markwebster Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 For fiction, anything by larry mcmurtry (lonesome dove, etc), Dick Francis, John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee series), Wilbur Smith or Louis LaMour. I have a big bookshelf of books dating back to the seventies. I wait a few years until I can't remember the plot, then I re-read them. A good book is a wonderful way to relax. I don't watch tv at all. Saw a great bumper sticker: Your living room is the factory, you are the product. Turn off the tube! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I've already read two of them. Will have to get The Prize. read that a couple of summers ago - it's real interesting in places, especially the parts on iran i thought, but there's also some real long sections on corporate histories that made me want to suck a tailpipe - i'd advise skipping those bits happily, i've been too busy climbing for most of the summer to read, but i have managed to finish "they made america," a collection of biographies of 30 some odd inventors/innovators of the past 200 years which was pretty damn interesting - i never knew robert fulton, prior to "inventing" the steamboat, was essentially a dandy and male prostitute prior to settling into a menage a twois in paris - or that issac singer, the sewing machine dude, had 5 concurrent wives n' families in new york and had to flee the country after beating the holy hell out of one of them after being discovered - one of the underlying themes i liked, which maybe bill orielly would be good to understand, is that a huge number of america's most significant inventors/innovators were from totally poor/shit/disregarded immigrant families i read "salt" too, which illustrates how pathetic my life is (at least compared to fairweather) - learned why flamingos are pink, the origins of words like soldier, salary and "wich" in english place names, the significance of cod, and why its wierd that after 3 millennia of mankind trying to make salt white n' of uniform crystal size, folks these days are willing to pay extra for dirty salt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponderosa Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 learned [snip] the origins of words like soldier, salary and "wich" in english place names,... Etymology can be mighty interesting and insightful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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