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Post by daveb on Feb 15, 2017 6:57:38 GMT -8
I took yesterday off and read "Around the World in a Jeep" with trip notes from Perk Perkins and Will Parish.
It lit a little fire in me and now I'm jonesing for Spring.
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Post by trinity on Feb 15, 2017 9:38:37 GMT -8
It lit a little fire in me and now I'm jonesing for Spring. Dude, we live in Texas. This is the best time of the year to get out!
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Post by BigLoad on Feb 15, 2017 19:30:44 GMT -8
I just finished re-reading Polly Schaafsma's "Indian Rock Art of the Southwest". IMO, it's the best reference available on temporal and spatial distribution of rock art styles and correlation to ancient and more recent cultural groupings. This is the third time I read it. On the first time through, I placed page markers on nine maps and tables, to which I refer several times a year.
It doesn't have as many of the iconic images as other rock art books (although it still has plenty), because it focuses on identifying diagnostic characteristics of different styles, with some analysis of their temporal evolution and the impact of cultural interactions.
This is a great companion to something like Stephen H. Lekson's "A History of the Ancient Southwest".
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Post by foxalo on Feb 16, 2017 11:17:54 GMT -8
I'm about halfway through a book called: "Saving Jesus From Those Who Are Right; rethinking what it means to be Christian" by Carter Heyward. It's been pretty interesting so far. I'm seeing some things differently, but a lot of what she's saying is just reinforcing what I believe anyway.
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Post by plodalong on Feb 16, 2017 11:25:34 GMT -8
Plodalong, How much was Thoreau mentioned in the Emerson book? Any insights into Thoreau? Yes, I've re-read Into the Wild many times, and it gets better with each reading... Happy Trails, RS Richardson also wrote "Henry Thoreau: The Life of the Mind". In that book Richardson does an amazing job of looking at the influences and forces that shaped Thoreau's life and thought. Reading that book is what led me to read "Mind on Fire". I was far more familiar with HDT and as I read Emerson it was astounding to see what the influences were that impacted him and the rest of the Concord collection of minds. In the same way he uncovers the influences that led to HDT's brilliance he then unravels the many various influences on Emerson. Richardson is a great writer who makes both of these men just come to life for me. He breaks down the complex and the sometimes wordiness of both of these writers in a way that made it simple, wonderful and a pleasure to read. The more I understand about Emerson the more Thoreau's writings take a whole new energy! Words that are very timely today, "if ya catch my drift!"
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Post by Westy on Feb 17, 2017 7:02:32 GMT -8
Yogi's Continental Trail Guide 2017 - just released
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Post by takinadio on Feb 20, 2017 11:11:21 GMT -8
Currently on book three of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Great fantasy/adventure book, and they've been very easy reads!
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Post by cuzimthedad on Feb 27, 2017 20:06:57 GMT -8
Just finished The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman and beginning Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue...The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
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Post by BigLoad on Feb 27, 2017 20:40:16 GMT -8
I rarely read fiction any more, but I'm about 1/3 of the way through "Ward 6 and Other Stories", by Anton Chekov. Some of them are essentially character sketches, but most of the stories are a bit longer and seem to have a point. The latter, as you might expect, are pretty grim.
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Post by burntfoot on Mar 11, 2017 7:15:18 GMT -8
The Insanity of God Tourist Season And Then, Everything Changed Wicked
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Post by Campfires&Concierges on Mar 12, 2017 13:26:17 GMT -8
Currently reading First They Killed My Father about the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot in Cambodia. I was a toddler when it was happening in the late 70's but completely embarrassed that I knew nothing about this until I visited Cambodia last year. Not a word of it was mentioned in our school classes.
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Post by stealthytomato on Mar 16, 2017 8:37:05 GMT -8
Recently finished Walking Man (didn't care for it), which led to The Man Who Walked Through Time (enjoyable). Then read Walk Across America 2: Walk West (also enjoyable). Now reading Down the Great Unknown about Powell's trip through the Grand Canyon.
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Post by dayhiker on Mar 16, 2017 20:02:26 GMT -8
Currently reading First They Killed My Father about the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot in Cambodia. I was a toddler when it was happening in the late 70's but completely embarrassed that I knew nothing about this until I visited Cambodia last year. Not a word of it was mentioned in our school classes. I read Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (John MacRae Books) quite awhile ago. The main thing I remember was famine was the main killer, and like in China it was in part that people were too afraid(edit - to say) that rice production actually went down, so it was siponed off to pay for things Pol Pot wanted to buy. I found the book about Mao more troubling as he was capable of just about anything.
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Post by hikerjer on Mar 16, 2017 20:16:49 GMT -8
I'm rereading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. Haven't read it since college. I just wanted to put things in perspective considering the current political and social trends. I'm not saying that we're headed down the road to totalitarianism, but there are some striking similarities between Germany in the 1920s & 30s and the situation in the world today. Of course, lots of difference as still but still, worth noting.
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Post by tomas on Mar 17, 2017 5:39:41 GMT -8
I'm not saying that we're headed down the road to totalitarianism, but there are some striking similarities between Germany in the 1920s & 30s and the situation in the world today. Of course, lots of difference as still but still, worth noting. Frankly I see more similarities with what the Bolsheviks said and did in their rise to power, but in the end it was horrible for both countries.
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