Recreational reading

[Tom Dunlap]

Right now I only have two books being read. One is recreational reading. It's called "My Year Before the Mast" by Annette Brock Davis. She got hired onto the crew of a four-masted square rigger in the early 1930's. The first women to get hired onto the crew of any commercial sailing vessel. After reading the classic "Two Years Before the Mast" this is an interesting companion piece.

The serious book is about bi-polar disease. Heavy reading.

What are others reading?

Favorite reading genre or author? Who's works would go with you on a trip to Mars?

Patrick O' Brian [Master and Commander/Aubrey-Maturin series] would be in my kit. Along with Thoreau.

 

[TreeDr]

I recieved the ISA holiday shopping guide and I was lured to that black and white pictorial book. Don't know the author, but the description and cover looked very enticing.

Be a good coffee table thang.

 

[cory]

I read The Last American Man recently. It was good, with alot of funny parts. It's about a kid who grew up with an insatiable love of the wilderness and Indians and a primitive lifestyle, in these modern times, and what his life is like. Alot of the humour comes from his relationship with his father who is a virtual genious (had a Phd in chemical enginering at age 21) and could not understand why child rearing is not as logical and easy as mathematics (for him). Also some cool parts on long distance (across America) horseback riding.

Anybody out there like Richard Marcinko? Lots of very humorous (cuz its ultra testosterone laden) Navy Seal action.