Dampelzer passed away this year at the age of 92. Handwritten list Of all the books he has read since 1962. His family has digitalised it, please put it in onlineand now it’s gone viral. But that would have been what Peltzer himself would have wanted, according to the impressions given by his grown children when he was interviewed about the popularity of his father’s over 100-page reading list. He began to maintain it when he was stationed in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer and maintained it until the end of Reading Day in 2023.
We looked it up together whether it was in the shape of a or not. A complete scan Or a Searchable PDF3,599 books, most of which were checked out from the library and recorded what Peltzer reads constitutes a personal cultural history of the past 60 years. He is said to be a devout Catholic, and certainly seems consistent in pursuing his interest in not only Christian history, but also in the history of Western civilizations in general.
It’s no surprise to see him dig Will and Ariel Durant The story of civilization The early 1980s series, slightly surprising, but he clearly reads 11 volumes in random order. This habit turned out to be a distinctive: it has a reputation for finishing all the books he started, but he only reached the sixth volume of Anthony Powell. Dance to the music of time, It starts at the 11th and ends at the 10th.
There are scattered books of The story of civilization It’s like Philip Caputo a War rumoursJohn Irving’s world According to GARPthree novels by Ken Follett. Although Perzer is clearly interested in the story of humanity, it appears he had weaknesses in genre thrillers (he is remembered as a huge fan of John Grisham) and topic book books. But whether he reads at a high, low or middlebrow level, he appears willing to give all major religious and political philosophies, some small philosophies, fair hearings, or even fair reading. This gives him an incredible juxtaposition to his list. Ain Rand is followed by Tanehishi Coates by L. Ron Hubbard and Jonathan Height. In that respect, he probably imagined living in America, a common, engaged “democratic” reader, although he would never meet in any way. If his list raises the question of why he did not enter a more intellectually ambitious job, it also answers: what time did it make him read?
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