After having my life changed by "Zen and the Art of Motorcycly Maintenance" which I read about 4 million times, I just picked up "Shop Class as Soulcraft". This is a book for the ages if we ever get there! You may want to get off the couch, you may ask yourself, "Is this my beautiful house?" you may not get it, you may not get over it! Steve McQueen said in "Le Mans", "Racing is life, everything that happens before or after it is just waiting." I couldn't have said it better and my name is Steve!
What Are You Reading?
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Currently I am reading "The Texian Iliad" by Stephen L. Hardin. It is a military history of the Texas Revolution.
DL
DL
Just started The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Didn't get very far yet, as I was reading it on a plane, and I always have trouble concentrating under those conditions.
Just finished The Egyptian by Mika Waltari and Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan while on vacation. Recommend both, although somewhat mildly.
Just finished The Egyptian by Mika Waltari and Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan while on vacation. Recommend both, although somewhat mildly.
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Excellent book! My favorite fiction. I love everything that I've read by McCarthy. The Road comes out in theatres tomorrow. Hoping I get to see it this weekend.
DL
I have heard of that book.
Just finished an Australian autobiography - I,Mick Gatto... All about the Melbourne underworld..
Pretty good read if your into this sort of stuff.
Pretty good read if your into this sort of stuff.
I hope it changed you life for the better, it didn't for Pirsig. He committed himself to an Asylum trying to achieve academic validity for his theories, that sort of went round in circles, eating themselves.
He couldn't even unravel them himself. Curious novelty of a book, and a man.
Just picked up another Winston Churchill bio by John Keegan. Its a short read.
After that, I'll be on to Stephen Ambrose's "Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment"
After that, I'll be on to Stephen Ambrose's "Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment"
finishing up the new Terry Pratchett, "Unseen Academicals" (fantasy/satire).
then going to re-read "Kon-Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl for about the tenth time. still floors me, a real life adventure about a group of men with about the biggest brass ones ever....
then going to re-read "Kon-Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl for about the tenth time. still floors me, a real life adventure about a group of men with about the biggest brass ones ever....
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell.
Tim
Tim
The Protector's War by SM Stirling...
I just finished Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace. A little disturbing but fascinating.
I just started A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester. Pretty good read so far.
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert. An interesting read about a nasty family. Its Machiavelli-icious! 
Continental Drift by Russell Banks. Outside of my normal genre but it was a Secret Santa gift so I figured I would give it a whirl.
just finished the third policeman
brilliant
brilliant
Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. This is the third time I read this masterpiece of a history book. A must read for anyone interested in World War II and why Hitler`s Germany met it`s end.
Just finished The Branch and the Scaffold - Loren D. Estleman which was about the various exploits that went on in the west centering on the hanging judge Isaac C. Parker.
To get into the holiday spirit, I'm onto Wally Lamb's Wishin' and Hopin' a Christmas Story.
To get into the holiday spirit, I'm onto Wally Lamb's Wishin' and Hopin' a Christmas Story.
Just Read:
Wishin' and Hopin' a Christmas Story - Wally Lamb B+
A cute holiday story with some good laughs.
Reading Now:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
In the Queue:
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy - Douglas Adams
...and Another Thing - Eoin Colfer
The World without Us - Alan Weisman
Dreamsongs v1 & v2 - George R.R. Martin
The Secret History of the American Empire - John Perkins
How to Paint a Deadman - Sarah Hall
Wishin' and Hopin' a Christmas Story - Wally Lamb B+
A cute holiday story with some good laughs.
Reading Now:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
In the Queue:
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy - Douglas Adams
...and Another Thing - Eoin Colfer
The World without Us - Alan Weisman
Dreamsongs v1 & v2 - George R.R. Martin
The Secret History of the American Empire - John Perkins
How to Paint a Deadman - Sarah Hall
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