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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life (2014)

von Andy Miller

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"An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)-- a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books. Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and critic Andy Miller realized he's not nearly as well read as he'd like to be. A devout book lover who somehow fell out of the habit of reading, he began to ponder the power of books to change an individual life-- including his own-- and to the define the sort of person he would like to be. Beginning with a copy of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita that he happens to find one day in a bookstore, he embarks on a literary odyssey of mindful reading and wry introspection. From Middlemarch to Anna Karenina to A Confederacy of Dunces, these are books Miller felt he should read; books he'd always wanted to read; books he'd previously started but hadn't finished; and books he'd lied about having read to impress people.Combining memoir and literary criticism, The Year of Reading Dangerously is Miller's heartfelt, humorous, and honest examination of what it means to be a reader. Passionately believing that books deserve to be read, enjoyed, and debated in the real world, Miller documents his reading experiences and how they resonated in his daily life and ultimately his very sense of self. The result is a witty and insightful journey of discovery and soul-searching that celebrates the abiding miracle of the book and the power of reading"-- "A vivaciously witty and entertaining chronicle of one man's quest to better himself by reading fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones), The Year of Reading Dangerously--the grown-up version of a grade-schooler's reading journal--reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books"--… (mehr)
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    Mein Leben als Leser von Nick Hornby (nessreader)
    nessreader: Both reader's diaries of what and why they read over about a year. Both readers are middleclass english boys; both are engaging commentators even about the books you'll never want to read yourself. Both reject some Canonical Novels, then say why.
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Some chapters are fun, poetic and interesting. The book overall is not as good - feels rushed and a bit random. ( )
  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
It’s ok, but really, why bother reading a book about Andy Miller reading unless you have a familiarity with Andy Miller reading books already that leads you to read about Andy Miller reading - go read a novel yourself instead. Even then Andy Miller’s book about Andy Miller reading should be 150 pages instead of 300, the conceit can be held aloft about that long fairly well before collapsing like a soufflé. ( )
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
Ok, right off the bat, let it be known that I do. not. like. this. author. Haha! Clarification: I like him as an author. As a person, I can't imagine lasting three minutes in conversation. Or even two. Oh but I was forewarned. He says in the intro that he is crude and profane. So I knew that going in---guess I can give him kudos for that.

I put up with giving him the benefit of the doubt for awhile, hoping it would be better (kind of like when you start a new TV series and they have to give you all the shock value stuff at the beginning to "hook" you), but no---he just kept irritating me. The thing is, he was kind of like this speaker at a recent "Bible stuff" conference I went to. When he was good, he was very very good---when he was bad, he was horrid. It was this weird rollercoaster of thinking, "yeah, he's right on" to "man, what a jerk."

The biggest (but probably not really deep) irony for me was that he spends so many words on locker room “humor”, crudity and profanity yet criticizes Dan Brown for being a lousy writer--repeatedly---throughout the entire book. To the point that you wonder if he really has some underlining issues with a guy who can be a international best seller without using hard profanity and high school boy jokes to do it.

But, it gets worse. Not only does he not like Jane Austen (but probably adores Mark Twain) —-he doesn’t get her. Everything he says about the desperate need for money Jane proved wrong in her own life. The only person who really cared about money in P&P was Mrs Bennet. He says, “Fear of poverty was the engine of the novel.” What??? Prattler.

I also really despised all his footnotes. Just put it in the paragraph, dang it.

So what did I like? Well, I'm inspired to read The Sea, the Sea now. That's probably it.

I quit 100 Years of Solitude to read this. Ironically, he quit it too…but he finished and so must I! ("Once you start to give up on books, you may lose the skill of finishing them...") I practiced that skill by finishing his obnoxious book, after all.

Good quote takeaway (and it wasn't even his): "It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents." --Schopenhaeur ( )
  classyhomemaker | Dec 11, 2023 |
Some parts great, some parts really boring. ( )
  davisfamily | Dec 11, 2022 |
This is a reading memoir by Andy Miller of Backlisted podcast fame. I love listening to him on the podcast, so I was pretty sure I would enjoy walking through some books, known and unknown, with him.

At the outset, he talked about how he had accumulated books before embarking on his plan to make a “betterment list” and how often he had acquired books he had sometimes claimed to have read (because he felt he should have), but in reality never did.

“I saw I had got it wrong. I had confused “art” with “shopping.” he said. I laughed and I knew I would be in for the ride, wherever it took me. It took me through the streets of London, to a [a:Charles Dickens|239579|Charles Dickens|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1387078070p2/239579.jpg] fair in Broadstairs, and through Andy’s everyday life. This was far more about Andy's experiences than the books he had read, themselves. I enjoyed that…because, as I have already mentioned, I already like Andy.

Some of the books he chose for his fifty were ones I had read; some are on my TBR, waiting; others were total unknowns to me. A few were my own favorites or most hated, and it was so interesting to see his reactions correspond or deviate from my own.

The chapter that compares [b:Moby-Dick or, the Whale|153747|Moby-Dick or, the Whale|Herman Melville|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327940656l/153747._SY75_.jpg|2409320] to [b:The Da Vinci Code|968|The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)|Dan Brown|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579621267l/968._SY75_.jpg|2982101] is hilarious and, at the same time, somewhat sad. It says a lot about the rest of us that [a:Dan Brown|630|Dan Brown|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1399396714p2/630.jpg] got fame and fortune and [a:Herman Melville|1624|Herman Melville|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1495029910p2/1624.jpg] was long dead before his genius was recognized. I also enjoyed his thoughts on [a:Leo Tolstoy|128382|Leo Tolstoy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1617138673p2/128382.jpg] and the challenge of trying to read [b:War and peace|23130901|War and peace|Leo Tolstoy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409549250l/23130901._SX50_.jpg|4912783] while raising a baby.

Like everyone on Goodreads, I have my own list of books I have to get to. This was one of them, consider it done.
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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
Miller's year spent reading proved dangerous because it made him admit that he wanted and needed to write, so in the course of it he quit his job in publishing to work on this book. The books saved his life but put his livelihood at risk; nevertheless his gratuitous act turns out to be triumphantly justified. While extolling books written by others, he shows himself to be a valuably idiosyncratic writer, whose own book is like nothing else I have ever read – a combination of criticism and memoir that is astute, tender, funny and often wickedly ironic.
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Reading is a broad church. But it is still a church.
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"An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)-- a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books. Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and critic Andy Miller realized he's not nearly as well read as he'd like to be. A devout book lover who somehow fell out of the habit of reading, he began to ponder the power of books to change an individual life-- including his own-- and to the define the sort of person he would like to be. Beginning with a copy of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita that he happens to find one day in a bookstore, he embarks on a literary odyssey of mindful reading and wry introspection. From Middlemarch to Anna Karenina to A Confederacy of Dunces, these are books Miller felt he should read; books he'd always wanted to read; books he'd previously started but hadn't finished; and books he'd lied about having read to impress people.Combining memoir and literary criticism, The Year of Reading Dangerously is Miller's heartfelt, humorous, and honest examination of what it means to be a reader. Passionately believing that books deserve to be read, enjoyed, and debated in the real world, Miller documents his reading experiences and how they resonated in his daily life and ultimately his very sense of self. The result is a witty and insightful journey of discovery and soul-searching that celebrates the abiding miracle of the book and the power of reading"-- "A vivaciously witty and entertaining chronicle of one man's quest to better himself by reading fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones), The Year of Reading Dangerously--the grown-up version of a grade-schooler's reading journal--reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books"--

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