klar404 Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 east of eden by Steinbeck down and out in paris and london by George Orwell anything by Irving cept ciderhouse rules ray by Barry Hannah revenge of the lawn by Richard Brautigan cosmic comics by Italio Calvino climbing stories blow! read REAL fiction by good writers not bs by boring climbers who can't write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klar404 Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 And Sk, I hope I don't offend but Tom Robbins is the worst crystal squezzin' pablum I've ever read!Sorry, but the guy blows goats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Recently I've been reading screenplays. A couple of good ones: American Beauty (which you can find in it's entirety online), Pulp Fiction and The Piano (all academy award winners by the by). Somehow I got a lot more out of reading the screenplays...go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose - it's ok so far, haven't gotten to the bear wrasslin' yet  Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - for the second time; this time, I'm taking notes  Mysterious Japan by Julian Street - most amusing is the wide-eyed aristocratic tone, like when the author boggles that Japanese households get by with so few servants as compared to American households Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hustler Magazine, by Larry Flint -- Vol.25 Oct. 2001 Â [ 09-19-2002, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: trask ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_detrick Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Trask, you would'nt happen to have the scratch and sniff issue, they put out years ago would you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 'The Monkey Wrench Gang' - Edward Abbey 'Fast Food Nation' - Eric Schlosser (just started it) 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' - Michael Chabon (one of the better books DFA has read) 'East is East' - TC Boyle 'Breakfast of Champions' - Kurt Vonnegut (see also anything else by Kurt Vonnegut) 'The Broom of the System' - David Foster Wallace 'The Infinite Jest' - David Foster Wallace (buy a dictionary if you don't have one) 'A People's History of the United States' - Howard Zinn (haven't finished yet, DFA = slacker) 'Sometimes a Great Notion' - Ken Kesey (slow, but quite good) 'The Tortilla Curtain' - TC Boyle  Uh, there's probably more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Kurt Vonnegut = GOOD Ken Keasey = Wonderful  Happy B-day erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 "Atlas Shrugged", Ayn Rand (long, but pretty rivetting) "When Character was King", Peggy Noonan Anything by Tom Clancy "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young", (forgot author) much better than the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." --Samuel Adams  "I'm a fuckin' mushroom-cloud layin' mothafucka, mothafucka!" -- Samuel L. Jackson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Dr Flash Amazing: "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." --Samuel Adams  "I'm a fuckin' mushroom-cloud layin' mothafucka, mothafucka!" -- Samuel L. Jackson That was the last straw, motherfucker. I called some friends; watch the skies over your home for black helicopters. You no longer exist, Trask will assume your identity until we can plausibly fake your death; in the meantime he will be banging any and all your female friends.  Goodbye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelly Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Winter Kill and River Song by Craig Lesley, local author teaches at PSU........... Â Anything by Carl Sagan. The man is a legend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Trask's list was a very good one, the Kipling verse is great. Don't avoid the prose, though! The Man Who Would Be King, The Jungle Books, his short stories, all of it appeals to those of us who seek adventure and who have the frontiersman spirit. Â I would say that The Old Man and the Sea is my favorite Hemingway book. Anybody who has fished for big fish in blue water should read it. Â I would put On the Road, Electric Koolaid Acid Test, and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas all in the same group to read half-drunk or stoned one weekend. Fear & Loathing was my favorite book at age 23...I don't know how old you are today. Hunter Thompson's short stories are also entertaining. Â DFA's list was good, except for that Edward Abbey one...don't read that anarchist shit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 "The River Why and The Brothers K -- David James Duncan" Â It is inexcusable and inconceivable that the Doctor left these two books off his list, especially since the former is perhaps DFA's all-time favorite book, and is where part of Dr. Flash Amazing's name came from, and the latter is just a damn good book. David James Duncan is . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik Posted September 20, 2002 Author Share Posted September 20, 2002 abbey and duncan are two of my fav authors!!! Â Â [ 09-20-2002, 01:14 PM: Message edited by: erik ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necronomicon Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Millenium Brave New World 1984 The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Cat's Cradle Bluebeard Breakfast of Champions Fort Apache, the Bronx Dune Dune Messiah Children of Dune God Emperor of Dune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 I think this group's too sensitive for me. Cryin' over violence in a book? Brace up, man! Goddamnit, don't make the likes of Ernest Shackleton, George Patton, and Teddy R. roll over in their graves any more! Â Wait a minute...there are a few exceptions...kids...puppies...Bambi...oh never mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-rock Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 "I think this group's too sensitive for me. Cryin' over violence in a book? Brace up, man! Goddamnit, don't make the likes of Ernest Shackleton, George Patton, and Teddy R. roll over in their graves any more! Â Wait a minute...there are a few exceptions...kids...puppies...Bambi...oh never mind." Â Â If you can read his descriptions of a leg amputation performed with a bottle of whiskey, a wood saw, and a hot frying pan without crying then you are strong indeed. Besides crying is good for the soul. Â page TOP Â [ 09-20-2002, 01:32 PM: Message edited by: E-rock ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbconlin Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 quote: Originally posted by sk: I am reading The Unbareable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera right now. It is realy good, thought provoking. I read it when I was arround 20, and it just seems to have a whole new meaning 10 years later. I agree, this is an incredible book. He gives so much insight into human nature and relationships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbconlin Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Dr Flash Amazing: 'Breakfast of Champions' - Kurt Vonnegut (see also anything else by Kurt Vonnegut) I read this recently and don't get all the hoopla about Vonnegut. In my opinion, this book was...basic. It's the only book I've read by him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbconlin Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 I second:  The river why power of one monkey wrench gang - although I think it is a simplistic story without too much character development--reads like a comic, but you can't deny the emotions it elicits regarding wilderness and its preservation. Also, check out Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction work Abbey wrote while a ranger in ARches. The rest of Abbey's work lacks, if you ask me.  Also check out  Barbara Kingsolver, esp. The poisonwood bible Salman Rushdie, esp. The ground beneath her feet Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 I am several chapters into The Poisenwood Bible. So far it seems realy dry. are you saying it gets better cause if you can tell me that, I would be more likely to pick it back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 I'll admit that I've read 17 (yes, seventeen) Kurt Vonnegut novels. A couple of them were good, a couple were real snoozers, and most would be downright depressing if it weren't for Vonnegut's dry and subtle humor. The ones I liked most were "Hocus Pocus", "Slaughterhouse Five", "Mother Night" and "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater". Plenty of grim, cynical humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 "A Walk in the Woods" and "A Sunburnt Country" Bill Bryson-Humorous trip essays of the Appalachian Trail and touring Australia respectively.  "Perfect Storm" Sebastian Junger (The description of the physiology of drowning is pretty riveting"  "Endurance" The story of the Shackleton epic in Antarctica  "The Killer Angels" Jeff Shaara -The story of the battle of Gettysburg from the perspective of the officers who commanded both armies.  [ 09-20-2002, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: ScottP ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noway Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 The Bible------praise the LORD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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