JGowans Posted May 30, 2003 Posted May 30, 2003 OLAP Solutions: Building Multi-Dimensional Information Systems. Boring geek book. I'll bet I've enriched all of you now eh? Quote
sobo Posted May 30, 2003 Posted May 30, 2003 Where the Wild Things Are A scintillating, engrossing story. A "must read." Quote
Uncle_Tricky Posted May 31, 2003 Posted May 31, 2003 The book that changed my life was the Anarkist's Kookbook. Of all the books that you should NOT give to a teenager, this probably ranks the highest. Fortunately, even felonies are expunged from one's criminal record upon turning 18. Quote
Beck Posted May 31, 2003 Posted May 31, 2003 and give a kid a copy of the whole earth catalog and you'll have a hippie on your hands before you know it- what's a good read for climbers? Bone Games by Rob Schultheis " Extreme sports, shamanism, zen, and the search for trancendence" he talks about mountaineering parralleled to mans search of the divine... very intriguing read Quote
EWolfe Posted May 31, 2003 Author Posted May 31, 2003 Uncle_Tricky said: The book that changed my life was the Anarkist's Kookbook. Of all the books that you should NOT give to a teenager, this probably ranks the highest. Fortunately, even felonies are expunged from one's criminal record upon turning 18. Some of the more paranoid ilk might also suggest if one was intersted in perusing "The Anarkists Kookbook", one might be wise to pay by cash, not credit card, and not try to get it from a library... Also, as Uncle has done, deliberate misspelling to avoid searches... Just finished the second of three books by Laurie King that continue the Sherlock Holmes saga - good reading! Quote
Dru Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 In the logging camp I finished "Little Dorritt", speed read a John Norman "Gor" BDSM pr0n pulp from the camp library of discarded trash novels, and then started in on "Vanity Fair" by Thackeray. I am enjoying reading my way through the Victorian novelists, i think I'll read Jane Eyre next. Quote
lummox Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 'letters to penthouse volume 3'. it is exhausting me. Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 Robust Nonlinear Control Design: State-Space and Lyapunov Techniques For pleasure reading, I'm slowly working my way through Long on Adventure: The Best of John Long. Quote
Ireneo_Funes Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 "Little Dorritt" is fantastic. Dickens deserves more respect than he gets nowadays. "Hard Times" is my all time favorite Dickens novel. Quote
scott_harpell Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 I was a big fan of the tale o' Pip Meself. Quote
bunglehead Posted June 4, 2004 Posted June 4, 2004 "Krakatoa" By Simon Winchester. Pg 116 or so and so far so good. Quote
Dru Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 well i stopped off at the bookstore on the way home and vanity fair is gonna have to take a backseat for a while cause kim stanley robinson and bruce sterling both had new novels out. if you notice less spray its cause im reading Quote
Skeezix Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 The Quinault Indians by Ronald L. Olson ...just finished The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner ...currently reading The Okinawa Diet Plan by Willcox, Willcox, and Suzuki ...next up Favorites: The Dharma Bums -Kerouac The Back Country -Snyder This Boy's Life -Wolfe Into the Wild -Krakauer Poets on the Peaks -Suiter Tangible Visions: NW Coast Indian Shamanism and Its Art -Wardwell Quote
jjd Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 On High by Brad Washburn The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey (for about the 9th time) Quote
johndavidjr Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 My favorite mountaineering book is "Mountaincraft" by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. I got it on interlibrary loan. Historical equivalent of "Freedom of the Hills" for the Brits -- probably through the 1930s. It was published just after WWI, & listed in bibilography in early "Freedom" editions. There may have been multiple editions of "Mtcraft" but dunno. I suggested once that Mountaineers PublishingCo. put ou a facsimile edition. It's a long book, & says stuff like, one must always remember to treat guides as social inferiors, & that climbers should smoke tobacco, because it surpresses hunger & thirst, & reduces "unnecessary talking." Quote
Skeezix Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 Ayn Rand can suck my Anti-libertarian fountainhead. How do you REALLY feel? Quote
jjd Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 Ayn Rand can suck my Anti-libertarian fountainhead. Quote
marylou Posted June 17, 2004 Posted June 17, 2004 Wilderness and the American Mind Roderick Nash Quote
jjd Posted June 17, 2004 Posted June 17, 2004 Feudalism in Japan A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market The Fountainhead (still) Quote
RobBob Posted June 17, 2004 Posted June 17, 2004 Go back and read the first page of this thread. I maintain that trask gave the most honest answer here. Logged a bunch of flying time recently, and so I had time to read Krakauer's book on the Mormons. A little long-winded, but well-documented and it pretty well lays out the Mormon story in the cold light of day. I'll bet Krakauer has gotten more grief over this book than all of the Into Thin Air criticism put together! Quote
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