1. List of favorite authors2. List of favorite books (top 3,10, 20 whatever you like; rank in order if you want.)3. Most recent books read (past year, or years; order if you want)4. Books that you are planning to read, or would like to read.5. Books you have reread. How many times?Extra credit:List of your favorite movies.
MARK FARENBAUGH
(Some) Most influential books or documentaries
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success, Blink, The Tipping Point
Morris Massey: “What you are is where you were when”
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
(some) Favorite Authors & Books ( I don’t re-read books)
Tom Clancy – Hunt for the Red October, Without Remorse, The Sum of All Fears
JRR Tolkien Trilogy
Malcolm Gladwell
Charles Krauthammer - Things That Matter
Patrick Rothfuss – The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man’s Fear
John Irving - A Prayer for Own Meaning
Miguel Cervantes - Don Quixote
Candice Owens
(some) Favorite Movies
All - Predator series
All - Mission Impossible
All - Bond 007
Collateral – with Tom Cruise
Casablanca
The Recruit
Tom Clancy – Hunt for the Red October, Without Remorse, The Sum of All Fears
JRR Tolkien movies
Safe House
Deadpool
6 Underground
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DENNIS WATSON
Books
Catcher in the Rye,
Franny and Zooey
All quiet on the Western front
Great expectations
All Ian Fleming
All Dick Francis
Soul on Ice
All Le Carre (tinker, Taylor, three or four times)
All Dasheil Hammet, Philip Marlowe, Ross MacDonald, Robert Parker, Carl Hiasen,
Cannery Row
Sweet Thursday
Tortilla Flats
All Martin Cruz Smith, Jane Austen
Anything by Harold Bloom (Lit)
Anything by Paul Johnson (Hist)
All Jack Reacher
The Overstory (cf Dr Tom H)
History of the American People (Paul Johnson)
The Stories We Tell (Dave Molina)
Movies
From here to eternity
MASH
Kurosawa:
7 Samurai
Hidden Fortress
Stray Dog
High & Low
Cousin Vinny (for sure, Bruce!)
Major League
Ferris Bueller
Napoleon Dynamite
Most of Mel Brooks
The Stalker (very strange)
Wim Senders’ Wings of Desire
Krystof Kryslovski’s Blue, The Decalogue
Roma
The Shape of Water
TV
Ted Lasso
Endless Brit rural crime shows
A whole lot of sports
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DON TACO
Favorite authors.
Tommy Smothers. I know he doesn't write books, but there is no greater influence on me.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Ray Bradbury.
Roger Zelazny.
Favorite/Most Influential books.
The Last Unicorn. Peter S. Beagle.
Player Piano. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Once And Future King. T. H. White.
The Metamorphoses. Ovid.
Coincidentally, these are all some of the few books I have ever re-read.
Recently Read.
An Illustrated History Of Country Music. Very thorough, well-organized, and quite sensitive to genres. Although there was
little new info, it was interesting to see it organized chronologically, and the not always obvious connections and influences.
Lake Wobegon Days. I expected this to be more interesting than it was.
Christmas At Pemberley. A playscript. I designed the set. I've never had any love for the Victorian Romanticists, and I found
this dreadful, mawkish, and boring. But I just have to build it, not sit through it.
A Pirate Looks at 50. Half travelogue, half memoir. Interesting but not earth-shattering.
What's waiting to be read?
An Encyclopedia Of Modern American Humor, 1954, edited by Bennett Cerf.
The Silent Gondoliers, by S. Morgenstern, who wrote the book that grandpa reads to the boy in William Goldman's The Princess Bride.
A John LeCarre book is on my desk at work to chip away at during lunch, but I don't recall the title.
I haven't been reading lately as much as I did when young.
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PAUL DELGADO
Favorite Authors & Books
Frank Herbert
Dune
James Clavell
Shogun
Tai Pan
Noble House
Leon Uris
Trinity
Exodus
The Haj
Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Dominique La Pierre
Is Paris Burning
I’ll Dress you in Mourning
Fredrick Forsyth
The Dogs of War
The Odessa File
The Shepherd
The Day of the Jackal
Trevanian
Shibumi
Alexandre Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo
JRR Tolkein
Lord of the Rings
Currently Reading
Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
The Guns at Last Light, Rick Atkinson
Books I plan to read in December
Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Marquez Garcia
La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes
Favorite Movies
Lawrence of Arabia (The Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre is awesome!)
The Seven Samurai (Epic Kurosawa!)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future!
Moon over Parador (Hilarious!)
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DAVID MOLINA
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BRUCE EMARD
1. List of favorite authorsTolkien, Kazantzakis, CS Lewis,2. List of favorite books (top 3,10, 20 whatever you like; rank in order if you want.)Lord of the Rings how many times read (8 or 9 times, due to read again soon)The Hobbit (7)The Once and Future King (4)Zorba the Greek Kazantzakis (4)The Last Temptation of Christ Kazantzakis (4)Till We Have Faces (4) CS LewisThe Seat of the Soul (4) - Gary ZukavThe Crack in the Cosmic Egg (4) Joseph Chilton PearceCutting for Stone (2) Abraham VergeseThe Spirituality of Imperfection (2 - due to read again) Ernst KurzFalling Upward Richard RohrGuns, Germs, and Steel (2) Jared Diamond3. Most recent books read (past year, or years; order if you want)Save the Cat Blake SnyderLife Lessons Elizabeth Kubler RossThe Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Old Gringo Carlos FuentesThe Power of Habit Charles DuhiggThe Writers Journey Christopher VoglerThe Fountainhead Ayn RandNapoleon Andrew RobertsShakespeare Peter AckroydWild Cheryl StrayedThe Four Agreements Don Miguel RuizThe Lively Art of Writing Lucile Vaughan PayneThe Age of Gold H.W. Brand4. Books that you are planning to read, or would like to read.MacBethTiny Beautiful Things Cheryl StrayedMethland Nick RedingCreating Characters Writer's DigestList of your favorite movies.Cinema Paraiso Giuseppe Tornatore
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RICK THUES
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My most influential book :
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LETTERS FROM A STOIC, Seneca
Books, short stories, and poems I've read recently:
OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE, Ambrose Bierce
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN, Joan Didion
DHARMA BUMS, Jack Kerouac
ON TYRANNY, Timothy Snyder
HOMIE (MY NIG), Danez Smith
THE PRACTICE OF THE WILD, Gary Snyder
A Few of My Favorite authors and good reads:
Almost Anything by Jack London
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt
Almost Anything by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Sun Also Rises, Hemmingway
Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
The Brothers Karamosov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Metamorphosis, Frans Kafka
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
etc.
Favorite movie comedy: My Cousin Vinny
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BRIAN BROWN
Favorite authors;
Edward Abbey
John McFee
John Sandford
Carl Sagen
James Michener, sometimes
Favoriter books;
Desert Solitaire
Basin and Range
Down the River
The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew - devoured all of these I could find as a young boy, they helped turn me into a reader.
Most recent books;
The Pueblo revolt - little known history, the pueblo Indians in 1680 chased every single Spaniard out of New Mexico and back into Mexico proper and kept them out for a dozen years.
Coyote America - Our historically fucked up relationship with the North American song dog, and why they will outlast us and eat our bones.
Pandora’s Lab - historically well intentioned science that went way wrong and cost millions of lives worldwide.
The Associates - Robber barons Huntington, Stanford, Crocker and Hopkins run amok and capture most of the wealth in California.
Books I want to read before I fall over;
One of those giant, classic Russian novels.
The Journals of John Weasley Powell
Apacheria, by Michael Farmer.
Books I could not get through;
My Struggle, by Adolph Hitler. Provincial, disjointed, disappointing. I’d hoped to gain some insight into Humanity’s darkest hour, but not so. I sent it to the shows after less than 100 pages.
The Book of Mormon - Like the old Testament, but on acid. Fantastical and ridiculous, to my mind. I said amen and tossed it after a few chapters.
A hundred years of solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Perhaps it was the translation into English, but it never got off the ground for me and felt like work instead of enjoyment. Adios. Coincidentally, I showed the author’s son around the desert for a day, he was looking for a particular movie location, he was in the movie biz. He called himself Bob Garcia, I nearly shat when his assistant quietly told me who his father was. We actually had a little adventure, ran into a crazy woman and her monstrous pit bull in the middle of nowhere, she was looking for her canary, which had escaped. 5 miles from town, no one else around, it was loony and Garcia loved it. He said our conversation with the crazy woman and her slobbering killer was “ great screen writing” !
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