Beer Leg Book Club

It's better that I don't mention my last few books. :-X . I typically read Surveying, or the ones I can't mention.

Hemingway is next but it doesn't matter. I also have a copy of the 1923 Sears and Roebuck Catalogue that I enjoy from time to time.
King, Twain, Roberts, Coben, they are all enjoyable.
Reading is a wonderfull adiction.

If You Read It Slow

Actually, the slowest books I ever read were Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku. I have read through the Bible in less time.

Paul in PA

> Hemingway is next but it doesn't matter. I also have a copy of the 1923 Sears and Roebuck Catalogue that I enjoy from time to time.

No doubt your family has had indoor plumbing for a long time.;-)

> King, Twain, Roberts, Coben, they are all enjoyable.
> Reading is a wonderfull adiction.

Can't really go too far wrong reading Mark Twain, can you?:-)

I just checked, according to the Catalogue, it must have been the "Hand Power Pneumatic Water Supply System" for $52.75. (page 695).

Lonesome Dove was one of the most engaging books I've ever read, though I've had a harder time warming up to some other McMurtry tales. In recent years I've been particularly drawn to the works of Neal Stephenson. I just finished The Making Of The Atomic Bomb (nonfiction; highly recommended), and am currently reading The Art Of Fielding.

I'm not a prolific reader, though. I usually read for pleasure only in bed, and generally can't stay awake long enough to get through more than 10 or 20 pages a day.

Right now I am still reading "The Power". I really should read more in general...It's a good reason to relax in my armchair and get away from everything else for a bit, and also a great stress relief. :angel:

> I have gotten so much pleasure from Larry McMurtry over the years.

I am also a fan of Larry McMurtry, but I read a lot of nonfiction too. I just started The Wayfinders by Wade Davis.

> Can't really go too far wrong reading Mark Twain, can you?:-)

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."

-Ernest Hemingway

Vince Flynn, W.E.B Griffin, Tom Clancy and re-read any of the hundreds of Louis Lamour books. And about every 15 years or so I re-read J.R.R. Tolkein just for the pure escapism.

Andy

had read an excerpt in Outside magazine of "The Barefoot Bandit", Bob Friel's new book, and liked it so much I ordered it - just came in the mail yesterday. I'm most interested the the part where he lands on Abaco Island in the Bahamas - we were there 3 years ago on vacation -just a beautiful island. Pretty amazing story of a kid who stole boats and planes and never had a flying lesson.

I like to re-read The Stand every few years. It's like taking a cross country vacation without leaving the patio. In fact I don't throw out any books. I'll re-read quite a few from time to time.

re-read any of the hundreds of Louis Lamour books.

I have the whole collection of the Sackett family stories which I reread from time to time. Great fun!

I believe I read the Making of the Atomic Bomb. I read some 1400 page ultra dense book that listed more names than I could ever remember. Is that the one?

I would highly recommend Black Holes and Baby Universes by Hawking. It does not get too in depth with time, gravity and other cool things and he dedicates chapters to describe his life with ALS.

Has anyone read Flatland? It's a real quick read and an enjoyable construct of multi-dimensional mathematics set against the backdrop of a political satire.

Anything by W.E.B. Griffin, Dewey Lambdin, Alexander Kent, Michael Aye, Julian Stockwin or C. S. Forester.

cptdent

Also enjoy Alexander Kent, C. S. Forester's Hornblower series and the Sharp series by Bernard Cornwell. Just about all Historical Novels I like if they are believable in the story line, hate BS or an author who is writing about something that is obvious they know little about. Hard to find the type of books on the shelf that I enjoy reading, shows how out of touch I am with modern interests, good thing I kept most of the books purchased down through the years. Do subscribe to Military History which gets read, from cover to cover, within two days.
jud

Boone's Lick

I did a quick search on the title, and it appears as though a movie is "in production" of this book.

I might need to look it up.

An online class has had me reading mostly some basic geodesy texts, but about three weeks ago I decided to reread Ulysses. I read it in the early 1960s, and since then have only encountered short passages in a couple of Bloomsday marathons that I didn't come anywhere near sitting all the way through. I'll finish it today or tomorrow. It's been a lot more fun than I thought it might be. Some of my undergraduate marginalia are more baffling to me than anything James Joyce put in the book.

I, too, am a McMurtry fan, and have been since Horseman, Pass By. Lately, though, I've found myself asking if there's a touch of the fiction factory in some of the recent work. One distinction he holds, though, puts him in a pretty small group: Pulitzer for Lonesome Dove, Oscar (shared) for Brokeback Mountain.

Cheers,
Henry

Recent reading includes:

"Rin-Tin-Tin, the Life and the Legend";

a Spencer Tracy biography by James Curtis;

Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything".

Right now in the middle of "Lost Kingdom", about Hawaii.
Within the space of less than a year, the USA invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam, and annexed Hawaii.