shell designing and building is only an interesting aside.
Pocock is dwarfed by the young man, Rantz, who is the boat's leader and who is abandoned by his father at 15 and then has to reach inside to make something of himself. I mean if an author spends half the book on Rantz and his personal story and development into a man, don't you think he did that for a reason?
It's like saying, "I just read the New Testament and the most interesting person is Pontius Pilate or Judas."
Love these !!!!
I'll definitely read Becoming Steve Jobs, by Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli