Re-reading "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis. Entertaining and insightful.
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Re-reading "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis. Entertaining and insightful.
What's that about? TQuote:
Originally Posted by Scott Card
I has been a while but if I remember correctly it's a series of letters written by an old retired devil named Screwtape to his inept nephew Wormwood advising him on how best to corrupt souls.Quote:
Originally Posted by ratagonia
It is, without a doubt, one of my favorites. It's short, an easier read than most of my choices, hilarious in places, and highly recommended by this bibliophile.
What he said. Sorry, I didn't see your question.Quote:
Originally Posted by cachehiker
Has anyone read this one? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140...SIN=1400067677
Its a top rated book on Amazon. :ne_nau:
You mean:Quote:
Originally Posted by accadacca
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth [Hardcover]
by James M. Tabor
(just helping out)
Tom
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (who previously authored Seabiscuit)
This is the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who during WW2 survives a ditching in the Pacific , weeks adrift at sea, and then years of additional hardship in Japanese prison camps. The book is relentless in depicting the suffering and cruelty in the camps, but not without a welcome humourous anedote from time to time:
In Naoetsu's little POW insurgency, perhaps the most insidious fear was pulled off by Louie's friend Ken Marvin, a marine who'd been captured at Wake Atoll. At his work site, Marvin was supervised by a one-eyed civilian guard called Bad Eye. When Bad Eye asked Marvin to teach him English, Marvin saw his chance. With secret delight, he began teaching Bad Eye catastrophically bad English. From that day forward, when asked, "How are you?," Bad Eye would smilingly reply, What the **** do you care?"
Had it not been for the war, Zamperini may have broken the 4 minute mile long before Robert Bannister. His feats of survival are equally amazing.
The Stingray Shuffle by Tim Dorsey. Absolutely hilarious sick twisted dementia humor.
This was an awesome book! I bought it when it came out back in the mid-90's....and then made the mistake of lending it to some dude I briefly dated.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueeyes
Never saw it again :angryfire: :roll:.
I just finished Good Times, by Edward Abby, and now Desert Solitaire is on my night stand.
And, this amazingly comprehensive book on the history of American tonalism painting movement (George Inness, etc.) of 1880-1920. For landscape painters and art lovers, it's a must-have. For everyone else...probably not so much :haha:.
Hahahaha ~ Your avatar is Ram's stick-out-tongue-face? How wierd and special! ♥ :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CarpeyBiggs
In the middle of my N'th read of Freedom of the Hills :)
Print is dead.......ho hum.....boring boring to read.....reading takes away important
hiking time. I once was asked on a date years ago by a girl and we were to read
a book by a stream. A book by a stream? duh!! hello!! A stream can't write a book!!
reading sux!
Except Bo and Tanya's new book when it comes out!! yeehaw.
Hopefully lots of pictures? Can't wait.
This may not be the thread for you, then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rented mule
I read books while hiking quite often. Hiking can be quite boring, even in amazing terrain. I have read books in some incredible places...
Tom
I too sometimes take a good book with me. Hell, beats sitting in your tent with nothing to do during a downpour.Quote:
Originally Posted by ratagonia
The Giant Book of Poetry
Edited by William H Roetzheim
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer.
The more I read from him, the more I like him.
Too Big to Fail
:cool2:
Finally gotten around to Stegner. Reading Big Rock Candy Mountain now. I've already got Angle on Repose on hand for when I'm done with this one. :2thumbs:
Midnight's Children
Manufacturing Consent
River of Doubt
Half the Sky
Thanks for the interesting thread. Great to have a list that goes back so many years with so many different contributors.