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 2005-07-29 3:43 PM in reply to: #210998 |
Master  1938     La Crosse |  Subject: RE: Summer Reading?newbiedoo - 2005-07-29 1:16 PM Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim On my iPod I have the MP3 of David Sedaris reading his christmas short stories. I've had to stop running, in like the middle of nowhere on a country road, to laugh my ass off. Just me and the cows. I swear, I could listen to him read the ingredients list off the back of a box of Cheerios and my ribs would hurt. RECOMMENDED FOR ANIMAL LOVERS: Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley. xoxoxox One you will always love and wish you could read for the first time again. Haven't read that one, but I read a book by her with the title of, seriously, "Mooo". I've been reading Midnights Children for over a year now. Seriously. Yeah, I'm up to maybe two months now. Really slow reading. I keep on picking up something else, blazing through it, and then going back to Midnight's Children, and he's only like 11. So slow. But it makes me want to eat Indian food. TriComet - 2005-07-29 1:33 PM Ohh...Into the Wild and the Everest book were wonderful by Krakauer!! Into the Wild really messed up my brain for a while, I'm not sure why. I can't tell if I identified with the subject of the book, or pitied him, or feared what I saw of myself in him, or it's just Krakauer is just a brilliant writer. Couldn't get into Under the Banner of Heaven in the same way. Anybody know of any good adventure/extreme/outdoor sports writing at the same quality as Krakauer and Junger? |
| 2005-07-29 3:49 PM in reply to: #210844 |
Master 1938 La Crosse | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Mekarual - 2005-07-29 11:36 AM I've been prepping for my GRE, so haven't had too much time to read other things. Friends don't let friends go to grad school. Joking. Mostly. Depends on the discipline and school. |
| 2005-07-29 4:11 PM in reply to: #210630 |
Elite 2553 Tucson, AZ | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Just got back from vacation and I read The Measure of All Things by Ken Adler. It’s the history of the meter (metric system, not parking). Hey, I’m an engineer, that should explain it. |
| 2005-07-29 5:28 PM in reply to: #210630 |
Master 1932 Savannah, | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Working my way through wonderful Steinbeck....the master of tone. So far: East of Eden Sweet Thursday Cannery Row Tortilla Flat Grapes of Wrath The best by far is Sweet Thursday. Lovin it. |
| 2005-07-29 6:05 PM in reply to: #211245 |
Champion 5183 Wisconsin | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? stupidnickname - 2005-07-29 2:43 PM Anybody know of any good adventure/extreme/outdoor sports writing at the same quality as Krakauer and Junger? If you don't mind reading a teen book, try Shackelton's Stowaway. We reviewed it here: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailBook.asp?idBooks=174... I love the Shackleton story, there are a ton of great books about it. or how about Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean? Edited by possum 2005-07-29 6:08 PM |
| 2005-07-29 6:14 PM in reply to: #211217 |
Expert 1065 Montreal | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Mark6715 - 2005-07-29 3:28 PM Do the Comics count? Comics always count - give Lewis Black's Nothing Sacred a try. He is a very funny, very angry and very observant man. The book is a good read - take it from a comedy reviewer  |
| 2005-07-29 6:23 PM in reply to: #211348 |
Master 1938 La Crosse | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? possum - 2005-07-29 7:05 PM or how about Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean? Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I read A River Runs Through It since I lived in that part of MT at one point, but I didn't get around to reading his other stuff. It's about smokejumpers, right? Thanks for the recommendations! |
| 2005-07-29 8:40 PM in reply to: #210668 |
Extreme Veteran 584 coastal NC | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Woo hoo--people who read and train--how cool is that? Recents: The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime--it's great Vernon God Little--good if you can handle the fifteen-year-old slang Me Talk Pretty One Day--love Sedaris, I'm going to start 'dress your children in'... next Let the Dog Drive I'm starting the Kite Runner tonight. Training tips AND book tips--man, am I happy! Thanks! Christine |
| 2005-07-29 9:06 PM in reply to: #211324 |
Master 1938 La Crosse | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? southernaquagoddess - 2005-07-29 6:28 PM Working my way through wonderful Steinbeck....the master of tone. So far: East of Eden Sweet Thursday Cannery Row Tortilla Flat Grapes of Wrath The best by far is Sweet Thursday. Lovin it. Unh. Don't think I've read Sweet Thursday. I should put that on my list. My favorite overlooked Steinbeck is "The Winter of our Discontent", except that the first time I read it, I got disgusted with the ending, so I stopped reading one page before the end of the story, and for several years I thought the book had the opposite ending that it actually has. Trying not to spoil it for people if they haven't read it . . . but there's a lot of mostly forgotten short fiction and nonfiction by Steinbeck that is quite readable. The Moon Is Down, Once There Was a War, In Dubious Battle. |
| 2005-07-29 9:12 PM in reply to: #210630 |
Extreme Veteran 360 Lafayette, CO | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? I'm in the middle of "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakaur. It's about Fundamentalist mormons...REALLY interesting. |
| 2005-07-30 8:56 AM in reply to: #210630 |
| Subject: RE: Summer Reading? All the sports-related recommondations suprised me! I'm such a fiction nut it didn't even cross my mind. Also, I haven't read any of it, so got some good starting points now. So to obsess a little more...how about all time favorite books? Some of mine (very incomplete list, just off the top of my head): The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murikami The White Hotel - Thomas Posession - Byatt One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marques (sp?) Austerlitz - Sebald To the Lighthouse - Woolfe Nights at the Circus - Carter London Fields - Amis Anything by Dostoevsky, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, most Kundera Don't read much American fiction, but love all Toni Morrison. Prefer Emerson to Thoreau. Can't stand Hemingway, but love Fitzgerald. Playing with Water - Patterson (non-fiction, sorta) gorgeous tale of a man living alone on a Phillipine island, spearfishing for his supper. Can you tell it's cold outside and I'm procrastinating on the long ride I'm planning this morning? Buzzin out of coffee, dreaming about books... Edited by newbiedoo 2005-07-30 8:57 AM |
| 2005-07-30 12:34 PM in reply to: #210630 |
| Extreme Veteran 389 Central Wisconsin | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Man, my 2 addictions in one place, tri's and books: This list for July: Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield Hp & The Half-Blood Prince by JK Ishmael an Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn One Shot by Lee Child Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Riverte Yes it's official I have no life. |
| 2005-07-30 5:26 PM in reply to: #210630 |
Champion 4902 Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Just finished reading "Summer's Lease" by John Mortimer. An English woman rents a house in Tuscany for the summer. It is supposed to be a funny murder mystery but it was not funny and there was no murder?!? It left me with a sense of having missed something. and "Author Author" by David Lodge ... based on the life of author Henry James, part fiction and part history ... okay. Very slow reading. Sort of petered out at the end and died. Now reading "Ambrose Bierce and the One Eyed Jacks" by Oakley Hall. I am about half way through and so far it is pretty dull. The writing is not very good, the story line shallow and the characters non dimensional ... humdrum ... Still to read "A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers" by Buckner F. Melton. Jr. It is the historical account of a mutiny aboard the American brig of war ship Somers in 1842. The flyleaf wants to compare the story to "Mutiny on the Bounty". Might be a good read ... will see. Edited by Machiavelo 2005-07-30 5:30 PM |
| 2005-07-30 8:03 PM in reply to: #210630 |
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| 2005-08-01 7:57 AM in reply to: #210630 |
Master 1462 Michigan | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Death, taxes and leaky waders-- John Gierach |
| 2005-08-01 9:02 AM in reply to: #210630 |
| 974.926 | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? Hmmm...as the other librarian on the BT site, I commend the thread! What I've read so far this summer is not a long list: The Life of Pi - Martel The DaVinci Code - Brown The Summer of '49 - Hablerstram Wilderness at Dawn - Morgan The History of Art - Johnson 1776 - McCullough Plus random romance novels that have caught my eye... And my constant companion has been Triathlon Training in 6 Hours a Week - Harr |
| 2005-08-01 10:54 AM in reply to: #210713 |
Giver 18427 | Subject: RE: Summer Reading? joeinco - 2005-07-29 9:22 AM How to Talk to a Liberal - fair, I suppose, some of it was funny We respond best when spoken to in complete sentences. (sorry...I couldn't resist) |
 2005-08-01 11:16 AM in reply to: #210630 |
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