Favorite books
 

Here's my rough cannon. Mostly short fiction or shorter novels. I have a short attention span, so I tend to read shorter prose. I'II leave War and Peace and Don Quixote for my next life. Who has time for a work like Ulysses or Don Delillo's Underworld anyway?

J.D. Salinger--The Catcher and the Rye, Nine Stories.
Leo Tolstoy--The Death of Ivan Ilych.
James Joyce--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Franz Kafka--all his short stuff.
Herm Melville--Bartleby and Benito Cereno.
Anton Chekhov--one of the greatest short story writers ever.
Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby, and many short stories.
Raymond Carver---American master.
Albert Camus--the plague and the Stranger.
Flannery O'Connor--American master.

Edgar Allen Poe---one of my favorites.

I love books and I love literature and I love stories of the torn and tragic, of the soul at loose ends......................The first ten cantos in The Inferno of Dante are a true feat of the human mind.

King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
Moby #^&#^&#^&#^&.............................................. ..............

:happy:

Adding--Stephen King--The shinning, The Stand, 'Salems Lot

Nonfiction
The oyster by William Brooks
Cod--Kurlansky
The founding fish---McPhee
Men's lives--Matthiessen

Ok, a few of my favorites...

Tao of Pooh
Te of Piglet
by Ben Hoff, great easy intro to eastern philosophy

Fishing related;
Cod
Striper Surf
Striper Moon (not a sissy sticker, but a good read)

Classics;
Sea Wolfe, Jack London
20,000 Leagues, Verne
Moby #^&#^&#^&#^&, Melville
Old Man and the Sea Ernest
Island in the stream Hemingway

Sciency Stuff....
General Coastal Interest;
Against the Tide; Corniela Dean
(there is another book called Against the tide that was about comm. fishing and was pretty good)

Block Island Geology
(A must read for ANYONE who fishes out there... I know where to find copies, so let me know if interested)

Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket; The Geologic Story; Bob Odale



A bunch of sciency text book/references;
Waves and Beaches, Willard Bascom; a classic
Beach Processs; Paul Komar
The next fifty years; ?
Skeptical Environmentalist; Lomborg; a different look at sea level rise and climate change; a good counterpart to the IPCC report
The Beaches are Moving; Pilkey

"Endurance" the story of robert shackelton's antartic disater.. its tops on my list.

After that "the Ice master" another ice tragedy...

Goosefish, you see where I'm going with this???:hihi:

Thats cold man...
no pun intended.. :D
feeling better Eben?

"Trinity" by Leon Uris is one of my all-time favorites. It will give you some insight into the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland.

But I just recently read "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich. It's about the MIT students that took Vegas and other casino's at blackjack.

About Face - Colonel David Hackworth (ww2 Korea Vietnam)
Listed are a few of his over 100 awards;
02 Distinguished Service Crosses
10 Silver Stars
04 Legions of Merit
Distinguished Flying Cross
Bronze Star Medal (with "V" Device & seven Oak Leaf Clusters)(Seven of the awards for heroism)
08 Purple Hearts

The Things they carried - Tim O'Brien

Hey, that book about Shackelton really is my favorite book.

Am I feeling better? Mentally.. yes. Physically.... my stomach muscles are still feeling sore...

I ate at Phil's today for lunch, so thats a good sign right:D

I'd rather lick the bottom of my eel bucket than go through all that chit agian:mad:

Pasngas---The things they carried is one great story. But I didn't really care for "In the lake of the Woods"
........................."Going after Cacciato" was great. He is a hell of a writer.

Cacciato was freaken bizzare

Lemon Tree so very pretty......

Mmm... phils...
I like Houston Bros as well... closer to work for me also...

I had the flu the end of Jan and felt the same way... whole torso hurt....

Have you tried that new place yet... surf taco or something like that? farther down main.. towards Mews...

Surfin tacos..... yeah I've been there a bunch. I'm not too crazy about it.
Pier Pizza is pretty good.
I go to phil's too much. :yak:

how about those crazy burger waitresses:humpty:

As long as there's a literary thread going on here, can someone back me up on an article of discussion I'm having with my 14 year old. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are not about drug use (ref. Jefferson Airplane), am I correct? I thought I remembered from some honors English class that one was simply about dreams and surrealism and the other a satire about the smaller England taking on Germany in WWI, but maybe I was mistaken. Any thoughts from you literary laureats?

Favorite books: A whole series by F. Van Wyck Mason on the Revolutionary War, The Putnam Hall Series by Arthur Winfield most memorable in my budding teenage youth. Great Expectations, David Copperfield. Anything by A. Conan Doyle.

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

Many more, but these are my standouts.

Jimbo you're right. Lewis Carrol published 'Alice in Wonderland' in 1865. He wrote it for a girl named Alice and he meant the book to be for young audiences. Dreamy all the way through, and unlike many other childrens books of the time, 'Alice in wonderland' has no moral message.
Lewis Carrol was a lecturer in mathematics and enjoyed a good toke on the opium pipe, or many are led to believe. The drink absinthe was popular at the time; the effect of the drink was dreamy, heavy, and intoxicating. Who wouldn't drink the stuff if it made one feel that good? This is why I think the book turned out the way that it did, but the speculation is all mine, with no literary backing whatsoever.

Bowden Blackhawk Down
Swoft??? Jarhead

Hard to pin down 'favorite' books, I'm a pretty voracious reader.

I guess a favorite book is one I go back to time and time again.

There are a few that fit that category, but you'd :yak: if I listed them here.

I like picture books .

You mean these kinds of picture books, Chris? :hihi:

http://www.militarybookclub.com/doc/.../573345_lg.jpg

Weewee....I read quite a bit myself. Mind throwing out a couple titles. I'm always looking for something new, and that gets tough after a while.

I have a few books with those pictures in them . I like the way they bounce up and down and the dust is cool too . did you know they make fire out the front of that tube ?
I like cartoon picture books bestest or my daddies lady books .

GF and Jombo; I thought I remeber hearing speculation that Lewis Carrol was in love with a younger woman(woman being a generous temr, rumored she was a teen) named Alice, which is where the story started? Who knows, but a classic read none the less...