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 shouldn’t 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. Read more |
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"
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