Children's Books
Recommendations from Ishmael
© 2018 James LaFond
MAR/8/18
Ishmael is a lifelong and avid reader, and during our interview I asked him to name his favorite books from his childhood and youth. It wasn't very nice of me to ask him that without any warning, but he was kind enough to send me a list by email:
the sunset saga complete
barbarism versus civilization
the greatest boxer
solo boxing
ranger?
when you're food
honor among men
taboo you
the year the world took the z-pill
into leviathan’s maw
hate
the gods of boxing
blue eyed daughter of zeus
logic of force
the first boxers
fate
cracker-boy
let the world fend for itself
thriving in bad places
america the brutal
orphan nation
the fighting edge
the combat space
on the overton railroad
son of a lesser god
song of the secret gardener
broken dance
the greatest lie ever sold
z-pill forever
the lesser angels of our nature
within leviathan’s craw
logic of steel
menthol rampage
under the god of things
fanatic
by the wine dark sea
beasts of aryas
dark, distant futures
time & cosmos
sorcerer!
book of nightmares
songs of aryas
sons of aryas
wife—
fiction anthology one
triumph
all-power-fighting
masculine axis
night city
on combat
advent america
uncle satan
winter of a fighting life
predation
your trojan whorse
For young children (and parents!):
The Little Engine That Could.
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew.
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge, by Albert Lamorisse)
Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Anything by Hans Christian Anderson. Bible stories for children.
Aspiring managers should read:
If I Ran the Zoo.
I am Ishmael's youngest son. I just listened to "Son of a lesser God." If you are interested in my perspective on my experience of growing up with an old school father in the age of MTV and Nintendo. Please contact me. Thanks
To my mother, an enormous debt of gratitude for care with which she chose my earliest books and for the love and patience spent in reading them with me. RIP.
I've got some great ones here for young children. My Book House(I have no financial interest in any of these links)
amazon.com/My-Book-House-12-Set/dp/9990409455
The Jack Tales If you search for these you can find a lot of them free. There's a whole set of them with "Jack and the Beanstalk" being one of them.
There's a group of stories written for young girls I think it Nancy Stories or something like that. I haven't read but heard they were good. About a girl and how pride and greed and all the sins of nature got her in trouble and how she learned for each to be better. Problem is every think I search for young girl stories, Nancy stories, I keep coming up with perverted stories. Maybe someone knows what I'm talking about and knows the exact name. They might possibly be these.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew_Mystery_Stories
When I got older LOTS of Sci-Fi. Anything by Pournelle(especially when he edits or combines stories), Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, Scott Card...