reading...one of lifes many forgotten joys...i haven't quite forgotten it yet though...
i read a bunch of surf mags (surfers journal, water, surfer, surfing, tws...then of course mens health and mh best life...every morning i read the paper on my phone...
then on to books...the major part of reading for me...yesterday i finished probably the best book or the second best book i have ever read....tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom...and during the same time i have been cracking open the brothers karamazov by fyodor dosteovsky...
what does everyone else read? any good recommendations?

Hey Doc,

I am almost done with Jimmy Buffett's "A Pirate Looks at 50". Good book, he's quite a talented individual. I have Saul Bellow's "More Die of Heartbreak" on the night stand ready to go when I'm done with Jimmy.

I read "Men's Health", Best Life" and "Caribbean Life" when I can find it on the magazine rack at the store. I read "Ski Magazine" from November to March.

I also have finished off Henry Miller, Ayn Rand, Tolkien and Frank Zane last summer.

Jon

News: besides the local paper, sometimes USA Today, and European news from German sources; Die Zeit, Stern, Focus.
Magazines: Foreign Affairs, European Car, and Runner's World.
Books: Nonfiction - political and economic topics and studies, Fiction - political thrillers, especially from Vince Flynn.

Wow, a resurrected thread. Good to see some activity in the new year.

Magazines - Best Life, This Old House, Astronomy, Forbes
Books - I've started reading some mysteries, mainly Hillerman
Newspapers - Local paper, Wall Street Journal
Online - BBC, Forbes, Morningstar, Sports Illustrated

If your into history I am reading MEN OF STEEL by Michael Reynolds. It's about the I SS PANZER CORPS during the Ardennes and Eastern Front 1944-45. Pretty interesting read. I also read 4X4 Magazine, Backpack Magazine, Surfer Magazine and the bible.

great topic... a mid-career return to law school has left my night-table empty of general reading (so my contributions to this string may be limited). So for now it's law journals - but I have to tell you about a book that I couldn't put down a couple of years ago. It's called "Water" by a Canadian writer named Marq de Villiers. It's about the history and politics of water in the development (and destruction) of human relations. Canadian publisher - Stoddard in Toronto. Fascinating - probably not something your right-wingers will want to pick up... come to think of it, perhaps you should...

Over the past couple of years I began reading more and more. I started reading alot to my son and it stuck wiith me. Ive read him all the Harry Potter books (still on the last one). I myself like E.A. Poe also Doyal. I really like old lit. Im open for suggestions to expand my list. Mags, I read a ton. Alot of surf and fitness mags. Also, Ready Made, its a great do it your self quarterly. Check it out, let me know what you think.

Hi Doc, you asked for recommendations so hope this is in order
(I wrote it, so I've got to recommend it!)

If you like outdoor adventure stuff, you might like this book about a 2700 mile hike I did from Mexico to Canada up through the desert areas and High Sierra Nevada of California and the Cascade ranges of Oregon and Washington, emerging in the Okanogan Forest of B.C., Canada.
The book's titled, "Dances With Marmots - A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure" (ISBN:1411656180)
Came up with that name, as at the time Kevin Costner's movie "Dances With Wolves" was around...I figured my experience was a little less 'wolf-like"... and the bears I met were more interested in food than dancing!
Anyhow, if interested, I put up a book site with more info' over at http://www.danceswithmarmots
Could be of added interest in that it looks at the US and its wilderness through the eyes of a Kiwi (New Zealander)
Cheers, Geo.

The book looks pretty neat George! You need to add the .com to your link though.


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Oops! Thanks Chief!
The URL should of course be http://www.danceswithmarmots.com