Time for a new book - any suggestions?

[Meadow Skipper]

is brautigan worth reading?

It’s been so long since I read Brautigan…. I remember really liking Trout Fishing In America, but I don’t really know if it has aged well. But it’s pretty short - give it a shot.

[dookeyXXX]

THE THICKET - Joe R. Lansdale (2013)
I’ve yammered enthusiastically about Mojo storyteller Joe Lansdale before and will most likely do so again.
For those unfamiliar with him, he’s a veritable and versatile genre chameleon, flitting effortlessly between horror, thriller, mystery, and western with nimble aplomb.
This novel is a bristling western that feels like a cross between Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Portis (True Grit), and L’amour (take your pick).
The story is a coming of age yarn filled with bounty hunters, bad men, whores with hearts of gold, and a wild hog. It’s also teeming with some genuinely hilarious dialogue and whip snap action.
If you like westerns that deviate from the genre while still being incredibly true to it, then I highly recommend this joint.

It’s also been made into a film starring Peter Dinklage, which hits theaters on 9/6.

[stealurface831]

one day in the life of ivan denisovich by solzhenitsyn.
details, you guessed it, one day in the life of ivan denisovich, a political prisoner in a gulag. quick, easy read but incredibly powerful.

[romeo tango]

"The Villian" by Jim Perrin, The Mountaineers Books

when he's not on-sighting 5.10 X first ascents in the rain,
the Godfather of Grit is beating the shit out of any and everybody

the rise and fall of Don Whillans

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[MagnificentUnicorn]

Older book, but “The Wolverine Way” by Douglas Chadwick is great. Centers around the Glacier National Park wolverine study in the early aughts.


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[The AD]

Has anyone here read James? It's a rewrite of Huck Finn from Jim's perspective. It's gotten great reviews.

[dookeyXXX]

Has anyone here read James? It's a rewrite of Huck Finn from Jim's perspective. It's gotten great reviews.

Not yet, but also was oblivious to it being a re-imagining of Huck.

Percival Everett has been on my “to read” radar ever since I saw American Fiction. Really dug the film and am curious about the novel it was based because of that.

I have seen James at my local used bookstore for a bit. May have to pick it up.

Ironically, I have been thinking about revisiting Twain’s novel (and finally reading the three others in the Tom and Huck series), so this might be a cool tie-in…

[mcski]

Huck is such a superior piece of writing , not sure I want the cross contamination but I’ll chk it out

[yeahman]

I'd be curious to check out James, but I feel like I'd have to re-read Huck Finn first to really appreciate the new perspective.

Older book, but “The Wolverine Way” by Douglas Chadwick is great. Centers around the Glacier National Park wolverine study in the early aughts.

I read that book years ago and liked it. Sure would love to see a wolverine in Glacier some day, but the odds are long.

[dookeyXXX]

Bit the bullet(s)…

[yeahman]

Just finished Demon Copperhead. Pretty much blew my socks off. Almost 600 pages and it really doesn't let up for a single fucking sentence, it's just relentless in its brilliance. Creating the character of Demon is an amazing achievement, and Barbara Kingsolver is well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize IMO. I have not enjoyed a book that much in a long time. Bravo.

[Meadow Skipper]

Did you read the book or watch the movie of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road? Did it move you? Do graphic novels appeal to you? Then consider the graphic version by Manu Larcenet. It’s fkn stunning. A perfect (imo) graphic format of that story.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL

Amazon has it too.
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Graphic-...680980-4382551

[The AD]

Just finished Demon Copperhead. Pretty much blew my socks off. Almost 600 pages and it really doesn't let up for a single fucking sentence, it's just relentless in its brilliance. Creating the character of Demon is an amazing achievement, and Barbara Kingsolver is well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize IMO. I have not enjoyed a book that much in a long time. Bravo.

I just started it and it's beginning to draw me in.

[Rasputin]

Of course The Prophet is Gibran's most famous work, however, A Tear and a Smile is no less potent, no less wise, no less profound.

[Rasputin]

I've been reading this lately; the author sent me a copy after we were talking about life a few weeks ago. He's the real-deal-been-there-done-that of the counterculture, from the beginning of it, and pulled off a fairly entertaining collection of memoirs about it with the intention of passing on understandings to help humans, thrive, survive, and move toward higher levels.

[toast2266]

Just finished up Fire Weather by John Vaillant. It's fairly terrifying, and also timely with California burning down (again). Roughly half of the book recounts the Fort McMurray fire in northern Alberta. Big fire that ripped through a town of about 100k people. The book has all kinds of crazy stories from that fire, and I'd guess that there's a number of people on this forum that have some connections there. The other half of the book talks more broadly about fires and the science behind them, and the impacts climate change have on fire weather. It doesn't paint a particularly rosy picture of the future.

[The AD]

After enjoying both "The Dog Stars" and "The River" by Peter Heller, I read his "The Guide" last month. I've got to say it doesn't measure up to those other two. It feels like he phoned it in a bit.

[bagtagley]

I mostly enjoyed Silo but thought it dragged unnecessarily. That and what I thought was clunky dialogue had me wanting…something. So, I read Wool by Hugh Howey and really enjoyed it. It has the same trajectory as the show but is different enough to be worth the read IMO.

Gonna read the rest of the series, though I’m a little bummed I missed boarddad’s suggestion to read Shift first.

[cravenmorhead]

Seconding Fire Weather, great book.
So far I'm liking Playground.

[brutah]

I'd be curious to check out James, but I feel like I'd have to re-read Huck Finn first to really appreciate the new perspective.



I read that book years ago and liked it. Sure would love to see a wolverine in Glacier some day, but the odds are long.

I read James last November and enjoyed it. I haven’t read Huck Finn since high school and didn’t feel like I needed to to enjoy the book. Though I did download huck Finn to listen to after I finished James but have yet to start it. My wife read James after me and felt the same way. She has not read Huck Finn. It’s really good and also pretty sad seeing that the story centers around slavery and life for black people in the south at the start of the civil war.

I just finished the Darkest White which is about Craig Kelly and the avalanche that took his life. Another great read that had me in tears at the end. A must read for skiers and snowboarders a like IMO, especially backcountry riders.

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

THE THICKET - Joe R. Lansdale (2013)
I’ve yammered enthusiastically about Mojo storyteller Joe Lansdale before and will most likely do so again.
For those unfamiliar with him, he’s a veritable and versatile genre chameleon, flitting effortlessly between horror, thriller, mystery, and western with nimble aplomb.
This novel is a bristling western that feels like a cross between Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Portis (True Grit), and L’amour (take your pick).
The story is a coming of age yarn filled with bounty hunters, bad men, whores with hearts of gold, and a wild hog. It’s also teeming with some genuinely hilarious dialogue and whip snap action.
If you like westerns that deviate from the genre while still being incredibly true to it, then I highly recommend this joint.

It’s also been made into a film starring Peter Dinklage, which hits theaters on 9/6.

Finally got around to reading this and your review is spot on, thanks for the recommendation! I now have his book, The Bottoms, on my short list to read next.

[dookeyXXX]

Finally got around to reading this and your review is spot on, thanks for the recommendation! I now have his book, The Bottoms, on my short list to read next.

Right on!

If you like hard-boiled noir, I highly recommend his novel More Better Deals.

[The AD]

I read James recently and also enjoyed it. I thought it was good, but not great. I think it's getting more accolades due to the subject matter than the actual writing, but absolutely worth reading. I don't think you need to read Huck Finn first. It stands on its own.

[ötzi]

I just read Moby Dick for essentially the first time (I wasn’t paying a lot of attention in High School). I have mixed feelings about it, I definitely wouldn’t call it the Greatest American Novel by any means but its interesting and it’s worth reading, even at [emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]+ pages.

[ötzi]

Dammit I just caught the emoji disease.