I like books. A lot. I put together a list of the books I've read since last august or so. I offer this for two reasons. First, maybe you'll see something and be like "Hmm, that looks interesting!" And secondly, perhaps it says something about what kind of quack I am.
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy. A post-apocalyptic existentialist novel of a man and his son struggling for survival.
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Priscilla McMillian. A non-fiction account of the political downfall of the leader of the Manhattan Project and the search for thermonuclear weapons.
A Madman Dreams of Turing Mechanics - Janna Levin. An odd novel intertwining the lives of two troubled physicists.
Heat - Bill Buford. "An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting butcher in Tuscany." (non-fiction)
The River of Doubt - Candice Millard. The story of Theodore Roosevelt's near-fatal exploration of a river in the Amazon. A lot about the natural history of the Amazon basin.
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright. Al-Qaeda and the build up to September 11th.
Falling Through the Earth - Danielle Trussoni. A memoir about growing up with a father scarred by the Vietnam War.
A Fan's Notes - Fredrick Exley. A hilarious memoir by an alcohol, mentally disturbed but brilliant man not fit to take part in society.
Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean. Maclean's account of the 1946 Mann Gulch Fire where 13 smoke jumpers lost their lives. This is also a story about stories, as well as looking back on youth from old age.
The Places In Between - Rory Stewart. The story of a Scottish history professor walking across Afghanistan in the months after 9/11 and the fall of the Taliban. Insane.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - An entertaining, well-written murder mystery of sorts.
The Omnivores Dilemma - Michael Pollan. Pollan takes a year-long journalistic project to figure out how the hell food got so complicated. Deemed a natural history of four meals.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. Lee's classic about growing up in the south amist racial tensions and a lost southern identity.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald. High culture. Old and New Money. Prohibition. The Great American Novel.
Ordeal By Hunger - George R. Stewart. The classic, original text about the Donner Parties struggle for survival while being trapped in the Sierra for the winter en route to California. Very old school, but worth the read.
A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold. The most modern of the classic text's on American Conservation. A little heavy handed.
Inside Hilter's Bunker - Joachim Fest. A short script, written by a German, about the fall of Berlin, and the madness of Hilter. I only got through half of this before more interesting things came from amazon.
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy. A post-apocalyptic existentialist novel of a man and his son struggling for survival.
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Priscilla McMillian. A non-fiction account of the political downfall of the leader of the Manhattan Project and the search for thermonuclear weapons.
A Madman Dreams of Turing Mechanics - Janna Levin. An odd novel intertwining the lives of two troubled physicists.
Heat - Bill Buford. "An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting butcher in Tuscany." (non-fiction)
The River of Doubt - Candice Millard. The story of Theodore Roosevelt's near-fatal exploration of a river in the Amazon. A lot about the natural history of the Amazon basin.
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright. Al-Qaeda and the build up to September 11th.
Falling Through the Earth - Danielle Trussoni. A memoir about growing up with a father scarred by the Vietnam War.
A Fan's Notes - Fredrick Exley. A hilarious memoir by an alcohol, mentally disturbed but brilliant man not fit to take part in society.
Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean. Maclean's account of the 1946 Mann Gulch Fire where 13 smoke jumpers lost their lives. This is also a story about stories, as well as looking back on youth from old age.
The Places In Between - Rory Stewart. The story of a Scottish history professor walking across Afghanistan in the months after 9/11 and the fall of the Taliban. Insane.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - An entertaining, well-written murder mystery of sorts.
The Omnivores Dilemma - Michael Pollan. Pollan takes a year-long journalistic project to figure out how the hell food got so complicated. Deemed a natural history of four meals.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. Lee's classic about growing up in the south amist racial tensions and a lost southern identity.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald. High culture. Old and New Money. Prohibition. The Great American Novel.
Ordeal By Hunger - George R. Stewart. The classic, original text about the Donner Parties struggle for survival while being trapped in the Sierra for the winter en route to California. Very old school, but worth the read.
A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold. The most modern of the classic text's on American Conservation. A little heavy handed.
Inside Hilter's Bunker - Joachim Fest. A short script, written by a German, about the fall of Berlin, and the madness of Hilter. I only got through half of this before more interesting things came from amazon.
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ayre:
You left a comment on my page, goodness probably months and months ago, and I didn't catch it until recently (becuase I just recently started my blog), so I figured that there would be no harm in friend requestiong you.
ayre:
Yea, I love my dog she is a sweetheart. I am from Montana, went to college in Minnasota, then got married to an Airmen, and we ended up stationed here in the UK. So yea, that is how I ended up here.