What are you reading?

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squeezindlemmon
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What are you reading?

Post by squeezindlemmon »

I guess since there is a never-ending post about "What are you listening to?", that there should be one about books as well. Right now, I'm reading The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's an awesome book about Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of 17 to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived alone with no modern provisions and basically just living off the land.

I have a looooong list of other books I want to read.... Any other good ones I should add to it?
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Post by overhung »

Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck.
I've had just about enough of this shit.
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Post by busty »

So many books, so little time. I read a couple of interesting books about women in WII recently:

The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII -- by Marcus Binney (this is a spy book)

And If I Perish : Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn Monohan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Bill Bryson's travelogues are all really interesting too.
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Post by KD »

retro counter-culture classic :A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan. Amazon is about the only place to get a copy. Good book.
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Post by meetVA »

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
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Post by KD »

loved "Catch 22"
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Post by overhung »

meetVA wrote:Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
Catch 22 one of my all-time favorites. Have you read Good as Gold by Heller? It's as good in my opinion. Hey, I'm leaving the biners on Friday... I swear this time.
I've had just about enough of this shit.
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Post by JB »

I'm gearing up for a trip to escalante and remote canyons of utah...
so: Desert Solitaire and Secret Knowledge of Water (i like the Childs book better than Abbey for some reason)

Gearing up to work out my own damn salvation...
so: Blue Like Jazz, Walking on Water (L'engle), anything by Buechner

Feeding my Wind Rivers obsession...
so: Sky's Witness, the Kelsey guidebook and the Bonney guide to Wyoming mountains.

Learning about sustainability and simplicity:
so: Wendell Berry
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Post by ReachHigh »

I have such a stack of half read books its not funny.

currently
Survivor - Chuck Palhniuk
The Bible - I've answered Christian for years when asked about my beliefs but I have never read the whole book.
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Post by KD »

am "teaching" a reading class right now full of 13 - 14 yr olds who want to do everything but read. Once they're quiet i can maybe read. this is a boring job sometimes - easy jus' boring.
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