...and wackos, 'highlights' doesn't count.

Post your reading recommendations here...here's mine:

1. American Scream , The Bill Hicks Story - Cynthia True....the funniest and most important comedian you've never heard of.

2. Imperial Hubris - Anonymous....scathing criticism of the Bush administration's bumbling ineptitude waging the 'war on terror'.

3. Through Our Enemie's Eyes - Anonymous...better read this book if you want to begin to grasp the gravity of the aforementioned ineptitude.

4. The Brother's K - David James Duncan...perhaps the most beautiful book about family ever written.

5. The River Why? - David James Duncan....quirky novel centers around the first person author's steelhead and salmon fishing obsession....a coming of age tale of sorts.

6. Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Micheal Baigent....excruciatingly researched and verified, this book claims an alternate symbolism for 'the vessel', fascinating iof not a hard swallow.

7. Tom Clancy - Battle Ready....yup, Bush still an idiot. Even a hardened conservative like Tom Clancy can see that another four years of incompetency could be disastrous for this country.

8. Plan of Attack - Bob Woodward....oh look, war with Iraq at all costs. SURPRISE!!

9. The Baghavad Gita...don't just ssay you'll read it someday, read it now.

10. The Gnostic Gospels...this is the stuff modern christians love to tear down. How might women's role in society be different if God were both the Mother and the Father?

11. The Bible...if only to keep in perspective that nearly the entire old testament comes from other texts (and I can't get enough begatting).

I enjoy reading political comedy and political conspiracy theroies so I read this site . :p

Playboy

STS

They cover all my interests.

Welcome back Dan!

Thanks!

Good to be back.

I see you guys have been busy while I was gone.

Anything by the following authors

Tom Robbins
Elmore Leonard
John Steinbeck
John McDonald
Janet Evanovich
Robert Parker
Samuel Clemens

What? I'm the only one reading bathroom walls?

On a fishing trip the past 5 days I discovered the Readers Digest in HUGE print....

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Hey bongH20,

Does High Times count? I didn't see it on your list , so I'll assume it doesn't.
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When I'm not reading Highlights and just want something light and fun--I really liked J.A. Jance's series of novels about fictional Seattle Detective J.P. Beaumont.

bngh2o

keep tryin...you'll be funny someday like the big boys.

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Sorry, I guess I'm not as "informed" about the correct spelling of marijuana paraphernalia as some others.


How's your drift boat coming along?

Careful now.....wouldn't want to overly stimulate yourself there grandpa.

Reach for the sky next week and grab yourself a copy of the tv guide..,...after all it IS far more topical than the Baghavad Gita.

The two on my list that I think are most important for conservatives to read? Battle Ready and The Brother's K.

So....who's got something for me to read now that I've finished the biography on my idol, Bill Hicks?

Material read during the past year.


Da Vinci Code = 2/3 finished

Autobiography of a Yogi = finished

Anatomy of Hatha Yoga =finished

GRASPING THE WIND An exploration into the meaning of Chinese acupuncture point names = Finished

Chinese Herbal Medicine Principles & practice = finished

Epics of Gilgamish = finished

Float Fishing for Steelhead techniques & Tackle = finished

Salmon Trout Steelhead = bi-monthly

Salmon & Steelhead Journal = quarterly

Fishing and Hunting News = every 2 weeks

Yoga Journal = Monthly

Fortune = weekly

PC World = monthly

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I've got a great book for you to read stlhdh20--it's called 'Destructive Generation', written by anti-war activist and original Chicago-Seven member David Horowitz

Okay, this is a big list, I tend to add 1 per week and take off 1 per week in the winter, more like one every 3 weeks in the summer.

My Greatest Day in Baseball (1946-1997) McCullough, Bob
A Shimmer on the Horizon Teece, Phillip
Queer Corners Olson, Donald
Dark Lady Patterson, Richard N.
East of the Mountains Gusterson, David
True Love and the Wooly Bugger Ames, David
My Russian McNamer, Deirdre
Wed and Wild McLellan, Steve & Hodgins, Randy
The Migration of Willie Mackanels Clark, Mike
Various Thayer, James
The Stars, The Snow, The Fire Haines, John
Sailing Away Morgan, Richard
Sad Movies Lindquist, Mark
Carnival Desires Lindquist, Mark
Singing to the Sound Peterson, Brenda
The Hungry Ocean Greenlaw, Linda
Of Landscape & Longing Servid, Carolyn
The Funhouse Mirror Gordon, Robert Ellis
Clinical Trial Christofferson, April
Coldriver Spirts Harper-Haines,Jan
Deadfall Lemonds, James
Summers Salmon Rat, A. Rusty
Flyfishing the Northwest Love, Glen
Jedediah Days Palmer, Mary
West Coast Steelhead Pendlington, Mark
Brethren of the Brule Bauer, William
Steelhead Archives Douglas, George
Taking Care of Business Bachman, Randy
Salmon: The Decline of the BC Fishery Meggs, Geoff
Piper Keegan, Johne
Baseball Fantastic Kinsella
A Tour of Duty Porter, E. A.
Home Adams, Hazard
Tangled Lines, Patched Waders Jones, Robert A.
The Unknown Island Smith, Ian
Guide to Island Rivers Island Angler
Steelhead & Freshwater Fishing Pacific Rim Publishing
King Football Oriard, Michael
The Inlet Piddington, Helen
Grizzlies & White guys Thomasson, Harvey
Water Marked Lyon, Robert
Breakfast at Trout’s Place Marsh, Ken
New Territory: The Transformation of NZ James, Colin
F’d Company Kaplan, Phillip
Pot Planet Preston, Brian
Thin Walls Nelscott, Kris
Scent of Cedars Schroeder, Anne
Pictures from an Expedition Smith, Diane
Don’t Try This At Home Fulghum, Hunter
Soul of Nowhere Childs, Craig
Imaginary Lines Ray, Michael
SAINTS OF BIG HARBOUR Coady, Lynn
Song of the Seals Yorke, Christy
Return to Travers Corners Waldie, Scott
I Should Be Extremely Happy….. Hall, Brian
Pandering Fleiss, Heidi
Silent Proof Hawley, Michael A.
A Fistful of Rain Rucka, Greg
Medusa Moody, Skye
No More Mr. Nice Guy Glover, Robert
Cube 6 Griffin, Thomas W.
Hunting Mr. Heartbreak Raban, Jonathan
The Pacific Slope Pomeroy, Earl
Long for This World Byers, Michael
Death Trap Henry, Sue
Changing Course Lutz, Jeanne Marie
Vancouver Cruise, David
Hocus Croakus Daheim, Mary
Diary Palahniuk, Chuck
Waxwings Raban, Jonathon
Our Lady of The Forest Guterson, David
Waking Samuel Coyle, Daniel
The Weathermen’s Daughters Hoyt, Richard
Silent Proof Hawley, Michael
Panic Rising Nunn, Brett
The Rabbit Factory Brown, Larry
Swagbelly Levien, DJ
Cosmopolitan Cecchini, Toby
A Hole in the Heart Marquis, Christopher
Native Peoples Wray, Jackie
Fire Flight Nance, John
The Tipping Point Gladwell, Malcolm
Death of a Warrior Hanneman, Stephen
Waking Samuel Coyle, Daniel
Run Plant Fly Belen, Ellie
Pacific Coast Highway Freesh, Nick
The Explainer Slate Magazine
Observing our Peninsula’s Past Lloyd, Nancy
Purity in Death
Portrait in Death
Imitation in Death
Set This House in Order Ruff, Matt
The Meaning of Ichiro Whiting, Robert
Sleeping Beauty Margolin, Phillip
Ordinary Wolves Kantner, Seth
Medic! Sherman, Ben

Hey eddie-

nice list, I should be able to find something interesting in there.

Have you read any David James Duncan? He writes in a 'prose' style that's very easy to follow and covers themes I think you'd be interested in.

Anyone that hangs out around here, for that matter.

H2O - The River Why is one of my all time favorites - I've also read The Brothers K and a collection of his short stories. I agree with you, I like the way he writes.

River Teeth

I collect them now.

My list in no particular order:

Easyrider, anything and everything by HG Wells and Jules Verne.... Better make that twice. Almost everything by Alan Dean Foster... What the hell, If you got a few days to kill you might as well go for Mission Earth by L Ron Hubbard...

I'd rather read to escape this world than to read to find out whats going on in it...

There's always Fox news for that! :p

Looks like the Ashcroft forces for good and clean living better come to your house H2O and then to Eddie's....a good book burning is in order.

Now for me I read the large print Reader's Digest in the bathroom at the Westport house and now I am reading Elmo with the grandson...I've got a Stephen Hunter book here but no solitary time to read it...back to the Cabelas catalog....You guys stick to it ...we need someone to save the world from the forces of evil while I go fishing.