Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
The Better Of McSweeney's Quarterly vol. I

Ayn Rand's Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
w/ additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan & Robert Hessen.

I'm staring on The People of Paper - Salvador Plascencia.

Neutral Bouyancy, combination of Dive history, Physics, dive medicine
and fiction.
Highly recommended for any divers out there

HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian, and The Joiner King by Troy Denning. The first is in the series of books that became the movie Master and Commander, the second is a Star Wars novel.

A People's History of the Supreme Court | Peter Irons

Montana 1948- Larry Watson

Finished re-reading Martin's A Storm Of Swords last week. Almost finished with A Feast For Crows. <---That's why I haven't been on BF in so long.:)

Finished re-reading Martin's A Storm Of Swords last week. Almost finished with A Feast For Crows. <---That's why I haven't been on BF in so long.:)

I'm in the last 200 pages of A Clash of Kings. A Storm of Swords is waiting...

Same problem here... when I'm at home my wife is wondering why I have my face pressed in a book instead of paying attention to the TV....

Martin's stuff is like plot-driven herion... must... have... another... chapter.... just one more.... i swear!

Visible Bones by Jack Nisbet...stories from history to the present along the Columbia River and waterways adjacent.

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i am reading "the sun also rises" - hemingway for the 100th time. which i do when i am depressed.

I am currently reading "Miles from Nowhere". Excellent book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898861098/103-0649670-1803813?v=glance <-- book details

I recieved this book for Christmas a few years ago. I found it just after this Christmas as I was moving my book shelves around.

I have finally begun reading it. It's a great book! Miles From Nowhere, Barbara Savage. It is the true story of the ride she and her husband, Larry took as they circled the world. They started their trip in 1977 or '78. Great stuff and very well written! It is hard to put down! It is a book that all aspiring and experienced long distance tour riders should read.

Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet - Baxter Black
A little light reading between serious subjects.

I recieved this book for Christmas a few years ago. I found it just after this Christmas as I was moving my book shelves around.

I have finally begun reading it. It's a great book! Miles From Nowhere, Barbara Savage. It is the true story of the ride she and her husband, Larry took as they circled the world. They started their trip in 1977 or '78. Great stuff and very well written! It is hard to put down! It is a book that all aspiring and experienced long distance tour riders should read.

I just finished reading that book for the second time. I found it used a few years ago. It was a great book! Amazing story. Wish there had been more pictures.

The Know-it-all: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World by AJ Jacobs.

George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia

Orwell's story of his time in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Quite excellent.

Cash-Johnny Cash

interesting autobiography. easy reading

Dan Simmons-Hyperion

And now, Dan Simmons-Fall of Hyperion

Even Now by Karen Kingsbury. It's good so far.

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood.

Tom Robbins - Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Quicksilver neal Stephenson. third attempt and it's better this time?
Jade Throne Naomi Novik Horatio Hornblower meets the dragons of Pern.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

I've just started reading: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller......not sure if will make it through the whole thing. Anyone else read this?

Inside the Postal Bus
My Ride with Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Cycling Team
by Micheal Barry
Later.

evolution- stephen baxter

I just watched V for Vendetta and was blown away so I got the book in a package deal along with Watchmen from Amazon. I started with Watchmen and I'm about halfway through. It's pretty good so far. The backgounders at the chapter ends are the best bit. Some great writing and the whole thing is like a treasure hunt for literary, historical, philosphical and pop-cultural references.

I'm also reading The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language by David Crystal. It's got awesome reviews on Amazon but I'm a little let down by some of the gaffes. Some tired old myths are rehashed like the 'Inuit have many words for snow'. This is inexcusable as they'd long been debunked as of the publication of the book. Likewise, Whorfian nonsense like the claptrap regarding the Hopi and the way time is expressed in their language is sadly allowed through without much criticism. Still, it's a good, entertaining read in a popular style albeit necessarily very shallow. I'd still recommend it to friends and family who ask what linguistics is about.

A good antidote to that last one's failings is the Language Instinct by Pinker. I just finished it. It's a bit dated ('96 I think) but Pinker always goes off on the most fascinating, and controversial, tangents and it also makes a good backgrounder even to linguistics newbies. Harder Work than Crystal but, as always, you get what you put in.

For summer reading:
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Origins of the Modern World, Robert Marks

For fun:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Thus Spake Zarathustra (w/ guide), Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Race" by Dave Shields


I'm glad you liked it. Please check out my sequel: http://www.DaveShields.com/TheTourReviews.html
Thanks,
Dave

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

I'm reading "Naked Lunch" for the first time in about ten years. Soooo much better and weirder than I remember it. Might be because I'm so much weirder and better than I used to be ten years ago.

"Planet of Slums" by Mike Davis

Most of us are aware of the slum conditions of many peripheral cityscapes surrounding urban centers from Shanghai to Mumbai, as the posters on this thing are so bright and intellectual, sometimes I feel like I'm in a virtual Twilight Zone (that's a good thing, of course). Anyways, what's eye-opening about this book is how these slums came to be. It's a great read.

Parallel Worlds:D