Endurance

by Jay , San Diego, Friday, July 10, 2015, 10:49 (3205 days ago) @ Buck Mulligan

It's the #1 book in the Amazon category of "Winter Sports", which is pretty funny.

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TPG's 80 Other Books Every Man Should Read (limit 2/poster) - Buck Mulligan, 2015-07-10, 08:09
- Weird: A Confederacy of Dunces but not The Moviegoer? - Grantland, 2015-07-14, 08:56
- A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman - nedhead, 2015-07-14, 07:58
- anything by Bill Bryson - Pat, 2015-07-10, 20:19
  - They're making A Walk In The Woods into a movie! - NDTerp, 2015-07-11, 05:37
    - I'm in - scriptcomesfirst, 2015-07-11, 07:54
- Death Comes for the Archbishop and The Guns of August - Flann, 2015-07-10, 19:51
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - fightinamish, 2015-07-10, 18:27
  - Absolutely, though the last book is a real downer - KelleyCook, 2015-07-10, 19:45
    - Doesn't the 5th book contain the story about the - Jeff (BGS), 2015-07-10, 20:26
- In the historical category ... - Mark, 2015-07-10, 17:53
- My Struggle; The Master and Margarita - ndbk32, 2015-07-10, 15:56
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance & The Moral Animal - Jeff (BGS), 2015-07-10, 13:37
- "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" & "Fearless" - scriptcomesfirst, 2015-07-10, 12:51
  - Have you read - hobbs, 2015-07-10, 13:41
    - Yessir. I'm partial to WWS because of the personal - scriptcomesfirst, 2015-07-10, 14:39
  - "The Dwarf " Pars Lagerkvist, "Studs Lonigan" James T. - Frank, 2015-07-10, 13:22
- The Last Good Kiss and Lord Jim - Romulox, 2015-07-10, 12:38
  - Crumley belongs in the top 80. - Buck Mulligan, 2015-07-10, 15:49
- Trout Madness and On the Road - JRT, 2015-07-10, 11:37
  - On the Road should be standard issue for teenage boys - HCE, 2015-07-10, 16:30
- True Detective - Mike (bart), 2015-07-10, 11:36
- God, Country, Notre Dame. The Swiss Family Robinson. - BillyGoat, 2015-07-10, 11:13
- Endurance - Jay, 2015-07-10, 10:49
- Primo Levi "The Drowned and the Saved"..... - MTIrish, 2015-07-10, 10:47
- Gilead- Marilynne Robinson; Book of the New Sun- Gene Wolfe - PAK, 2015-07-10, 09:57
  - Just read Gilead again. So beautiful. - Slainte Joe, 2015-07-10, 12:45
- East of Eden, Vietnam (by Karnow) - Kevin, 2015-07-10, 09:38
  - Did you mention "Tinkers" yesterday? - HullieAndMikes, 2015-07-10, 09:47
    - Yes -- Tinkers is excellent. - Kevin, 2015-07-10, 09:52
- Sand County Almanac (Leopold), Fortress of Solitude (Lethem) - JD in Portland, 2015-07-10, 09:06
  - great call on Sand County almanac - Mike (bart), 2015-07-10, 09:22
- The Count of Monte Cristo, The Last Lion - Brian, 2015-07-10, 08:58
- action/adventure category - Mike (bart), 2015-07-10, 08:54
- Catch 22, Crime and Punishment - irishvol, 2015-07-10, 08:51
  - Am I the only person - Dylan, 2015-07-10, 09:54
    - I couldn't get through it. - BillyGoat, 2015-07-10, 11:14
    - also hated it - Mike (bart), 2015-07-10, 10:25
    - I don't hate it as much as Portnoy's Complaint or Updike - Kevin, 2015-07-10, 10:05
      - I couldn't stand American Pastoral - HullieAndMikes, 2015-07-10, 10:14
        
        I am a sucker for the epic novel - Kevin, 2015-07-10, 10:19
        
        Water Music by TC Boyle. You, Slainte and Bart among - Buck Mulligan, 2015-07-10, 10:31
        
        I'll check it out -- thanks. - Kevin, 2015-07-10, 10:44
        
        I almost put in East of Eden, too - Dylan, 2015-07-10, 10:26
        
        I like Kavalier and Klay and most of Empire Falls - HullieAndMikes, 2015-07-10, 10:26
        
        I like Haruf a lot. - Kevin, 2015-07-10, 10:27
- The Baroque Cycle & Red Storm Rising - KelleyCook, 2015-07-10, 08:47
- Frankenstein, Animal Farm - Dylan, 2015-07-10, 08:42
- Manchester, American Caesar; Sheen, Life of Christ. - Madtown, 2015-07-10, 08:41
- Max Brooks - World War Z; Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo - NDTerp, 2015-07-10, 08:40
- Oh The Places You'll Go and Calvin & Hobbes - JN, 2015-07-10, 08:37
  - Calvin and Hobbes is great for all ages - CK08, 2015-07-10, 08:40
    - ^ This is the proper answer. ^ - hobbs, 2015-07-10, 08:50
- The Disaster Artist. - Ken Fowler, 2015-07-10, 08:36
- Screw your manly rules, Buck. - Slainte Joe, 2015-07-10, 08:35
  - Yeats, B. H. Fairchild for poems - Buck Mulligan, 2015-07-10, 09:51
- 1776 and War, what is it good for? - Bingo, 2015-07-10, 08:35
  - I like 1491 for this list more than 1776. - PAK, 2015-07-10, 10:01
    - Thanks for the suggestion. - Bingo, 2015-07-10, 11:13
      - It is a great book. It told a lot of stories I hadn't heard. - PAK, 2015-07-10, 11:33
- American Caesar & The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - hobbs, 2015-07-10, 08:30
- The Stand, Stephen King; Breaks of the Game, Halberstam - Jim (fisherj08), 2015-07-10, 08:30
- Helprin: A Soldier of the Great War; McMurtry: Lonesome Dove - Bill, 2015-07-10, 08:23
  - Lonesome Dove was on the original list - MattG, 2015-07-10, 08:24
    - Scratch Dove then. Add John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany - Bill, 2015-07-10, 08:31
- Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird - MattG, 2015-07-10, 08:21
- A Death in the Family by James Agee - HullieAndMikes, 2015-07-10, 08:18
- Percy: The Moviegoer; Cooper: Last of the Mohicans - PMan, 2015-07-10, 08:17
- Ulysses; Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! - HCE, 2015-07-10, 08:14
- 1. Infinite Jest by DFW and 2. The Razor's Edge by Maugham - Buck Mulligan, 2015-07-10, 08:10
  - I can't be the only one who hated "Infinite Jest" - KelleyCook, 2015-07-10, 10:20

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