'Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi - pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic - live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules, in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people - as do many other aboriginal groups - possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day.
Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, 'Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing' holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.'
Interesting read. From what I gather from the summary, it seems to tie in with authors such as Derrick Jensen. I did enjoy some of his works as far as I can recollect.
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Started this yesterday, I like it so far...
Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.
Just finished "The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest" by Martin J. Smith. A very entertaining and enlightening read about the Duck Stamp Contest and the history of the Duck Stamp itself.
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.
Finished Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses last week. Not really my cup of tea. I really wished I had a Kindle for that book, I'm a typical English speaking only American and I wasn't about to look up translations to all the dialogue in Spanish that popped up randomly. Also he tends to lean more on the literary side of writing than I'm used to, I prefer more story and less description for my simple mind. I doubt I'll complete his trilogy, his style just didn't grasp my attention enough, I seriously had to work through this book. But to each their own!
After that I needed an easy reader... so now I am easily plowing through Lee Child's Die Trying. Even though I'm late to this series, I don't imagine Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in my mind as I'm reading.
It's the first in a detective trilogy based in Scotland... here's the review from Amazon... I'm a detective book fan and I like reading stories set in countries/towns I'd like to visit sometime.
Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.
It's the first in a detective trilogy based in Scotland... here's the review from Amazon... I'm a detective book fan and I like reading stories set in countries/towns I'd like to visit sometime.
Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I read The Black House and then had to read the other two books in the trilogy. The Chessmen and The Lewis Man. They're not perfect, but they were good reads. I think the setting is the best part.
It's the first in a detective trilogy based in Scotland... here's the review from Amazon... I'm a detective book fan and I like reading stories set in countries/towns I'd like to visit sometime.
Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.
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I'm actually going to buy this tonight. Poor little babygirl is having all kinds of trouble dropping the deuce.
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Interesting read. From what I gather from the summary, it seems to tie in with authors such as Derrick Jensen. I did enjoy some of his works as far as I can recollect.
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he needs to write another book.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Yeah, it's almost like it ends right in the middle of a good story.
Just started "Waging Heavy Peace" Last week.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this story. I have three more short stories to go the book, and then I'm going to read:
Guess I'm kind of on an "older book" kick, these days.
"Let's check Idaho."
Really enjoyed The Island when I read it a few years back. Not Jaws, of course, but good. (Disappointing movie adaptation however.)
I read Jaws when I was a kid and really enjoyed, so I figured this would be fairly good. You can't go wrong with pirates!
"Let's check Idaho."
I've seen a movie like that once...
After that I needed an easy reader... so now I am easily plowing through Lee Child's Die Trying. Even though I'm late to this series, I don't imagine Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in my mind as I'm reading.
I'm going to start this tonight...
The Black House by Peter May? I have that in my Saved for Later list on Amazon... too many books on my coffee table to read first.
Actually the Black House by Stephen King & Peter Straub...
What's the Black House by Peter May about?
Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I read The Black House and then had to read the other two books in the trilogy. The Chessmen and The Lewis Man. They're not perfect, but they were good reads. I think the setting is the best part.
Thanks!! Sounds interesting...