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Used bookstores are one of my
favorite places, I can spend hours looking through old books and wondering who
owned them. "Tell you what none of us should do: We shouldnt read
anything that has even a whiff of best seller about it. Its a time to kick off
the shackles of commerce along with our shoes, a time to seek out literary
treasures that are un-hyped, forgotten or just plain out of print." John
Schulian, 2002
Obscure But Interesting
Interesting Forgotten books that
are worth reading: Lets start with The Female Jesuit
one of the anti catholic novels written during the mid to late 1800's.
This one tells the story of a female Jesuit very interesting since there were
no female Jesuits, who goes to work for a proper English family with the sole
purpose of converting them to Catholicism. Then we can move on to
My Life in Many States and Lands the
story of George Train the man who Verne based his Phileas Fogg character on. An
interesting man, who led an extraordinary life.
From the Hudson to the Yalu, The author, who went to Korea as an
armored officer but wound up leading an infantry platoon, uses his own story as
a narrative framework for this chronicle of the Korean War years. He brings the
big picture to life by means of vivid stories of that "forgotten war, " told by
men who knew it face-to-face at the junior officer level. Detailed accounts of
combat as seen by these men who served in a wide range of units is well
presented. Barrymore the name conjures up the acting family but before them
The Last Earls of Barrymore were raising hell
read this biography of Hellgate and Cripplegate written in 1894 and you will
learn that the bad behavior of today's young and rich is not new at all. |
Some suggestions My Life in Many States and Foreign
Lands
 The Female
Jesuit
 From The Hudson To The Yalu
 The Last Earls of Barrymore
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The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller first
published in Paris in 1934 but banned in the US until 1961 because of
obscenity. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship
standards permitted its publication. The story of an expatriate living in
Paris, the artists, women and hanger ons and their sexual adventures.
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To be a book-collector is to
combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
If you do not see what you are
looking for, e-mail me and I will try to find it for you. Enjoy!
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