RushFanForever Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) I stumbled upon this article by accident looking for something else. This article was posted on the New York Public Library website in 2012. The Neil Peart Reading List Edited July 10, 2020 by RushFanForever 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I've only read a dozen or of those, and bits of others. Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCarthy, Irving, Dostoyevsky (and the Duncan adaptation), Conrad, London, Twain. I'm surprised that Dos Passos isn't on the list, as he's been a major influence on Neil's late-era lyrics. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Still working my way through some of these.I like many of John Irving's books. I wish he had reviewed A Prayer For Owen Meany, probably my fave of his books. And he reminded me of The Grapes Of Wrath, (Steinbeck), and last summer during our first lock down(s) I was reading so much, I read it twice! It felt like I needed to be reminded that life has been much worse. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Still working my way through some of these.I like many of John Irving's books. I wish he had reviewed A Prayer For Owen Meany, probably my fave of his books. And he reminded me of The Grapes Of Wrath, (Steinbeck), and last summer during our first lock down(s) I was reading so much, I read it twice! It felt like I needed to be reminded that life has been much worse.I was just thinking of re-visiting both Steinbeck and Hemingway, maybe Tortilla Flat and The Sun Also Rises. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Just starting The Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy. I'm a sucker for good, slow westerns.I looked over the list RushFanForever posted above, looks like I have read fourteen and maybe 5 that I can't really say I remember or know them, but have read in the past. For lighter reading, French Revolutions, Tim Moore, is about "cheating" in the Tour de France modern style, pretty fun. I looked it up after reading in Neil's books about it, I think it was a gift from his brother in law? I continued reading more of his books, like following the historical Italian road race Giro d'Italia on a replica period bike with wooden rims and cork brakes. Funny, scary, always self-deprecating like the other adventures. Seriously, he wrote a book The Cyclist Who Went Out Into The Cold, about tracing the old route of the Iron Curtain on an old "folding shopping bike" - 6,000 miles! The books on the list missing authors are by Tim O'Brien, with the fourth by Jonathan Evison (I think). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Just starting The Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy. I'm a sucker for good, slow westerns. They are brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Yes brilliant writing, and clearly his love of horses is noteworthy (not saying that lightly, I appreciate that) and many passages needing a pause to contemplate (also what I like) but...my goodness he gets wordy. McMurtry is wordy, Irving is wordy, Kingsolver is wordy, but McCarthy takes it to another level! I honestly think I am good with All The Pretty Horses and might move on down the reading list.Tell me I am missing out and I might continue with the trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMontanaSKY Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 I constanty am amazed at how much reading Neil Peart managed to cram into his lifetime. I'll never be able to read everything he recommended on this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbanezJem Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 It`s quite close to my "Books that I`ve bought with the best of intentions, and even started to read some of " list :| 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Yes brilliant writing, and clearly his love of horses is noteworthy (not saying that lightly, I appreciate that) and many passages needing a pause to contemplate (also what I like) but...my goodness he gets wordy. McMurtry is wordy, Irving is wordy, Kingsolver is wordy, but McCarthy takes it to another level! I honestly think I am good with All The Pretty Horses and might move on down the reading list.Tell me I am missing out and I might continue with the trilogy.From the trilogy, I really liked The Crossing. The Road, a post-apocalyptic father-son tale, is a good, quick read as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Yes brilliant writing, and clearly his love of horses is noteworthy (not saying that lightly, I appreciate that) and many passages needing a pause to contemplate (also what I like) but...my goodness he gets wordy. McMurtry is wordy, Irving is wordy, Kingsolver is wordy, but McCarthy takes it to another level! I honestly think I am good with All The Pretty Horses and might move on down the reading list.Tell me I am missing out and I might continue with the trilogy. The Orchard Keeper -- one of his early ones -- is quite brief and interesting. His early novels were set in Tennessee, before he upped and moved west. I would recommend Suttree, although it's a bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I will look at that, thank you Nova Carmina.And I don't have any personal problems with his writing, I am just coming off of some very wordy authors the last year or so. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 I constanty am amazed at how much reading Neil Peart managed to cram into his lifetime. I'll never be able to read everything he recommended on this list. It really is incredible. I consider it an achievement if I make it through a couple of books lounging in the sun on holiday for a week. Such a great mind, what a loss to the world :( 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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