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JmacTN
Joined: 10/08/06
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Nashville, TN
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Posted: 03/29/08 2:12pm |
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What are some good books to read, fiction or non-fiction? They don't even have to be outdoorzy books, just something good. I need something more structured to do after I'm done with my outdoorzy activities for the day. TV is getting boring.
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endercore
Joined: 02/18/07
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Lexington, KY
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Posted: 03/29/08 2:26pm |
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Here are some books I reccently read:
three cups of tea
confessions of an economic hitman
the kite runner
on the road
into the wild
love in the time of cholera
i would recommend all of them, particularly three cups of tea. It is about a mountaineer who goes to pakistan to climb K2. He gets in an accident on the peak, gets lost, and winds up in a strange village. The rest of the book is about how his life was transformed and his mission to promote peace and build schools.
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The Brandon
Joined: 07/09/07
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Springfield, TN
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Posted: 03/29/08 5:18pm |
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Oooooh. Books... My tastes are varied. I'm currently reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. And...a textbook about reinforced concrete design, but that one doesn't count.
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett, was hands-down the funniest book I've ever read. It's a post-apocalyptic British comedy in which an angel and demon, who are supposed to be overseeing the apocalypse, manage to lose the Antichrist. Every single page in this book is enjoyable. Actually, I would recommend anything with Neil Gaiman's name on it. Especially American Gods.
If you like the horror genre, I would suggest you read Swan Song. The story is similar to King's The Stand, and if you like that, you should like this, as well. But instead of The Stand's mutating super-virus, in this one, the human race has been decimated by a nuclear holocaust. It's an epic battle between good and evil as bands of marauders pillage what little is left. This book is one of very few that has freaked me out while reading it. Clive Barker is also a great writer; he was the creator of the Hellraiser films. Damnation Game was quite good.
James Rollins writes good, adventurous Indiana Jones-type books. I've read Sandstorm, Ice Hunt, and Excavation, and enjoyed them all. I also have two other books of his that I've not yet read.
I also really like Jeff Long's The Descent. It's a subterranean adventure/horror hybrid story, and I believe the film of the same name was loosely based upon it. Although, this book was much better than the movie. The movie really had no plot, other than people trying to escape from the cave and the demon-like creatures that inhabited it.
If you feel like you want to learn something, you can't go wrong with any of the compiled works or biographies of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the other founding fathers.
I recently read Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Interesting, to say the least.
And if you like black humor, it doesn't get much blacker than Chuck Palahniuk. Grab a copy of Rant.
"I don't wanna die without any scars."
-Tyler Durden
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wkumtrider
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Posted: 04/01/08 11:42am |
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I'm currently reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Pretty good so far.
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wdew23
Joined: 10/30/06
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Louisville, KY
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Posted: 04/01/08 1:08pm |
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Check out "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. That book is crazy good.
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The Other Wade
Joined: 10/12/07
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Roswell, GA
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Posted: 04/01/08 8:50pm |
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I second you guys on Kite Runner and Angels and Demons. I just finished "Deep Survival" - and it was actually a pretty good read. Much better than those stupid "pack 93 items in a pocket knife" or "you can carry 8 gallons in a condom" type survival books. It dealt more with the mentality and phsycology of who survives situations, and who doesn't. That's my $.02.
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abenson
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Louisville, KY
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Posted: 04/02/08 8:08am |
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A few years ago I got on a pioneer/frontiersman kick. Those old timers were more survivalists than most of us will ever be. If you all are interested in survival, read up on Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, etc. Also, there is a author by the name of Allen Eckert who writes historical fiction about these types of guys and their adventures. One of the best of his is actually called "The Frontiersman".
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endercore
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Posted: 04/02/08 6:48pm |
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Oh, and one more.
Anatoli Bourkeev "above the clouds"
i just started this book a few days ago and cannot put it down. The man provides insight to life at insight like no other. His worldview is incredible. This book is much more thoughtful than "the climb" which was his response to being villainized in krakauer's "into thin air". "above the clouds" is made up of Anatoli's journals outlining his experience on the mountain.
its really firing me up to go get into mountaineering.
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Kat
Joined: 02/06/08
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Posted: 04/02/08 10:31pm |
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kite runner was definitely amazing.
and so is into the wild.
the alchemist was life changing.
and then anything by chuck palahnuik is plain freaky, but sooo interesting to read.
and also, another chuck, chuck klosterman writes hilarious books.
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Buster
Joined: 10/16/06
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Nashville, TN
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Posted: 04/03/08 8:56pm |
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Try looking into Travers Corners by Scott Waldie. He has a small series of books; three in total. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey is good too. It is about a guy that moves to Alaska and lives in a cabin he built himself for 30+ years.
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