boboso
Getting back on the bike.
Two business reads - "Our Iceberg Is Melting" and "It's Your Ship"
Personal reads - Nature Deficit Disorder - Child in the Woods
Personal reads - Nature Deficit Disorder - Child in the Woods
For the book readers on STR, what are you reading?
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Just finished Once Upon a Quinceanera by Julia Alvarez.
On to Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity by Gary Nabhan
One book I read this summer that I highly recommend is Plenty by Alisa Smith/J.B. McKinnon (about the local food movement).
On to Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity by Gary Nabhan
One book I read this summer that I highly recommend is Plenty by Alisa Smith/J.B. McKinnon (about the local food movement).
bvader
Long Live The Gorn!
Re-Read of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" : Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner is based on this novel)
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mtnkitty
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I must be the only person in America who never had to read "1984" in high school. So I've been "reading" that for the past couple months, chipping away at it slowly. Sadly, I used to read much more frequently, but I'm planning on getting better at that.
So after "1984," I'm gonna read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
So after "1984," I'm gonna read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
bvader
Long Live The Gorn!
Well then don't forget Brave New World by Aldus Huxley almost a required to pair with 1984.
Don't forget to read On The Road by Jack Kerouac too. Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski is good as well.
ericfoltz
Active Member
Working my way through:
Mountain Biking Northern California's 100 Best Trails
Northern California Mountain Biking
The Complete Guide to Climbing by Bike
Mountain Biking Northern California's 100 Best Trails
Northern California Mountain Biking
The Complete Guide to Climbing by Bike
OldDogDan
Member
Just finished:
"The Other" David Guterson
"The Road" Cormac McCarthy
Reading:
"The Art of the Commonplace" Wendell Berry
"Mastering Mountain Bike Skills" Lopes & McCormack
"East/West" Salman Rushdie
"The Other" David Guterson
"The Road" Cormac McCarthy
Reading:
"The Art of the Commonplace" Wendell Berry
"Mastering Mountain Bike Skills" Lopes & McCormack
"East/West" Salman Rushdie
jasonmason
inebriate savant
...and if you like on the road then you have to read Visions of Cody, also by Kerouac. Or Desolation Angels, or the Dharma Bums.
...and for those that liked The Road, do yourself the favor of exploring McCarthy's other works. There's some amazing writing in the Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain), among his other works.
I have read most of Kerouac but not McCarthy. Looks like I need to check it out. Thanks!
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Do any of you frequent a used bookstore in Orange County? If so, please send some detail my way. I have a mound of books that I do not plan to revisit and trading them in will be a nice way to get new (used) material in return. Thanks.
gooseaholic
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The book man in Orange on Tustin.
I am currently reading Acts of War " The behavior of men in Battle" by Richard Holmes.
I'm on the second of a four tome series by Theodore Drieser called "The Financier".
As far as used books you can occasionally find some at the friends of the library bookstore though I usually just check out the new releases when they catch my eye.
As far as used books you can occasionally find some at the friends of the library bookstore though I usually just check out the new releases when they catch my eye.
Chewyeti
Circus Bear
Engineer In Training (EIT)/Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) review books for the EIT/FE exam in october......
Rockinthecasbah
A.D.D. Unleased
Fire, Chaparral and Survival in Southern California by Richard Halsey
SamIam
With green eggs & ham
im reading audacity of hope by obama. .. a cool book i just read is freakonomics. That is an awesome book
slo65
Balls of fluff
Freakonomics
jasonmason
inebriate savant
This one needed a bump...
Right now I'm reading Ravelstein by Saul Bellow, and really enjoying it. Finished Herman Wouk's Aurora Dawn last week, and fairly enjoyed it.
Speaking of Wouk, if anyone ever wanted to move to the carribbean (who doesn't), read Don't Stop the Carnival by him. Story of a New York socialite that decides to buy a hotel on the fictional island of Amerigo, and all that goes along with it. A fun read.
I read Freakonimics, and came away unimpressed. The whole book seemed to be setting up for some over-arching idea, and never got there. Leavitt seems to make connections but then no correlation; he never gets into what could have been the cultural meat of a much more meaningful book. It was factually interesting, but seemed like selections from a collegiate econ journal that were assembled into a book rather than a coherent piece.
Right now I'm reading Ravelstein by Saul Bellow, and really enjoying it. Finished Herman Wouk's Aurora Dawn last week, and fairly enjoyed it.
Speaking of Wouk, if anyone ever wanted to move to the carribbean (who doesn't), read Don't Stop the Carnival by him. Story of a New York socialite that decides to buy a hotel on the fictional island of Amerigo, and all that goes along with it. A fun read.
I read Freakonimics, and came away unimpressed. The whole book seemed to be setting up for some over-arching idea, and never got there. Leavitt seems to make connections but then no correlation; he never gets into what could have been the cultural meat of a much more meaningful book. It was factually interesting, but seemed like selections from a collegiate econ journal that were assembled into a book rather than a coherent piece.