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| KaptKaos |
 Jul 28 2006, 11:02 PM
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Family  Group: Members Posts: 4,009 Joined: 23-April 03 From: Near Wausau Member No.: 607 Region Association: Upper MidWest  |
So I am heading off for vacation. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) 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. |
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| Aaron Cox |
Jul 28 2006, 11:05 PM
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Professional Lawn Dart Group: Retired Admin Posts: 24,541 Joined: 1-February 03 From: OC Member No.: 219 Region Association: Southern California |
Haynes manual - so you wont have to ask me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chairfall.gif)
Haynes weber IDF book - come borrow it, read about your new motor (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Porsche 914 restores guidr- come borrow it |
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| Howard |
Jul 28 2006, 11:10 PM
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Incontin(g)ent Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,785 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Westlake Village, CA Member No.: 943 Region Association: None 
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QUOTE(KaptKaos @ Jul 28 2006, 10:02 PM)  So I am heading off for vacation. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) 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. Not lately, but it's time to reread: Art of War Atlas Shrugged The Prince Best Non Fiction: The Old Testament Best Fiction: The New Testament (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Running for Cover smiley |
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| Bruce Allert |
Jul 28 2006, 11:32 PM
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Hellions asleep Group: Members Posts: 3,289 Joined: 19-March 03 From: Eagle Creek, Orygun Member No.: 441 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Dean Koontz:
Velocity Mr. Murder Frankenstein I & II (III ain't out yet!) ..b |
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| KaptKaos |
Jul 28 2006, 11:38 PM
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Family Group: Members Posts: 4,009 Joined: 23-April 03 From: Near Wausau Member No.: 607 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
QUOTE(Howard @ Jul 28 2006, 10:10 PM) Not lately, but it's time to reread: Best Non Fiction: The Old Testament Best Fiction: The New Testament (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Running for Cover smiley You should run for cover. Who is John Galt? |
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| TonyAKAVW |
Jul 28 2006, 11:43 PM
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That's my ride. Group: Members Posts: 2,151 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Redondo Beach, CA Member No.: 166 Region Association: None |
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 |
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| sww914 |
Jul 29 2006, 12:05 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,439 Joined: 4-June 06 Member No.: 6,146 Region Association: None |
Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat(s), Cannery Row, and maybe the Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men. Landmark stories, for sure.
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| carreraguy |
Jul 29 2006, 12:06 AM
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It's not your dad's 914! Group: Members Posts: 1,197 Joined: 17-October 03 From: San Jose, CA Member No.: 1,256 Region Association: Northern California |
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! |
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| markb |
Jul 29 2006, 12:07 AM
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914less :( Group: Members Posts: 5,449 Joined: 22-January 03 From: Nipomo, CA Member No.: 180 Region Association: Central California 
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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. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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| So.Cal.914 |
Jul 29 2006, 12:20 AM
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"...And it has a front trunk too." Group: Members Posts: 6,588 Joined: 15-February 04 From: Low Desert, CA./ Hills of N.J. Member No.: 1,658 Region Association: None |
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. |
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| Brett W |
Jul 29 2006, 12:57 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,856 Joined: 17-September 03 From: huntsville, al Member No.: 1,169 Region Association: None
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Check out the other book by Dan Brown, "Deception Point".
Also look for the Fair Tax book by Niel Boortz. |
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| pfierb |
Jul 29 2006, 05:34 AM
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oldest member Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 1-May 05 From: The sign of good government in Connecticut is to keep raising taxes Member No.: 4,008 |
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. |
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| So.Cal.914 |
Jul 29 2006, 08:15 AM
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"...And it has a front trunk too." Group: Members Posts: 6,588 Joined: 15-February 04 From: Low Desert, CA./ Hills of N.J. Member No.: 1,658 Region Association: None |
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| Katmanken |
Jul 29 2006, 10:06 AM
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You haven't seen me if anybody asks... Group: Members Posts: 4,738 Joined: 14-June 03 From: USA Member No.: 819 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
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. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Ken |
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| KaptKaos |
Jul 29 2006, 05:55 PM
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Family Group: Members Posts: 4,009 Joined: 23-April 03 From: Near Wausau Member No.: 607 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
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. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Ken Um, yeah... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) So ANYONE ELSE with any good recommendations? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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| obscurity |
Jul 29 2006, 06:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 24-February 06 From: Atlanta ,GA Member No.: 5,628 Region Association: South East States |
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 |
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| HarveyH |
Jul 29 2006, 06:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 450 Joined: 19-June 03 From: Downingtown, PA Member No.: 843 |
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 |
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| Rrrockhound |
Jul 29 2006, 07:45 PM
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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.
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| shaggy |
Jul 29 2006, 09:01 PM
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mechanic/welder/fabricator Group: Members Posts: 702 Joined: 26-September 05 From: Gilbert, AZ Member No.: 4,869 Region Association: None |
"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... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) -shag |
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| jimtab |
Jul 30 2006, 12:20 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,477 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Pacifica, California Member No.: 91 Region Association: Northern California |
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.....
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