http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/bo...-killings.html
Has anyone tried wading into this yet?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/bo...-killings.html
Has anyone tried wading into this yet?
Just started on "The Martian." Somewhat amateurish, but very entertaining!
^^me too - narrative reminds me The Dog Stars which is also a great book to pick up -
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
"How long can it last? For fuck sake this isn't heroin -
suck it up princess" - XXX on getting off mj
“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
'The Emerald Mile' by Fedarko is 257 ways of an awsum, magnificent and brilliant weave of history of the American Southwest, beautiful arc of the individual, cultural contrasts and transformations, politics and orthogonal truths against a background of the mad and raging colors of the Grand Canyon and the Green and Colorado River Basins.
A Really Fine Read.
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Just started "The Emerald Mile." I figure it's gotta be good to get that kind of praise from Buster!
I should have mentioned the engineering stuff in EM too. Mankinds largest machines.
I thought 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls was a good read too: hysterical from a distant view, sad and frightening because that life is really not so far off.
'Half Broke Horses' by her was good too.
Also Ivan Doig is a guilty pleasure with 'Work Song' current.
Seven Ages of Paris by Horne was a bit thick at times, but satisfying.
can't remember the other historical junk I've read...
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just read The Martian this weekend (blew out my back so spent it on the couch reading)...entertaining! thx for the recco
also, from this thread I enjoyed The Son
i intensely disliked Infinite Jest's writing style so much that i couldn't continue [for those that got through it, is it worth going back to and enduring for a later payoff?]
good thread!
Just finished a Steinbeck anthology again. East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men.
Read John Steinbeck. One of the best Californian American writers evar! Then read Wallace Stegner and Ed Abbey.
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
I'm in the middle of "The Emerald Mile" now, too, and really enjoying it. It really makes me want to visit the Southwest.
I found A Supposedly Fun Thing... less dense but more serious. I just read Although of course you end up becoming yourself, which might be the closest DFW gets to summer reading.
I'll check out the other books you mentioned; my book pile is dwindling. Infinite Jest made me want to give Gravity's Rainbow another try as well.
Travels with Charley!
We heard you in our twilight caves, one hundred fathom deep below, for notes of joy can pierce the waves, that drown each sound of war and woe.
The Goldfinch just came in at the library after putting a hold on it in Aug...gonna dig into that one this weekend
Interesting thread. Anyone here read Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach?
Been finally plodding through Hesse's Glass Bead Game although not nearly as fast as I'd like... mixing in perhaps my 10th re-reading of William Gibson's Neuromancer
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>>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<
Finished last night. Recommend.
http://www.amazon.com/High-Divide-Pr...ds=high+divide
^^^def one of the best in a long time. The Comanches were like outlaw motorcycle gangs.
For the 420 crowd this is must read
http://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Signals-.../dp/1439102619
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
"How long can it last? For fuck sake this isn't heroin -
suck it up princess" - XXX on getting off mj
“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
Desmond Bagleys - Landslide. for me its every thing i want in a book:
adventure
hot women
realistic
think clint eastwood meets john wayne meets harrison ford, so a lad wakes up from a car crash and becomes a geologist and go's on to get chased around the BC back country. oh yea
Not summer but this thread needs a bump - thanks for rec Brit, holy fucking macgyverfest - that is a top tier read for sure.
fight your inner Mr Dumbstone - Read the martian or emerald mile, two great recommendations from this thread -
Read it before Nov
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog...best-ever.html
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/...ts-the-martian
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
"How long can it last? For fuck sake this isn't heroin -
suck it up princess" - XXX on getting off mj
“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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