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05-02-2013, 11:12 PM #226
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05-03-2013, 11:50 AM #227Registered User
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"Ready Player One" is my current favorite book. Really just a fun read all the way through. It does help if you grew up playing with an Atari game system. I'm having a really hard time finding a book I like even 1/2 as much since finishing it.
I'll add another vote to "The Art of Racing in the Rain". The story is told from the POV of a dog recounting his life on the day he dies (not a spoiler - you find this out on page 1). If you've ever loved a dog you will LOVE this book.
"A Dogs Purpose" is another great read if you like dogs. Read this BEFORE you read "Art of Racing..." or you will think it's not very good. That's not a fair assessment though as both books have stuck with me long after I finished reading them.
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09-23-2013, 01:32 PM #228
Reading this now. Really enjoying it.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-of-Fie...-+chad+harbach
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10-03-2013, 11:40 AM #229Registered User
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I'm partial to this one, but I know the author:Fly Like the Wind: http://goo.gl/50m2fr
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10-07-2013, 10:16 PM #230
Just read Machiavelli's The Prince . Really good and really quick (if you like nonfiction/history/politics/philosophy etc.).
Also, The Greatest Game Ever Played was really good but you have to be interested in golf. The movie looked shite. Plus, Shia Labeouf.
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10-09-2013, 04:21 PM #231
Solo by William Boyd released this week is quite good so far.
The original James Bond character set in 1969 (six years after You Only Live Twice was set) written in the (almost exact) style of Ian Fleming.
I wouldn't suggest you try it unless you'd read and enjoyed some of the Fleming novels though.
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10-10-2013, 12:15 PM #232
Fantastic book. Reads like a novel.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Guns-Last-...zg_bs_5031_5#_
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10-13-2013, 11:52 AM #233Registered User
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I've been re-reading surf books waiting for the snow to fly in Colorado.
A couple of novels by Kem Nunn:
The Dogs of Winter -- takes place in/around PNW at a mythical big wave spot accessed via American Indian tribal land. Good characters, gritty with a surprise twist at the end.
Tapping the Source -- CA desert kid searches for his missing sister in a southern California surf town. He struggles to learn to surf, finds a mentor who takes him to the fictional "Ranch" where some weird shit goes down.
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10-13-2013, 06:42 PM #234Hugh Conway Guest
haven't read it in a bit but The Lost Tribes of Palos Verdes (highbrow) and Gidget Must Die (highjinx) aren't bad for the surf list.
I reread Solo Faces, as well as some other James Salter works. Well worth the time.
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10-29-2013, 07:11 PM #235
Cadillac Desert was mind blowing, and one of the most excellently written non-fiction books I've ever read.
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10-29-2013, 09:31 PM #236
Orphan Master's Son- OMG, North Korean dude that went thru all types of shenanigans. I'd tell you about it but it would ruin it. read that shit.
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10-30-2013, 02:07 AM #237Registered User
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10-30-2013, 08:40 AM #238
I went through a North Korean read-spell earlier this year--good book. If you're looking for non-fiction on the subject, check out "Escape from Camp 14." Bio of a dude who was born and raised in a NK prison camp, later escaping to China and S. Korea, now Cali. Quick and haunting. He's like a feral human.
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11-05-2013, 11:38 AM #239Registered User
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11-06-2013, 05:04 PM #240
I'm reading The Sportswriter by Richard Ford. Pretty good. If you're 40 plus, have lived a little and are starting to wonder WTF is this all about, it will hit close to home.
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11-10-2013, 12:19 AM #241Registered User
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
I'm in it.
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12-06-2013, 05:20 PM #242
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester. Kind of a counter pointish book to all the founding father books that have been coming our. Brings the uniting of the US through technology.
Fantastic read. Highly recommend Atlantic also by him, a history of the Atlantic Ocean.Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!
"He is god of snow; the one called Ullr. Son of Sif, step son of Thor. He is so fierce a bowman and ski-runner that none may contend! He is quite beautiful to look upon and has all the characteristics of a warrior. It is wise to invoke the name of Ullr in duels!"
-The Gylfaginning
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12-10-2013, 11:00 AM #243
http://www.amazon.com/We-Die-Alone-E.../dp/1599210630
We Die Alone.
A Norwegian resistance fighter is running from the Nazi's after being shot out of a boat in the frozen north of the Norwegian Fjords. The locals try and hide him from the Germans. Amazing true story of survival from the elements. He survives in a snow bank alone for weeks, too weak to move and cuts his own toes off do to frostbite.
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12-10-2013, 07:50 PM #244Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!
"He is god of snow; the one called Ullr. Son of Sif, step son of Thor. He is so fierce a bowman and ski-runner that none may contend! He is quite beautiful to look upon and has all the characteristics of a warrior. It is wise to invoke the name of Ullr in duels!"
-The Gylfaginning
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12-17-2013, 08:23 PM #245
Any of you armchair mountaineers want to win Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968? Patagonia books is letting us give a copy away. Beautiful book. Details Here.
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12-18-2013, 01:00 AM #246
Days of war, nights of love published by CrimethINC.
But Ellen kicks ass - if she had a beard it would be much more haggard. -Jer
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01-06-2014, 05:48 PM #247
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01-06-2014, 05:57 PM #248
anyone else reading Furious Cool?
wow!
crab in my shoe mouth
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01-06-2014, 08:35 PM #249
Nothing to Envy- North Korea Non-Fiction.
It follows the life of 6 different N Korean. I need to stop reading about N Korea.
Anyone have any good books to recommend on Japan. I just ordered Haikkado Blues Hwy, Im going there is a few weeks and want to have some knowledge.
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01-07-2014, 12:35 AM #250
"Shogun" by James Clavell was awesome, but it probably won't give you much useful knowledge for your trip.
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