For the book readers on STR, what are you reading?

[DownHillPhil]

Crichton / Grisham are great.

Old school Clancy/ Ludlum fan here also.

 

[lardbutt]

... I also really enjoy stuff by David Eddings, though his stuff starts to seem VERY similar the more you read it.

Zippy, if you like Eddings try some of the stuff by Terry Brooks. Same genre, just MUCH better written, IMHO. I agree about Eddings, it all started to sound the same after a couple books...

 

[art23rockpile]

Another unique classic, and one that's had a huge influence on sci-fi/fantasy is "A Voyage To Arcturus" by David Lindsay. It was written in 1920 and there's not another novel (before or since) like it.

 

[Permagrin]

Not nearly as intellectual as some of you, but I'm reading "Into Thin Air" right now and have "Into the Wild" queued for after that.

I loved both of those. Another to try if you haven't already is A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Apalachian Trail.

 

[allison]

Crichton / Grisham are great.

Old school Clancy/ Ludlum fan here also.

I've read one or two of Ludlum's books, and I think possibly one of the Bourne series, but can't remember.

Old school Grisham is good. I haven't read any of his newer stuff.

I loved both of those. Another to try if you haven't already is A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Apalachian Trail.

I read that one first! Very entertaining! Made me want to hike parts of the AT at some point

 

[Kid A]

Kurt Vonnegut FTW! Except Time Quake, that sucked.

I am 100% sure that at least three STR members are Tralfamadorians.

Kurt is the sh!t. agree all his stuff rocks except timequake. not sure if you had seen them but movie made on mother night and harrison bergeron we very good (imo) b-fast of champions (my fav book of his...prob read it at least 3x) was a f'n mess in movie

othe fav books (non KV) include confed of dunces, thank u for smoking and youth in revolt. tried to read infinate jest on prob 4 separate occassions (DFW) and dropped it.

 

[SheDevil]

Bourne(after the first) was ruined in the theater IMO....so were most turned to film....or maybe whats going on in my head is better than what the directors put up? Har

One of the last ones I read thats in theaters is The Ruins...creepy. I don't even know how I stumble on half of what I read but I hope most never makes it to the screen... (vampire romance is so inappropriate) :lol:

 

[DownHillPhil]

TOTALLY forgot about Anne Rice's vampire lore.

Personal favorites - The Vampire Armand, Lestat

Also good:
The Devil You Know
Clive Barker - Weaveworld
The Historian

 

[mntbiker12]

Perfect! Thanks for the Cliff's!

When's the test?

Heres an Idea on what to expect
1) There is a saying that the discipline of economics makes progress one funeral at a time.

2) One might think colors would be a good candidates for social construction, since what we identify as "blue" and "red" are in fact just points along a continuous spectrum of light wavelengths. And yet, one anthropological study asked members of widely disparate cultures to place colors used by their societies within a color table; it turned out that people perceived the same primary and secondary colors across cultural boundaries.. This implies that there is something" hardwired" about color perception that is based on human biology, even if we do not know the specific genes or neurological structures that produce it.

 

[allison]

TOTALLY forgot about Anne Rice's vampire lore.

Personal favorites - The Vampire Armand, Lestat

The first four of the vampire chronicles were awesome. I think something got lost along the way, though.

I like Pitt/Cruise, but the book was WAY better than the movie (big surprise!).

 

[SheDevil]

Try some Laurell K Hamilton on for size. 8)

 

[gooseaholic]

:clap::clap::clap: for this thread, I need to make a trip to the book store.Thanks Evil Chocula,im gonna go pick up snow crash

 

[Kpeony]

Hmmm, well if we are talking books (one of my favorite subjects), I recommend "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond (Pulitzer Prize winner) and "The Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen (The author gives credit to another 19th century Naturalist,wherein saying that Darwin plagiarized most of his work). Thats a little light reading. For fun, I try the $5.99 section at Barnes and Noble for classics and fiction. I loved both "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns". K

Any of you sci-fi fans ever read King's set of Dark Tower series books? I think I read 1-4 or 5, but didn't read the last two or so. I started one of them and it seemed to not be as good as the others.

You have got to finish them! I finally got the last three books and the ending, well what can I say, at least its better than any of the SK books I have read.

 

[doulos]

Some other books I thouroughly enjoyed:
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Einsteins Dreams - Alan Lightman
Amazing adventures of Kavalier and clay

 

[jasonmason]

I'll jump on that with some others i've enjoyed of late:

-Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy - voilent, nihilistic, confrontational, and outstanding; i would recommend McCarthy as an author period, all of his works have impressed me
-Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
-The Rum Diary, Hunter Thompson - his only fiction, written before his years of 'Gonzo' journalism
-anything from Charles Bukowski, especially Ham on Rye - be forewarned, he is misogynistic and crude
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Persig - meditations and discussions on the philosophy of 'quality' as the author embarks on a cross-country motorcycle trip with his son

I'll think of more later...

 

[thephat]

I'll jump on that with some others i've enjoyed of late:

-Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy - voilent, nihilistic, confrontational, and outstanding; i would recommend McCarthy as an author period, all of his works have impressed me
-Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
-The Rum Diary, Hunter Thompson - his only fiction, written before his years of 'Gonzo' journalism
-anything from Charles Bukowski, especially Ham on Rye - be forewarned, he is misogynistic and crude
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Persig - meditations and discussions on the philosophy of 'quality' as the author embarks on a cross-country motorcycle trip with his son

I'll think of more later...

Thomson and Bukowski, a couple of my favs.

 

[BFloFoxRider.]

FWIW, my great grandpa, who i think is very smart, and as the best advice has always told me, "Brandon, if you rad a book, find a book that was written about firsthand experiences. Think about it, If ten guys wrote that book, You are piggy backing the lives of ten men."
I think thats some of the best advice ive ever recieved

 

[lukewiens]

back on the topic of cycling oriented books...has anyone read the book "10 points"?

it is kinda roadie crit oriented but i thought it was an awesome read for any amateur athlete pursuing goals.

it is written by Bill Strickland the editor of Bicycling magazine.

 

[katonk]

Ah yes, Bukowski... I love the fact that I live just a few miles from the race track. For christsakes, there's a Costco there now.

My Bukowski picks are Post Office, Women, and Hollywood.

 

[Zippy]

Not nearly as intellectual as some of you, but I'm reading "Into Thin Air" right now and have "Into the Wild" queued for after that.

I loved both of those. Another to try if you haven't already is A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Apalachian Trail.

+1 for "Into Thin Air". The original PCT hiker wrote a book about it, Erik Ryback (?). He was kinda young at the time, but if you've ever wanted to through hike, it's a good read.