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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I had Architecture for Dummies, I have Knitting for Dummies, and I had Drawing for Dummies. I have Project Management for Idiot's, and a few other's. That's not the shelf I'm going to focus on, though.

    :)

    Yes indeed ... This forum requires a different focus, no?

    I have a LOT of work-related books ... Manuals, etc. Some classics by people like Freud, Jung, Adler ... I actually have a fair number of the books Kenny mentioned ... My fiance is the one who actually owns great literature. I read too much non-fiction, probably.
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I haven't had the time to read Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, but I've wanted to for a while. I've read The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich's, but I didn't finish Questions of Heaven or MATCH TO THE HEART, A: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning. I think my nature writing reading phase ran it's course a couple years ago.

    Ran it's course? Oh, too bad, there's so many great books on the subject....
    I've read Match to the Heart & Open Spaces - really good. Just finished Barry Lopez' - "Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren" & loved it. If you like Lopez, check out "Of Wolves & Men" - awesome. It's one of his earlier works.

    For the animal lovers, I also recommend "The Ten Trusts" by Jane Goodall & "When Elephants Weep" by Jeffrey M. Masson. And since winter is coming, Bernd Heinrich's "Winter World".......

    I know there are a lot of feline lovers on this board, I can recommend some good ones for u too!
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Wow - great collection, Brynzie......

    I have Charles Bukowski - "The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain" (poetry) & we have a few books in common.......

    Yeah. He's the man. I love his early short story collection 'Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness', and his poems - especially 'You get so Alone..' and 'Betting on the muse'.
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Ran it's course? Oh, too bad, there's so many great books on the subject....
    I've read Match to the Heart & Open Spaces - really good. Just finished Barry Lopez' - "Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren" & loved it. If you like Lopez, check out "Of Wolves & Men" - awesome. It's one of his earlier works.

    For the animal lovers, I also recommend "The Ten Trusts" by Jane Goodall & "When Elephants Weep" by Jeffrey M. Masson. And since winter is coming, Bernd Heinrich's "Winter World".......

    I know there are a lot of feline lovers on this board, I can recommend some good ones for u too!
    I loved When Elephants Weep. I lent that book to many people.

    Have you read The Tapir's Morning Bath? I just got it recently, it's in the running for "book to be read next," I'd be curious to hear what you thought of it.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    catefrances wrote:
    every contact leaves a trace - dr. zakarias erzinclioglu

    I like the sound of that - cool title!
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    This thread is making me naseous
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    hippiemom wrote:
    I loved When Elephants Weep. I lent that book to many people.

    Have you read The Tapir's Morning Bath? I just got it recently, it's in the running for "book to be read next," I'd be curious to hear what you thought of it.

    No, can't say that I have. But I'll prolly check it out - I love reading about animals/nature.."way back when" I wanted to be an oceanographer or a forest ranger or something like that.....didn't pursue it, but my interests are still very much hooked in w/all that.

    PM me, hippiemom, if you want some titles....I got tons of 'em! :-)
    PS- you look great in the photo I saw on another thread!
  • CaterinaA
    CaterinaA Posts: 572
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Charles Bukowski - Betting on the muse
    Charles Bukowski - Last night of the Earth Poems
    Charles Bukowski - Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window
    Charles Bukowski - The Days run away like horses over the Hills
    Charles Bukowski - Notes of a dirty old man

    Cool, another Hank fan...my favorite, however, is one of his late books: Hollywood
  • Hope&Anger
    Hope&Anger Posts: 260
    hippiemom wrote:
    I loved When Elephants Weep. I lent that book to many people.

    Jeffrey Masson wrote another excellent book about dogs -- "Dogs Never Lie About Love." It was wonderful!! Great stories about dogs' amazing abilities, combined with a really touching portrait of his relationship with his own dogs.
    "Things will just get better and better even though it
    doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
    idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
    Hope! Hope is the underdog!"

    -- EV, Live at the Showbox
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    CaterinaA wrote:
    Cool, another Hank fan...my favorite, however, is one of his late books: Hollywood

    I've got more than I've listed - too many to list.
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Yeah. He's the man. I love his early short story collection 'Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness', and his poems - especially 'You get so Alone..' and 'Betting on the muse'.

    There's a new movie out recently about him. I haven't seen it yet - "Factotum" starring Matt Dillon. Have you seen it?
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Hope&Anger wrote:
    Jeffrey Masson wrote another excellent book about dogs -- "Dogs Never Lie About Love." It was wonderful!! Great stories about dogs' amazing abilities, combined with a really touching portrait of his relationship with his own dogs.

    I heard about that - He also has one about cats called "The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (A Journey into the Feline Heart)". It was really good. I'd like to read the 1 you mentioned too. Thanks for the info.
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Ahnimus wrote:
    This thread is making me naseous

    Well, Ahnimus, maybe you just don't like to read.....??? Hmm?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Well, Ahnimus, maybe you just don't like to read.....??? Hmm?

    I like to read, just not fiction or philosophy. I like to read facts. Let's talk about Quantum Mechanics or something. The M.T. is boring today.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    seagoat2 wrote:
    There's a new movie out recently about him. I haven't seen it yet - "Factotum" starring Matt Dillon. Have you seen it?

    Yeah. I can send you a copy if you like. Just pm me your address.
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I like to read, just not fiction or philosophy. I like to read facts. Let's talk about Quantum Mechanics or something. The M.T. is boring today.

    Quantum Mechanics?? Huh? Boring.......I suggested lots of books that are factual - how about history? I like that too.....
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Quantum Mechanics?? Huh? Boring.......I suggested lots of books that are factual - how about history? I like that too.....

    Meh history is so-so, depends on what it is I guess
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Meh history is so-so, depends on what it is I guess

    Well, like what?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Well, like what?

    Well we just discussed the Third Reich, so that's out of the question. What about Asian history. I read that the North American Natives were believed to be Asians that discovered N. America long before the English or French, but before that was even Norse Vikings. Also Ninjitsu was a cool art.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Well we just discussed the Third Reich, so that's out of the question. What about Asian history. I read that the North American Natives were believed to be Asians that discovered N. America long before the English or French, but before that was even Norse Vikings. Also Ninjitsu was a cool art.

    Hmm, haven't read much Asian history....as far as Native Americans, there's a theoery that they crossed a land bridge from Asia eons ago, but I don't kow much about it. I assume ninjitsu is a martial art? My fiance used to be a national champ in Kajukempo. It's a combo of karate/judo/kempo or something......i think they call it "American Karate".

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