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The Year Of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life (2014)

by Andy Miller(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061446181 (ISBN13: 9780061446184)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Fantastic! One of the best books I've read, Passionate, inspirational and down to earth. Did not agree with the author about some books, but I did in his view of things, mostly. He and I are more or less the same generation so many events and names were familiar avenues in my memory. Of course I'm a latin american and he is british. Still...What I want to say is that is a great book about great books, As A. M. says: Many we have read and many not, and our opinions are different, but that is OK. Love the analysis of the books although as I said did not agree with some. Wanted to hear his opinion of others I've read and he did not comment. I wonder if no opinion is an opinion... Anyway, had some effects on me. Firstly, It kind of killed my pleasure in mere entert... moreainment (I sort of resent that) on the other hand it awoke my interest (long, long ago asleep) for some classics. L. Tolstoy WAR AND PEACE and ANNA KARENINA are my next challenges. I've read them as a teenager and of course don't remember anything but that they were looooong and tedious but I'm looking already for a copy. There are some that I just won't, like MOBY DICK , so you get the gist. But these comments are absolutely superficial really, What strike me most is how A. M: with raw honesty describes the effects of some of the books in his life, and more importantly to me how it spoke to me in a common, maybe even share language, mind to mind and heart to heart (sorry, sounds corny, I know,but it really did!)I leave you with the encouragement to read this book.
review 2: I liked the concept of this book - writing about books that impact your life. I printed out the list of 100 books you should read in your lifetime by the CBC or something along those lines and then this book came along. I wanted to read about someone else's journey before I took my own into the classics like Moby Dick, Middlemarch or The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. This book made a lot more sense to me once it was revealed that the author by trade is a editor for a living not just an average job who likes to read. Miller is trained and educated to decifer text unlike myself that holds university degrees in science. With all that said I enjoyed this book and will now embark on my year of reading classics that will challenge my mind and change me in ways I yet not know. less

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