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Favorite Reading
A man's books are windows into his soul.
He is what he reads.
Go Dog Go, by P.D. Eastman, for children, wonderful.
If you want to write, read Go Dog Go... and Chekhov.
Augustus books, by Le Grand, my first adventure stories
Original Hardy Boys books, by Leslie McFarlane and others
Tintin comic books, by Hergé, not just for children
Asterix comic books, by Goscinny and Uderzo, not just for children
Lucky Luke comic books, by Goscinny, in Spanish, for adults
Los Dalton comic books, by Goscinny, in Spanish, for adults
Doonesbury comic strips, by Garry Trudeau
Rick O'Shay comic strips, by Stan Lynde, sadly discontinued in 1981
The Piranha Club comic strips, by Bud Grace
Mexico in Flames, by John Reed, also published as Insurgent Mexico.
I've read it three times. I'll read it again. That Communist could write!
The Wind That Swept Mexico, by Anita Brenner, a photo essay
Almost anything about the Mexican Revolution, the first Socialist Revolution
The Great Pursuit, by Herbert M. Mason, Jr., pursuit of Pancho Villa
The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magon, novel about the frustrated Anarchist adviser to Emiliano Zapata, by Douglas Day
Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, the Banamex Collection
Almost anything about Shanghai between the wars, zesty history largely overlooked.
Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, and Wallis Warfield - soon to be Duchess of Windsor - spied for opposing sides. That is only the beginning.
Anything by George F. Kennan
Anything by John Keegan
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, by Eric Newby, unsurpassed
Caravans to Tartary, by Roland and Sabrina Michaud, photo essay
Afghanistan, By Roland and Sabrina Michaud, photo essay
Almost anything about Afghanistan
The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead, I've read it five times.
The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead, I've read it three times.
Art and Illusion, by E.H. Gombrich, art explained in layman's language
The Story of Art, by E.H. Gombrich, art explained in layman's language
Books on vintage posters
The Passing of an Illusion, by François Furet, about the Socialist mirage
The Opium of the Intellectuals, by Raymond Aron, about the Communist mirage
Heaven on Earth, by Joshua Muravchik, about the Socialist mirage
The Way the World Works, by Jude Wanniski, economics explained
Bible, and commentaries
Anything by G.K. Chesterton
THE ECONOMIST, the world's best news magazine
The Passionate War, by Peter Wyden, a balanced account
Anything about the Spanish Civil War, the only war the Soviets lost until Afghanistan
Anything about Francisco Franco, the only general to defeat Stalin
Anything by Pio Moa, if I could read it
The several Spanish Civil War studies by Stanley Payne
Anything by Gerald Brenan
Anything by Martha Gellhorn
Anything by Ernest Hemingway
Anything by Hugh Thomas
Frederick Forsyth novels
Rolling Nowhere, by Ted Conover, riding the rails with hobos.
The Freighthopper's Manual, by Daniel Leen, with a personal letter from the author
Some of Bernard Lewis
Everything by C.S. Lewis
The Battle of the Bundu, by Charles Miller, about the only undefeated WWI German commander, von Lettow-Vorbeck.
Bartle Bull novels
FOOTPRINT guidebooks
HIP Hotels guidebooks
Michelin Red guidebooks
Relais & Chateaux guide
Michelin European road maps
IGN Map 903
The Times Atlas of the World
Trevanian novels
The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White, the grammar Gold Standard
Roads to Santiago, by Cees Nooteboom
Cartridges of the World, by Frank C. Barnes
Pistols and Revolvers, by W.H.B. Smith
Small Arms of the World, by W.H.B. Smith
The Cavalry Manual of Horsemanship and Horsemastership, by Gordon Wright.
Official Manual of the United States Cavalry School, Ft. Riley, Kansas
Effective Horsemanship, by Noel Jackson
The Suit, by Nicholas Antongiavanni, recommended by America's greatest living tailor.
The half-dozen other great tailors are all old, old men, all in Sicily.
Handmade Shoes for Men, by Lázló Vass and Madga Molnár
Dressing the Man, by Alan Flusser
1000 Chairs, by Charlotte & Peter Fiell, oddly incomplete
Modern Furniture Classics, by Miriam Stimpson, a primer
Tribal Rugs, by James Opie
Oriental Carpets, by Friedrich Spuhler
The Book of Bamboo, by David Farrelly
Anything by Winston Churchill
Non-fiction by V.S. Naipaul, an abominable man, but master of the language
Freedom at Midnight, by Collins and LaPierre, about Indian independence
The Gentleman in the Parlor, by Somerset Maugham, unsurpassed
Anything by T.R. Fehrenbach
Anything by Alan Riding
Anything about George S. Patton
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Anything about Otto Skorzeny
Ken Follett novels
Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanche, about Samuel, leader of the first Chechen revolt
The Wilder Shores of Love, by Lesley Blanche. European women who married tribal Arabs in the 19th century
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco, comprehensible Eco
Some of James Michener. Do not read Michener as history. Michener was loose with facts.
Sherlock Holmes stories
Hercule Poirot stories
George Smiley stories
Big Herbie Kruger stories
Father Brown stories
Lord Peter Wimsey stories and films
Man's Fate, by André Malraux
Anything by Wm. L. Shirer
Most Graham Greene novels
Paris Was Yesterday, by Janet Flanner, gossip from the great age of expatriate Paris
The Letters of Noël Coward, gossip as life or life as gossip
Harem, The World Behind the Veil, by Alev Lytle Croutier
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, by Robert Spencer
Books on black & white film photography
Books on classic cameras
Biographies, lots of biographies, then more biographies, every kind of biography
The Outline of History, by H.G. Wells
Cartoon History of the Universe, by Larry Gonick
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