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... as well as some I probably will not remember in a few years... obviously the solution is to read much, much more.
1. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (I think this will always be my favorite, and the book against which all future contenders will be judged)
2. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
3. ... ... juices.)
I'm a firm believer in the necessity of FDA regulations and the like; nobody wants to re-live Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. :) But in this case, I thought this was overkill. Nobody's life, limb or property is threatened by some small hippie juice co-operative. The bottles were ... No one has mentioned one of the classics of this genre yet Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Thought I will admit that I have read it while eating sausage. ... >
8- The Confusions of Young Torless - Robert Musil
9- South: The Endurance Expedition - Ernest Shackleton
10-The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
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6) American literary works
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
* The Novel by James A. Michener
* The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
* A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
* Skinny Le ... The Jungle by Upton Sinclair- I know I should like it, but I just don't! I'm running to Eragon by Christopher Paolini. I drive to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I'm halfway through both and I wish I had picked some lighter reading! I knew The Jungle wouldn't be an uplifting story, but geez! Sometimes you need a pick-me-up after work. ... because of Crime and Punishment, Myanmar because of Burmese Days and especially the United States, because of Lolita, The Jungle, The Sound and the Fury, Oryx and Crake, and.....
;) 35> Yes, of course The Jungle is fiction but I remember reading that it showed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry and helped to goad congress into passing the the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (which led to creation of the Food and Drug Administratio ... 34> Unfortunately, The Jungle is a novel. Two or three of these have been mentioned earlier in this string:
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair,A Thousand days, John F. Kennedy in the Whitwe House by Arthur M Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Mind of The South by W. J. Cash,
Origins ... Yay! Finished The Jungle Book -- loved it! I think I liked the last story the best, but they're all wonderful.
Boo -- couldn't get into a groove for the Bleak House group read. Will save it for next year.
Still trudging along in Anna Karenina -- not enjoying the current section of the ... ... June 30. I'm about six books behind in order to be halfway through my goal halfway through the year. Almost done with The Jungle Book... ... is Indemnity Only.
Other Illinois-based books include many of those by Saul Bellow. There's also Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Ray Bradbury was a fellow Lake County, IL resident and some of his were set in a fictional Waukegan, IL. >17:
TLCrawford nailed The Jungle right on. birth of investigative journalism and the progressive movement, right?
what about the epic of america by JT Adams? ... theme (as in 2-4), or books diametrically opposite in world-view but linked by the phrasing of the title (as in 5, or The Jungle and The Jungle Book), or accidentally linked by names Concerning the eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli and The complete Pirelli calendars, or the ... ... an actual basket and in it I have placed something for each of my senses that has a calming effect on me. I have a DVD of The Jungle Book, (the animated version because it can put me to sleep), some chocolate (I have to rotate that out every so often :-), some herbal teabags, a CD of soothing ... ... including Schlesinger's fine historical writing, especially on the New Deal era.
Upton Sinclair needs inclusion as well--The Jungle is most obviously a candidate, but some of the Lanny Budd novels, such as the Pulitzer winner Dragon's Teeth would be welcome.
And speaking of "candidate," ... Regarding The Jungle Book, I've always said Mowgli with the "ow". My British grandmother read it to me, before I ever saw the Disney version. Is it a Indian British pronounciation vs American I'm wondering? Interesting.
eta jennieg, I really enjoyed Mistress of the Art of Death and ... I also started my reread of A Song for Arbonne this weekend.
#71, 73 - I was thinking about listening to an audio of The Jungle Book this weekend, but didn't like the way the narrator said Mowgli's name (I'm used to it with a long 'o' and she was saying it with an 'ow' as in ouch.) It's a ... ... sounds as though it's more a hook on which to hang a book about American history than a list in the usual sense. Obviously The Jungle and East of Eden would fit into his list perfectly - I expect they were left out because so much has already been written about them. On the road and The ... The Jungle is not in there? That hardly seems right.
I enjoyed The Graveyard Book as well, and I'm reading The Jungle Book at work during my lunch break. It's a perfect lunch time read since it's basically a bunch of short stories. To tell you the truth, though, I really don't see that it's much like The Graveyard Book, but maybe I'm missing ... ... 4/22/09
Here's a book to make you think twice about buying frozen meals. It's not so much the horror stories (this isn't The Jungle) as the greater sense of the extent to which the modern western diet contributes to dreaded diseases, like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. I have to admit ... ... n
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Hmm...that's a hard one. I'd say the best classic I've read is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and the best (and newer) novel I've read is The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one ... My favorite book of all time is The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, but others I love a reread all the time are The Jungle, The Shining, The Dark Jewels Trilogy, and Good Omens. I'm sure there are tons more, but from where I'm sitting I can only see two sheves on my bookcase and I ... The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; read about 20 yrs ago but just bought a used copy for a reread I think The Jungle by Upton Sinclair could be considered an "important" book touching on the issues surrounding immigration, poverty, and the labor movement, among others. The main character Jurgis Rudkus (I had to look up his name and I'm pleased to say I did it the "old" way, by taking the book ... ... The Graveyard Book
999X Newbery Winners (3/02/09)
Marty’s 311 pages
This is a wonderful story reminiscent of The Jungle Book by Kipling, only this baby is left in the care and protection of ghosts and a special mentor who is neither living or dead, who inhabit the graveyard. T ... ... – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
32. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
33. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
35. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
1800's
36. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
37. Dracula – Bram Stoker
38. The Picture ... ... doesn't seem like there's a lot of variety in that genre.
I try to read a lot of classics as well. I just got done with The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. The book is amazing and I would definitely say that's a book everyone should read at some point in their lives. You get a real look into ... ... know books speak differently to everyone. Personally, I can't recall off the top of my head a book that's affected me like The Jungle did. It was really an amazing (and different) experience to read a book that spoke to me on so many different levels. ... border:1px solid black src=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593081189.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg/>
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Rating: 5/5
Every once in a while, you read a book that makes you look back and reevaluate your life. For me, that book is The Jungle. ... ... was a gem! It's one of the best books I've read this year! What did you think about it?
I'm currently trying to tackle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, but I keep getting distracted by The Terror, a very scary book by Dan Simmons. It's also very loooooooooong, but so, so good. I'm ... ... was a gem! It's one of the best books I've read this year! What did you think about it?
I'm currently trying to tackle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, but I keep getting distracted by The Terror, a very scary book by Dan Simmons. It's also very loooooooooong, but so, so good. I'm ... ... on
The books I'm currently reading are:
9. The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories by many different authors
10. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
11. The Terror by Dan Simmons
I'll post my reviews soon about the books I've read already and then as I finish more books, I'll ... I read The Jungle back in high school and recently snagged a copy as to re-read as a follow up to The Omnivore's Dilemma.
koolaidmom--How did your stint in meat-packing affect your eating habits? Loved Grapes of Wrath and The Jungle. I loved The Jungle too but had to read it in 7th or 8th grade,
I finished The story of the Cannibal Woman by Maryse Conde.
It had such promise, and a very interesting beginning, but the structure was dodgy and the main character was an empty well. I have no idea why the author created ... ... a turtle is all that remains from my memory of the book, but I've watched the movie several times).
As to Sinclair's The Jungle, I read that for my college history class. Having worked in meat packing, I can tell you that not much has changed. Some of the safety issues have improved, ... ... Different strokes I guess.
I have to add my praise for The Grapes of Wrath, which I keep meaning to re-read and The Jungle, which I had to read in college and loved! coppers, bettyjo: I read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle last year and thought it was extremely entertaining, then went on to read his novel Oil!, which I also enjoyed despite a bit of bagginess here and there. #41 - I just picked up a used (yet new) copy of The Jungle and am looking forward to rereading it. I too loved The Grapes of Wrath and am currently reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair...what a muckraker! I am surprised by how much I am enjoying it. I had several LPs, Winnie the Pooh, Hans Christian Anderson, Mary Poppins, Swiss Family Robinson, The Jungle Book, but I think some of them were Disney and I had no books to go with them. One of my favorites was something like fairy tales from Nebraska about the Cornsilk Girl and the Bluewin ... The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle from the used book shelf at the library. $1 for two never-read books. ... to me that Grapes of Wrath has had a huge influence on society's attitude towards people who find themselves poor. Also, The Jungle had a big influence on food safety, although perhaps not enough.
#67 girlunderglass--I read Kim and really did not like it. I read parts of The Jungle Book with my kids and we all enjoyed that. Told you my experience with Kipling was limited:).
I don't usually plan my reading out too far in advance, but I'll probably read Confessions of a Thug in the ... ... of Beedle the Bard
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Le Petit Prince (really funky author info going on for that touchstone)
The Jungle Book
Instant Guide to Birds
A Wrinkle in Time
In a Dark Wood
And I borrowed:
The Shack
The Other Queen
Chatterton
The Nanny Diaries
( ... ... natural and supernatural. Gaiman worked on writing this young adult book for twenty years, inspired by both his son and The Jungle Book. It is an almost unputdownable coming of age story. I loved it, and if only because Gaiman could achieve the emotional response that he got from me during ... Reading Kipling's the Jungle Book after having discussed Gaiman's the Graveyard Book.
Also still stretching out So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Sycamore. ... year that are classics. The only books I remember having to read in high school were A Separate Piece by John Knowles & The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I have some college by haven't taken a college English class. I liked this book but I find I have a hard time trying to read & understand ... ... James,1970's
72. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1980's
73. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy, 1970's
74. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1960's
75. The Old Wive's Tale, Arnold Bennett, 2000's
76. Howard's End, E.M. Forster, 1980's
77. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1960', ... ... the short-term energy needs, as well as the economic profit, of relatively few people. This book has been compared to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair as well as The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow. It's been a long time since I've read The Jungle, but this book falls short of The Dollmaker ... ... by Florence Engel Randall
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
July Reads:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
August Reads:
Identity Crisis by Debbi Ma ... ... read in the privacy of my own apartment due to embarrassment (expect Tony Bourdain's books to feature prominently.)
1. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
2. The Shining, Stephen King
3. Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (completed 1/31/09) **
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. ... ... Caged Bird Sings
My Sister's Keeper
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Bridges of Madison County
Run Me A River
The Jungle Book
The Giver
Water for Elephants
There's a hilarious picture of me opening this giant bag full of these things... all individually wrapped. I look ... ... The afterword seemed rushed, but otherwise well done. It just struck me the wrong way. It's self-indulgent, like her.
#3 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Question: I am involved in othe book clubs and occasionally will want to deviate from my 50 just for fun. What is the best way to count ... ... didn't get very far with)
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee (because, shockingly, I've never read it!)
- The Jungle Book: Rudyard Kipling (I used to love the Just So Stories and the comparisons many people have made between this and The Graveyard Book make me ... ... iv. Southern Cross, Laurence Hyde
25. Carpenter's Gothic, William Gaddis
- Do Not Eat!, Andrew Bell
26. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
27. In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
28. Icelander, Dustin Long
Wonderful.
29. Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming
30. Stra ... ... but the toddler is protected by the ghosts of the graveyard who bring him up.
The Graveyard Book has been compared to The Jungle Book, which, despite having only seen the Disney film (! I think I may have to read this soon), I can see the reasoning of. Anyway, as I say, I find it hard to ... ... read it) - **
Shirley - *
Wuthering Heights - ****
Villette - *
The Professor - *
Right Side
The Jungle
The Idiot - **
Crime and Punishment - **
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jude the Obscure
The Count of Monte Cristo - *
Thanks in advance,
- M100 ... Not Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? ... youngest is going to start The Great Gatsby, which I loved, but he is starting to whine about. But since he just finished The Jungle and liked it, I figure he will do well with his next book. ... As when the horrors of the meat processing industry were revealed, we got agencies to oversee the quality of food products (The Jungle). As when the Triangle Shirt Factory burned, we got labor laws. When the plight of an underclass is made viscerally clear, when airplanes crash, when levees ... ... Innocent: Upton Sinclair door Anthony Arthur.
Sinclair die in de USA in 1905 in één klap beroemd werd met zijn boek The Jungle, over de arbeidsomstandigheden in de slachthuizen, raakte bij ons in de jaren vijftig en zestig bekend door zijn Lanny Budd reeks, elf avonturenromans met als ... ... customers to death, and your food tastes like poop.
The troublesome offspring of Cardinal Guzman ran naked through the jungle until they reached Villa Incognito, where they found drunk natives half asleep in frog pajamas.
For one more day, the hours pass slowly as I lay ... ... McManus
Highly recommend this collection of comedic articles to anyone who is a sportsman or outdoorsman.
70. The Jungle--Upton Sinclair
I'm now very interested in reading Oil!.
71. Star Trek The Forgotten War-William Forstchen. Haha. This book was a fun read.
7 ... Willa Cather was pretty American.
Robert
Yes, let's add writers who were observers.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle - Lithuanians in a brutal Chicago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle ... you wrote, I am wondering if summer reading for school is ever successful... Well, in the case of my daughter and The Jungle, there will be a test on this book in the first week or so of class. So there's an incentive. However, she had to read 4 books this summer and the others ... ... a couple of classics there, eh? I read and enjoyed Midnight's Children not long ago, and my daughter is about to start The Jungle as part of her summer reading requirement for 10th grade English. I am assured reading will commence any day now ... :-) I've just started Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie today and am listening to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair on CD for commute reading. Just cracked open The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It sounds like an interesting story, I only wish my copy had slightly larger print. It's teeny! ... volume set I believe, and she threw in the Britannica yearbooks for '79-'83 for free.
Me and Emma--Elizabeth Flock
The Jungle--Upton Sinclair ... I was starting homeschool that year, they obliged, and my mother bought me Silas Marner, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jungle Book,The Pearl, and a bunch of others. That's where my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began. Also I was fascinated by the words in Silas Marner. I thought they ... ... The Double
The Roald Dahl Omnibus
Anita Shreve, Light on Snow
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Charlotte Bronte, The Foundling
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Muriel Spark, The Pri ... ... immoral to read what my stomach can’t handle.
That's interesting. My grandmother read Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, when it first came out. (If you are not familiar with it, it is a novel written in 1906 about the Chicago Stockyards, and its graphic depiction of the dreadful ... ... it's not like the IRS sends you an itemized bill every year anyway.
#72: By the way, Sinclair Lewis is not the author of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair is. Sinclair Lewis was the author of the anti-fascist novel It Can't Happen Here and is the person to whom is often attributed the quote, “Whe ... Oops, double post. ... by Michael Pollan was excellent and has prompted me to rethink my food buying habits. I also picked up a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to scan--as for all the change and legislation in the meat processing industry, it's eerily similar to the expose offered in the 1906 (?) ... ... about the 19th century being plagued by disease-ridden food. All he has to suggest that is a reference to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which was written with political intent, not as a portrayal of the factual conditions of the food industry. Sinclair even lamented the fact that his book ... ... complete extra credit category (begun to serve as a catch-all for books I couldn't include in my original challenge):
1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ****
2. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov ***½
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ***
4. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien ****
5. A Handfu ... The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Pet Semetary by Stephen King
Plum Island by Nelson Demille
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
I just came home from B&N with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which has been on my wishlist for over a year. The B&N editions were priced this way: Trade paperback for $6.95 and hardcover for $7.95. The hardcover looked like it had better quality paper and larger font, so I snapped it up. ...
Being a children’s author is not a demotion. Demotion being defined as: “To reduce in grade, rank, or status.”
The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Puck of Pook's Hill, etc. are classics of children’s literature.
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Books in my TBR queue beginning with J include Junkie, because I want to check out some more William Burroughs and The Jungle, which I own but have not yet read.
-- M1001 ... Jim
Around the World in Eighty Days
Madam Bovary
Modern Classics:
Brideshead Revisited
The Bell Jar
The Jungle
Bridge of San Luis Rey ( re-read)
Orlando
Sons and Lovers
... ed
78.A Clockwork Orange
79.American Gods
80.The Russian Debutante's Handbook
83.Persuasion
88.Pinnochio
96.Jungle Book
104.The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson
109.War and Peace
112.Wicked
... got their dividends, then who got ripped off? I sense an incomplete picture here.
Edit: Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle for the purpose of promoting socialism, although when I read it, his call to unionize at the end of the book seemed rather tacked on. Whatever his political ... Extra Credit: 1001 Remainders {complete}
1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ****
2. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov ***½
3. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien ****½
4. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ****½
5. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ***
6. Lucky Jim by ... OOOH! And exactly what sort of awakening was it?
I've read The House of Mirth and The Jungle is on my B&N wishlist. The Jungle is the only one I've read, but I can't help wondering what (or who) woke Helena Ritchie up. Okay, now don't flame me or anything, but... The books I have laughed the hardest at were:
The Jungle, because no one could possibly have THAT much bad luck. One chapter everything's going good, their getting married or getting a house, then the very next chapter (and for a few chapters ... ... of a Thousand Candles, Meredith Nicholson 10 copies
5. Jane Cable, George Barr McCutcheon 3 copies
6. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 2,891 copies
7. The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, Margaret Deland 4 copies
8. The Spoilers, Rex Beach 6 copies
9. The ... ... James Ellroy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kippling
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Puppet on ... ... )
26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
27. H.G. Wells - War of the worlds
28. Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book
29. Hector Malot - Alleen op de wereld - (The adventures of Remi)
30. James Redfield - De celestijnse belofte (The Celestine Prophecy)
31. Arthur Golden Dagbo ... ... in whose care I was often placed. She only left me alone when I was reading. I can't tell you the number of times I read The Jungle Book. Reading was a safety net.
So many books mentioned raise good memories, Charlotte's Web, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, Black Beauty (which apparently ... 8. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I wanted to read Oil upon which the movie "There will be Blood" is based on. But I decided to read at least one of his earlier works before I tackled Oil because in my experience the works on which most movies are based are usually inferior to the author's ... ... bookstore as I want to have more concrete information on that period.
Alrighty, I am off to finish Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. I absolutely love it. I had never heard of it till recently when I heard of the movie "There will be blood" which is based on his book Oil. I wanted to read ... ... and have some lovely tea. I am currently reading four books but I find that I am concentrating most on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. I was going to read Oil but I wanted to read something he had written earlier so I decided to try The Jungle first.
In my opinion Angels and Demons is ... The Jungle had a lot of power in its day...made more amazing by the fact that it was a work of fiction. This book gripped the public when it was published in 1905. A year later the Food and Drug Act was approved by congress. The Act created one of the first government regulatory agencies, now ... ... to what books influenced my beliefs about vegetarianism... the first one that really got me thinking was Upton Sinclair's The jungle. But also growning up in a farming area, treating our animals with kindness and then slaughtering them to eat also got me thinking as a kid... there had to be a ... ... ***½
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01/26/08
"Indian Summer of a Forsyte" ****
by John Galsworthy
01/27/08
The Jungle ***
by Upton Sinclair
01/27/08
†1984 (#15) ****
by George Orwell
01/29/08
White Noise **½
by Don DeLillo
01/30/08
Can't really see what ... ... decided if I would recommend it to others. I have also purchased, but not yet started reading, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Jungle Book not by Upton Sinclair as the touchstone suggests but the one by Rudyard Kipling (and not Disney). I am sampling Jim Cramer's Stay Mad and Rhett Butler's ... OK here comes my Kindle report: I bought The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls; The Jungle Book (way cheap...$1.54 +/-) and I am sampling Rhett Butler's People and Jim Cramer's Stay Mad to Life. I think I might buy the Rhett Butler one if it is cheap enough.
So far reading on ... ... thanks for telling me about Oil!. I'll keep my eye out for that if I see it at a used book sale. I enjoyed The Jungle, as well, however, I felt that it ended kind of abruptly. It seemed like Upton Sinclair could have gone on with the story for another couple hundred pages, ... sferrando, I read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle last year too and enjoyed it a whole lot more than I thought I might. This past month I read Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!, the 'inspiration' for the new film There Will Be Blood, and while there was too much proselytizing on socialism, I still ... Following a course in U.S. History, I decided to pick up Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It was very difficult for me to consider eating meat for some time afterwards... not to mention all of the horrific social and political aspects that Sinclair brings to light throughout the book. ... Tolstoy
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hess
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
... Tolstoy
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hess
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
75. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ... read yet because they are so long (or longer than your average novel), including War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Jungle and Les Misérables.
-- M1001 ... consider Grapes of Wrath, which won him the Pulitzer, and East of Eden gripping works. I've read Upton sinclair's The Jungle which, like Grapes of Wrath has a social theme to it, but Steinbeck seemed to be able to document a social situation without preaching; Sinclair sometimes got ... ... you wouldn't want to live there!
The Glass Castle
A Doll's House
Animal Farm
The Deep End of the Ocean
The Jungle
edited to fix touchstones When I was in high school we read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. He was an example of the best of the "Muckrakers" or the "Yellow Journalists."
I think a volume on this subject would be interesting, and it should include Sinclair.
On the other hand, I am not a fan of Philip Roth and ... ... done with those two. And my next two I've already chosen. They are both set early in American history. I've already read The Jungle and thought it was interesting, so I thought I'd read something around the same time period. {Okay so there's a few years difference. But, you know...;)}
The ... ... Letter. I was such a reader in those days, I found them all good, although I didn't eat sausage for a long time after The Jungle. I think the point is to expose kids to literature. If they're never going to read as adults, at least they've read some of the best authors the US has to ... This new version of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle really caught my eye - in a bad way.
 I have to agree with Lali about The Jungle, it was a pretty torturous summer read...but I'm pretty sure the book report I wrote was almost more so. It was a book I was totally unable to get into which was only worsened by the fact that it was too. darn. long.
I guess I'm in the minority with ... ... by the reaction to her mordant little story The Lottery.
And, famously, Upton Sinclair recognized that his novel The Jungle was received by the public in a way he had not intended. He wanted to evoke public outrage at the working conditions in the Chicago stockyards and packing ... The Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
The Blackboard Jungle by Richard Brooks
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
The Great Kapok Tree: a tale of the Amazon rain forest by Lynne Cherry ... is such a character in conflict!! I actually own several copies of this book)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Beowulf (which is right up there with Crime and Punishment)
I own all of these books and I ... I have been slogging through three very slow and sad books over the past two weeks (The Jungle, The Last Town on Earth and All over but the shoutin' and now that I have finished all but one of them I'm ready for something light and easy to read to cleanse my palate. I'm going to read shaopoho ... Finally finished The Jungle but am still getting through The Last Town on Earth which I'm not really enjoying and All over but the shoutin' which I am enjoying. But all three are downer books so I think I'm going to need a definite fun book soon. ... Guide to the Galaxy it's one of my favorites and all of the four sequels are wonderful as well.
I'm just getting into The Jungle and am a good way through the memory keepers daughter at this point. I finished Land's End by Michael Cunningham which wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would ... I'm reading The Jungle it's one I've always wanted to read. Then I saw so much about it on here in the last I just had to pick it up. I finished Jane Eyre an loved it. I'm a huge Jane Austen fan but hadn't read all of the Brontes yet. I was cativated. I'm enjoying The Memory Keepers Daughter ... LouisBranning: Re The Jungle, have you also read Fast Food Nation? Doesn't seem like that much has changed in 100 years or so ... ... also recommend Jeremy Treglown's exceptional Roald Dahl: A Biography from 1994.
During the last 20 to 30 pages of The Jungle, I thought Upton Sinclair managed to go just a bit overboard, giving his characters free rein to rather aggressively tout the advantages and benefits of ... The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
(Metaphorically, of course.)
Tarzan of the Apes
Gorillas in the Mist
The Jungle Book
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan WOW! They are beautiful indeed!!
In looking at them I realized that my daughter has this edition of The jungle, which, incidentally, happens to be the first complete and uncensored one, just like Upton Sinclair wrote it. Here are some suggestions for Illinois:
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Pit by Frank Norris
Herzog by Saul Bellows
Books by Sara Paretsky The Jungle by Upton Sinclair for Chicago. Or, on a less serious note, a Sara Paretsky mystery for current Chicago flavor. I'm sure there are other Illinois related authors, but as a former Chicagoan, I can't think of any. :D I think The Jungle and and Sister Carrie helped me understand Chicago more than any other books about it I've read. To me, they are like hearing about when someone was a kid and what made him the way he was, like why he drinks too much or hates poodles. American Skin is a favorite because ... ... King... just kidding, you know I meant Jane Austen
The Stranger by Albert Camus (my old one went to shreds)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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