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Posted by: KaptKaos Jul 28 2006, 11:02 PM

So I am heading off for vacation. Two weeks in the north woods. No electricity, no PC, no TV, no teener. I need some book recommendations.

Generally I prefer fiction, generally the classics like Hemingway (I will be on the U.P. afterall), but also like history, philosphy, some sci-fi, etc..

So let me know if you have ready any good books lately.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Jul 28 2006, 11:05 PM

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Haynes weber IDF book - come borrow it, read about your new motor
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Posted by: Howard Jul 28 2006, 11:10 PM

QUOTE(KaptKaos @ Jul 28 2006, 10:02 PM)

So I am heading off for vacation. Two weeks in the north woods. No electricity, no PC, no TV, no teener. I need some book recommendations.

Generally I prefer fiction, generally the classics like Hemingway (I will be on the U.P. afterall), but also like history, philosphy, some sci-fi, etc..

So let me know if you have ready any good books lately.

Posted by: Bruce Allert Jul 28 2006, 11:32 PM

Dean Koontz:
Velocity
Mr. Murder
Frankenstein I & II (III ain't out yet!)

..b

Posted by: KaptKaos Jul 28 2006, 11:38 PM

QUOTE(Howard @ Jul 28 2006, 10:10 PM)

Not lately, but it's time to reread:
Art of War read 2 summers ago
Atlas Shrugged re-read 3 summers ago
The Prince read 4 summers ago

Best Non Fiction: The Old Testament
Best Fiction: The New Testament

Running for Cover smiley

Posted by: TonyAKAVW Jul 28 2006, 11:43 PM

Bowling Alone - not fiction, but very interesting. about 5 years old?
Our Endangered Values: America's moral crisis
Guns Germs and Steel (need to finish this one myself)
and one I've been meaning to read...
Godel Escher Bach (apparently quite dense)

-Tony

Posted by: sww914 Jul 29 2006, 12:05 AM

Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat(s), Cannery Row, and maybe the Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men. Landmark stories, for sure.

Posted by: carreraguy Jul 29 2006, 12:06 AM

I'm more into non-fiction -
- "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" - award winning book about the WWII battle of US destroyers against Japanese battleships in the Battle of Samar off Leyte Gulf. Halsey does not come off to well; first time I heard that. I was surprised to learn that one gun mount on the Yamato weighed more than a US destroyer escort!

Also enjoyed -
"Devil in the White City" about the Chicago World's Fair and a homicidal maniac. "Team of Rivals" about Lincoln and his cabinet. Both books really made you feel you were in the period.
"The Great Influenza" about the 1918 flu pandemic.

After reading "The DaVinci Code", I also enjoyed Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" and "Digital Fortress". Actually, I liked Angels and Demons as much or more than DaVinci code.

Damn, wish I had more time to read!

Posted by: markb Jul 29 2006, 12:07 AM

Vacation? Light reading you can doze off to? Try any of the books by Jimmy Buffett. Easy read, funny, and you don't have to think.

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Jul 29 2006, 12:20 AM

Steven King -- The Stand *****

Dean Koontz-- Mr. Murder ***

Can't remember-- Slauterhouse 5 ****

George Orwell--1984 **

Steven King -- The Shining ***

Frank Herbert-- Dune ***

Bentley Little-- The House ***

That should last ya, Have Fun.


Howard you have the right as an American to your opinion, and I have the right

to mine. Considering the majority of Americans and a good part of the world

consider the New Testament as well as the old to be sacred, that was a very

very insencetive thing to say. If you had not been "running for cover" I

could chalk it up to stupidity. IMHO!

Sorry for the Rant in your thread Kapt.

Posted by: Brett W Jul 29 2006, 12:57 AM

Check out the other book by Dan Brown, "Deception Point".

Also look for the Fair Tax book by Niel Boortz.

Posted by: pfierb Jul 29 2006, 05:34 AM

Just finished reading The Big Show by the French ace Pierre Clostermann best book ever about the Battle of Britain....It is a must if you can find it long out of print.
The book will put you in the seat of a Spitfire and a Typhoon.

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Jul 29 2006, 08:15 AM

Posted by: kwales Jul 29 2006, 10:06 AM

That's Easy!

Just get those books they sell in Alaska....

You know, the ones entitled "Bear Tales 1 " and "Bear Tales 2" and Son of Return of Bear Tales" volume 3....

Lotsa wonderful tales of encounters with bears.....

You know, fun tales like your buddy shoots one in the heart with a high powered rifle, it runs 60 MPH for 1/2 a mile straight at you, leaps a canyon and eats your buddy before finally falling over dead....

Or the one about the kids walking to the neighbors house..... only not all make it...

or....... how hard it is to tell a black bear from a brown bear and how one favors live meat on the run and one favors dead meat. And how playing dead or running up a tree can be good or bad depending on the type of bear. And....

Great night reading in the wild.

Ken

Posted by: KaptKaos Jul 29 2006, 05:55 PM

QUOTE(kwales @ Jul 29 2006, 09:06 AM)

That's Easy!

Just get those books they sell in Alaska....

You know, the ones entitled "Bear Tales 1 " and "Bear Tales 2" and Son of Return of Bear Tales" volume 3....

Lotsa wonderful tales of encounters with bears.....

You know, fun tales like your buddy shoots one in the heart with a high powered rifle, it runs 60 MPH for 1/2 a mile straight at you, leaps a canyon and eats your buddy before finally falling over dead....

Or the one about the kids walking to the neighbors house..... only not all make it...

or....... how hard it is to tell a black bear from a brown bear and how one favors live meat on the run and one favors dead meat. And how playing dead or running up a tree can be good or bad depending on the type of bear. And....

Great night reading in the wild.

Ken

Posted by: obscurity Jul 29 2006, 06:23 PM

Any Carl Hiaasen. All fun easy reads. I liked "Skinney Dip" and "Stormy Weather" the most so far but I haven't found one I didn't like

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - his best in my oppinion

The Fountainhead - Rand

Also I can always go back and reread Douglas Adams books

Hope these help

Posted by: HarveyH Jul 29 2006, 06:55 PM

The Once and Future King by T. H. White. A retelling of the Arthurian legend. Disney did a kids adaptation of the first 1/4 of the book as The Sword in the Stone; and the musical Camelot claims to be drived from the book too. May be read at several levels of maturity.

Silverlock by John Myers Myers.

Harvey

Posted by: Rrrockhound Jul 29 2006, 07:45 PM

Try "In the Land of White Death", a diary by a member of a Russian sailing expedition in the Arctic Circle that got icebound about a hundred years ago. A small party broke off from the main crew to hike across hundreds of miles of ice, and they faced incredible hardships. But they were the only ones to survive.

Posted by: shaggy Jul 29 2006, 09:01 PM

"The Gold-Plated PORSCHE. How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures." by Stephan WIlkinson. guy buys a 83 911SC and does a full rebuild in the barn behind his house.

/\
should be mandatory reading for everyone in the club...

-shag

Posted by: jimtab Jul 30 2006, 12:20 AM

I would recommend anything by Mark Twain...especially the Literary Crimes of Fennimore Cooper...best piece of expository writing ever...for really good woodsy stuff I can recommend Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing by John Gierach...the guy is a hoot. It's a collection of short stories and so it's good for reading and dozing off....enjoy your vaca.....