mr_president Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 just learned how to read.... what a hoot. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumdigger Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 just recently finished catch-22 .. prolly the best book to my knowing aside from slaughter house 5... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.yuck Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 has anybody read running with scissors ? i heard it's pretty good. All i got to read was the jacket. Anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Books I'm reading simultaneously "Bay of Pigs--the Untold Story" by Peter Wyden (1979) "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1853) "War Day" by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka (1984) 'The I.R.A., 1968-2000" by J. Bowyer Bell (2000) "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank (1959) (I re-read this one ever so often.) "FMFM 6-4 Marine Rifle Company/ Platoon" L.F. Chapman, Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps, 1965. (I inherited this from my late brother-in-law's estate, along with all the rest of his military manuals and equipment--it was the manual he used in training for the Vietnam War. Actually, it is a fascinating book. FMFM stands for Fleet Marine Force Manual. Reading it, I'm thinking, "Jack was reading this at Quantico, preparing to go to war in Vietnam...") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 KaBar... if you are KaBar... what do you know of Phil Caputo or Mike Herr? If nothing, please proceed IMMEDIATELY to a book store and purchace 'Rumor of War' and 'Dispatches" respectively I meant Herr, not kerr... and truly, posibly the BEST READ IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Already got them I bought Caputo's "Rumor of War" while I was living in Galveston waiting to ship over to the First Marine Division in 1977. I'm not sure where I got "Dispatches" but it's on my shelf. And BTW, I am KaBar, but the format at 12 oz. would not let me switch ISP's and still keep my old handle. So I added a "2" and said "Fuck it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Word, well.. we can fix that (the name thing I mean)... drop me an email or I'll try to lace you up from this side... yeah, those 2 books are what I would consider the basis of understanding the us soldier psyche (well, journalist in Herr's case but)... very dope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAMBOOZLED Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 This is the first thread i can say i truely appreciate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoink Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 more books please Page Two. Hey Kabar, Im currently reading The Face of Battle by John Keegan I was wondering if you have ever read it and what you thought of it, at one point in time im not sure now it was a textbook ast West Point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest krie Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 i aint read a book in a while, thanks for some of the titles mite check them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumPuncher Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 yes vanity... I wrote that mini-review. cheesy carrere in copywriting... here I come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakeYourMark Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 Sincerely.... thanks for posting a thread like this....it's nice to get away from all the bullshit on other threads....What do people think about David Foster Wallace...I like his style, kinda neurotic...one of my favorite books is The Last Samurai by come lady, although i forgot her name...it helped to know some latin and a germanic before reading, but it's awesome....Requiem by Curtis White is equally good....I once (or twice) read a book called the Butterfly Revolution...kinda simple, but weird totaltarian tones....I dunno...thanks for yer time. peacers:ballcap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 Re: Books I'm reading simultaneously Originally posted by KaBar2 "War Day" by Whitley Strieber (1984) ..was that before or after the alien encounters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 'Taking the Risk Out of Democracy'-Alex Carey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloLusto Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 i suggest.... "Pacifism as Pathology"...Ward Churchill "The Cyclist"....by Viken Berberian (its not REALLY about cycling) "Autobiography of a Yogi"....Paramahansa Yogananda and of course..."Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance", I know thats been mentioned already... enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 Yoink I've never read The Face of Battle. Any good? Must be, if you mentioned it on here. I'll see if the library has it. I'm not sure if "War Day" was written before or after "Alien Encounters." (Is that a book, a movie or an occurance?) I really like threads like these, and also " good movie" threads, too. I'm going to start a thread about digital video. I bet a bunch of you guys have either been to film school, or took some sort of broadcast radio-video-TV-film classes in college. Anybody? Recommend a good DV book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 all 3. strieber wrote a book called 'communion' in which he details his claims to have been visited by aliens..not once, but many many times since childhood. he even takes the lie detector. and..they made a movie about it, with strieber being played by chris walken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TEARZ Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 good stuff.... some books that i particularly like that have been mentioned: caputo's rumor of war dostoevsky's brothers k (like 7 years ago i went crazy and read everything that i could find that the dude ever wrote, especially the big ones, demons, house of the dead, brothers k, crime & punishment, but all the smaller joints too)--- anyway brothers k crushed me when i finished it. truly beautiful, and i have a strong anti-fiction slant unless it's superb...easily his obra maestra, but yo, it's like a tour de france of a book- long, tough, beautiful with plenty of mountains to climb.... right now i'm reading all of the following: blum et al's killing hope la historia del cantante hector lavoe noticia de un secuestro- marquez drown- junot diaz (my sis gave it to me--- i'm skeptical, but it's ok so far) some 12oz summer tears recommendations: for the non-fiction socially conscious types: Ain't No Makin' It- Jay Macleod is a 1st year sociological text for a lot of the lefty academic institutions, but it's an amazing read. basically a story of inner city aspiration and expectation among two divergent groups of boston project kids... freire's pedagogy of the oppressed- a must read if you are interested in education--- not easy summer reading though hitchens' the trial of henry kissinger- scathing. nuff said... historically based: mailer's armies of the night- great book about the author's experience at the 67 dc vietnam protest march (try executioner's song by norman mailer too) fiction (these are summer recs- all from the past because unfortunately reading most fiction feels like a waste of life these days for me- i wish i didn't feel that way): brautigan- trout fishing in america not a kerouac fan but "vanity of delouz" is interesting ellison's invisible man is key used to like carver man, i need to read some fiction, it's summer, shit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 the hiawatha by david truer. great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nG Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 well if you've just learnt to read... JG Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition James Joyce Finnegans Wake god i'm funny. :rolleyes: but seriously, the last two books i've read have been biographys, one of the photographer Walker Evans by James R Mellow, and one of french actor/artist/nutcase Antonin Artaud by someone whose name escapes me. the Evans one was really good, but unfortunately the author died before he completed it, so the last decade of Evans's life is summarized from notes. bit of an anti-climax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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