Preferred Reading List
- Dennis Lehane: everything
- Sarah Vowell: everything, esp. her audiobooks
- Lisa Lutz: Spellman books are fun to read
- David Sedaris: All audiobooks. SantaLand Diaries is a favorite
- Joseph Campbell: everything, esp. Myths to Live By
- Charles Dickens: Tales of Two Cities
- Benjamin Hoff: The Tao of Pooh | The Te of Piglet
- Richard North Patterson: Protect and Defend
- Daniel Quinn: Ishmael | My Ishmael | The Story of B
- Shakespeare: everything except historical plays
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Cat's Cradle; Breakfast of Champions
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Books recommended to me by a brilliant, but pathetic, lunatic
- fiction
- David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedar
(it's supposedly better than the movie - well, let's HOPE so!)
- Joseph Heller: Catch 22
- William Kennedy: everything
- nonfiction
- David McCollough: everything, and in particular, Path Between the Seas
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Preferred Movie List
- The Station Agent
- Bull Durham
- Spitfire Grill
- The Birdcage
- When Harry Met Sally
- Moonstruck
- King of Hearts
- Best in Show
- Mystic River
- The Sting
- American President
- As Good as it Gets
- It's the Rage
- The Man With One Red Shoe
- Eating Raoul
- Crash
- Bridges of Madison County
- Dr. Strangelove
- Being There
- Dan in Real Life
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Elf
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Preferred Music List
- The Blues (BB King, Professor Longhair,...)
- Don Byron
- Aretha
- Mozart
- nothing much classical past Beethoven
- Puccini (La Boheme, Tosca are favorites)
- Pavarotti
- not very fond of Verdi (If you need a camel in your
opera, you've got problems)
- and there are more...
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