The Essential Man’s Library
May 14th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
The men over at The Art of Manliness have compiled a list of 100 Must-Read Books.
Though these types of things are quite popular and rather foolish, I particularly admire the accompanying photography. They did a great job including older versions of the books and some appealing artsy shots.
As is of course always the case, there are some glaring omissions:
No Hunter S. Thompson???
But I’m pretty satisfied because there is the Boy Scout Handbook and The Hatchet alongside perennial list-inclusions like The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird.
There are some questionable inclusions too of course:
A Separate Peace?
Blah.
A Confederacy of Dunces?
Eh.
What are ya doin’ gawking at a website called the Art of Manliness? Seems like some sorta latent gay-ness or diminished man-gland syndrome would bring that out – but a real regular guy kinda man would be too busy cleaning his guns, pounding boilermakers and burning things to lookyloo at that manner of thing.