"Suburban Nation" Its a planning and new urbanization piece .Lots of good ideas for employing locally.
I hated Brysons "Everything" I loved his earlier stuff like "walk in the WOods" and "from a SUnburned Country" I was really disappointed in "everything"
Anybody read Stephen KIngs latest??
I aint sayin anything till I hear some feedback from others.
final exits, the illustrated encyclopedia of how we die
it's pretty interesting, compiles an a to z of what can cause death, examines interesting examples of said causes and then gives statistics of how many people have died of said cause within a certain time frame (usually the last 150 years)
for instance, between 1786 and 1899, 143,83 peple were killed or mauled to death by bears
from 1920 to 2000 grizzlies and polar bears killed 1,682 people
dj - that's some weird but strangely compelling information. Creepy, man.
Farmerman, I passed by that book after a enormous shopping day $$$ at Costco. I picked up a Bryce Courtney and Dean Koontz and settled for two books, not three (yes, a small effort at restraint).
I had to google the name just now because I couldn't recall it - Lisey's Story, is it? Did you hate it?
(dj, while I was looking, I saw that the first issue of the Dark Tower comics will be on sale in February)
dark tower comics, hmmm, interesting
i'm curious about the new king novel myself
I'm interested in all the urban suburban whoo hah, Farmer, but I read it in articles five days a week on my archnewsnow.com site, which is to say that something about that shows up on most of the news updates there.
A friend recommended Koontz, and the one I read started out pretty niftily devised and tightly written, and then, to me, disintegrated.
I've gotten back to using Powell's.com. I like police procedurals/crime stories in far away locales, and often finish even the poor ones just because of their sense of place. I'll be back in a minute and rattle off a recent list of Powell's used book purchases/reads.
The pianoplayers by anthony B?
I'm currently reading Salman Rushdie's "Shalimar the Clown". Very interesting.
I also was disappointed with "A short history of everything" by Bryson...though i'm not sure why - it was pretty interesting.
Because it was DRY. Or ....... aimless? I can't remember. I rarely quit a book half way through, but I did quit that one.
That's it. It was aimless, I think. I didnt find it particularly dry....but yes, aimless.
littlek wrote:Yeah, meandering.
like my current read: Larry McMurtry's "Dead Man Walking"
Can you each recommend a good modern novel for a 20-something young man's Chrissy pressie, well written and interesting? Your favourite book, perhaps?
If he's interested in History I recommend "Lewis & Clark-Voyage Of Discovery" by Stephen Ambrose...or another one I just read: "Over The Edge Of The World" by Laurence Bergreen about the incredible trip Magellan took around the world...truth IS stranger than fiction
"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy is a well-written page turner. I recommend it!
Ten days to self esteem by David Burns.
Yes, I was embarrassed to purchase this.
The title sucks, and is rather deceiving.
It is a self help book but it ain't fluffy. I like it. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for some fast emotional tuning.
reading (if that is the right word ?) :
"iGeneration - shuffling toward the future" by jason logan .
about 200 pages (unnumbered :wink: ) about the "iGeneration" - drawings , handwritten stuff , jokes , wisdom (yes , that too !) .
just great fun to browse through on a damp afternoon .
the final page :
"say , what if the new technology is really driven by old people who only call it a youth movement so that they can feel youthful again ?"
yo !
hbg
Hey, where is that pic of a hottie???
All I see is some goober!!!
My apologies,
that previous post kind of fell out of place!!!
Brothers Karamazov by Sturgis' avatar.
Finally reading Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. This is probably my fourth book by him, and I've seen at least sketches of some of the characters before. So far so good; I like him and his writing. This has a level of pared-ness that I appreciate. On the other hand, I'm not all that far into it.
