Mar

28

I'm about to sit down to read L'Amour's memoir Education of a Wandering Man. One of the things about this book that immediately appeals to me is that he kept a record of everything he read between 1930-1937 that is available at the back of the book. As someone who loves to read, and also loves lists, it doesn't get much better than this. As an aside, if you're a list fanatic like me, check out Eco's The Infinity of Lists : An Illustrated Essay.

I thought I would share some tidbits on his reading appetite.

Over this 8 year time period, he read 731 books. This works out to roughly:

91.4 books a year
7.6 books a month
1.9 books a week

There are a lot of interesting items on his list. His interests appear to cover a wide range of topics and authors. Everything from detective stories to Nietzsche is on here.

Bo Keely writes: 

Thanks for the reminder & fresh info on L'Amour, who single-handedly thrust me into a lifetime of adventure and escape. My favorite short story is 'the strong shall live' about a cowpoke who gets stranded in the blazing desert near my rancho where one day and night I unintentionally re-enacted the plight and escaped, with a L'Amour tip, by finding a stone cistern of water and spitting guppies, but lived.


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  1. Justin on March 28, 2011 2:18 pm

    I find goodreads.com to be a fairly useful tool for keeping track of what I have read and what I would like to read.

  2. bo keely on March 28, 2011 11:18 pm

    thanks for the reminder & fresh info on l’amour, who single-handedly thrust me into a lifetime of adventure and escape. my favorite short story is ‘the strong shall live’ about a cowpoke who gets stranded in the blazing desert near my rancho where one day and night i unintentionally re-enacted the plight and escaped, w/ a l’amour tip, by finding a stone cistern of water and spitting guppies, but lived.

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