Foo - any book recommendations?

Doesn't necessary have to be bike related. Not a big fan of romance or sci fi even though many say that books by Ursula K. LeGuin might 'convert' me into reading more choice works of the sci fi genre.
I just finished reading "Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers" by Roach, "Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA" and "The Double Helix" by Watson. I really enjoyed all three books. I'm thinking about reading "Touching the Void" next.

any recommendations would be greattttttttt.

You should make a post here Where Does Your Nickname come from? (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/713074-Where-does-your-nick-come-from/page5)

Natalie Angier's "Woman: An Intimate Biography." If you like sciency-stuff.
Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma" If you don't find reality too terrifying.
Gore Vidal's "Julian" If you like Roman history or are an Atheist. (They did lots of humping and head-cutting in those days, but it's more interesting than it is sexy/violent.)

You should make a post here Where Does Your Nickname come from? (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/713074-Where-does-your-nick-come-from/page5)
why must you mock me
jk

:p
Me, mock you? never! I am sure there is a great story behind your nick :D And the world wants to know.

I just finished reading "Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers" by Roach, "Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA" and "The Double Helix" by Watson. I really enjoyed all three books. I'm thinking about reading "Touching the Void" next.

any recommendations would be greattttttttt.

You might like:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052173

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (http://www.amazon.com/Ratification-People-Debate-Constitution-1787-1788/dp/0684868547)

You might enjoy a book with local Portland background, "My Abandonment" by Reed College professor Peter Rock. You may recall that a few years ago a homeless man and his 13 YO daughter were found living in Forest Park, this novel is based on that story. There are many facts from the real situation, but the story is fiction because the end of the real story is unknown. Highly recommended. http://www.amazon.com/My-Abandonment-Peter-Rock/dp/0156035529/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298670649&sr=1-1

snow crash
fight club
repo man
the latter two different enough from the movies it doesnt matter if they are better or not.

Best book of all time IMO: Lolita. (Admittedly, one must do a little work to get past the ick-factor.)

"I could list a great number of these one-sided diminutive romances. Some of them ended in a rich flavor of hell. It happened for instance that from my balcony I would notice a lighted window across the street and what looked like a nymphet [HH's code for an underage girl] in the act of undressing before a co-operative mirror. Thus isolated, thus removed, the vision acquired an especially keen charm that made me race with all speed toward my lone gratification. But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night."

some lovecraft perhaps.

John Adams by McCullough. An awesome read if you remotely like US history. John Adams amassed one of the largest collections of letters, documents and records ever to this day. The book takes us from his days as a young man going to Harvard and walks us through early America. It is something else that the last two living signers of the Declaration of Independence, Adams and Jefferson, friends throughout their lives, died on the same day just hours apart . . .on July 4, 1826.

It opened my eyes to what was previously an obscure second president to one of the greatest men of all time.

best book of all time imo: Lolita.

shut up!

shut up!

I don't shut up, I grow up, every time I see your face I throw up.
http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/article/606/606035/stand-by-me-deluxe-edition-20050419044551156.jpg

I don't shut up, I grow up, every time I see your face I throw up.

Then your mother comes around the corner and licks it up. *snaps fingers*

I love Stand by Me!

Anyways, I said SHUT UP because Lolita is my most favoritest book of all time!!!!!!!!

'She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo... Lee... Ta.'

&

'I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.'

Stop, you're gonna make me cry.

Ooh! Speaking of that, another one just occurred to me. If you like watching the Tour & Giro, check out Bachman's (aka King's) "The Long Walk."
It's a quick http://forums.youthrights.org/images/smilies/rockon.gifpage-turner http://forums.youthrights.org/images/smilies/rockon.gif, not really deep, but is still a neat story by Stephen King during his skinny-Elvis phase.

* http://forums.youthrights.org/images/smilies/rockon.gif = fingers-denoting-quotemarks with enthusiasm

http://horrorsnotdead.com/images/TheLongWalk-BookCover.jpg

I'm crying for you

Stop, you're gonna make me cry.

*hands you a tissue* You can cry with me

*hands you a tissue* You can cry with me

Is this gonna turn into a tri-athlon of crying. Cause I'm pretty competitive with this stuff.

Anyways, I said SHUT UP because Lolita is my most favoritest book of all time!!!!!!!!

"Favoritest"...? Vladimir's buried corpse just let out a groan.


Favoritest...?!?!
http://images.paraorkut.com/img/funnypics/images/b/britney_spears_star_trek-12528.jpg

Is this gonna turn into a tri-athlon of crying. Cause I'm pretty competitive with this stuff.

Name the events. You're going down.

"Favoritest"...? Vladimir's buried corpse just let out a groan.

Yes favoritest. To show how much I like it. Duh. Obviously I know it's favoriter. Kidding.

It's favoritable. ;)

"Favoritest"...? Vladimir's buried corpse just let out a groan.


Favoritest...?!?!
http://images.paraorkut.com/img/funnypics/images/b/britney_spears_star_trek-12528.jpg

Man, until I hit reply and saw the URL I was thinking, wow there is an epsidoe of Star Trek NG that I do not recognize. Now, upon looking at it I realize that hand is way too manly, but still. Gave me a heart attack.

Yes favoritest.

(Sniff.) Well, now you've just registered the Scott Tinley of crying for this thread's little triathlon. :cry:

http://bostondone.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/flood.jpg
Seriously. Favoritest?!?!

Yes, your tears provide me sustenance!!!

Seriously. Favoritest?!?!

Says the guy doing Step 5. I hope you are at least using your other hand. :D

All the good people doing #5 use both hands and use Dragon Speaking Naturally. Durr

Yes, your tears provide me sustenance!!!

"Errm... those aren't my tears." -The guy who wrote Step 5.

"Errm... those aren't my tears." -The guy who wrote Step 5.

Peter North either wants to sue you, steal your boys, or hire you.
AND EWWWWWWWw
OMFG EWWWWWWW

NEW SUBJECT

OH GOD WHERES THE MENTAL BLEACH!

offsetting the caps mwuahahah

Hahahahhaha and /thread

Well put.

Manthropology (http://www.amazon.com/Manthropology-Science-Modern-Male-Used/dp/0312555431/ref=pd_cp_b_0)

When I want to try something different, I usually pick the next book down on the ALA banned book list (http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/1990_1999/index.cfm). YOu can quickly weed out the picture books and simpler fare as you work your way down the list, but I find several of them are really good reads.

Huckleberry Finn . . . banned? Why oh why? Did someone get offended by the use of a word representing a man with black skin??


Makes me puke.

wfin, you seem such a miserable person.

. . . banned? Why oh why? . . .
Well, they don't really keep stats on the why, since they're more or less against banning any books and sponsor events like Banned Book Week in order to raise awareness against actions like banning. But, all the same, you can expect most of the efforts to ban books are coming from conservative school boards seeking to control availability to impressionable young folk. When you look at most of the titles, the target audience members for the books are adolescents.

I started reading from this list 10-15 years ago when I'd moved several hundred miles east and one of my kids came home from a first day in school to tell me he couldn't bring one of his books to school nor should he be reading it (I think it was either Harry Potter or Scary Stories). So, I found the list, started reading, and made all the good ones required reading for my kids, like, The Giver, or Go Ask Alice or My Brother Sam is Dead. Funny, when we moved to Indiana, those titles are required reading in the Jr. High curriculum here.

wfin, you seem such a miserable person.

Because I want answers and not some run around BS???

Well, they don't really keep stats on the why, since they're more or less against banning any books and sponsor events like Banned Book Week in order to raise awareness against actions like banning. But, all the same, you can expect most of the efforts to ban books are coming from conservative school boards seeking to control availability to impressionable young folk. When you look at most of the titles, the target audience members for the books are adolescents.

I started reading from this list 10-15 years ago when I'd moved several hundred miles east and one of my kids came home from a first day in school to tell me he couldn't bring one of his books to school nor should he be reading it (I think it was either Harry Potter or Scary Stories). So, I found the list, started reading, and made all the good ones required reading for my kids, like, The Giver, or Go Ask Alice or My Brother Sam is Dead. Funny, when we moved to Indiana, those titles are required reading in the Jr. High curriculum here.

Go ask Alice, I think she knows the wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..