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Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris (laugh out loud funny, yelrotflmao.gif)

The Island Within - Richard Nelson (brilliant ecopoetic prose)

Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey (better than Monkey Wrench Gang boxing_smiley.gif)

Into the Wild - Krakhauer

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (the most poorly written good book ever)

The Only Dance There Is - Ram Dass (Oh, I've said too much)

The Human Zoo or The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris (Sociology)

Catch22 - Joseph Heller (brilliant "pointlessness of war"-type book)

The Family of Man - Time Life photography collection (very cool)

Bugaboo Rock - Green & Benson (Faster Summer! Faster!)

None of Chomsky's political books really stand out as being better than all the rest, but I have some you can borrow if you wish (Prosperous few and the restless many, Media Control: The spectacular achievements of propaganda, 911, maybe some others...)

Anything by Ayn Rand, Franz Kafka, John Muir, or Jack Kerouac that you haven't read already

 

And Squid! Maybe it's time to re-read the Iliad wink.gifyellaf.gif

 

 

SHIT! I totally forgot about Tom Stoppard! Thanks Dru. I got a really cheap copy of the Bugs guide, but I'll look for that other one too.

 

Arcadia - Tom Stoppard (my favorite play of all time)

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard (also rent the movie! thumbs_up.gifthumbs_up.gifthumbs_up.gif)

 

 

For the sake of brevity, my top two rec's are:

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Arcadia thumbs_up.gif

 

 

This was my 911th post and I recommended a book titled "911" shocked.gif

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Last of the Mohicans is a good read.

 

"The track of the cat" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark is pretty good reading.

 

A very good read is "The climb up to Hell" by Jack Olsen.

 

I'm still looking for a copy of "Death on the Ice" by Cassie Brown. I hear it's a good read, indeed.

 

Anyone read the "Sovereign American's Handbook"?

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i have already read comte de monte cristo, three musketeerrs, vicomte de bragelonne, vingt ans apres and the "chicot the jester" serries of dumas but not in french - that'd be too much. i can read vertical mag. cause it has nice pictures but i haven't read french novels since high school

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viscomte de bragelonne is part of the man in the iron mask/ 20 years after sequels to 3 musketeers but it is the full meal deal not the abridged 1-bbok volume most people read.

 

chicot the jester is a 2 volume series about one of the henri's jesters. i thought it was pretty good. musketeer type swordplay and so on.

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I am reading The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman. Excellent novel. It begins:

 

My name is Fabian Vas. I live in Witless Bay, Newfoundland. You would not have heard of me. Obscurity is not necessarily failure, though; I am a bird artist, and have more or less made a living at it. Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think of myself.

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West With the Night, by Beryl Markham

 

a good short read about growing up, flying, elephant hunting, and horse training in British East Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. One gets the impression that Beryl was a remarkable woman who lived a life free of regrets.

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