Book Suggestions...

[Miss_Pixie]

I'm out of things to read....

This week I have read:

Utopia
Thomas Moore

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong
James W. Lowen

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence
Gavin De Becker

and today, I read,

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
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I'd really appriciate suggestions!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

UTOPIAS ELSEWHERE by Anthony Daniels

THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE by Colin Turnbull

GOD'S POCKET by Pete Dexter

SOUTH MOON UNDER by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

GEORGIA SCENES by A.B.Longstreet

THE UNFORGIVEN by Alan Le May

THE SEARCHERS by Alan LeMay

 

[amicus]

For pleasure...and for a supposition of a species without a supreme being, may I suggest the works of Anne McCaffrey, her Pern series.

ami

 

[D_K_Moon]

The Last Lighthouse Keeper by Alan Titchmarsh

 

[Boota]

Can't go wrong with Picking On Retards or Mr. Undesirable.

 

[AngeloMichael]

A Song of Ice and Fire Series
By Geroge R.R. Martin

The Prince of Nothing Series
By R. Scott Bakker

The First Law Trilogy
By Joe Abercrombie

Best Served Cold
By Joe Abercrombie

The First Man In Rome
By Colleen McCollough

The Gentlemen Bastards Series
By Scott Lynch

The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss

The Pillars Of The Earth
By Ken Follet

The Time Traveller's Wife
By Audrey Niffenegger

Replay
By Ken Grimwood

 

[Miss_Pixie]

Thanks, next time I head to the library I'll be on the look out for them. I ordered a book on amazon a few minutes ago called Killing Monsters by Michael something or other, it's an argument for why children need superheroes and fantasy violence.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

For pleasure...and for a supposition of a species without a supreme being, may I suggest the works of Anne McCaffrey, her Pern series.

ami

Ami, I enjoy everything I read. Books are to me what peanut butter is to jelly lol. Consequently I'm running out of places to put them

I need to stop going to half price books...or go there more frequently with books to sell

 

[amicus]

Ami, I enjoy everything I read. Books are to me what peanut butter is to jelly lol. Consequently I'm running out of places to put them

I need to stop going to half price books...or go there more frequently with books to sell

~~~

I just introduced some of my grandkids to Nutella last weekend...ever tried that? Hazlenut and Chocolate blend....the Ozzie's love it!

(Save your post 100 for me! heh)

ami

 

[Miss_Pixie]

lol I've had nutella once, it wasn't bad. I still pefer my grandmother's apple butter with fresh butter on wheat bread though lol.

I also read a ton of cook books, I'm leaving for Indy in the fall to start culinary school. Everybody needs to eat and everybody likes to eat good food so it should make getting a good job as a chef to work my way through psychology much easier... I hope

 

[amicus]

Kinda strange coinkydinck...one of my daughters has a Master's in Psychology, another is currently managing a high end restaurant in Washington, DC, and had a Chef as a boyfriend for a couple years....(you one of my other daughters?)



ami

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Culinary school! Jesus H.Christ on roller-skates!

All culinary school does is teach you how to fuck up perfectly good meat and potatoes. Its the equivalent of castrating your good taste. Culinary school is a fag's 2nd favorite place to be, and who can name even one famous chef!

 

[oggbashan]

Try Rudyard Kipling: Puck of Pook's Hill and its sequel Rewards and Fairies are a good place to start.

Or, Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall in which he makes fun of the artistic intellectuals of his day, including his friends.

Links are to the Project Gutenberg texts, free to download.

Og

 

[Handley_Page]

Almost anything by Terry Pratchett (start with a stand-alone, like Going Postal, or Men at Arms [Ankh-Morpork can get a bit complicated])

I whole-heartedly agree with Ami on the Pern books
(see also the Crystal Singer series).

The Gil Cunnigham novels be Pat Macintosh. (accurate historical)

Anything by HH Kirst (brilliant satire)

the 'Angel' books by Mike Ripley (very droll)

Anything by HRF Keeting

I think that's enough for now

 

[TheeGoatPig]

It's not fiction, but Bruce Campbell's "If Chins Could Kill: Memoirs of a B movie actor" is a very interesting read. It deals with independent movie making, and transitioning into small parts in the major movie industry.

his other book, Make Love the "Bruce Campbell Way" is fiction, and entertaining, but a little bit on the embarrassing side. I never finished it because of that.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I agree completely with the suggestion of A Song of Ice and Fire. However, do not start reading it unless you are prepared to be amazed and frustrated. You will be amazed by George R. R. Martin's storytelling, and frustrated when you realize that he is never going to finish the series.

Equally good - and more satisfying - is The Gap Cycle, by Stephen R. Donaldson.

 

[rgraham666]

For fiction I'm loving The Dresden Files. Great characters, great plots and really good reads.

For non-fiction I recommend Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. A very interesting combination of history and philosophy. It helps explain why we're in so much trouble.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear Reader,

After ROB fell out of his ancestral tree, he took to wearing Betty Boop panties and sandals, and filed for disability.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

~~~

I just introduced some of my grandkids to Nutella last weekend...ever tried that? Hazlenut and Chocolate blend....the Ozzie's love it!

(Save your post 100 for me! heh)

ami

Nutella is Italian, actually, and very popular in all of Europe. The EU has caused a bit of an uproar, however, by requiring that salt and fat content of prepared foods be listed on the label. Italy is declaring such a requirement an attack on their national "bad" breakfast food, and demanding Nutella be exempt from the regulations.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I'm out of things to read....

This week I have read:

Utopia
Thomas Moore

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong
James W. Lowen

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence
Gavin De Becker

and today, I read,

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
___________________________
I'd really appriciate suggestions!

Any work, fiction or not, by Umberto Eco. I'd particularly recommend Foucault's Pendulum.

The late Italo Calvino's novels and short stories are all good, and very writerly. Try his novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller; it's a delightful tale of two readers' attempts to read If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.

And if you haven't read Joyce's Finnegan's Wake or Ulysses yet, I'd recommend either highly.

 

[R. Richard]

Ami, I enjoy everything I read. Books are to me what peanut butter is to jelly lol. Consequently I'm running out of places to put them

I need to stop going to half price books...or go there more frequently with books to sell

If you buy on-line books, you don't have to store them. I would suggest that you check out the Second Chance scifi series. (The suggestion was may solely on the merits of the works and has NOTHING to do with the fact that I'm the author. TRUST ME.)

 

[trysail]

And if you haven't read Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ...

I presume the lady is looking for books written in English, in which case the above suggestion does not qualify!

There is genius in Ulysses— make no mistake about that. It is, without question, the most allusive book ever written and a tour de force of the author's astonishing erudition. It is also, undeniably, a tough slog but that was intended. I'm not entirely sure anybody can honestly claim to have read and fully comprehended it.

I'd start by reading Richard Ellman's biography. I also commend:
James Joyce's Ulysses, A Study By Stuart Gilbert,
A Reader's Guide To James Joyce by William York Tindall,
Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford, and
(yes, believe it or not) Cliff's Notes on Ulysses.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I presume the lady is looking for books written in English, in which case the above suggestion does not qualify!

I've read all of Ulysses, and have a good grasp of it; as with all good works, though, I find something new each time I read it.

Such is the case even more so with Finnegan's Wake, I re-read it every year or two, and always find more and more. It is in English, by the way, and the liberal inclusions of non-English wordsand phrases serves only to add to the multiple levels of discourse. You might try reading it aloud, perhaps after listening to some readings of it by Irish actors. Fionula Flanigan's reading of the Anna Livia passage is wonderful, as is McCusick's of the Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. (Oh, and don't forget to have a basic familiarity with world history and mythology as you begin the middle of the book). Just consider the complex allusions to circular history, circular traffic, circular immigration, love, lust, and all in the first paragraph of page 1 - think of all conveyed by the simple play on North Amorica - "amor" for Tristan, the 'violer d'amores" and his travels between France and the British Isles (Amorica was the name of Bretonne, or Brittany, in English) and hints back at the Irish exodus to North America, and their returnings, all traveling in circles, large and small, and time and life themselves in circles from birth to death and the love and lust that measure and create both...).

It's the best bit of verbal abstract expression, I think, the world has ever seen.

(Aside: Shut up, Tio; it's summer and lecturing is not allowed).

 

[glynndah]

I'm finishing up Dave Barry's CyberSpace. Apparently, there's something called "porn" on the internet.

A from the good little witch.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm finishing up Dave Barry's CyberSpace. Apparently, there's something called "porn" on the internet.

A from the good little witch.

Most of it isnt all that good.