My own list of perennial rereads ranges from Jim Bouton 's Ball Four and Galen Rowell 's In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods--about a K2 expedition that entertainingly falls apart over the climbing team 's acrimonies--to John Dean 's Watergate memoir Blind Ambition and Brendan Gill 's magazine memoir Here at the New Yorker , to Humphrey House 's biography of Ezra Pound , A Serious Character , and Boswell 's Life of Samuel Johnson .