Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Plays Wrap Up

Oedipus by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Amadeus by Peter Schaffer

Deeper and Deeper by Matt Berns

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Oedipus – No Rating This is about the fiftieth time I’ve read this play, and I always enjoy it. It’s one of those plays I read when I was moving from being a reader to being a thinker about reading. I even wrote an essay about it in tenth grade. I have no clue what I wrote, but I started it at 10 pm the night before it was due. I had already gone to bed and then I suddenly remembered it. I think I […]

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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I first read this book in college because it had been assigned in a class I almost took, and then regretted that I didn’t take. Once I read it, I immediately read several more of Tim O’Brien’s books. Later, he visited my college and gave a talk, an incoming student conference, and I was dismayed that he recycled so much from his books for his talk. I get it now. And that’s what has been the experience of rereading this book. I last reread it […]

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway gets a lot of shit, but boy when he wrote his first novel, he wrote a perfect one. That’s my recommendation by the way. If you’re going to write a novel, write a perfect one. The first time I read this book I didn’t really understand why Jake and Brett didn’t just get together. As far as a reason, this one is a doozy. Jake of course has been injured in the war, specifically receiving shrapnel while flying a mission. His injury has left […]

Daughters Unto Devils

Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

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A historical, Young Adult, horror novels that jumps right in with the good stuff. Well, I am imagining being a young reader and how wild this book starts out would seem to me then. We begin with our narrator Amanda, a 16 year old mountain-dwelling girl, hooking up with the post boy who recently started delivering the mail. She seems to love him, and he seems to love her, and when she gets pregnant, she hatches a plan to run away with him, knowing that […]

Plays – Random

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard

The Fever by Wallace Shawn

The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill

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Sorry, Wrong Number – 4/5 A short thriller written by Lucille Fletcher, and one that uses the recent technology (so to speak) to sell the suspense. A disabled woman waits at home for her husband to return from work. Becoming anxious, she calls his office and the lines get crossed and she hears a cryptic, but malicious conversation about a murder plot. The conspirators discuss some of the details of the plot which includes going to the apartment by the bridge. When the call reconnects, […]

Henrik Ibsen Plays

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

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Hedda Gabler – It’s funny to read Hedda Gabler after re-reading A Doll’s House because you go from thinking that Henrik Ibsen is a great feminist to thinking he might just hate women. In truth, I tend to recommend to not look for motives in the creation of characters, because you might otherwise miss great characters. Hedda is a young woman who has recently married Jorgen Tessman, a research academic who is poised to received an appointment at the university. This coming money inspires in […]



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