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ROCKING READS
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items Your summer beach/patio/couch reading list starts here. Budweiser, Miles Davis and Doritos optional but recommended.
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” So goes the iconic opening quote. Read on from there if you want to get your gonzo on or back on as the case may be.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
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“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.” Joseph Conrad's 1899 classic is a Hell of a novella and was the basis for the movie “Apocalypse Now.” Proceed up river at your own risk, as if you could resist.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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The late, great Anthony Bourdaine’s signature page turner. The Lou Reed of restaurant cooking spills all in this tell all. You may never order fish on Monday again after this one.
Kitchen Confidential (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain
Arguably the best novel ever written. They didn't make three movie versions for nothin'. Roar through the ‘20s with Jay, Daisy, Tom, Nick and Jordan. It’s a wild ride to the last drive. No sleep till West Egg!
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Need help getting up and out of your own way? Let the Dean of Discipline, Jocko Willink show you the way. PS I don't just recommend it. I read it every day.
Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
Another all time favorite. Papa's prose hits home like a punch in the nose. Hemingway's European travel fiction is on a par with The Great Gatsby in chronicling the madcap, tragic, gin and tonic fueled lives of the “Lost Generation.”
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
“I wandered in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night.” And so begins “On The Road” Jack Kerouac's iconic novel that would come to define the “Beat Generation” and inspire generations of soul searching bohemian road trips to come. Check it out from page one and there's no telling where you'll end up.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ― Fran Lebowitz Just when you thought I only liked books by dead white guys. Surprise! Next on the list is Metropolitan Life by the very much alive, slightly cranky and apparently female Fran Lebowitz. Metropolitan Life's collection of comedic essays poking fun at ...
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
All the fun of having a habit without having to show a cop.your arms. A few chapters couldn't hurt, right?
Junkie by William S. Burroughs
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes." From the first line of George Orwell's “Fairy Story” it is clear that Mr. Jones and Old McDonald have very little in common. ...
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him." And so begins Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning post-apocalyptic novel about the harrowing journey of a father and his you...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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