Great Books???

[lethe]

Am I the only idiot that likes Clive Barker's writing? I lent one of the Books of Blood to someone and they gave back a few days later almost without a word and a look of disgust on their face like I just shit on their sandwich.

[Speedbag]

Am I the only idiot that likes Clive Barker's writing?

Nope. Great stuff. 

[Speedbag]

I didn't realize there were so many nerds on this site. Man, I remember back when being a motorcyclist meant something. When they were a rare breed of rugged individualists.



sac

Yeah, maybe we need to get some soft-porn avatars or something.

[djrashonal]

P+P+Z is okay, but Breathers: a zombie's lament is better.

+1 for breathers

[Johnny OrganDonor]

Books are stupid but, that being said, here are some ok ones

The Art of Racing in the Rain â€" Stein (if you love dogs)
Riding with Rilke; Reflections on Motorcycles and Books â€" Bishop (Ducati specific and the author checked in a few times on the old DML)
Trout Fishing in America â€" Brautigan (or anything else by Brautigan)
Shibumi â€" Trevanian
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy â€" LeCarre (or any other spy novel by LeCarre)
Never Cry Wolf â€" Mowat
The Right Stuff - Wolff
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
Into the Wild â€" Krakauer
Shogun â€" Clavell (also King Rat and Tai Pan)
Crime and Punishment â€" Dostoyevsky (best book I've ever read)
Wild Swans â€" Chang
One Hundred Years of Solitude â€" Marquez
and another vote for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance â€" Pirsig (good antidote for Atlas Shrugged)

[NorDog]

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
"The Brothers Karamazov"
"Huckleberry Finn"
Dante's "Inferno"
"de Anima"
"Federalist Papers"
"Othello"

[superjohn]

Nope. Great stuff. 

+1

Sac, that clip of Hicks was great! I forgot about that one. I had a similar experience. I went into a bar for dinner and took a book with me (ooking for Kings by Ian Kelly. Good book about Antonin Careme) and this Amy Winehouse wannabe starts in with, "I gotta ask? You're reading? In a bar? What's up with that?"

[The Bearded Duc]

Not to knock your SO, but someone with a Masters in Philosophy has never read The Republic?


that is interesting to me.


At my college, that was the first book you read in Intro to Philosophy.

She has read it, at least four times. She just found the comment interesting and was curious as to why you thought it should be read.

[COWBOY]

Hey,

I read a lot and I'm always looking for suggestions;
Anyone got any ideas?

H, I enjoy a good read as well.  I read as opposed to watch tv for the same reason I prefer to ride than drive - it's more of an experience than an observation.

If you enjoy historical fiction then 2 must reads (albeit long ones) are Ken Follet's "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World without End."  He has another titled "A Place Called Freedom" that was a good book as well.

A few other more *ahem* recent books that have been good are

Michael Crichton "State of Fear"  -- predates the Climatologist debacle of the past year by 6 years. In essence the Da Vinci Code for earth science and a great read no matter which side of the fence you're on.

Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" -- like State of Fear it gains in perspective given the recent Real Estate collapse.

Billie Lett "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" -- it's been a few years but I enjoyed the read.

I just went to Borders and picked up my stack of books for the year I'll PM you if any of them deserve a mention.

[muskrat]

Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke

[hihhs]

Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke

Quote from PJ;
"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

He is my one my favorite commentators

[hihhs]

H, I enjoy a good read as well.  I read as opposed to watch tv for the same reason I prefer to ride than drive - it's more of an experience than an observation.

If you enjoy historical fiction then 2 must reads (albeit long ones) are Ken Follet's "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World without End."  He has another titled "A Place Called Freedom" that was a good book as well.

A few other more *ahem* recent books that have been good are

Michael Crichton "State of Fear"  -- predates the Climatologist debacle of the past year by 6 years. In essence the Da Vinci Code for earth science and a great read no matter which side of the fence you're on.

Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" -- like State of Fear it gains in perspective given the recent Real Estate collapse.

Billie Lett "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" -- it's been a few years but I enjoyed the read.

Big fan of Tom Wolfe; "A Man in Full" is a favorite
Crichton is great too; I liked "State of Fear". I also enjoyed his book "Timeline". Kind of an "airplane" book but fun.
"Airplane" is my SO's term for a book with very few redeeming qualities but is very entertaining for a few hours.

A perfect example of "airplane" books that I really like are John Sandford's "Prey" series.

Not familiar with Billie Lett, but I'll check it out.

[DoubleEagle]

 " How to Talk Dirty and Influence People  "  ...By Lenny Bruce , ..the great comedian

" The Prophet "    .....by Kahlil Gibran

Dolph

[Billyzoom]

I was once in a book store in Massachusetts, and my SO at the time pointed to a man a said, "that's John Updike". I ended up standing near him. A woman walked up and said she was fan. He was gracious.
So, in one of those wonderful brain-fart moments, I said to him, "I'm an admirer of your work. A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my favorite books". He gave me an odd look and said, "it is one of mine too"

It was about five minutes later that I realized the incredibly stupid thing I'd done. That was about fifteen years ago, and I'm still embarrassed.

Ha..that's great.  Many of us have stories like that where we put out foot in our mouth. Definitely was a classic book, though.  Laugh out loud all the way through..

[RAT900]

The day of St Anthony's Fire by John Fuller

......French village eats ergot fungus bread goes on bizarre community acid trip...real story