what are your favorite books

The Blood Meridian. Anything and everything by Cormac McCarthy

 

there is only 1 book and 1 book only and that's the greatest word the word of gawd hallyjuewa amen

 

and it comes in 7 parts...Harry muthafurkin to the max Potter! only thing sadly missing is surfing...

 

'The Seldom Seen Christmas Special,' William Paddington

 

'The BIBLE' GODS WORD

 

It's agreed, we're all into fiction.

 

I like to read allot. Surf wise all 3 of Alan C. Weisbecker are good. Non-surf related on the road by Jack kerouac, or anything by him. Rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. The electric kool aid acid test by Tom Wolfe. And a father's story Brett Jeffery Dahmers father.

 

We had a similar thread last year. That's cool, mine are:
John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
James Michener: Chesapeake, Hawaii
Louis L'Amour: Paperback westerns. Good, light reading at night before hitting the rack.
Books on religions, art history, California history, various nature guides, and
children's books written in German (I still struggle with those).

 

Entertaining as all get-out, but the saga was left uncompleted. Or I just missed it.

 

You gotta list something if you start the thread, homey.

 

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To be totally serious . . . With all the great books I read in school and after . . . Tapping The Source by Kem Nunn is my desert island book, no sh*t. I know it's a surf book, but damn does he nail the growing up experience, the awesomeness of learning to surf, the cool of a key to Hollister ranch (ok, he calls it Trax ranch in the book). I love that book. I agree with Blood Meridian and Cormac McCarthy too . . . And Waiting For The End of The World by Madison Smartt Bell.

 

And +1 for The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien!

 

'COSMOS' and 'TALES FROM FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS' By CARL SAGAN.

 

i am a book nerd...before moving in w/ my now-wife, my apartment had stacks of books all over the place. i've down-sized my library some since then, but this the bare bones; if i had to cut it down to one box of books, these are it:

bruce chatwin- the songlines (my "must have" travel book...my copy has more miles on it than my jeep does)

allan weisbecker's first 2 books, "cosmic banditos" (his best work, IMO) & "in search of captain zero"

douglas adams' "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" series...really, though, you can stick to the first 3 books.

robert a. heinlein- stranger in a strange land

jimmy buffett- "where is joe merchant?" & "tales from margaritaville"

"big wednesday" by dennis aaberg & john milius

willard bascom- "waves & beaches"

joseph heller- "catch-22"

larry niven & pohl anderson- "lucifer's hammer"

ernest hemingway- "the old man & the sea"

j.d. salinger- "the catcher in the rye" & "9 stories"

rachel carson- "the edge of the sea"

the norton complete works of william shakespeare

carl hiaasen- "tourist season"

christopher moore- "fluke"

dan duane- "caught inside"

 

I love a good book thread, I'll play. Some stuff I haven't mentioned in previous book threads, non-surf related and mostly non-fiction.

My fave Ed Abbey: Desert Solitaire, Beyond The Wall, Down The River

Jeremy Narby- The Cosmic Serpent and Terence Mckenna's Food of The Gods; both deal with plant psychedelics and pre-industrial cultures/issues in modern human culture.

I really enjoyed the Hagakure and The Book of Five Rings when I was training, still do.

William Cronon- Changes In The Land-fantastic interdisciplinary work(history/ecology/anthopology) on the differences in worldview and subsistence strategies b/t the colonists and native tribes of southern New England, and how each impacted local ecology...VERY specific, like, down to changes in tree/plant species.

Paul Stamets-Mycelium Running...will completely change how you view the Kingdom of Fungi.

This book on Yellowstone wolf pack behavior which I can't recall the title of right now.

 

Weisbecker's stuff although his last book was all over the place.
Never read Blood Meridian but The Road got to me.
Riding on the Edge: A Motorcycle Outlaw's Tale: I was part of that life years back. A good read for those that want to know what the 1% outlaw life was like before they became nothing more than criminal organizations.
Anything by Shelby Foote. His narratives on the Civil War are long but very colorful.
Kem Nun's stuff is good.
Dan Duane

 

Atlas Shrugged and Anthem

Reading the Game of Thrones books right now. Pretty good stuff.