What is everone reading ?

“Gary Zukov”

“Who is this stikmon person?”

“My early American history textbook.”

“Lyra, I hate it when that happens. One of my most favorite novels is "The Living" by Annie Dillard. While she has written lots of non-fiction and is a lit professor at Wesleyan, that is her only novel.”

“"Jungle" about these guys that are basically hoboing around in South America and embark on a trip into the Jungle. They've started down the river on a raft and the group dynamic has already started to break down.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?! I CAN'T STAND THE SUSPENSE!”

“basically hoboing around in South America and embark on a trip into the Jungle.....

sounds like fun”

“I'll have to try that one, Ruby! My good old backup is anything by Joyce Carol Oates...she's written like a thousand books, all great as far as I've seen. I always get one of hers at the library, and one by another author. I've been doing that for months now, with no end in sight! Yay.”

“Part 4 of the "Carrier" series by Keith Douglass. Being a Cold War Veteran, I enjoy reading stories about what might have happen but didn't! :)”

“Hey Stikmon!!! Thank you so much for forwarding my email. How ya doing?”

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain of course.....
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“"SIN CITY"”

“Hustler June '94
for the articles of course...”

“I'm reading TT, since I forgot to bring a book or anything with me over here to my parent's house, again. I'm just listening to mom shoot the breeze. COnstantly.”

“Currently, "Three roads to Quantum Gravity". Anyone wanna discuss?”

“Marley and Me. The good looking librarian talked me into it.”

“QG is a particular are of interst to me but I have not read this book, PW. Do you recommend it?”

“I got two books for my birthday that I'm about to start. Thirteen Moons is by Charles Frazier. He's the author of Cold Mountain. I also got Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey. I have a day trip to Naples, FL next Mon and hope to read most of Desert on the plane.”

“BTW, happy late birthday, dayhiker.”

“Thanks. I was hoping a victory over UT would be the present. So much for that. My mother in law was in town Monday night so she kept the kids while we went out to eat. It was nice to eat out without the kiddos.”

“Yeah, not having mashed peas all over you at dinner time is a welcome thing sometimes.

I know the feeling. Just wait though, in another dozen years, you will be begging them to have dinner with you, LOL.”

“I'm about 100 pages into Dessert Solitaire. I'm enjoying it so far.”

“Desserts for one? Good idea... ;P”

“I just started Dear John..Nicholas Sparks newest book..looks like it will be great..but all his are!”

“Stephen King -- Four Past Midnight.”

“I started to type Desert instead of Dessert, a call came in, and then I misspelled it. Oh well...”

“nice save.”

“On book #4 of the Dark Tower/ Gunslinger series. Roland just got his shot off in susan if you know what I mean ;-)”

“tb's comment reminds me of the form I had to sign when I had the big V procedure. I had to sign something saying that I was requesting a "bilateral vasectomy." I asked the nurse if they had many folks come in for a monolateral vasectomy. She said, "Strangely, no, don't have many of those."”

“Bayou Bill's Best Stories by Bill Scifres
Bayou Bill was an outdoor writer for the Indianapolis Star news paper for a VERY long time. I have had the book for years but never picked it up. The other night I finally started. They are really good. Kinda like the clean threads here, and campfire stories. Pretty cool.”

“109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (Jennet Conant)

Very interesting and entertaining!”

“Path, I'll bet that is a good one. I may have to look that one up.

I'd like to read a good one on Ghandi. Any recommendations from anyone?”

“I just bought Marsh Mission by C.C. Lockwood last night. He gave a wonderful and somewhat scary presentation on the state of the wetlands of Louisiana. We lose over a football field of land every hour and we sink 1/4" per year. Come see us while the marsh is still alive. November till May we have wonderful weather in Louisiana. We have a lot more to offer than Bourbon Street. Not that hitting Bourbon Street while you are here is a bad thing.

C.C. says that when you come bring a S O S.

S O S in this case stands for suitcase of silt to be deposited in the marshes of Louisiana.


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“I just started, [u]The Last Season[u] about a long time backcountry ranger in the Sierra's and his disappearance in 1996.

Pretty good so far but I haven't gotten to the meat of it yet.”

“Matt's ads at the top of every string, they're everywhere! The ones with movement are especially annoying.”

“"The Last Lion" by William Manchester. Two volumes of some 1,800 pages. This is going to be a good long read about Churchill.”

“"The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King.”

“13 Moons. Not as good as "Cold Mountain", but a good read anyway.”

“Plant catalogs.”

“internet”

“Why Christianity Must Change or Die by John Spong.”

“Hell or High Water

Just picked it up and can't wait to dig in tonight. About the first successful descent of the Tsangpo river in Tibet.”

“ive read that book, nimblefoot. spong is a very skillful and persuasive author”

“Hannibal Rising. The prequel to Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.”

“The Unforeseen Wilderness, Kentucky's Red River Gorge.

So far it's an enjoyable read. It more about how we effect the environment (2 ch's in) and was written in the 60's when the Corp of Engineers wanted to dam up the place.


steppen - I got that book back in Oct for my birthday. You're the 2nd person I've heard say it wasn't nearly as good as Cold Mtn.”

“The Hive, The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson (really excellent)

and a book I got for Xmas: Love Walked in by Marisa de Los Santos. So far a really beautiful, well written, funny book that I'd like to sit down and read straight through. It's about love in all forms...friendship, family and romantic.”

“So far it's an enjoyable read. It more about how we effect the environment (2 ch's in) and was written in the 60's when the Corp of Engineers wanted to dam up the place.

As much as a love the RRG that would have made one awesome lake! LOL!”

“History of Appalachia”

“chili - is that the thick green book available in the GSMNP bookstores? I think the one I'm thinking of was written around 1910, maybe by Kephart.”

“No, the one I am reading is from about 2000 and written by a Professor at Appalachia State U.

I can't remember the name of the author, but it is a great history of the region.”