Jitterbug is my favorite... followed by Another Roadside Attraction.
3rd would probably be Still Life with Woodpecker, then Skinny Legs and All.
After those four, I'd put Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Villa Incognito in the same class.
The other two were "meh"
Still Life with Woodpecker is so smart book!!
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
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In order to keep this post from running WAY too long, I'll only list one favorite from any one author (tortuously difficult to do!):
Abbey, Edward: THE FOOL’S PROGRESS
Alexie, Sherman: FLIGHT
Andrews, F. Emerson: UPSIDE-DOWN TOWN
Bechard, Gorman: THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
Berry Wendell: THE WILD BIRDS
Bly, Robert: THE MAN IN THE BLACK COAT TURNS
Boyd, Malcolm: AREYOU RUNNING WITH ME, JESUS?
Bradbury, Ray: FAHRENHEIT 451
Brown, Dee: BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Bulgakov, Mikhail: HEART OF A DOG
Burnford, Sheila: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Carlin, George: LAST WORDS
Capote, Truman: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
Choinard, Yvon: LET MY PEOPLE GO SURFING
Hayden, Tom: THE LOST GOSPEL OF THE EARTH
Hemingway, Ernest: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Hempton, Gordon: ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE
Huxley, Aldous: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
Jensen, Derrick: ENDGAME
Joyce, James: ULYSSES
Kunstler, James Howard: THE LONG EMERGENCY
Laing, R.D.: THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE
Lee, Harper: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
McCullers, Carson: THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
McKibben, Bill: EAARTH
Miller, Henry: TROPIC OF CANCER
Morrow, Betty: SEE UP THE MOUNTAIN
Murphy, Beatrice M.: EBONY RHYTHM, AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY NEGRO VERSE
National Geographic Society: FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Nelson, Willie: THE TAO OF WILLIE
Orwell, George,: 1984
Peacock, Douglas: WALKING IT OFF
Plath, Sylvia: THE BELL JAR
Richards, Keith: LIFE
Rowling, J.K.: HARRY POTTER AND…
Seton, Ernest Thompson: ROLF IN THE WOODS
Stegner, Wallace: CROSSING TO SAFETY
Steinbeck: THE GRAPES WRATH
Tolkien, J.R.R.: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Traven, B.: THE JUNGLE SERIES
Vonnegut, Kurt: A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Warner, Brad: HARDCORE ZEN
Weaver, Harriett E.: THERE STAND THE GIANTS
Weisman, Alan: THE WORLD WITHOUT US
Wilson, Edward O.: THE FUTURE OF LIFE
Zim, Howard: INSECTS
Sorry my list is so long- that’s as short as I can make it. All are essential to my life... thus far.
"Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth. And to hope."
"Watership Down"-Richard Adams
"The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
"Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
"Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
"Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
"The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
"WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
"The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
"The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
"The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
"The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
"Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
"Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
"The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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You're all PJ fans and none of you have read Ishmael?! :shock: It's like, recommended reading...
I've heard Eddie mention it before, sounds interesting, but I usually don't read anything philosophical written in the last 20 years. I really need to get with the times I suppose, though do Pearl Jam lyrics count?
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
Yeow! A big omission from my list: +1 :thumbup:
Shout to you for the Nat Geo Field guide....which I also have a copy...or two..of..
...and "Lord of the Rings".....and I hope to read E.O.'s "Insects" one day....a very engaging gentleman...I have met him a couple of times...and we share a home state.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
Yeow! A big omission from my list: +1 :thumbup:
Shout to you for the Nat Geo Field guide....which I also have a copy...or two..of..
...and "Lord of the Rings".....and I hope to read E.O.'s "Insects" one day....a very engaging gentleman...I have met him a couple of times...and we share a home state.
Wonderful that you got to meet E.O. Wilson! Excellent! I met Wendell Berry once and had a hard time getting a few words out, but he was very kind and humble. I thanked him for responding to a letter I wrote to him about how his words had changed my life. He said, meekly, "Well, I'm glad I did something right." I can picture Wilson being the same kind of person. And Terry Tempest Williams- another writer I'd love to meet. She belongs on my list for her recent amazing columns in The Progressive. First rate all the way.
"Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth. And to hope."
You're all PJ fans and none of you have read Ishmael?! :shock: It's like, recommended reading...
gotta get this one next purchase and 'insects' by zinn have read 'us history and moving train', not familar w/this one. about?
San Diego Sports Arena - Oct 25, 2000 MGM Grand - Jul 6, 2006 Cox Arena - Jul 7, 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - May 1, 2010 Alpine Valley Music Theater - Sep 3-4 2011 Made In America, Philly - Sep 2, 2012 EV, Houston - Nov 12-13, 2012 Dallas-November 2013 OKC-November 2013 ACL 2-October 2014 Fenway Night 1, August 2016 Wrigley, Night 1 August 2018 Fort Worth, Night 1 September 2023 Fort Worth, Night 2 September 2023 Austin, Night 1 September 2023 Austin, Night 2 September 2023
I thought Ishmael was pretty good and it sure does gets you thinking quite a bit... I forgot to mention it along with so many that will keep coming to mind Incidentally a friend of mine just read it on my recommendation and she loved it too
~Can't escape from the common rule
If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
For those who have read Ishmael, have you also read the other two books of this trilogy (Ishmael being the first) - The Story of B and My Ishmael? What did you think of those books?
For some reason I preferred Story of B to Ishmael as I think it goes a bit further than the first one - a bit more thought provoking maybe? Or just different thoughts? As with the other two, I find the plot quite thin but I think that's not the real purpose of the book - the message is. My Ishmael is my least favourite - I found it a bit 'disjointed'. A lot of words for less thoughts/ideas.
Great! I'm going to buy Story of B as soon as possible, I'm really curious now... Is the story completely connected? I mean, is it important to remember everything I read on Ishmael? I'm asking because I read it like.... 11 or so years ago, so it isn't really "fresh"...
Edit - I was just reading on wikipedia that Story of B is a sequel for both Ishmael and My Ishmael... Does this make sense to you?
~Can't escape from the common rule
If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
"Watership Down"-Richard Adams
"The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
"Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
"Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
"Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
"The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
"WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
"The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
"The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
"The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
"The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
"Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
"Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
"The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
I see you have a thing for animals. Some of these books look pretty cool.
Story of B was the second one published (before My Ishmael). It's been a while for me as well, but I wouldn't see the books as 'sequels', rather books based on the same areas of thoughts/concepts, looking at these concepts in a deeper/different way maybe and presenting others. I think as as long as you remember some of Ishmael - more the greater picture of what Quinn is trying to say, you should be OK.
For those who have read Ishmael, have you also read the other two books of this trilogy (Ishmael being the first) - The Story of B and My Ishmael? What did you think of those books?
I purchased the Story of B used, but haven't read it yet. I wish I was more of a bookworm...
But now after reading that you prefer it to the others, redrock, I may pick it up sooner than later...
For those who have read Ishmael, have you also read the other two books of this trilogy (Ishmael being the first) - The Story of B and My Ishmael? What did you think of those books?
I purchased the Story of B used, but haven't read it yet. I wish I was more of a bookworm...
But now after reading that you prefer it to the others, redrock, I may pick it up sooner than later...
It's just my thoughts.. might not be the same as others as I might be slightly weird.. :? I preferred Story of B because I thought it went into things a bit deeper.
Though, I must admit, whilst I did like those books, they are not amongst some of my big favourites.
"Watership Down"-Richard Adams
"The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
"Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
"Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
"Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
"The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
"WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
"The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
"The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
"The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
"The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
"Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
"Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
"The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
I see you have a thing for animals. Some of these books look pretty cool.
You would be correct, sir
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
"Watership Down"-Richard Adams
"The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
"Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
"Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
"Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
"The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
"WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
"The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
"The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
"The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
"The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
"Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
"Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
"The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
I see you have a thing for animals. Some of these books look pretty cool.
"Watership Down"-Richard Adams
"The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
"Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
"Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
"Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
"The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
"WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
"The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
"The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
"The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
"The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
"Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
"Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
"The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
I see you have a thing for animals. Some of these books look pretty cool.
"The Future of Life" by E.O. Wilson would probably strike a cord with you.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes
The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
(House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is one of my favorite books ever)
Non-fiction:
King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
The Inextinguishable Symphony - Martin Goldsmith
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters - Jason K. Stearns
(The Edmund Morris three volume Teddy Roosevelt biography is great)
(The Edmund Morris three volume Teddy Roosevelt biography is great)
King Leopold's Ghost almost made my list....."The Scramble for Africa" by Thomas Pakenham some how got left off the list.....have the first two Morris Teddy books....just have not got around to reading them.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
(The Edmund Morris three volume Teddy Roosevelt biography is great)
King Leopold's Ghost almost made my list....."The Scramble for Africa" by Thomas Pakenham some how got left off the list.....have the first two Morris Teddy books....just have not got around to reading them.
Somebody here on the board recommended King Leopold's Ghost. And I read Scramble for Africa after - GREAT book.
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
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Jitterbug is my favorite... followed by Another Roadside Attraction.
3rd would probably be Still Life with Woodpecker, then Skinny Legs and All.
After those four, I'd put Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Villa Incognito in the same class.
The other two were "meh"
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Abbey, Edward: THE FOOL’S PROGRESS
Alexie, Sherman: FLIGHT
Andrews, F. Emerson: UPSIDE-DOWN TOWN
Bechard, Gorman: THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
Berry Wendell: THE WILD BIRDS
Bly, Robert: THE MAN IN THE BLACK COAT TURNS
Boyd, Malcolm: AREYOU RUNNING WITH ME, JESUS?
Bradbury, Ray: FAHRENHEIT 451
Brown, Dee: BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Bulgakov, Mikhail: HEART OF A DOG
Burnford, Sheila: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Carlin, George: LAST WORDS
Capote, Truman: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
Choinard, Yvon: LET MY PEOPLE GO SURFING
Hayden, Tom: THE LOST GOSPEL OF THE EARTH
Hemingway, Ernest: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Hempton, Gordon: ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE
Huxley, Aldous: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
Jensen, Derrick: ENDGAME
Joyce, James: ULYSSES
Kunstler, James Howard: THE LONG EMERGENCY
Laing, R.D.: THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE
Lee, Harper: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
McCullers, Carson: THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
McKibben, Bill: EAARTH
Miller, Henry: TROPIC OF CANCER
Morrow, Betty: SEE UP THE MOUNTAIN
Murphy, Beatrice M.: EBONY RHYTHM, AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY NEGRO VERSE
National Geographic Society: FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Nelson, Willie: THE TAO OF WILLIE
Orwell, George,: 1984
Peacock, Douglas: WALKING IT OFF
Plath, Sylvia: THE BELL JAR
Richards, Keith: LIFE
Rowling, J.K.: HARRY POTTER AND…
Seton, Ernest Thompson: ROLF IN THE WOODS
Stegner, Wallace: CROSSING TO SAFETY
Steinbeck: THE GRAPES WRATH
Tolkien, J.R.R.: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Traven, B.: THE JUNGLE SERIES
Vonnegut, Kurt: A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Warner, Brad: HARDCORE ZEN
Weaver, Harriett E.: THERE STAND THE GIANTS
Weisman, Alan: THE WORLD WITHOUT US
Wilson, Edward O.: THE FUTURE OF LIFE
Zim, Howard: INSECTS
Sorry my list is so long- that’s as short as I can make it. All are essential to my life... thus far.
"The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
"Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
"Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
"Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
"The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
"WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
"The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
"The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
"The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
"The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
"Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
"Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
"A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
"The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
Yeow! A big omission from my list: +1 :thumbup:
I've heard Eddie mention it before, sounds interesting, but I usually don't read anything philosophical written in the last 20 years. I really need to get with the times I suppose, though do Pearl Jam lyrics count?
...and "Lord of the Rings".....and I hope to read E.O.'s "Insects" one day....a very engaging gentleman...I have met him a couple of times...and we share a home state.
Wonderful that you got to meet E.O. Wilson! Excellent! I met Wendell Berry once and had a hard time getting a few words out, but he was very kind and humble. I thanked him for responding to a letter I wrote to him about how his words had changed my life. He said, meekly, "Well, I'm glad I did something right." I can picture Wilson being the same kind of person. And Terry Tempest Williams- another writer I'd love to meet. She belongs on my list for her recent amazing columns in The Progressive. First rate all the way.
gotta get this one next purchase and 'insects' by zinn have read 'us history and moving train', not familar w/this one. about?
MGM Grand - Jul 6, 2006
Cox Arena - Jul 7, 2006
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - May 1, 2010
Alpine Valley Music Theater - Sep 3-4 2011
Made In America, Philly - Sep 2, 2012
EV, Houston - Nov 12-13, 2012
Dallas-November 2013
OKC-November 2013
ACL 2-October 2014
Fenway Night 1, August 2016
Wrigley, Night 1 August 2018
Fort Worth, Night 1 September 2023
Fort Worth, Night 2 September 2023
Austin, Night 1 September 2023
Austin, Night 2 September 2023
If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
Edit - I was just reading on wikipedia that Story of B is a sequel for both Ishmael and My Ishmael... Does this make sense to you?
If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
I see you have a thing for animals. Some of these books look pretty cool.
I purchased the Story of B used, but haven't read it yet. I wish I was more of a bookworm...
But now after reading that you prefer it to the others, redrock, I may pick it up sooner than later...
It's just my thoughts.. might not be the same as others as I might be slightly weird.. :?
Though, I must admit, whilst I did like those books, they are not amongst some of my big favourites.
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brien (20 books)
Tikki Tikki Tembo - Arlene Mosel
Drizzt Series - R.A.Salvatore
Lestat Series - Anne Rice
Harry Potter Series - J.K.Rowling
Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
Fiction:
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes
The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
(House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is one of my favorite books ever)
Non-fiction:
King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
The Inextinguishable Symphony - Martin Goldsmith
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters - Jason K. Stearns
(The Edmund Morris three volume Teddy Roosevelt biography is great)
the vampire chronicles you mean. :P
i just picked blackwood farm off my shelf and realised im part way through it. i wish i was more disciplined with my reading.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Somebody here on the board recommended King Leopold's Ghost. And I read Scramble for Africa after - GREAT book.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”