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100 books everyone must read

Most of us always have that one question in the back of our minds; given our limited time and busy schedules, which are the books one must read through to get up the curve? While, the tastes and preferences vary from one to the other, the laundry list provided by Amazon.com takes almost everyone into account.

Hidden away in the books department on Amazon.com, shoppers can find a list of 100 great reads everyone should read in their lifetime, recommended by the Amazon Books editors. The list is impressive and covers a large span of time, weaving together classics like Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations with more modern options like The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins.Below, shop the list of books (listed here in alphabetical order.)

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1. 1984, by George Orwell

2. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking

3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah

5. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!, by Lemony Snicket

6. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle

7. Selected Stories, 1968-1994, by Alice Munro

8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll

9. All the President's Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

10. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt

11. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume

12. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

13. Beloved, by Toni Morrison

14. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall

15. Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat

16. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl

18. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White

19. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese

20. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown

21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1, by Jeff Kinney

22. Dune, by Frank Herbert

23. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson

25. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

26. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown

27. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

28. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.

29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling

30. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

31. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri

32. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware

34. Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

35. Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson

36 Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

37. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

38. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez

39. Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich

40. Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

41. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris

42. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

43. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie

44. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis

45. Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham

46. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

47. Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen

48. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi

49. Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth

50. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

51. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson

52. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

53. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

54. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

56. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

57. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

58. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz

59. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

60. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride

61. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen

62. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

63. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

64. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

65. The Giver, by Lois Lowry

66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman

67. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

68. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

69. The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne

70. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

72. The Liars' Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr

73. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan

74. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

75. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

76. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright

77. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

78. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks

79. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan

80. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

81. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

82. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro

83. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe

84. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

85. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

86. The Shining, by Stephen King

87. The Stranger, by Albert Camus

88. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

89. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien

90. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

91. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

92. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami

93. The World According to Garp, by John Irving

94. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

95. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

96. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

97. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand

98. Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann

99. Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein, by Shel Silverstein

100. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

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Happy Birthday Mike!!! Today he is 50 years old a very important drummer, not just for me, but for the whole world of music. Michael Stephen Portnoy, best known as Mike Portnoy, has continued to inspire generations of drummers with his imagination and energy since 1984. I just wanted to have him wishes by sharing his video recording of "Oblivion" one of my favorite songs. The Lyvers’ Drummer, GianLyvers. - ————————————————————————— - Oggi compie 50 anni un batterista molto importante, non solo per me, ma per tutto il mondo della musica. Michael Stephen Portnoy, conosciuto ai più come Mike Portnoy, dal 1984 ad oggi continua a ispirare generazioni di batteristi con la suo fantasia ed energia. Volevo giusto fargli gli auguri condividendo il video di lui che registra “Oblivion” una delle mie canzoni preferite. The Lyvers’ Drummer, GianLyvers.

#mike portnoy #drummer #best drummer #happybirthday #happy birthday #50 years

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list-of-literature · 7 years

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The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe The Jolly Postman or Other Peoples Letters, Janet & Allan Ahlberg The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken The Wanderer, Alain-Fournier Commedia, Dante Alighieri Skellig, David Almond The President, Miguel Angel Asturias Alcools, Guillaume Apollinaire It's Not About The Bike - My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin The Ghost Road, Pat Barker Carrie's War, Nina Bawden Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow G, John Berger Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman Mister Magnolia, Quentin Blake Forever, Judy Blume The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton Five On A Treasure Island, Enid Blyton The Enchanted Wood, Enid Blyton A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne The Snowman, Raymond Briggs Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown Gorilla, Anthony Browne The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess Junk, Melvin Burgess Would You Rather?, John Burningham The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler Possession, A.S. Byatt The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino The Stranger, Albert Camus Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter Looking For JJ, Anne Cassidy Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang Papillon, Henri Charriere The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer "Clarice Bean, That's Me", Lauren Child I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, Lauren Child Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M Coetzee Princess Smartypants, Babette Cole Nostromo, Joseph Conrad The Public Burning, Robert Coover Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay That Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown, Cressida Cowell House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski The Black Sheep, Honoré de Balzac Old Man Goriot, Honoré de Balzac The Second Sex, Simone de Beavoir The Story of Babar, Jean De Brunhoff The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery White Noise, Don DeLillo Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Lynley Dodd The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos The Brothers Karamzov, Fyodor Dostoevsky An American Tragedy, Theodore Drieser The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco My Naughty Little Sister, Dorothy Edwards Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G Farrell The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner "Absalom, Absalom!", William Faulkner Light in August, William Faulkner Take it or Leave It, Raymond Federman Magician, Raymond E. Feist Flour Babies, Anne Fine Madam Bovary, Gustav Flaubert A Passage to India, E. M. Forster The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon That Awful Mess on the Via Merulala, Carlo Emilio Gadda JR, William Gaddis The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner The Owl Service, Alan Garner In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories, William H. Gass Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin Once, Morris Gleitzman The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer Asterix The Gaul, Rene Goscinny The Tin Drum, Günter Grass Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, Emily Gravett Lanark, Alasdair Gray The Quiet American, Graham Greene Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway The Blue Lotus, Hergé The Adventures Of Tintin, Hergé The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse Where's Spot?, Eric Hill The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett The Odyssey, Homer High Fidelity, Nick Hornby Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz Dogger, Shirley Hughes Journey To The River Sea, Eva Ibbotson Little House In The Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James The Ambassadors, Henry James Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Judith Kerr One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey In Praise of Hatred, Khaled Khalifa Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury It, Stephen King The Queen's Nose, Dick King-Smith The Sheep-Pig, Dick King-Smith Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney Kim, Rudyard Kipling I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, Joyce Lankerster Brisley Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E Lawrence A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren The Call of the Wild, Jack London Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer Man's Fate, Andre Malraux The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel The Road, Cormac McCarthy The Kite Rider, Geraldine McCaughrean The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers "Not Now, Bernard", David McKee Tent Boxing: An Australian Journey, Wayne McLennan No One Sleeps in Alexandria, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo Beloved, Toni Morrison Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami Under the Net, Iris Murdoch The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov A Bend in the River, V.S Naipaul Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness The Knife Of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness The Borrowers, Mary Norton Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake Night Watch, Terry Pratchett The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett The Truth, Terry Pratchett Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett Truckers, Terry Pratchett Life: An Exploded Diagram, Mal Prett Paroles, Jacques Prévert The Shipping News, Annie Proulx In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust The Ruby In The Smoke, Philip Pullman Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon Live and Remember, Valentin Rasputin Witch Child, Celia Rees Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff I Want My Potty!, Tony Ross Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie Holes, Louis Sachar Blindness, Jose Saramango Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald Revolver, Marcus Sedgwick Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier Katherine, Anya Seton Come over to My House, Dr Seuss Daisy-Head Mayzie, Dr Seuss Great Day for Up!, Dr Seuss Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, Dr Seuss Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, Dr Seuss Hunches in Bunches, Dr Seuss I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!, Dr Seuss I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories, Dr Seuss I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Dr Seuss My Book about ME, Dr Seuss My Many Colored Days, Dr Seuss "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!", Dr Seuss On Beyond Zebra!, Dr Seuss The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, Dr Seuss The Butter Battle Book, Dr Seuss The Cat's Quizzer, Dr Seuss The Pocket Book of Boners, Dr Seuss The Seven Lady Godivas, Dr Seuss The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Dr Seuss What Pet Should I Get?, Dr Seuss You're Only Old Once!, Dr Seuss Dr Seuss's Book of Bedtime Stories, Dr Seuss Special shapes: A flip-the-flap book, Dr Seuss Dizzy days: A flip-the-flap book, Dr Seuss The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Memento Mori, Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark Heidi, Johanna Spyri The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", Laurence Sterne Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia, Chris Stewart Goosebumps, R.L. Stine Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore The Arrival, Shaun Tan The Secret History, Donna Tartt The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Froth on the Daydream, Boris Vian Creation, Gore Vidal Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut The Color Purple, Alice Walker Scoop, Evelyn Waugh The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, H.G Wells The Once And Future King, T.H. White Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse Native Son, Richard Wright Going Native, Stephen Wright The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham The Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, Mo Yan Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates We, Yevgeny Zamyatin Germinal, Emile Zola Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman & Caroline Binch Horrid Henry, Francesca Simon & Tony Ross Meg And Mog, Helen Nicholls & Jan Pienkowski Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury The Elephant And The Bad Baby, Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

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earpeeler · 7 years

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Drum Talk TV Channel – The Ox & The Loon Documentary Part 2 of 3 Here in part 2 you will see rehearsal footage and interviews from day 2 of rehearsals in preparation for the big show.

#Billy Sheehan #Brain Tichy #Brent Woods #Chad Smith #Chas West #James Lomenzo #Joe Retta #Kenny Aronoff #Michael Devin #Mike Portnoy #Oni Logan #Pancho Tomaselli #Robert Trujillo #Rowan Robertson #Stephen LeBlanc #Stephen Perkins #Tracii Guns #Veronica Bellino

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capsulas · 4 years

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La lista de los 100 mejores libros que tienes que leer

'1984', de George Orwell

'Breve historia del tiempo', de Stephen Hawking

'Una historia conmovedora, asombrosa y genial', de Dave Eggers

'Un largo camino: Memorias de un niño soldado', de Ishmael Beah

'Un mal principio', de Lemony Snicket

'Una arruga en el tiempo', by Madeleine L'Engle

'Selected Stories, 1968-1994', de Alice Munro (solo en inglés)

'Alicia en el país de las maravillas', de Lewis Carroll

'Todos los hombres del presidente', de Bob Woodward y Carl Bernstein

'Las cenizas de Ángela', de Frank McCourt

'¿Estás ahí, Dios? Soy yo, Margaret', de Judy Blume

'Bel Canto', de Ann Patchett

'Beloved', de Toni Morrison

'Nacidos para correr: la historia de una tribu oculta, un grupo de superatletas y la mayor carrera de la historia', de Christopher McDougall

'Palabras, ojos, memoria', de Edwidge Danticat

'Trampa 22 (Edición 50 aniversario)', de Joseph Heller

'Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate', de Roald Dahl

'La telaraña de Charlotte', de E.B. White

'Hijos del ancho mundo', de Abraham Verghese

'El poder de ser vulnerable', de Brené Brown

'Diario de Greg, Libro 1', de Jeff Kinney

'Dune', de Frank Herbert

'Fahrenheit 451', de Ray Bradbury

'Miedo y asco en Las Vegas', de Hunter S. Thompson

'Perdida', de Gillian Flynn

'Buenas noches, Luna', de Margaret Wise Brown

'Grandes esperanzas', de Charles Dickens

'Armas, gérmenes y acero: breve historia de la humanidad en los últimos trece mil años', de Jared Diamond

'Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal', de J.K. Rowling

'A sangre fría', de Truman Capote

'Intérprete de emociones', de Jhumpa Lahiri

'El hombre invisible', de Ralph Ellison

'Jimmy Corrigan, el chico más listo del mundo', de Chris Ware

'Confesiones de un chef', de Anthony Bourdain

'Vida después de la vida', de Kate Atkinson

'La casa de la pradera', de Laura Ingalls Wilder

'Lolita', de Vladimir Nabokov

'El amor en los tiempos del cólera', de Gabriel García Márquez

'Filtro de amor', de Louise Erdrich

'El hombre en busca de sentido', de Viktor E. Frankl

'Mi vida en Rose', de David Sedaris

'Middlesex', de Jeffrey Eugenides

'Hijos de la medianoche', de Salman Rushdie

'Moneyball: El arte de ganar en un juego injusto', de Michael Lewis

'Servidumbre humana', de W. Somerset Maugham

'En la carretera', de Jack Kerouac

'Memorias de África', de Isak Dinesen

'Persépolis', de Marjane Satrapi

'El lamento de Portnoy', de Philip Roth

'Orgullo y prejuicio', de Jane Austen

'Primavera silenciosa', de Rachel Carson

'Matadero Cinco', de Kurt Vonnegut

'Equipo de rivales: el genio político de Abraham Lincoln', de Doris Kearns Goodwin

'La edad de la inocencia', de Edith Wharton

'Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay', de Michael Chabon

'Autobiografía de Malcolm X', de Malcolm X y Alex Haley

'La ladrona de libros', de Markus Zusak

'La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao', de Junot Díaz

'El guardián entre el centeno', de J.D. Salinger

'El color del agua', de James McBride

'Las correcciones', de Jonathan Franzen

'El diablo en la ciudad blanca', de Erik Larson

'El diario de Ana Frank', de Ana Frank

'Bajo la misma estrella', de John Green

'El dador', de Lois Lowry

'La Brújula Dorada (La Materia Oscura)', de Philip Pullman

'El Gran Gatsby', de F. Scott Fitzgerald

'El cuento de la criada', de Margaret Atwood

'La casa en esquina de Pooh', de A. A. Milne

'Los juegos del hambre', de Suzanne Collins

'La vida inmortal de Henrietta Lacks', de Rebecca Skloot

'El club de los mentirosos', de Mary Karr

'El ladrón del rayo', de Rick Riordan

'El principito', de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

'El largo adiós', by Raymond Chandler

'La torre elevada: Al-Qaeda y los orígenes del 11-S', de Lawrence Wright

'El señor de los anillos', de J.R.R. Tolkien

'El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero', de Oliver Sacks

'El dilema del omnívoro', de Michael Pollan

'La caseta mágica', de Norton Juster

'La Biblia envenenada', de Barbara Kingsolver

'The Power Broker', de Robert A. Caro

'Elegidos para la gloria', de Tom Wolfe

'La carretera', de Cormac McCarthy

'El secreto', de Donna Tartt

'El resplandor', de Stephen King

'El extranjero', de Albert Camus

'Fiesta', de Ernest Hemingway

'Las cosas que llevaban los hombres que lucharon', de Tim O'Brien

'La oruga muy hambrienta', de Eric Carle

'El viento en los sauces', by Kenneth Grahame

'Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo', de Haruki Murakami

'El mundo según Garp', de John Irving

'El año del pensamiento mágico', de Joan Didion

'Todo se desmorona', de Chinua Achebe

'Matar a un ruiseñor', de Harper Lee

'Invencible', de Laura Hillenbrand

'El valle de las muñecas', de Jacqueline Susann

'Donde el camino se corta', de Shel Silverstein

'Donde viven los monstruos', de Maurice Sendak(vía La lista de los 100 mejores libros que tienes que leer)

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musicoviniciusrodrigues · 4 years

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125 livros essenciais para adultos, segundo a Biblioteca Pública de Nova York

A Biblioteca Pública de Nova York, mais conhecida como NYPL, está completando 125 anos em 2020. Fundada em 1985, é uma das mais importantes do mundo e abriga mais de 2,5 milhões de títulos em seu acervo. Em comemoração ao aniversário, o site da instituição publicou uma lista com 125 livros essenciais para adultos. A seleção conta com vários clássicos, como “Lolita” (1955), de Vladimir Nabokov, e “O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio” (1951), de J. D. Salinger; mas também possui alguns títulos recentes, como “A Visita Cruel do Tempo” (2012), de Jennifer Egan, e “A Amiga Genial” (2011), de Elena Ferrante.

1 — 1984, de George Orwell

2 — As Aventuras de Augie March, de Saul Bellow

3 — A Era da Ansiedade, de W. H. Auden

4 — Alexander Hamilton, de Ron Chernow

5 — Nada de Novo no Front, de Erich Maria Remarque

6 — Na Teia da Aranha, de James Patterson

7 — As Incríveis Aventuras de Kavalier e Clay, de Michael Chabon

8 — Deuses Americanos, de Neil Gaiman

9 — American Primitive, de Mary Oliver

10 — E Não Sobrou Nenhum, de Agatha Christie

11 — Argonautas, de Maggie Nelson

12 — Ariel, de Sylvia Plath

13 — Reparação, de Ian McEwan

14 — Autobiografia do Vermelho, Anne Carson

15 — Amada, de Toni Morrison

16 — O Sono Eterno, de Raymond Chandler

17 — A Fogueira das Vaidades, de Tom Wolfe

18 — Memórias de Brideshead, de Evelyn Waugh

19 — Brooklyn, de Colm Tóibín

20 — Ardil-22, de Joseph Heller

21 — O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio, de J. D. Salinger

22 — Citizen, de Claudia Rankine

23 — Cleópatra: Uma Biografia, de Stacy Schiff

24 — Atlas de Nuvens, de David Mitchell

25 — The Collected Poems of Langston Hugues, de Langston Hugues

26 — A Cor da Magia, de Terry Pratchett

27 — A Cor Púrpura, de Alice Walker

28 — O Diabo Veste Azul, de Walter Mosley

29 — O Demônio na Cidade Branca, de Erik Larson

30 — Duna, de Frank Herbert

31 — O Paciente Inglês, de Michael Ondaatje

32 — An Extraordinary Union, de Alyssa Cole

33 — Fahrenheit 451, de Ray Bradbury

34 — A Sociedade do Anel, de J. R. R. Tolkien

35 — A Quinta Estação, de N. K. Jemisin

36 — Fun Home: Uma Tragicomédia em Família, de Alison Bechdel

37 — A Guerra dos Tronos, de George R. R. Martin

38 — O Quarto de Giovanni, de James Baldwin

39 — O Deus das Pequenas Coisas, de Arundhati Roy

40 — Um Bom Homem é Difícil de Encontrar e Outras Histórias, de Flannery O’Connor

41 — Gotham, de Mike Wallace e Edwin G. Burrows

42 — As Vinhas da Ira, de John Steinbeck

43 — O Grande Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald

44 — O Conto da Aia, de Margaret Atwood

45 — Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal, de J. K. Rowling

46 — A Assombração da Casa da Colina, de Shirley Jackson

47 — O Coração é um Caçador Solitário, de Carson McCullers

48 — Uma Obra Enternecedora de Assombroso Génio, de Dave Eggers

49 — O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias, de Douglas Adams

50 — O Cão dos Baskervilles, de Arthur Conan Doyle

51 — Uma Casa Para o sr. Biswas, de Vidiadhar Naipaul

52 — A Casa da Alegria, de Edith Wharton

53 — Housekeeping, de Marilynne Robinson

54 — Uivo, de Allen Ginsberg

55 — Eu Sei Por que o Pássaro Canta na Gaiola, de Maya Angelou

56 — A Sangue Frio, de Truman Capote

57 — Índigo, de Beverly Jenkins

58 — Intérprete de Males, de Jhumpa Lahiri

59 — No Ar Rarefeito, de Jon Krakauer

60 — Homem Invisível, de Ralph Ellison

61 — Julian, de Gore Vidal

62 — O Caçador de Pipas, de Khaled Hosseini

63 — A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão, de Ursula K. Le Guin

64 — The Liars’ Club, de Mary Karr

65 — O Fio da Vida, de Kate Atkinson

66 — Life on Mars, de Tracy K. Smith

67 — Lolita, de Vladimir Nabokov

68 — Maus: a História de Um Sobrevivente, de Art Spiegelman

69 — Eu Falar Bonito Um Dia, de David Sedaris

70 — Meia-Noite no Jardim do Bem e do Mal, de John Berendt

71 — Os Filhos da Meia-Noite, de Salman Rushdie

72 — Dinheiro, de Martin Amis

73 — Moneyball: O Homem que Mudou o Jogo, de Michael Lewis

74 — Brooklyn sem Pai nem Mãe, de Jonathan Lethem

75 — Mrs. Dalloway, de Virgina Woolf

76 — A Amiga Genial, de Elena Ferrante

77 — Nudez Mortal, de J. D. Robb

78 — Filho Nativo, de Richard Wright

79 — Olive Kitteridge, de Elizabeth Strout

80 — On The Road, de Jack Kerouac

81 — Cem Anos de Solidão, de Gabriel García Márquez

82 — Laranjas Não São o Único Fruto, de Jeanette Winterson

83 — The Orphan Master’s Son, de Adam Johnson

84 — Cavalos Roubados, de Per Petterson

85 — A Parábola do Semeador, de Octavia E. Butler

86 — Persépolis, de Marjane Satrapi

87 — Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, de Annie Dillard

88 — O Complexo de Portnoy, de Philip Roth

89 — O Americano Tranquilo, de Graham Greene

90 — Rebecca: A Mulher Inesquecível, de Daphne du Maurier

91 — Os Vestígios do Dia, de Kazuo Ishiguro

92 — The Round House, de Louise Erdrich

93 — Regras de Cortesia, de Amor Towles

94 — Fugitiva, de Alice Munro

95 — Auto-Retrato Num Espelho Convexo, de John Ashbery

96 — O Iluminado, de Stephen King

97 — The Shipping News, de Annie Proulx

98 — Primavera Silenciosa, de Rachel Carson

99 — Slave to Sensation, de Nalini Singh

100 — Slouching Towards Bethlehem, de Joan Didion

101 — Stone Butch Blues, de Leslie Feinberg

102 — 28 Contos de John Cheever, de John Cheever

103 — O Estrangeiro, de Albert Camus

104 — O Sol Também se Levanta, de Ernest Hemingway

105 — O Talentoso Ripley, de Patricia Highsmith

106 — Dez de Dezembro, de George Saunders

107 — Seus Olhos Viam Deus, de Zora Neale Hurston

108 — O Mundo se Despedaça, de Chinua Achebe

109 — O Problema dos Três Corpos, de Cixin Liu

110 — O Sol é Para Todos, de Harper Lee

111 — Sonhos de Trem, de Denis Johnson

112 — A Volta do Parafuso, de Henry James

113 — A Insustentável Leveza do Ser, de Milan Kundera

114 — The Underground Railroad: Os Caminhos para a Liberdade, de Colson Whitehead

115 — Up In The Old Hotel, de Joseph Mitchell

116 — As Virgens Suicidas, de Jeffrey Eugenides

117 — A Visita Cruel do Tempo, de Jennifer Egan

118 — The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, de Isabel Wilkerson

119 — Watchmen, de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons

120 — Do Que Falamos Quando Falamos de Amor, de Raymond Carver

121 — Ruído Branco, de Don DeLillo

122 — Dentes Brancos, de Zadie Smith

123 — Crônica do Pássaro de Corda, de Haruki Murakami

124 — Wolf Hall, de Hilary Mantel

125 — The Woman Warrior, de Maxine Hong Kingston

125 livros essenciais para adultos, segundo a Biblioteca Pública de Nova York publicado primeiro em https://www.revistabula.com

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Favorite Podcasts 2016

I have a data entry job in a lab processing bodily fluids. I hate the monotonous job, but one perk of the job is I get to listen to podcasts 40 hours/week, time flies by, and I feel somewhat productive.

PERSONAL OPINIONS… -podcasts are best done between 2 people, preferably comedian friends. Sometimes, there can be too many cooks in the kitchen (Filmdrunk Frotcast, for instance, runs into this) -it’s usually best in person: you can sense that in some podcasts where they do it via Skype or on the phone -I avoid local sports talk radio like the plague—so you don’t get blowhards with hot takes/talking points where they have to have controversy to get ratings. Generally, everybody on podcasts gets along, it’s natural, funnier, and doesn’t fill hours. -while I don’t think some of these podcast comedians will ever become household names, they are doing some of the best work out there that’s ever been done comedically. It’s like Howard Stern and what Chris Rock said and I’m going to fuck this up: he might be the funniest person of all time if you compile what he did into a single hour. I feel like you could do these with a LOT of people. But they never will. -you listen long enough, it should feel like a friendship you are a part of. You know the people, get the inside jokes, and enjoy the banter. -best episodes tend to run 60 minutes or less—otherwise, it can get real bloated.

BEST EPISODES -End of World Election Night (Joe Rogan)—Bill Burr steals the live show from Stanhope, Rogan, Kreischer, etc—tour de force that came out the night of the Election while shit was going down. Burr is going for pure humor and some guests come on who have an issue with how he views things in a blunt, fair way where everything gets shit on and everything sucks: but, at the end of the day, his life is not going to be ruined. What I like about Burr is this: he will say awful things that you don’t agree with...but by the end you are on his side and laughing with him. -600 Dollar Podcast-‘Voyeur Motel’—Halpern reads out Gay Talese’s story of a guy who ran a hotel and had a secret viewing station set up above every guest’s bed and he would watch people have sex. It’s creepy, but here? Funny as hell. The ‘Back to the Future’ joke Halpern quickly gives almost made me crash on the Mass. Pike -Dollop/My Favorite Murder crossover-‘Otto in the Attic’ -Dollop does a murder w/ My Favorite Murder as guests. It is wild. -Dollop-‘Bundy 2: Oregon Takeover’ –one of the first Dollops was about Cliven Bundy, the anti-government rancher. This time, his kids took over Oregon—and, most recently, they went unpunished despite a takeover with guns. Just unreal. -Pardon My Take-‘Cat Killer Michael Rappaport’ (first part interview goes for 15 minutes or so) -Justin Halpern’s Papa Roach story on Frotcast—I was in tears at work listening to this. It helps to have been of age when Papa Roach was a thing in the late 90′s/early 2000s (Filmdrunk Frotcast; 3:30 mark on the ‘Best of 2016’: 90 second story basically)

BILL BURR’s Monday Morning Podcast (funniest comic alive mostly does a 1-man rant by himself) 2 episodes a week—1 of which is half throwback episodes

I don’t get how Burr does it: it should be impossible for Burr to carry a podcast each week by himself for an hour, but he does. He rambles for an hour, takes listener e-mail. He is THE only person I listen to advertisement readings for: he somehow makes that funny, shits on the ads who sometime remove them. But it’s like listening to a guy workshop some material and improve himself in small ways as a comic.

I will say this though: when somebody else enters the podcast, it becomes funnier. His wife, Nia. He can play ball with and you can sense him having an audience and naturally be funnier. 600 Dollar Podcast: a comedy podcast between 3 comedians/writers who talk about marriage & raising kids—but it’s totally not that at all and always goes AWOL 1 episode per week—but hasn’t been one in months Horrible title for a show—started off as ‘Wild’n’Out Without Nick Cannon’ but they got a cease and desist from Cannon’s lawyer.

Justin Halpern (Shit My Dad Says), Tommy Jonaghan (breakout guy of the show and a stand-up) and Patrick Monaghan (another TV writer)

This podcast has come the closest since Walking the Room to genuinely making me laugh out loud each week. Consistently. Great and funny stories of failure. Fucked up in the best way and goes FAR down the rabbit hole of topics.

BEST EPISODES…. #7-‘Voyeur Motel’ (Halpern’s Back to the Future joke) #11-‘It’s Called a Vagina’ (when Halpern loses his shit at the 10:15 mark) Dollop (two comedians: American history read to a friend who has no idea what the topic is about. Point is, you realize America has NEVER been great and it’s supremely and endlessly fucked up) Walking the Room is my favorite podcast ever. Laugh-out loud funny friendship and THE best and funniest take on unending failure and, like Patton Oswalt said, being a shit-magnet for people/things. They do live reunion ones once a year—and they generally suck and aren’t the same but I’ll take what I can get. Anyways, that podcast is over—and the Dollop, a history, took over as Dave Anthony’s main thing (He’ll do conversations with Wil Anderson on TOFOP/FOFOP that are fun and closest to Walking the Room, but it’s not the same: he’s much more relaxed/normal whereas Dave was putting on a face as someone who hated his goofy friend, Greg, part of the time and was angrier than he was—and if you follow him on Twitter, he is comically angry and outspoken)

Sometimes, the Dollop can be hit-or-miss and I tune out a bit. Within first couple minutes, I can tell if it’s going to be amazing. Gareth can improv too much at times—but when it’s on, it’s on. They’re incredibly quick and it never tires how incredulous Gareth can get to the stories to Dave’s sarcastic, nonchalant storytelling while EVERYTHING that is happening is fucked up.

I think if they could make a lot of these Dollops into movies, they would be amazing. Some Mel Brooks-ian shit. I would rather see the Dollop’s version of Hugh Glass than Leonardo DiCaprio’s version in ‘the Revenant’. The show got a nod of the head in the ‘Tickled’ documentary.

But my jaw drops at American history I didn’t know about—or to its extent—and then laugh hard. Some of it is minimal characters/events that are just funny—others are wildly serious or show parallels to today.

BEST EPISODES… -‘Otto in the Attic’ (crossover live w/ My Favorite Murder) -‘Bundy 2: Oregon Takeover’ (anything involving Cliven Bundy’s family and their anti-government militia) -Black Panther Fred Hampton’ (not a funny one—but a guy I never heard of who should have been up there with MLK/Malcolm X had he not been assassinated by the FBI/American government) -‘Girl Watchers’ -‘Domino’s Pizza Story’ -‘Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo’ (pre-Trump guy) -‘Boston Busing ’74 & ’75 PT 1 & 2’

All-Time? ‘the Rube’ is the best in a runaway or me. ‘Purity Ring’, Tickled, Hugh Glass, some of the earlier ones are great.

IF YOU LIKE THIS: history’; Drunk History comedy…My Favorite Murder My Favorite Murder (true crime—one comic and her affable friend read 1 true crime murder to each other) 1 episode per week; 90 minutes-ish

True crime is all the rage—so it makes sense as to why this podcast has become insanely popular. It might be easy to shit on, in a morbid way, to go over murders in a ‘fan’ way: but it’s the same way movies/TV shows/news each night centers around murders. The show might glorify people—but there’s a common bent/theme around certain killers and their upbringings—or possible life-saving life mottos (‘fuck politeness’). I can see the show doing more positive things, giving $ to rape kits being tested (how the fuck was that NOT a thing?!?!)

I was aware of Karen Kilgarif because Dave Anthony dated her and she was a guest on Walking the Room. But it’s AMAZING when people you are vaguely aware of find their own avenue. And become stars in their own right—and people you look forward to hearing each week.

Her friend, Georgina, is just as easily likable. DEFINITELY comes across like a gossiping girly-girl (I heard that criticism), but she’s so damn cool, genuinely funny, and cute (even before I saw how pretty she was—there’s no way to describe it and you can sense it with how Karen adores/views her). It could be a really dour show OR droning in the wrong hands, but they make the topic rightfully serious but fun simultaneously in the best way. It is respectful to the victims.

But yeah, they read Wikipedia entries to each other and bring in a heavily-informed obsession to the podcast. But it’s the humor and chemistry that helps saves the show in tone. It’s not as heavily-researched as the Dollop or formatted in a natural storytelling bent, but it’s successful.

KEY EPISODES…. -Live from LA Podfest (crossover with Dave Anthony of the Dollop) -Chicago Podfest (changing point for the show: you realize that they are massive in this episode in ways they didn’t expect—with a rabid fanbase) IF YOU LIKE THIS: you’ll like the Dollop

PARDON MY TAKE (sports podcasts) 3 episodes per week; 60 minutes each I want to slap myself in the face listening to this—because these are the two best young, likable stars in comedy/sports. IT IS HARD TO DO SPORTS COMEDY DONE SUCCESSFULLY BECAUSE PEOPLE TAKE IT TO SERIOUSLY! Big Cat comes across like Jimmy Kimmel; PFTCommenter, however, steals the show—and he’s incomparable (maybe Stephen Colbert for being able to stay in character?): basically he’s born out of ‘hot-take’ culture and mocking it. There’s a format to the show, some interviews, segments.

Yes, it’s part of the Barstool Sports empire—run by douchebags (a friend of mine is cousins with Portnoy—tried getting an autograph for her boyfriend who loved Barstool Sports, he refused), but forget that.

LAUGH OUT LOUD… -Stingray Steve calls the fall of the Berlin Wall (a southern college football fan—they get him to announce each week’s big plays; when they FINALLY get him to call a key moment in history, I lost my shit at work) -Jimbo of the Week (mailbag fails from readers) -Monday Mornings after NFL games where they mimic Chris Berman’s recaps of the games

BEST EPISODE… -Catkiller Michael Rapaport (Rapaport is an actor/personality easy to shit on—but he comes across great as a podcast guest on Bill Simmons, Bill Burr, Pardon My Take: he’s game)—September 6th -Marlins Man/Foul Ball Fan (July 6th) -Martin Shkreli –when they shit on him; it’s interesting to hear them be affable/likable/funny with people they clearly hate. Marlins Man & this episode are pretty great interviews to hear how naturally funny they are, easy to get along with, even while still getting jokes in at people they hate. It’s not easy.

TOFOP & FOFOP (Australian comedian and funny actor friend poke at mostly American pop culture) -Charlie Clausen is the co-host on TOFOP -FOFOP gets its name from the show ‘Fringe’: it’s ‘Faux-TOFOP’, typically with American comedians. Dave Anthony is the best guest for FOFOP.

Wil Anderson is an Australian comic—he’s ridiculously affable, charming, and naturally funny. This is my closest substitute for Walking the Room, in a way, with its chemistry between two comics. It doesn’t come close, but that’s fine. I don’t get all the Australian references (rugby, pop culture, politics), but I don’t need to as an American—because America dominates just about every episode.

Clausen, on TOFOP, is damn likable. I can’t say enough about how naturally great Anderson/Clausen are on podcasts. It’s not just the accents that do it.

BEST EPISODES… -#263-‘Should I Go Home?’ : post-election w/ Dave Anthony I don’t think that’s right, but I’ve laughed out loud with pop culture breakdowns like Game of Thrones, Westworld, or shitting on Zach Snyder Batman/Superman movies in the funniest way I’ve heard (miles funnier than Filmdrunk-but no real format to the show) Inactives: NFL talk, fantasy football…and some parenting

In a just world, Matt Ufford should be a mammoth sports media star alongside Katie Nolan. He’s likable, outspoken, funny—plus he’s a military veteran/Captain in the Iraq War (though he does not come across as that).

So yeah, an NFL podcast with Ufford (Seahawks fan) and Nick Stevens (Pats/Star Wars fan and stand-up comedian). Stevens should be easy to hate as a stereotype of a Boston sports fan—but he’s naturally funny and likable, quick with jokes/takes on a spot.

The first episodes of 2015 are great for Matt’s all-time depressing Wal-Mart riff and Stevens’ reaction or Stevens bringing up the Butt Fumble that made me cry laughing—and Ufford lost his shit.

Also, I’ve NEVER done fantasy sports, but I still enjoy the show—most NFL show (NFL Ringer; Simmons; Barnwell) aren’t funny, have chemistry, and maybe too nerdy—this is wildly funny, enjoyable.

YOU’LL LIKE THIS: football, comedy, Star Wars

Filmdrunk Frotcast: Pop Culture, Movies, Comedy As I said, sometimes this show can have too many cooks in the kitchen. There can be 4-6 people on the show sometimes—some of whom aren’t funny or interesting like Laremy, Lindy West. Matt Lieb grew on me heavily. I found him unfunny and someone who comes across as funnier than they think and the other people on the show let him do his thing, don’t cut him off, laugh too hard, or know what to do. But he’s become a centerpiece of the show and now I don’t mind it. I dig Brendan, Joe Sincilito, and some other dude that’s been on more of late But Lieb does not really have an equal comedically to play with him, so he feels very much like an excited dog who just wants to play but could use another dog to play with. Horrible analogy, but feels right.

The show—and Uproxx, in general—hits on topics I am VERY familiar with and want to hear discussed. I hardly tend to agree with Vince Mancini’s tastes and sometimes opinions—he’s more of a critic than a comic. Lieb mostly looks for pure comedic bents and can derail the podcast, in a good way.

KEY GUESTS: Justin Halpern, PFTCommenter, Matt Ufford, Joe Sincilito SONG: Matt Lieb’s ‘Corporate Birthday’

BEST EPISODE: ‘Best of 2016’ (as an entry point, it does a good job capturing what the show does—love it or leave it. So lots of Lieb improv and made-up songs on the spot inbetween conversations)

REVISIONIST HISTORY: MALCOLM GLADWELL 10 episodes total (on hiatus)

Heavily organized and produced. I avoid boring This American Life podcasts like the plague, but Gladwell does that a bit—but better here. It’s interesting.

Best episodes: ‘Satire Paradox’; ‘Lady Vanishes’..the 3-part college episodes is an obsession and interesting political/social axe that Gladwell has to grind.

RECOMMENDED: if you like Malcolm Gladwell’s books even a little—this is otherworldly as an investigative podcast piece. It should NOT be this damn good. BILL SIMMONS (mostly sports) 2 episodes/week; 60-80 minutes each He gets shit on fairly—and sometimes over-the-top unfairly. He has a tired schtick and thoughts, a HORRIBLE voice (the opening segments on his TV show were due to be a disaster), unfunny. I don’t know how to say it: someone like Justin Halpern has a HORRIBLE voice—but he transcends that because he’s so goddamn funny. With that said, he’s talented, inspired/broke the door open for a lot of people, is a good podcast host, easy/affable enough to listen to, and has good taste. I don’t think his friends are funny or worthwhile (House; Cousin Sal) but I enjoy Jack-O. Mike Lombardi is painfully bad—but I have to sit through it as a die-hard Pats fan since he was in the Pats organization until just a couple months ago. But he gets damn good guests every now and then.

BEST GUESTS/EPISODES: Michael Rapaport, Gladwell, Wesley Morris, Al Michaels, Robert Smigel, Jay Glazer; Key & Peele, Chris Sacca, etc, etc COMMON SENSE w/ DAN CARLIN (a historian rants about politics in a focused way) Carlin is like Burr—he does a podcast by himself for an hour and rambles a bit. Difference is, there is not a single funny bone to Carlin’s body. I agree with Filmdrunk: Carlin comes across like a Right Wing radio host in how he talks—but he’s utterly brilliant. He’s the best guy to break down history in today’s terms. I subscribe more to his thinking as a leftist political-minded person.

I still need to check out ‘Hardcore History’: I hear that’s the shit, but I don’t have time for 12-16 hour anthology pieces. I started listening to ‘Wrath of Khan’ and it’s insane, thorough, well-researched and great storytelling. It’s daunting though.

RECOMMENDED: History/political buffs—with leftist-minded thinking and rambling HOUND TALL: Educational live comedy show where an expert talks about something and comics engage in it in a panel Basically, an expert comes in (a pimp; a woman who was in a harem; Science; Religion; etc) and a panel of comedians riff on that in a loose way. Moshe is brilliant as a host and he has good comedic guests (Pete Holmes; Joe DeRosa; John Mulaney; Natasha Legerro, etc)

SUGGEST IF YOU LIKE: education, in a weird way HANNIBAL BURRESS: HANDSOME RAMBLER Podcast is in early stages. Mainly it’s just Hannibal and his DJ chilling while Hannibal fucks around with autotune at times. He’s been having more conversations with guests lately (Chance the Rapper, for one)

Episode 2—Hannibal’s experience with Air B’n’B’s JOE ROGAN 3 episodes per week—3-4 hours each The podcast simply goes on for FAR too long (3-4 hours) and the topics meander far down the rabbit hole. But, if you’re like me and have the time, you don’t mind having to listen to a 3-4 hour conversation.

Rogan is a far-out dude, gets shit on for his opinions, lifestyle (Hunting & MMA most likely), and politically correct people (it’s overblown). But he’s an open and fair-minded dude, even if I don’t agree with him.

He’s kind of similar to Pete Holmes: long conversations, deep person—except Pete’s is maybe more focused with questions that come up in every podcast (it’s a funnier version of WTF with Marc Maron) and Holmes is just plain goofier and naturally funny. Rogan is mostly an intense dude—who has more life experience, hobbies, and skills.

BEST EPISODE: End of the World election night podcast Bill Burr steals the show from everybody, including Doug Stanhope. It’s unreal.

OTHER GUESTS: Bill Burr, Dan Carlin, Hannibal Burress, Neal Brennan

Pete Holmes: You Made it Weird (funnier, goofier, deeper Marc Maron conversations) Burr is the funniest comic alive—but Pete is probably the most insanely likable; they both should be massive. Burr does the best panel work on a night show: he’s an angry, loveable, opinionated dude, pushes buttons in a playful way. Holmes is a DEEP-thinking guy—who just is universally likable. Even his face, it’s goofy and instantly funny.

BEST GUESTS… Moshe Kasher (recent); Garry Shandling (month before he died)

SUGGEST IF YOU LIKE THIS: WTF w/ Marc Maron—if Maron was funny/looser/goofier in his interviews

WTF W/ Marc Maron Hardly interviews comics anymore since he’s nearly interviewed them all. I don’t bother to check out as much. He hasn’t had as much good interviews this year. I’ve seen him live, I think, 6 times (and 2 podcast tapings that were in Boston: first one was the best by far)

But reason why his podcast is great is that Marc isn’t a whole person, he’s finding himself—and you can sense he’s trying to make himself better and find himself with the people he’s interviewing. He’s looking for grace, understanding, and just being a better person.

Also, everybody skips the openings to all his podcasts—and just cut to the interview.

BEST INTERVIEWS… Robert Kelly (underrated: might be one of the funniest people I’ve seen live—his own podcast has great moments: him w/ Burr, DeRosa, Kreischer on Bertcast was amazing) Louis CK; Jeff Goldblum

CHAPO TRAP HOUSE Caught this only in the last week.

The Ben Shapiro takedown in the last episode of the year was great (they read passages from his awful book of the extreme conservative writer. Helps to know who he is in a way)

SUGGESTED EPISODE… -Post-Election breakdown ‘We Live in the Zone Now’: My thoughts exactly as a lefty on the election & state of politics

OPIE RADIO Anytime they release a Patrice O’Neal, Bill Burr, Louis CK, or Robert Kelly oldies, it’s special. Some of the most brutal and funny comedy ever was done on Opie & Anthony. A show as PACKED with people as, say, Filmdrunk Frotcast could use is actual comedians who are mostly all on the same level ‘funny’ as each other. Except the main thing with this show is that they bust balls in the cruelest way. Endlessly. With that said, you can easily hate the fans of the show and hate Anthony Cumia’s politics and how far-right/distant he has become (got fired from the show)—and still recognize how brilliant he was as a host. There’s a treasure trove of amazing material on Opie that you can put up with the best comedy ever. It’s the original podcast and when they re-release old shit, it’s a goldmine.

-We’ll See You in Hell w/ Joe Derosa (2 friends talk movies and shit on each other for liking or not liking certain movies: it’s Roger & Ebert basically) Derosa has a mostly HORRIBLE taste in movies.

I don’t think I could recommend this podcast to anybody unless you’ve heard him on a podcast with Pete Holmes, Bill Burr, Hound Tall, or Opie. Pete Holmes would 100% be the best (Pete’s podcast to hear Pete’s impression of Joe, Hound Tall) and Burr would be great to see how easily Burr shits on him. Otherwise, you’d just view him as an unlikable asshole.

Derosa has a couple albums out and they’re worthwhile. But there is one that he recorded that went AWOL and the crowd absolutely was drunk and derailed his special, so Joe went with, trashed his special, and just went off on the audience trashing them. It’s amazing. It’s “You Will Die” and it’s the second part of the special that was recorded and meant to be the special.

COULD GIVE UP ON AND BE COOL -Bill Barnwell (NFL podcast) -NFL Ringer -the Watch (TV/movies)

Only because I’m a big football/TV/movie fan—the hosts aren’t very good, funny, interesting or standout. I think they are good, straight-forward writers though (all formerly of Grantland). I listen to these episodes at 2x speed to make them go by faster. OVERRATED PODCASTS -Keeping It 1600 Politics podcasts from people who worked for Obama as policy advisor & speechwriter. They get insider guests/journalists. Sure, it’s mildly interesting to hear them go over current events—but it’s ultimately forgettable. Kind of smug. Jokes aren’t funny. They are inoffensive dudes and centrists. It’s a podcast for water-carrying establishment Democrats generally and I think they are blind to see at how limp and ineffectual their party is and why that is so. I guess the podcast that came after the election is interesting to listen to—and how shocked they were. They never thought it would happen—and they never thought Hillary was a horrible candidate.

I’d say the Ringer podcasts (the Watch; Simmons) the people who host the podcasts are NOT funny people at all. There’s laughter going on, but it’s never made by funny people. I like Simmons, but I can’t defend him being naturally funny the way he would like to be.

SUGGESTION: listen to Wil Anderson, an Australian comic, alongside Dave Anthony cover politics on FOFOP. I started listening to Chapo Trap House-that’s better than Keeping it 1600 and what I wanted in a politics podcast MOST DISAPPOINTING PODCASTS -Serial season 2—checked out after a couple episodes. It tried something new and failed miserably. -Deadcast –Drew Magary is the funniest online writer for a decade now, but he comes across as obnoxious and loud on podcasts. Tim Marchman? A boring contrarian killjoy. They go over topics I enjoy hearing about though, but I gave up. Also, they do it via Skype, so it misses some chemistry of podcasts that do it in person.

DON’T LISTEN TO ENOUGH BUT THINK ARE GOOD -Chelsea Peretti (Bill Burr episode is great—but that podcast has like 3 episodes a year) -Guys We Fucked -My Brother My Brother & Me (3 brothers, comedy—and I heard their Dungeons & Dragons podcast Adventure Zone is great—but I’m not into that game) -Sklarbro Country (Sports + comedy) -Todd Glass (Patton Oswalt as a guest was amazing a year or so ago)

PODCASTS I PLAN ON CHECKING OUT MORE IN 2017 -Chapo’s Trap House -Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History

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