{"id":408,"date":"2007-05-14T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:35:03","slug":"the-sexy-library-by-gradspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/the-sexy-library-by-gradspot\/","title":{"rendered":"the sexy library. by gradspot."},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to ponder the human condition and finish the unfinishables. At least that’s what GradSpot<\/a> reckons. The new life-after-college website wants to help you build a sexier library. “25 Books That Look Good and Read Even Better” is presented in a five-set: revisiting the reading list, intellectualism, dwelling on the human condition, NYT best sellers and the unfinishables. <\/p>\n

Re-visitations are a given. I’ve read more Twain than any woman has a right to and Hemingway is, well, Hemingway. I’ve pretty much covered ‘pondering’ – I’ll touch on my Stephen Hawking obsession later – but clearly I aint smart <\/em>because excluding Aldous I’ve only read Nabokov. I’m also not up on my bestsellers. At all. None read. I have no idea what the unfinishables list is all about because who doesn’t finish Faulkner? ??<\/em><\/p>\n

If I’ve managed to lose you, have a look below and all will be made right. Books to build your library. Whether you read them or not. Apparently.<\/p>\n

The best “Time To Revisit It Now That It’s Off the Reading List book”:<\/strong>
\nThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
\nThe Sun Also Rises, Earnest Hemingway
\nThe Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
\nThe Fountainhead, Ayn Rand <\/p>\n

The best “Yes, I am an intellectual. What tipped you off?” book:<\/strong>
\nFoucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
\nAda or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
\nBrave New World, Aldous Huxley
\nWhite Noise, Don DeLillo
\nThe Magus, John Fowles <\/p>\n

The best “In My Spare Time I Like to Ponder the Human Condition” book:<\/strong>
\nThe Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
\nA Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
\nHow the Mind Works, Stephen Pinker
\nThe Moral Animal, Robert Wright
\nThe Mismeasure of Man, Stephen J. Gould <\/p>\n

The “Why Yes, I Do Follow The New York Times Bestseller List” book:<\/strong>
\nBlink, Malcolm Gladwell
\nGuns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
\nThe Battle for God, Karen Armstrong
\nThe Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
\nFreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner <\/p>\n

The best “Has Anyone Ever Really Finished This?” book:<\/strong>
\nGravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
\nAbsalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
\nA Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
\nUlysses, James Joyce
\nInfinite Jest, David Foster Wallace <\/p>\n

Comments<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to ponder the human condition and finish the unfinishables. At least that’s what GradSpot reckons. The new life-after-college website wants to help you build a sexier library. “25 Books That Look Good and Read Even Better” is presented in a five-set: revisiting the reading list, intellectualism, dwelling on the human condition, NYT best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}