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Hi,
Just discovered the group myself as I'm on something of a travel book jag. Just finished Travels with Charley in Search of America and moved straight onto The Great Railway Bazaar. Just started Oryx and Crake on audiobook.
Also currently reading:
Travels with Charley
True Tales of American Life
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident ... or Steinbeck because I don't enjoy their attitudes about women. However I read and enjoyed both A Moveable Feast and Travels with Charlie which are non fiction by those authors both of which appealed to me more.
I can still appreciated however how Hemingway pared down language in his ... I wrote the list out and then misplaced it. I'll have to see if I can remember it...
American Novels;
Travels with Charley (Read)
Tender is the Night
American Gods
Classics;
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Read)
Great Expectations
Children's Books;
The Story of Tracy Beake ... ... of Roger Ackroyd
A Caribbean Mystery
The Hobbit
Noughts and Crosses
Angels and Demons
Cirque du Freak
Travels with Charley
Fever Pitch
I'm probably going to change my mind over this list very quickly, but it's fairly accurate. Don't think I've left out anything too ... > 24 tatleriv,
If you enjoy Travels With Charley,
you might like to check out Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least-Heat Moon.
Continuing my Travels With Charley. A fun read. Love Steinbeck's cantankerous observations. >83 - I just finished Travels with Charley and loved it. So different from what I've read of his fiction. I found East of Eden quite disturbing.
>19 - cabegley, yep, I think I'm being optimistic about London: a biography. It's good, but it's my before-bed-book and I'm crawling. I have 3 ... ... Catcher in the Rye, Wise Blood, and Breakfast of Champions, so it's in good company.
I started the nice-and-easy Travels With Charley as an antidote. I despise Of Mice and Men. The only Steinbeck book I like is Travels with Charley. ... A Countrywoman's Year by Rosemary Verey
8. Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart
Travel
1. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
2. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul ... I still have The Joy of Cooking and Happiness is a Warm Puppy on my shelves. I thoroughly enjoyed Travels with Charley.
Travels with Charley by Steinbeck? ... the things (my wife will, however, for groceries). My member purchases:
Finn Family Moomintroll
Remains of the Day
Travels With Charlie
The Best of Dorothy Parker
I also picked up:
Travels With A Donkey
On their way:
the Robert Louis Stevenson travel box set
Birds of N ... Just Travels with Charlie for me. I've got Travels with Charley, the two cookbooks, and the New English Bible with the Apocrypha.
As a sidenote, I liked Franny and Zooey better than "The Catcher in the Rye." Franny And Zooey and Travels With Charley: In Search Of America. Both are still treasured possessions. ... I have to read to him as he can't turn the pages). His favourite books in the world are The Last Family in England and Travels With Charley -favourite catch-phrase "Ftt".
I know he'd just love to hear about other LTers reading companions. Anyway, I have to keep him involved with this or ... I'm reading A Farewell to Arms, my Hemingway for the year.
Also I'm almost done with Travels with Charley, which I'm in love with. I'd never read any non-fiction by John Steinbeck and I've found myself enjoying it more than his fiction. I'm a sucker for travel memoirs anyway, but I really ... #108 teelgee: Much as I like dogs, I remember the first time I tried to Travel With Charley. HE was ok but I thought the trip and the people visited were a bore.
Only doing up to 1952. I have three gorgeous, seductive, glorious Library of America volumes. I opened the first to Tortilla Fla ... >106 Joyce, that sounds wonderful! Are you going to Travel with Charley too?
I started The Land of Women by Regina McBride last night; so far I'm not thrilled with it, but I've seen some good reviews by people I usually align with on books, so I'm giving it a chance.
Also reading ... ... a long out-of-print book called Junket, about an airedale. Farley Mowat's The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Maybe Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, though that's mostly about, you know, Steinbeck and America.
Pocket Pets -
Changed forever by Ms Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Watership Down. A Sq ... Last Exit To Brooklyn
Travels With Charley
From The Earth To The moon
Leaving las Vegas
Journey To The Center Of The Earth Goodwill yielded the following today:
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg There and Back Again by Pat Murphy
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
The Toll-Gate, by Georgette Heyer
Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck, he travels around the US with his poodle Charlie. ... to write since Nicole is so obviously based on Zelda.
Steinbeck... I don't think you can go wrong. Try Travels With Charley In Search Of America or The Moon Is Down if you want to see him writing outside of his usual Central California setting. ... novel set in old New Orleans)
6. The Wayward Bus by JohnSteinbeck has 288 owners and 5 reviews. (a fictional Travels with Charley.
7. House Divided by Ben Ames Williams has 16 owners and no reviews. (Civil War)
8. Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis has 85 ... ... thers.
1) Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
2) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
3) Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
... being "currently read" and have those books show up in the user's mini-feed with a message like "Steven has started reading Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck"
3) Show when a user has added new books to her library. For some small number of books( 2 perhaps) it would give a message ... A Wizard Abroad
Travels with Charley: In search of America
Looking for the Mahdi
Searching for Dragons
Quest for a Maid
Outbound Flight
The Million Year Hunt/Ships to the Stars
Path into the unknown
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop
... about a child getting a new pet dog)
A Night in the Lonesome October (narrated a watchdog named Snuff)
Terrier
Travels With Charley (the only Steinbeck I actually like - nonfiction memoir about traveling across America with his dog)
A Wizard Alone (Kit's dog, Ponch, is in all ... Catherine, Called Birdy
Venetian's Wife
Terrier
The Sagan Diary
Travels with Charley (I think; it's been a while since I read it) Finished this last month:
17.Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
18.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
20.Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
21.Fat Land by Greg Critser
22.A Taste for Death by P.D. James
23.How to Read Literature Like a ... Travels with Charley
Nine Princes in Amber
Not exactly road trips, but travel of other kinds (horses or walking):
The Blue Sword
Lioness Rampant
Deerskin
The Castle in the Attic
The Farthest-Away Mountain My downfall is the category Books I've Started But Can't Quite Finish:
1. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
6. ... jthierer, if you want to reacquaint yourself with Steinbeck, try Travels with Charley. It's one of the quintessential road books and it's not overly laden with themes and motifs.
I had As I Lay Dying assigned in high school and absolutely hated it. I remember that one chapter ... 100, 106
Travels with Charley is the only Steinbeck I like. It's on my to-reread list, since the last time I read it was several years ago, and all I remember is that I liked it. #100 - Travels With Charley made me take another look at Steinbeck. I had written him off as a bitter and hopeless man. I love that book. Call of the wild by Jack London
Lilith beat me to Travels with Charley
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