"How Then Should We Live"-Francis Shaeffer(sp?) "Mere Christianity"-C.S.Lewis "The Everlasting Man"-G.K. Chesterson Any of Lee Stroebel's books - you'll need something to clean your brain/soul out after Hitchen's book.
I've been reading The Last Open Road by BS Levy. It's about road racing in the early 50s in New England (think Euro sports cars). So far it's really good. A few years ago I read Devil in the White City a true story of a serial killer stalking young women in the 1890 something Chicago World's Fair and his connection to the Fair and the archetecture of the city. VERY engaging
Anything by Hemingway, especially "For Whom the Bell Tolls" I just finished reading "Redemption Song" by Chris Salewicz, its a biography of Joe Strummer
Ford, the Dust and the Glory: A Racing History, 1901-1967 by Leo Levine. Excellent book with some great photos. Has five stars on Amazon's reviews.
Couldn't agree more, great coming of age book. Also anything by Stephen E. Ambrose, like Band of Brothers or Citizen Soldiers. Bringing out the Dead - Joe Connelly Belushi - Judy Belushi Pisano and Tanner Colby John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth - Michael Munn Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot - by Starr Smith, Walter Cronkite, and Steve Gansen (great book about Jimmy Stewarts Military Career) Darryl Starbird "Bubble Top King" - Great coffee table book I love biographies about people I find fascinating
"The Last Open Road" books are great fun. "The Hot Rod" by Brock Yates is good. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse is hilarious to me but that may be a personal taste. The new novel by Ken Follett "World Without End" is good historical fiction. More controversial would be the books of P.J. O'Rourke. That's as close to politics as I want to go on the HAMB. Check the reviews on Amazon to see if any of these are your kind of reading. Rusty
Its not cars , war or religion but try . Susan Scott's "Fierce Conversations" . As she says " Our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time. If we look at every positive relationship , it was built one conversation at a time. If we look at every failed relationship ,it failed because we didn't have the courage or the knowledge on how to confront the issues with those who are important in the relationship." The art of conversation and more importantly listening to oneself and others.
If you get bored with feel good books and want to check out the exact opposite, check out a book called The Rape of Nanking....by Iris Chang. Absolutely riveting accounts of the Japanese occupation of Nanking in 1937. Evil, evil stuff! Hard to believe what humans (?) are capable of. On a lighter note...Match race madness is great, I'm reading it now.
'AIR CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE' by Henry Miller, any of Butkowski's short novels (not the poems),' Journey to the end of the Night' by Celine, 'Three Kingdoms' by Guo and other stuff
These are mostly fiction: Anything by: John Steinbeck Mark Twain Richard Ford Rose Tremain Charles Dickens Ian McEwan Rohinton Mistry Peter Carey William Trevor Gabriel Garcia Marquez Or try these to see if you like the Author: JM Coetzee - Disgrace Javier Marias - When I was Mortal (Short Stories) Mick Jackson - The Underground Man Martin Booth - The Industry of Souls Micheal Frayn - Spies F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Paul Sayer - The Comforts of Madness Patrick Suskind - Perfume Keri Hulme - The Bone People Lindsay Clarke - The Chymical Wedding Yasunari Kawabata - Beauty and Sadness Irvine Welsh - Filth Matthew Kneale - English Passengers John Fowles - The Collector Barry Unsworth - Scared Hunger Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain Yann Martel - Life of Pi Autobiography: an account of being held hostage for 5 years in the Middle East Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling
Agreed...the Keenan book was really powerful. He and McCarthy went through the mill together. Not sure he's ever really got over it.
i have to agree with the many people who have said any Mark Twain books. America's best satrist. Ambrose Bierce writes some good books. a great book also is "The Portrait of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde, an excellent writer who is probably throwing witty lines back and forth with Mark Twain in the afterlife. the brock yates book is great too, i read it in one sitting and gave it to my dad for fathers day a couple years ago. Car by Gary Paulsen is one of my favorite fiction car books (hes normally a childrens' author so dont be suprised if its there or in young adult at the library) Truck:a love story by micheal perry is book i didnt think i'd even pick up (no pun intended) but i fell for it.
"The Golden Age of The American Racing Car" by Griffith Borgeson out of print, but every automotive library should have a copy. "The Great Racing Cars and Drivers" by Charles Fox excellent! "The Racing Fords" by Tanner anything by Ken Purdy, the dean of american automotive writers.
Terry Pratchett, Discworld series. Funny, funny, funny science fiction/fatasy series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld If there is too much seriousness in your life.. try this series out. And they say car guys only look at pictures in car mags. I used to read for fun a lot. Read too much in my work. Got hooked on audio books. Great for long drives or manual labor times or nights when my eyes are too tired to stare at a page.
Try some Loren Estleman and for you older boys look up Howard Pease. If you like Felson you'll like Pease. John Dunning writes a good book. Try 2am Eastern War Time. For laughs you can't beat Wodehouse or Kinky Friedman. Larry McMurtry puts a good book together and Dashiell Hammett still manages to charm. Good post. Literally, himmelberg
Catcher in the Rye was the last book I read its cool. maybe kinda juvenile for some who don't remember what it was like to be a kid.
Wasn't there a thread where a Jalopy Journal(2nd edition) print edition was discussd,along with discussion of an O/T book about a German carmaker?
Spoken like a true KID...You gotta be real old to forget what it's like to be a kid...especially driving a hot rod or custom! It is a good book though. Read it in High School...
The books i had recommended were pretty tame and they are great books that meant alot to me. Not only did they change my heart, attitude and mind ...they taught me to how love others more, be more patient, become self-less, humbled, and also showed me how to be more kind to others, give me hope, encouragement, self-worth, a true purpose for living and have brought much joy, happiness, enlightenment, fullfillment and understanding. They have spoken "truth and wisdom" into my life and if that's wrong to share with other people i care about and will cause others to be disturbed and offended. ...then delete away best wishes and stay blessed, CAB
Excellent choice. I managed to track down a copy for my library and have given it to many kids to read. But THE book to read by Paulsen has got to be Hatchet. An incredible tale of survival against the odds.
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