Favorites?

“swamp yankee-

The Sibley Guide to Birds (David Allen Sibley) is supposed to be primo, do you have it?

shoot, we need to start a whole nother thread for field guides”

“I have an awesome field guide for mushrooms Birch got me for Xmas last year, "Simon and Schuster's guide to mushrooms". It's actually small enough to pack too, probably only weighs a pound. Not bad for a book. Got another wild edibles book that's great too but big.”

“Non fiction: "A Walk Across America" Peter Jenkins

Fiction: "Casca" The Eternal Mercenary Series

Poem: "Casey at the Bat"”

“King Rat by James Clavell, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet and anything by Tolstoy. Haven't read much nonfiction lately, the last great one I picked up was Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs of Survivors which was compiled by Dith Pran.”

“Poem: The:Jabberwocky

Fiction: Atlas Shrugged

Non-fiction: Autobiography of Booker T. Washington”

“While we are at it: Phil's Favorites Page”

“on the road by jack kerouac

the monkey wrench gang by ed abbey

jayber crow by wendell berry

you can't go home again by thomas wolfe

angle of repose by wallace stegner

sometimes a great notion by ken kesey

hells angels (a terrible saga) by hunter s thompson

cannery row by john steinbeck”

“Ohhh Max, I forgot about "Pillars of the Earth"! I love that book! Unfortunately loaned it to someone and it never came back. I really got a kick out of reading how the cathedrals were built. Makes you admire them all the more.”

“Dunadan, I don't know what it is, but I just can not read Rilke. You'll have to tell me what you see, 'cause I ain't gettin' the message. Lyra, if you like Anais Nin you should get a book entitled "Erotica - Women's Writing From Sappho To Margaret Atwood." Did you use the word . . . glorious?! LOL! You'll probably like it. Le Subtil, I love that quote. It says it all.”

“Thank You Joy!!!!

I laughed until I almost hurt!
You funny little thing you!!!!

I know you were kidding, but it still was cute!

Yes,... you made my day!”

“She's right Bigfoot, you are a great poet.”

“Thank You too sweet one,...but I know better!!!

I do hope you find something in them you like!”

“Bigfoot the ladies are right. You are much better than you think.”

“Wow,...not many things could make me happier than you like something I do. I`m blown away and I don`t know how to take it. I think you are teasing me, but I did enjoy the moment.... Thank You for that!!!”

“I'm not teasing. I will always treasure the poem you wrote when Abby was born.”

“If I find myself laughing out loud while I'm reading alone it a good chance it' Mcmurtry”

“Walt Whitman, Alice Walker, Terry Brooks and Steven King”

“Thank You Joy!

I do remember writing that poem, I wish I had kept a copy of it, but I guess I didn`t, or I lost it with everything else when my computer crashed.”

“YOu may find it at the ”

“You may find it at the for unto joy and hyper thread.”

“Hey Thanks hobbstweedle,... I`ll go look!”

“Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"”

“poem: "Anonymous" by Anonymous.
Non fiction: Orgins of species by Darwin
fiction: its gotta be Ernest H.”

“wingding: if you liked "Heart of Darkness" you might like "King Leopold's Ghost" a non-fiction account of the what was happening to the Belgian Congo when Conrad was there (Conrad based the story on his real life experiences in the Belgian Congo).”

“I have not read a book by Wendell Berry yet that I did not enjoy immensely. What insight, and what great questions to society.
Newgirl, I will whip out some Rilke, and we will consider the lines together.”

“This is from "Sonnets to Orpheu", by Rilke. (#4)

O tender ones, now and again
stand in the waves of a foreign air
which parts upon your cheeks and then,
trembling, rejoins behind you there.

O blessed ones, whole and unbroken,
first throb of the heart's fanfare,
comprising bow, arrow and target chosen:
smiling sorrow is your eternal share.

Fear not suffering's gravity.
Return the earth its weighty share;
heavy are its maoutains, heavy the sea.

The tree you seeded in childhood's place
grows now too heavy for you to bear.
But not the breeze...never the space.”

“I, too, love to read. Way too many books to list. My list is a lot like some other people here: Patricia Cornwell, Jeffrey Deaver, Tom Clancy, John Grishom, William Faulkner, Frank Herbert, Peter Jenkins, Stephen King's earlier books, Sara Paretsky, the Foundation series, the Cry of the Kalahari, and some romance fiction like Nora Roberts and Barbara Delinsky, for when I'm sick and don't want to think too much.”

“I'll check it out PedXing. Thanks”

“I love these threads. I get a list of books to try that will last years!”

“I forgot to mention Trinity, what a powerful, but disturbing book.”

“So...what did you think about Rilke, newgirl?”

“Fiction:
"White Noise," Don DeLillo
"Tapping the Source," Kem Nunn

Sci-Fi:
"Norstrilia" and "Best of" by Cordwainer Smith

Non-fiction:
"The Woods," Charles Seib
"An Outside Chance," Tom McGuane
"Traveling Light," Bill Barich

Humor:
"Alice, Let's Eat," Calvin Trillin
any collection of Robert Benchley

Poetry:
"Leaves of Grass," Walt Whitman
"The Man with the Blue Guitar," Wallace Stevens
"Yellow Dog Journal," Judith Minty
"Mother Said," Hal Sirowitz
"The Dead and the Living," Sharon Olds
"As Long as You're Happy," Jack Myers
"Rose," Li-Young Lee
"The Last Neanderthal," Michael Van Walleghen
"Not So Deep as a Well," collected poems of Dorothy Parker”

“Sigh... so many books so little time.

Wish I'd read even a quarter of the books listed here...”

“Winding: please lemme know whatcha think ifn ya do check it out.”

“Dunadan, that last stanza is cool, but overall I just can't get into it. Maybe it was the way it was first presented to me.”

“Well, newgirl, translations vary greatly on Rilke. If you are interested in giving him another chance, check out more than one translator. I came across one recently, (Lands, I think his name was), and he took the soul right out of the poems.”

“i love that Rilke poem, Dunadan...i've never read it before. i actually have a book of his stuff that i picked up somewhere that i haven't really gotten into yet.

yeah, one of the frustrating things about translated poetry is the fact that it's translated! no matter how good the translator is, you lose some of the rhythm & rhyme that add layers to the meaning. it really makes me crazy that i'll never "really" read poetry that is in a foreign language...i've thought about learning German just for that reason...and probably will one day.”

“Poetry: Not into it.
Fiction: Lonesome Dove and Pillars of the Earth.
Non-Fiction: Undaunted Courage.”

“I think that the last book I read all the way through was "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" One of my favorite books/author.
That must have been about 7 years ago. and I haven't read another book since. This is sad, but true. Now tech manuels and scripts and such are my only brain food. I read alot on line, but nothing like what I used to read. This thread my be a good reason to start up again. There have been some great suggestions.”

“My all time favorite fiction is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This writer has a style all his own. Non fiction is Undaunted Courage by Steven Ambrose. Never really caught on to much poetry.”

“Lagtis, here are some more suggestions:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert, Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence, The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski, Ten Great Mysteries - Edgar Allen Poe (good overview of his stuff), Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dubliners - James Joyce, Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The Story of O - Pauline Reage (be careful, this one is a bit nasty).

Lagtis, take the time to read. It is well worth the effort and there is NO better way to educate yourself. I could probably get a better education at the public library than I can at the state university. That is not a slam to the university system, it is just to say that reading will bring a person worlds of knowledge.”

“Thanks, newgirl, for the suggestions, though I don't know how my wife would take it if I started reading The Story of O or Lady Chatterley's Lover. Maybe SHE should read those..Hehehe”

“Atlas shrugged is a great pick, Fritz. I like The Fountainhead even better.

Sandy, if we ever meet, remind me to tell you about the time I hung out with Larry McMurtry for a few weeks.”

“Lady Chatterley is more romantic than sexual. Your wife would probably dig it. O on the other hand is not good reading for the faint of heart.”

“I bought O and just could not get into it. Is there something wrong with me?”

“pekka, White Noise is great--have you read Libra or Underworld (my other favorite deLillo novels)? Also, if you haven't read any Gaddis, check out JR--I think you'd like it. (Very heavy going, but well worth it--brilliant and prescient.)

wrthog--read the Border Trilogy and love his style, but haven't read Blood Meridian yet. Thanks for the recommendation.”

“Very dark story that reveals some of our not so P.C methods during our westward expansion in the mid 1800s.”

“"That's funny, ped. I think I'm up to page 120."
Arclite...

Hmmm.... p.120? Maybe thats a goal I can shoot for.”

“Recently finished reading 'The Short Stories of Sholom Aleichem.' These are the stories that were the inspiration for the play 'Fiddler on the Roof.' Well written, entertaining, very cultural, and short. So it's good to read if you have a short attention span.”

“Dunadan, I don't think there is anything wrong with you. It is a pretty twisted story and if you are only read for the sex stuff, then there isn't much too read. If you read it for some of the physcological stuff, it is slow reading. The author is an excellent writer, but the subject is pretty heavy and morally objectionable.”