1951

US Fiction

1. From Here to Eternity, James Jones 287 copies on LT

2. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk 536 copies

3. Moses, Sholem Asch 11 copies

4. The Cardinal, Henry Morton Robinson 44 copies

5. A Woman Called Fancy, Frank Yerby 28 copies

6. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 206 copies

7. Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., John P. Marquand 10 copies

8. Return to Paradise, James A. Michener 79 copies

9. The Foundling, Cardinal Spellman 9 copies

10. The Wanderer, Mika Waltari 34 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Look Younger, Live Longer, Gayelord Hauser 6 copies

2. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book 143 copies

3. Washington Confidential, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer 11 copies

4. Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book # ? copies

5. Better Homes and Gardens Handyman's Book 26 copies

6. The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson 268 copies

7. Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary, Clarence L. Barnhart, editor 17 copies

8. Pogo, Walt Kelly 47 copies

9. Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl 644 copies

10. The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album 52 copies

I had to read Kon-Tiki in high school. I couldn't understand why they wanted to sail in a leaky boat, but to each his own.

Sorry for the double post. Rampaging elephants on the attack.

My father was assigned the same post as Capt. Queeg was assigned after the trial, Commander of the Naval Reserve station in Albuquerque, NM.

I read Kon-Tiki whilst living on a tropical island, Guam, during the mid fifties, when I was about 12.

The Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionary was the basic dictionary I used growing up. The Merriam-Webster Collegiate is what my mother used, and its typeface was smaller.
We had Kon-Tiki in the house, but I don't remember reading it through.
I read Pogo the comic strip all the time, but I don't know whether we had the bookl of cartoons. I think Pogo was around into the 1960's. Wasn't one its quotes: "We have met the enemy and it is us"?
We also had the New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, although we did not subscribe to the magazine.
We had a Betty Crocker's Cookbook -- but not the picture cookbook.
We also had the Caine Mutiny, and my stepfather really liked Herman Wouk, but I never got into him.

The more accurate Pogo quote is: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

The other famous quote was "Friday the thirteenth come on a Monday (or Tuesday, etc) this month." Churchy La Femme could see bad things coming all the time.

I remember reading Kon Tiki when I was in my teens and just loving it, leaks and all! It made quite an impression on me at the time; unfortunately, I get seasick too easily and so there went my grand dreams of sailing across the Pacific in my own leaky raft.

I haven't read any of the fiction, but I did read Kon Tiki as well as Aku Aku by Thor Heyerdahl. I found his theory as to how the statues were raised to be very interesting. And though she lived down the street from me, I never read Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us or her more famous Silent Spring. Something I should do some day.

I recently saw the movie version of The Caine Mutiny for the first time. The acting was great. I've had the misfortune to be involved in similar overheated workplace situations (just not at sea) and the politics and psychology were so true to form.

The Caine Mutiny now has 1,931 copies.

But when I put in the touchstone for the Caine Mystery it came up as Just the Fax Ma'am
by Leslie O'Kane. So, something is peculiar here.

This comment of mine is all rubbish -- see # 10 below.

>8 vpfluke: Caine Mutiny not Mystery Oh, did you just correct it or did I misread it?

# 10 I realized my mistake while you were typing in. But I can't get rid of Message # 9. So, I'll type in a correction.

>11 vpfluke: If you click More under your message it should give a Delete option.

Looking over the list and making an addition, the Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book now has 60 copies.

I read From Here to Eternity long ago (in high school, in fact!) and thought it was great. Terrific movie, of course.