Two from under the x-mas tree:
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
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Two from under the x-mas tree:
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
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It was considered but after discussions with my sis and another friend, it was narrowed down to Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment. I'll start the latter after another 15 pages in this issue of Outside. Maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by ratagonia
One time I was told to use a 3x5 card as a bookmark and to keep track of all the characters in War and Peace. Sis agrees. Do you?
Or you could watch the Masterpiece Theater adaptation from I-don't-remember-when, starring Anthony Hopkins. It may not help with keeping track of the thousands of secondary characters, but might help with the hundreds of main characters (I read it in high school, during my world history class - took six weeks).Quote:
Originally Posted by cachehiker
Just finished Catch 22 which is one of my favorite books now!
Currently reading The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
An autobiography by Bill Hickman called Brigham's Destroying Angel. Very interesting read available for free on google books at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=IVP...epage&q&f=true
I'm reading Shackleton by Roland Huntford. It's a good read for the winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by live2ride
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I recently finished Crime and Punishment. I enjoyed it. Which did you decide to read?Quote:
Originally Posted by cachehiker
I use a 3x5 card-- not only when I read a book like War and Peace-- but almost ANY book I read from the library, and I write notes on the end-papers if it's a book I own. My wife says I do it because I'm a nerd. I do it to keep track of events, people, and relationships in the book.
Strange Justice: the Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson
Wow, great book, but sad. Is about the whole Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas thing. I picked it up because from Clarence's biography, it becomes clear that is one really messed up angry dude. This book confirms it. Other characters that come off really, really bad: Joe Biden. What a four-faced liar!
Recommended.
Tom :moses:
Could. I think the problem is that the Russian names all "sound the same". I think it depends on how much time you can put in, and how continuously. W&P is a long book and takes a while to read. If you only put in an hour or two a week, you should take notes. Notes could also help in getting the pantheon of main characters to stay distinct. Or just read it, and stop worrying about it. What EVER!Quote:
Originally Posted by cachehiker
Tom
[QUOTE=Moose Droppings;425153]Two from under the x-mas tree:
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
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This has been a really good read.
Given a recent turn of events at work, I picked up a real page turner: Electric Motors and Drives, Fundamentals, Types, and Applications. I know more about induction motor theory than anybody else there but that doesn't add up to much. Being the only one around able to predict how proposed engineering changes will affect performance will make me even more irreplaceable.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtthwlw
:roll: (Humility is the one skill I still haven't mastered. :haha:)
I'm about halfway through, maybe 4-5 weeks left to finish it. Then I'll tackle Crime and Punishment.
Sounds like a real page-turner! Enjoy! :haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by cachehiker
Death in the West: Fatal Stories from America's Last Frontiers by Chris Becker. Don't read this one if you are in danger of becoming a couch potato :haha: It will push you right over the edge.
If you enjoyed that book or have any interest in the development of the early American west, I'd highly suggest Men to Match My Mountains; http://www.iblist.com/book58053.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by dbaxter
I love that book.
Just finished luttels' Lone Survivor. A book about the redwing mission in afganistan. Basically its about how a team of seals lost all but one member on a mission gone bad. The last guy crawls through thr mtns to survive while reaping holy hell on the pussy taliban bitches.
A very good read. Now im starting kings newest book.
Sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by bbennett
Just reading War by Sebastian Junger. It's written by a reporter who traveled to the Korengal Valley in Eastern Afghanistan and stayed in one of the deadliest zones in the war. There is great documentary "Restrepo" which shows his actual footage of time spent with these guys as well as interviews with them. It's one of the best books I've read in a while-.
Nelsoncc, I read Lone Survivor as well. It's another of my favorites.
I'm reading "This is Your Brain on Music" by Daniel Levitin. Fascinating stuff about the how and why of our brain's reaction to music.
Just finished In Search of the Ancient Ones. Really enjoyed it. I picked it up used off Amazon for under a buck! For anyone interested in the Anasazi I would highly suggest it.
Restrepo was awesome. Eye opening documentary for sure. Makes me very thankful for those who do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbaxter
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
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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.