"The End of Faith" by Sam Harris

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039...lance&n=283155

i just got a new list from a stop at powell's earlier. it'll happen as i amass the money to buy these.

the entire catalog of george singleton
a ten volume series of the complete works of james joyce. for 15 dollars!
the noblest invention
considering the art of urban cycling...it might just be a bunch of stuff i already know, it seemed basic but well-written as i skimmed through it.
a couple of training books
the quotable cyclist (source of a new sig)
the flying scotsman
and everything by tom robbins has been on my list for ages

Hadn't heard of it. Reading the Amazon blurb, it looks a lot like:



...which I liked a great deal. I'll check it out.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

not a book, but i just finished reading these...https://www.calcycling.org/quotations.php

some choice ones:

"Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living! I take exercise every afternoon that way. Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it, into the tub, rub down well, then into a soft shirt and down to the dinner table, with the evening paper and a glass of wine in prospect - and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!" -- Jack London

"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world." - Grant Peterson

"A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness."--James E. Starrs, The Literary Cyclist

"To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain....at cycling's core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn't matter if you're sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport. Without pain, there's no adversity. Without adversity, no challenge. Without challenge, no improvement. No improvement, no sense of accomplishment and no deep-down joy. Might as well be playing Tiddly-Winks." -- Scott Martin

my shoulder hurts from wrecking into a street sign at full speed the other day, and when i pull up on my bars as i tend to when skipping/starting a skid...pain. that last quote makes me want to go out and spend the rest of the day skipping down hills, shoulder pain or no.

The Heart that Bleeds, Alma Guillermoprieto
Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galleano

The first story is about a bar during prohibition. There are others about the Joe Gould legend. Great conversation starters.
I'll look into leDuff, I'm not familiar.

I have a couple zen books. Two are my faves at the moment, the Mumonkan, or the Gateless Barrier, they are translations of Zen koans (ie. what is the sound of one hand clapping?). That's pretty much my reading lately, some biographical Zen related stories, "Surfing the Himalayas," "Dharma Punx," "Nothing on my Mind." Has nothing to do with my current interest in Zen.

I continue to plow through my collection of Chuck Bukowski.

Stiffed- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

aside from the daily deluge of boring drivel i must read at work, i am working on Atlas Shrugged and for fun V for Vendetta

I used Leary's High Priest for a paper in my Sects and Cults in American Religion class, in college. Such inspiration. A year later I found myself in Athens Greece at the Acropylus on Mushrooms. Hmm, then I came back and bleamed in Vail. It was the Vail experience that taught me a lot about trippin'. 1) Don't use coke to come down, it reaaalllly sucks and is a perfect waste of a really good drug. 2) Everything comes in waves. 3) (at the time auto reverse casette decks were new) Isn't technology a wonder. 3) Mostly, early MTV sucked to come down with. I really could have used some Tom and Jerry cartoons.

As for ZAMM.

I really find it hard to read. I always get to the second book, and start relating on so many levels that it bothers me, and rather than face my demons and finish the book I put it down. I am resigned to the fact that I may never finish that book.

I did spend a summer reading some of the classics, that I never got to in college or high school, like Moby Dick, what a tome. I like Billy Budd so much the better. I tried to get through some Joyce, but opted out for Grapes of Wrath, Stienbeck, I think he was the original Beat. Faulkner, and Hemmingway. If I could finish my novel writing, I would hope it would be like one of them or McInvery or Bret Easton Ellis.

right now, jeanette winterson's "sexing the cherry" and barbara kingsolver's "pigs in heaven." by same authors, respectively, "oranges are not the only fruit" and "the poisonwood bible" are fantastic; margaret atwood's "the blind assassin" is terriffic in the same vein as poisonwood bible.

recently finished "son of a witch," the sequel to "wicked."

currently in the middle of 4 books:

1.) Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
2.) Cold Storage (an expose of the Fairview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane)
3.) The Art of Asylum Keeping
4.) Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

I hope to finish at least 3.

This book was ****ing great!

holy crap that was an awesome book. but for the record, it's just "stiff," not "stiffed."

i just got done reading After the Madness, by sol wachtler. prison memoirs from the former chief judge of the new york state of appeals. he'll occasionally get into how he would have or wouldn't have changed his decisions about certain cases if he had known what it was like in federal prison. there's also a ton of information about the war on drugs. all in all, a really good read and i'd highly recommend it.

i just started reading Join Me, by danny wallace. another set of memoirs by a journalist in england who accidentally started a cult. he placed an ad in a london paper with the words "join me" and people started responding. it ended up getting much bigger than he had ever planned. only 100 or so pages into it, but i'm extremely entertained by it. i'd recommend this one also.

wow, you have a great taste in literature. thanks for the tips!

"Desiring God" by John Piper
It's an examination of Christianity from a purely hedonistic view
deep and difficult, definitely worth a reread

"Rock Solid Ethernet".

Do I know how to f'in party or what?!

Atlas Shrugged as well as the CRC handbook

thanks for the compliment, but i wouldn't call it great taste. i just happen to work next door to a half price books and i'll occasionally pick stuff up at random.

Chuck Palahniuk(?) choke and survivor
Philip K Dick - Do robots dream of electric sheep and VALIS
Also Python in a nutshell and "Thinking in Forth"

and jim-bob -- you do know how to ****ing party.

The Cold Six Thousand by James Elroy

Ivo Andric,The Bridge on the Drina

Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth

Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

Studs Terkel, Division Street: America I'm not really reading this one, but I started it awhile ago.

local and DMZ by brian wood
marvel zombies
the revolution of every day life-Raoul Vaneigem
and coicidentally im just finishing among the thugs, its a good read.

xvx
wes

After reading this thread my reading list just quadrupled in size.

Right now I'm reading this:



Well, actually I *should* be reading it right now (as opposed to this thread) as I'm going to be tested on it this weekend.

After that's all over with I'll jump back to where I left of in this:



After that probably something fun, and a bit lighter.

-Trevor