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05-16-2012, 01:53 PM #176
Vacation read recs? Just finished finals, heading out for a few weeks. Looking for something clever/fun. Haven't read a thriller in a few years. Ideas?
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05-16-2012, 02:12 PM #177Registered User
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^^ If you're into spy fiction, I've been really digging on Daniel Silva. IMO, he's as good as Clancy (though without the historical background) and more mature than Vince Flynn. Personally, I'd start with The Kill Artist, which is the first of the Gabriel Allon series. But it's not exactly a "thriller."
ETA: Oops, forgot I mentioned this on the first page already.
For "mountain-lifestyle" books, I really liked Forget Me Not, by Jenni Lowe-Anchor. Details her life with Alex Lowe. Also greatly enjoyed This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson. Same guy who wrote Touching the Void, but it's more of a memoir chronicling his life rather than a specific experience. Crazy stuff.
For other wilderness books: Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak, Malamute Man, .... drawing a blank on some others. Will update later.Last edited by auvgeek; 05-16-2012 at 02:22 PM.
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05-16-2012, 02:19 PM #178Registered User
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I read "The Fabric of the Cosmos" - though I haven't read "The Elegant Universe" - and it was great, five years more recent than EU. Though he also has an even newer one, "The Hidden Reality." http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Reality...7199280&sr=1-1
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05-24-2012, 11:45 AM #179
Cant remember if I recommended these or not yet
Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
A River Runs Through It - Norman Mclean
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Where Men Win Glory - Krakauer
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05-24-2012, 06:42 PM #180
the sigma force series by james rollins is pretty awesome reading...
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“This is infinity here,” he said. “It could be infinity. We don’t really don’t know. But it could be. It has to be something — but it could be infinity, right?” - Trump, on the vastness of space, man
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05-25-2012, 08:21 AM #181
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05-29-2012, 02:17 PM #182
I just knocked out Andrew Vachss' The Getaway Man in a week. Great little noir novel with definite odes to Jim Thompson.
Currently reading Smonk, a bugged out western with a bizarre and twisted sense of humor, by Tom Franklin (his book of short stories, Poacher, is also worth a gander).
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05-29-2012, 02:23 PM #183
Peter Bergen’s Manhunt: The Decade-Long Hunt for Osama bin Laden
a little redundant but a great read.www.dpsskis.com
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formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
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06-11-2012, 11:40 AM #184Registered User
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looking for a good hemingway bio. the new-ish "hemingways boat" looks pretty interesting. anyone?
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06-14-2012, 08:38 AM #185Registered User
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
Not new but an amazingly descriptive tale that is unpredictable. Includes S American shaman magic, washed up USA spy, sex with a nun in the middle east, and grandma's parrot. Unreal story. And almost anything else by Tom Robbins is good
If you are PNW a great read is
A year of broken glass - joe denham
A tale set in present time of a fisherman who finds a glass Japanese fishing float. And all the events after. Fantasy but really really good
Also for you Canadians (esp. Sunshine coasters and islanders)
The above is great but also try. Very entertaining
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound - Grant Lawrence
+1 -sex drugs cocoa puffs - chuck closterman
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06-15-2012, 09:08 PM #186Registered User
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If you're into surf reading, don't get "the lost coast". it's a collection of mediocre short stories.
get West of Jesus
or Caught Inside instead.
or just watch endless summer a few more times.
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06-15-2012, 10:00 PM #187Hugh Conway Guest
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06-23-2012, 09:57 AM #188Registered User
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where does one start with charles bukowski? randomly picked up a book of his poetry at the book store recently and really liked it.
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06-25-2012, 08:51 AM #189
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06-25-2012, 10:32 AM #190
City of Thieves. quick easy good read.
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06-25-2012, 01:03 PM #191
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Christopher McDougall
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07-01-2012, 05:16 AM #193
Anybody read Ghost Wars? Just started reading it today and cant put it down... read 80 pages this afternoon. Even though it goes into much detail and deals with lots of names and detail, it's not dry nor boring at all which kinda surprised me. So far I'm quite enjoying it and would recommend it if you're a history buff.
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07-01-2012, 09:30 AM #194sick, spiteful, bad liver
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07-01-2012, 02:35 PM #195
The Heart of the Fire
by Cerridwen Fallingstar
This one is not for the faint of heart, seriously, I had what seemed like a heart attack while reading it. It is, at times, almost unbearably intense.
It recounts the perspective of a young witch in early 17th century Scotland during the witch hunts, revealing a hidden world of earth based religion and magic, it will cause your nape hairs to rise.
It becomes evident that the author considers these to be memories from a past life where she was ultimately burned at the stake. Very rich imagery, highly erotic, and at times horrifying, it is ultimately fascinating.I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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07-01-2012, 07:03 PM #196sick, spiteful, bad liver
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07-01-2012, 10:19 PM #197
"Unbroken" - Read it.
and I'm sure I've thrown this one out on here before, but "The Heart of the Sea" - the true story of the Essex - is a must read too.
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07-02-2012, 12:04 PM #198
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07-03-2012, 04:52 AM #199
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07-03-2012, 06:47 PM #200
I'd highly recommend.a.book called ''The Incantation of Frida K''. It's a very powerful but poetically-written book. See my recent thread about it in this forum for an excerpt.
--"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it; a jealous, possesive love that grabs at what it can." by Yann Martel from Life of Pi
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