[Westy]

We have a "what are you reading" thread but it is basically a list with little discussion. I thought desperate times may need a flashy new title to get more people interested.

For reasons other than Covid, I have been socially isolated for most of the year and have consumed a large number of books. Feel better off for it. With most of us locked down, reading is a good alternative to outside life if you are capable. Propose a book, let's read it, then discuss like knuckle dragging dirt addicts. Audio Versions acceptable.

I propose A.B. Guthrie's "The Big Sky". Entertaining historical novel. I think it can help explain a lot of modern American culture and attitudes.

 

[stevew]

ordered the audio cd.....it gets here when it gets here.....

 

[Westy]

ordered the audio cd.....it gets here when it gets here.....

I have been doing Audible, buy something and often you can check it back out for credit. I did audio on this one during drives to Utah. Either way, beyond the actual writing, done very well. Hardcover of the 4th and last story of the series arrived today.

 

[stevew]

I have been doing Audible, buy something and often you can check it back out for credit. I did audio on this one during drives to Utah. Either way, beyond the actual writing, done very well. Hardcover of the 4th and last story of the series arrived today.

i love audiobooks....replaced music for roadtrips.

and if i find a author....i binge listen.

 

[mantispf2000]

Last audio book I listened to was on our trip to Vegas, and it was about Aaron Hernandez. Too bad he ended up the way he did, with all the sports talent he had, and money, and......

 

[StiHacka]

I think you may enjoy this one, @Westy

Amazon.com: Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences: A Test-Drive Method for Critical Decision-Making in Organizations (9783030327132): Adler, Richard M.: Books

Amazon.com: Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences: A Test-Drive Method for Critical Decision-Making in Organizations (9783030327132): Adler, Richard M.: Books

www.amazon.com

The author is my neighbor and a good friend, a super smart guy yet very nice and humble as well. We meet and chat a lot as he lives two houses down the street and walks his two large dogs in the hood all the time. Disclaimer: I have not finished the book yet.

 

[Pesqueeb]

We have a "what are you reading" thread but it is basically a list with little discussion. I thought desperate times may need a flashy new title to get more people interested.

For reasons other than Covid, I have been socially isolated for most of the year and have consumed a large number of books. Feel better off for it. With most of us locked down, reading is a good alternative to outside life if you are capable. Propose a book, let's read it, then discuss like knuckle dragging dirt addicts. Audio Versions acceptable.

I propose A.B. Guthrie's "The Big Sky". Entertaining historical novel. I think it can help explain a lot of modern American culture and attitudes.

Is this going to be all Cormac McCarthy, depressing? I don't know if I can handle that kind of existential dread right now.

 

[Westy]

Is this going to be all Cormac McCarthy, depressing? I don't know if I can handle that kind of existential dread right now.

I kind of think McCarthy copied a lot of Guthrie. Not going to say but is a cheerful story, but it doesn't have the soul chilling darkness, that is all McCarthy.

 

[boostindoubles]

I will look for it, hows it compare to a Louie western?

 

[SkaredShtles]

I'll see if I can get it from the library...

Sounds like a romance novel:

"Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love."

NTTAWWT.

 

[Westy]

I will look for it, hows it compare to a Louie western?

Never read them so can't say. It was written in 1947, not politically correct or family friendly. Takes place in the 1830s so it is kind of a history of the very early American west.

 

[Westy]

I have already read it, so open to other suggestions

 

[boostindoubles]

Louis L'amour published over 100 books but I would guess theres only 10 plot lines. I've got rubbermaids full of his paperbacks. The fur trapper era is fun to read about. The Americans who roamed the west during that time mostly ran hard! I recently ordered a frontier book - Atomic Frontier Days : Hanford and the American West by Bruce William Hevly and John M. Findlay. Should be here next week!

 

[Westy]

Louis L'amour published over 100 books but I would guess theres only 10 plot lines. I've got rubbermaids full of his paperbacks. The fur trapper era is fun to read about. The Americans who roamed the west during that time mostly ran hard! I recently ordered a frontier book - Atomic Frontier Days : Hanford and the American West by Bruce William Hevly and John M. Findlay. Should be here next week!

Hmm, will check it out.

 

[Randomshot]

Lamb. By christopher moore

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Capitalisme et Schizophrénie, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

 

[eric strt6]

I can't remember the last time I read anything besides County Emergency medical protocols, EMS continuing education materials, or pandemic response updates and protocols. I have a feeling that is going to be my life for the next year or so

 

[Pesqueeb]

Louis L'amour published over 100 books but I would guess theres only 10 plot lines. I've got rubbermaids full of his paperbacks. The fur trapper era is fun to read about. The Americans who roamed the west during that time mostly ran hard! I recently ordered a frontier book - Atomic Frontier Days : Hanford and the American West by Bruce William Hevly and John M. Findlay. Should be here next week!

The Haunted Mesa

 

[Full Trucker]

I'll see if I can get it from the library...

Same. I just signed up for a JeffCo lie berry card to download e-books, but I haven’t tried it yet. It seems the title suggested by the OP is available as an audio book, but not a read-it-yourself affair. Which seems weird?

 

[boostindoubles]

The Haunted Mesa

Yeah thats a good one - one of his last published novels. More sci-fi/western than his more traditional novels like the Sacketts. I should go through my bins and see how many copies of that I have. There was a time when I was hunting bulk lots of Louie and if they were under $1 per novel I was buying them up.

 

[stevew]

@Westy .....this showed up quicker than i thought....going to load it into the wagon tomorrow and maybe drive a bit of the blueridge parkway...

 

[Westy]

@Westy .....this showed up quicker than i thought....going to load it into the wagon tomorrow and maybe drive a bit of the blueridge parkway...

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Just finished the last book in the series, it did approach McCarthy levels of darkness.

 

[boostindoubles]

Before Big Sky this is in the queue,

 

[junkyard]

I drive a lot, 40 minutes each way to work. I live close to where I grew up and it’s a family business. I’ve been doing the drive for 20 years myself. It gets boring so I buy audio books, I buy physical cds though. Just like owning them in real life plus I can give them away to my friend. I like most everything that isn’t depressing. Been into Clive cussler stuff, it’s an easy listen. Just finished Stephen Kings “cell” it was ok but was just a short version of the stand.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I like most everything that isn’t depressing.

Pro tip: In this case, If @Westy recommends it, probably skip it.

 

[Westy]

Pro tip: In this case, If @Westy recommends it, probably skip it.

I can recommend a lot of non depressing books. You just better like physics, neuroscience or control theory.

 

[junkyard]

I can recommend a lot of non depressing books. You just better like physics, neuroscience or control theory.

That’s ok I’m actually reading a book on fly fishing right now.

 

[Dirtrider]

I enjoyed John Gerach and his fly fishing books. They actually got me into it about 20 years ago. Clive is a good read too.

 

[Westy]

That’s ok I’m actually reading a book on fly fishing right now.

Anything written by Leonard Mlodinow that strikes your fancy should be too notch.

 

[boostindoubles]

Best part so far is when he eats a bunch of apples and gets windy.

 

[boostindoubles]

Long haul truckers are todays mountain man.

 

[Westy]

Long haul truckers are todays mountain man.

Getting the clap while trapping beaver? Sounds about right.

 

[HAB]

Just read Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixtie, by Tom O'Neill. Basically O'Neill had a magazine assignment for the 30th anniversary of the murders, in 1999, started researching, and found so much wild shit that he just kept going and only published the book last year. He doesn't – to his credit, I think – come to any satisfying conclusion that ties everything in a neat bow; doing so would take too much wild speculation and conspiracy mongering, but he offers up a remarkably convincing, well researched case that the official narrative isn't right either. Despite the lack of real conclusion, it's a very interesting read, and I enjoyed it greatly.

 

[stevew]

Pro tip: In this case, If @Westy recommends it, probably skip it.

not true

i might actually have to get reading glasses or cheaters and read his suggestion....the guy doing the audiobook is not cutting it...

 

[Pesqueeb]

not true

i might actually have to get reading glasses or cheaters and read his suggestion....the guy doing the audiobook is not cutting it...

Oh... Not that they aren't great reads. Westy and I actually have very similar tastes. All I'm saying is that if you want to feel great about life afterwards, they aren't the books to read. Especially McCarthy.

 

[Westy]

Oh... Not that they aren't great reads. Westy and I actually have very similar tastes. All I'm saying is that if you want to feel great about life afterwards, they aren't the books to read. Especially McCarthy.

In some ways they make me feel better as one realizes how easy they have it. I don't behave a homicidal maniac trying bro kill me and I don't live in a post apocalyptic world.

Yet.

 

[stevew]

Oh... Not that they aren't great reads. Westy and I actually have very similar tastes. All I'm saying is that if you want to feel great about life afterwards, they aren't the books to read. Especially McCarthy.

i do not read life affirming/feel good shit....unless it involves a dog or animal...

hate feel good news stories because of the velveeta levels of cheesieness involved....

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Robert Moor, On Trails

 

[boostindoubles]

Gan-B_Mor
By Maurice Kittrell

I read an excerpt, the Wild East, Baltimore 1996.

 

[boostindoubles]

Seems I have come into another couple hundred Louis L'Amour paperbacks. I can sort through them and see which novel I have the most copies of. Anyone want to have a Louis paperback club? haha