*** 100 Books Every Monkey Should Read

Yeah we need to add HP to the list of books

 

I need to put this on my TBR list. Sounds good and has two that come after it.

 

At least you gave Honorable mention to the Leatherstocking Saga by James Fenimore Cooper, even slight mention to Jack London, But what of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Kjelgaard, Carolyn Keene, and Agatha christie?
Perhaps it might be better to spend ones time, as in long past, practicing the skills passed along by oral tradition?

 

And so, all this sorta beggars the questions:
What is the main goal for recommending this particular list of reading material? Entertainment? History? Specific knowledge on "interesting" subjects? Modern thought on politics or religion?

 

I feel like I am subtly being insulted?What does Rowling have to do with anything?

 

Hey! Good point @Merkun ! And, George R.R. Martin also...that is of course if he finishes the damn series...

 

Oh no! No way! No James F. Cooper! Concerning that author, Mark Twain and I are in complete agreement. I hate him so bad that my grandmother use to force me to read him for punishment! LOL! Jack London is a definite as is Doyle, Keene, and certainly Christie...

 

My informed opinion is that he got some stuff wrong, but the S.M. Stirling "Novel of the Change" books are VERY interesting SHTF novels, especially the first handful.

 

In light of post 26, scratch Tolkien, the Brothers Grimm, Louis Carrol, JKRowling et sim. Add John Heatherly, John and Geri McPherson, James Beard (Do it yourself) and Casada's Marksmanship Guide. (M118LR ignore that last, it's too basic for you.).

 

i see that this is about survival... might consider relabeling it.

Post SHIFT I think we will all want entertainment not just skills so I wont post any fun stuff

There is alot to be learned even from fiction.

 

nothing new under the sun

 

I have a hard copy of SH 21-76 (Ranger Handbook) of about the vintage featured in your post, though it has of course since been revised....
https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ranger.pdf

I also have a copy of "Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations" FM31-21 in hard copy too. https://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/FM31-21(61).pdf

 

In my mind at least in one sense the list is useless. It assumes that you have a society to sit around and think great thoughts about, it is great for us and our middle age, but is a luxury. In my mind every 1 st grader should be exposed to some version of The Way Things Work, later some good books on farming, weaving, blacksmithing, Ball's book on canning, etc. Well once you get the flow of how to live in this world and if necessary how to recreate it, then you can have the luxury of the classics. My list would start out with reference books, the military series on electrical and electronics, machinist, basic and advanced first aid, defense and small unit techniques. I would also include Greys Anatomy, Handbooks for chemistry, physics, agriculture, electronics, etc. Never will know all of it, but the accumulated wisdom of a couple thousand years is coded into them in shorthand. In 1956 in the USAF we spent weeks studying tech manuals, basic electrical and then 101-8 on basic electronics and I have made at least part of my living from that knowledge ever since.

 

Never got why Tolkien is considered a great writer. He is hard to read, his style is awkward. His stories have no flow, he writes like he had ADD.

 

hope you guys realize how many of that 100 books are on a permanent ban list for school districts or wouldn't be acceptable for a book report by the lit teach ....