EWolfe Posted May 20, 2006 Posted May 20, 2006 Top 10. Ed Abbey CS Lewis Jim Harrison Herman Hesse Orson Scott Card Kurt Vonnegut David James Duncan Gary Snyder WB Yeats Tom Robbins Quote
olyclimber Posted May 20, 2006 Posted May 20, 2006 and actually, I think Hermann Buhl - Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage is one of the best mountaineering books i've read. If you look up "badass" in the dictionary, it says "Hermann Buhl". Quote
EWolfe Posted May 20, 2006 Author Posted May 20, 2006 I just knew I should have posted this in the new Readers Circle forum Quote
chirp Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 Ed Abbey - DS, MRG, HL, Good News, and Fools Progress Barry Lopez - Desert Notes, River Notes, and absolutely: Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter Quote
chirp Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 any list without Alfred E. Newman is invalid. HAH! He came into the Starbucks I was working at near the Stardust in Vegas on new years eve several years back. He looked just like his "caricature", very creepy indeed. Sorry for the digression...resuming our regularly scheduled thread... Quote
olyclimber Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 dubya doesn't know how to read, let alone write. Quote
scheissami Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 Irvine Welsh--if you liked the movie "Trainspotting," you should check out the novel upon which it was based, not to mention some of his other fiction. Rad. Quote
Blake Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 Top 10. David James Duncan MisterE (or anyone else) have you seen or read Duncan's new book? God Laughs and Plays It looks like it could be a really good read. I've read a couple glowing reviews. Quote
DJ_Dirty_Ernie Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 I'd read Tim O'Brien's shopping lists. Same goes for Sherman Alexie. Quote
curtveld Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried & Lake of the Woods are mind-bending. Quote
ZimZam Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 James Clavell Leon Uris Henry James Joseph Heller Gabriel Garcia Marquez John Le Carre Robert Caro Pete Boardman Ernie Hemingway Quote
dt_3pin Posted May 22, 2006 Posted May 22, 2006 Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried & Lake of the Woods are mind-bending. Yep, mind-bending is the best way to describe the first chapter of The Things They Carried. Quote
curtveld Posted May 22, 2006 Posted May 22, 2006 Yep, mind-bending is the best way to describe the first chapter of The Things They Carried. Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong is the one that stuck with me Quote
DJ_Dirty_Ernie Posted May 22, 2006 Posted May 22, 2006 I celebrate the man's whole catalog. Tom Cat in Love is damn good also. Quote
EWolfe Posted May 22, 2006 Author Posted May 22, 2006 dubya doesn't know how to read, let alone write. Thanks for your intellectual contribution. Quote
Tony_Bentley Posted May 22, 2006 Posted May 22, 2006 Jack Kerouac Samuel Clemens Clive Cussler Dashell Hamett John Gierach Stephen Hawking George Orwell Patrick McManus Jack London William S Burrows Allen Ginsberg Leary, Timothy Malcom X Plato Thoreau Emerson James Swan John Muir Quote
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