OT: Top 5 Books You've Read

anything by Judge Andrew Napolitano
R.A. Salvatore, forgotten realms series
guardians of the flame series, joel rosenberg
eyes of the dragon, stephen king
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Put some weight on him and I think John Kusack would win an Oscar playing this role. Cast his sister Joan as Myrna.

If Grind could act he'd be perfect for this role. He's 30, still lives in his parents basement and the only time he ever left Boston it traumatized him. He's also pretentious and full of shit like Iggy. He'd be perfect!

If they cast this book all the A list actors in Hollywood would have their agents beating on the doors for a role as one of the characters.

Here's how I'd cast it.

Iggy - John Kusak B

Mrs. Reilly - Sally Fields A

Mrs. Bataglia - Shirly McClain C

Myrna - Joan Kusak C

Claude - Steve Martin A

Angelo - Vince Vaugh or Norm MacDonald C/D

Lana Lee - Roseanne Barr F

George - Franky Muniz D

Darlene - Megan Fox D

Gus Levy - John Goodman C

Mrs. Levy - Bette Midler C

Mr. Clyde - Sam Jackson A

Ms. Trixie - Madonna D
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So you think Hollywoods A list would all come knocking for parts, yet you only list 2-3 A list actors on your casting. I put their ratings next to their names so you could rethink your casting.
 
Superfreak said:
So you think Hollywoods A list would all come knocking for parts, yet you only list 2-3 A list actors on your casting. I put their ratings next to their names so you could rethink your casting.
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You rate Bette Middler a C???!!

Heathen!!!

..and you rate Mega Fox a "D" to play the role of an air head stripper??!!!

You've never read "A Confederacy of Dunces" have you?

Besides, I didn't say I would cast all A list actors. I said they would all come knocking for a shot at for a role. Just like they did with Pulp Fiction.

OK wise guy.....lets see your casting.
 
I'm shocked that the posters whose books I agree with in the main are Rana, Mott, and Superfreak. Like Damo, I really can't quantify a top 5, but here's some.

I just recently read, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin I'd highly recommend it. The Prince, The Art of War, and Democracy In America are all must reads, IMO.Non-fiction.

Like most here, To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favs. So too, A Tale Of Two Cities, heck just about anything by Dickens or Shakespeare.
 
Darla said:
Yeah right. I always know when a guy says something like this that he has got a ton of well-thumbed Danielle Steel novels hidden somewhere. Damo probably gets Harlequin Monthly.
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Once I ran out of books and there was a free Danielle Steel novel on a table. I'll have to admit that in my desperation I read that stupid thing. I hope to never run out of reading material again.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
#8. The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough (actually I recommend her entire Masters of Rome series. Incredibly well researched).
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The McCullough novels are tremendously good, but I still give Robert Grave's I Claudius and Claudius the God top billing in the Ancient Rome fiction genre.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Several people have been put forward including John Candy, John Belushi, John Goodman and latterly Will Ferrell. Of those, I think John Candy would have been a natural for the role. Indeed any of the others would be good apart from Will Ferrell, he just doesn't seem heavyweight enough in both an acting or a physical sense.
Brandon Whitehead would be an excellent choice, he just looks the part.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/...a-holy-trinity-of-awesome/Content?oid=2300808
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I would be appalled if Ferrell were chosen for Ignatius. I don't think he could pull it off. I mean he's got the comic timing but to anyone who's read the book he couldn't pull it off. To play the character you'd have comic timing, be 30 years old, large/obese, have dark hair with a dark mustache and have a stentorian voice.

So even with make up it's hard to picture Ferrell for the role. A few years back John Goodman would have been perfect.
 
OK I've revisited my casting for Confederacy of Dunces.


Inatius J. Reilly (The main character. A 30 year old bum with a masters degree who still lives with his mother) - Oh man....I really can't think of anyone. Zach Galifilakis seems to be the current favorite. I kinda like Rainn Wilson from the US version of "The Office". Tough role to cast.

Mrs. Reilly (His mum, no stranger to a bottle she.) - Lily Tomlin

Burma Jones (Lana's wise ass black janitor) - This role was written for Chris Rock.

Mrs. Bataglia (Officer Mancuso's Aunt, A busybody who befriends Iggies Mom) - Shirly McClain or Olympia Dukakis

Myrna Mynx (Iggies love interest. A liberal jewish activist) - Janine Garafalo

Claude (an innocent elderly grandfather who gets arrested for defending Iggie) - Steve Martin

Dorian Green (FLamboyant gay shop owner) - Greg Kinnear

Officer Mancuso (Poor dumb ass cop who arrests Claude because of Iggie and pays dearly for the mistake) - John Cusak.

Lana Lee (Hot middle age conservative business woman who owns a dive bar and runs an underground pornography operation) - Sandar Bullock or Halle Berry.

George (Lana's high school age pimp who sells the pornography)- Franky Muniz

Darlene (An airhead bar girl in Lana's bar. Bucking for a promotion to stripper. Teaches a cockatoo to take her dress off. - Lisa Kudrow

Gus Levy (Dissafected owner of Levi Pants) - John Goodman

Mrs. Levy (His wife who lives to make his life miserable) - Bette Midler

Mr. Clyde (Owner of a Hot Dog Cart Business) - This role would have been perfect for Scatman Cruthers but it would be hard not to give this to Morgan Freeman

Mr. Gonzalez (Soft spoken whimpy hispanic manager for Levy Pants. Singularly impressed by Iggie while being utterly clueless to his incompetence) - John Leguizamo

Ms. Trixie (Octagenarian Assistant accountant at Levi Pants) - Carol Burnette (She would slay them in this role!). Mary Tyler Moore would be my next pick. Cloris Leachman would be a good pick too.

Frieda Club, Betty Bumper, Liz Steel (Three Rowdy Lesbians who beat up Ofc. Mancuso and start a riot) - Rosie O'Donnell, Wanda Sykes, Sandra Bernhardt.

If I was directing this, I would make this a slapstick comedy. I would not make this arthouse. I would go for the laughs. This book is hillarious.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I would be appalled if Ferrell were chosen for Ignatius. I don't think he could pull it off. I mean he's got the comic timing but to anyone who's read the book he couldn't pull it off. To play the character you'd have comic timing, be 30 years old, large/obese, have dark hair with a dark mustache and have a stentorian voice.

So even with make up it's hard to picture Ferrell for the role. A few years back John Goodman would have been perfect.
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I now think that James Corden would be perfect for the role although I believe that he's lost weight recently.

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/stars/james-corden/profile/

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cawacko said:
Since it's been a slow morning on this board and we were discussing books earlier I thought I'd throw out this question. I'm looking for something to read after I finish LBJ: Master of the Senate.
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Fiction:

In no particular order

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Centential - James A. Michener

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

The Frontiersman* - Alan Eckert

Non-Fiction:

In no particular order

Guyton's Textbook on Medical Physiology - Arthur Guyton

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

The Federalist Papers - John Jay, Alexander Hamilton & James Madison

The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

* The Frontiersman is classified as "fiction" because the author writes of the events using the novel format in which he creates dialogue. However the book is extensively researched and footnoted and there is no whole sale fictionalization in the book. All the people, and events they participated in, actually occurred as described by the author.

Knowing the geography of Ohio as you do I think you would really like "The Frontiersman". It's presented as a biopic on the lives of the Frontiersman Simon Kenton (A friend of Daniel Boones) and the Shawnee leader Techumseh and his efforts to unite the Indian tribes. It essentially covers the period of invasion and settlement of Kentucky and Ohio during the frontier period. It's a remarkable read. It was said by Frederick Palmer in 1929 "Only a few white men were as good as the Indians at the Indian game. Boone and Kenton were..."
 
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