Manly Books for Manly Men
August 31, 2010
Gritty, daring, or just plain weird, these books are so tough they should be wearing flannel shirts on paper towel wrappers. Give your inner man child a thrill by checking one out at your local MCPL branch today. We dare you.
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Generation Kill by Evan Wright
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Ric Flair: To Be the Man by Ric Flair
- Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
- Under and Alone by William Queen
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Rick G.
Parkville Branch
Comments
Glaring omission
Jeff,
Thanks so much for taking time out to comment on my blog.
As most lists are, this one was very subjective and biased toward my tastes. Agreed, Hemingway is pretty manly, but I've never been a huge fan of his work.
I personally believe the quintessential manly sea tale would be Melville's "Moby Dick". Ahab obsessivly pursuing his quarry, eventually claiming it, and expiring while doing so. Now there is manly ending if I've ever heard of one.
That said, I do appreciate your additions and freely admit I could be wrong on a few of these selections.
Best Regards,
Rick G.
One glaring omission
No Hemingway? He's the original manly man who wrote manly books for manly men. "The Old Man and the Sea" may be the manliest book ever written. One man, one giant fish, the endless ocean and an epic struggle. That's manly.
My favorite manly book
"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."
Norman Maclean, "A River Runs Through It", a very manly book.
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