I have always had a problem sleeping since I was a kid. Once I got older it got even worse (hence seeing me online at 5am lol)
Lately I have started buying some really good books off ebay to read at night. The past couple weeks I finished “Waldon” by Thoreau, Re-read “of Young men & fire” by Maclean (same guy that wrote river runs through it)…currently reading “White Fang” by London, and after that have a 2nd edition of “Moby Dick” to read which I got for Christmas 2 yrs ago but have not tackled yet since its so friggin HUGE lol. But will shortly.
Any other bookworms here…anyone read anything really good to suggest?
I go through reading spurts where I gorge on books. I have loved reading since I was very young. I suspect I had read about 80% of the books in my home town library by the time I went to college, And I spent a huge amount of my college time reading books in the open carrels of their library system.
I’m still reading quite a bit, but have to admit I am reading less in the last couple of years. My problem is the Roku Netflix Player. It costs $100 and, if you have a wireless network in your home, allows you to see an amazing amount of content for free if you subscribe to Netflix.
I’ll admit that the times I used to pick up a book to read a few chapters are now often consumed by using my Roku Netflix player to watch a concert, TV show or something. The only good news about this is that I have reached the age where this can no longer be classified as “dumbing down”. If you spend 50 or more years reading to “smarten up” it is unlikely that you will be subject to “dumbing down”
I have been reading John Geirach books lately, and I like his style a lot. He’s got a way of telling a story about a fly fishing trip that makes you feel like you were right there with him.
Other authors I’ve read lately are Ted Nugent and Gordon MacQuarrie.
The book stores in our area are full of the summer reading list books for the high school kids. I got hooked on re reading the books assigned to the kids … it’s been a year or two since I last read them:roll: … and I’m thoroughly enjoying them!
I second the recommendation of Desert Solitaire by Abbey. A good read. If you’re into history, TR-The Last Romantic is a great book about Teddy Roosevelt that I found really interesting.
Years ago used to read all kinds of books on different topics. Probably started with the Hardy Boys series in elementary school & progressed to sci-fi in high school with the Horatio Alger westerns somewhere in between. When the novels of Grissom, Clancy, Buckley ( Blackford Oates )etc came out just had to read them. In the 80’s started collecting flyfishing & flytying books, some to replace the ones read in the 60’s & 70’s. Have enough books, magazines & reference materials to re-read on fishing & boating that should last thru a bunch of afternoon thunderstorms; even though there’s still about 10 % unread on the shelves that are being saved for a rainy day or sleepless night & still looking for more !
When I worked for Borders I did the same thing Betty’s doing one year. It’s worth it if for no other reason that to realize how much you missed/forgot when you read things because you “have to.” Some of those books I hated at the time but loved when I went back to them.
Just finished McGuane’s The Longest Silence, Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories (I cherry picked them out of The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway). The River Why has come up in several posts, it’s wonderful, but also check out The Brothers K by the same author. I think I feel another Kurt Vonnegut binge coming on as well.
In the last couple of years, have been re-reading some of the American “classics”. You know, the ones we had to read in High School…many of them really sucked…and still do.
I usually can get through about 100 books a year, but most of them are the standard eye-candy from used book sales and garage sales (SF, thrillers, Fantasy, etc.) Usually read 5 or 6 non-fiction as well (Fatal Shore has been good so far). Will read anything fishing-related I can get my hands on, and re-read my library as needed
Listened to my first book on tape this summer. Good book (“Over the Edge of the World” about Magellan’s voyage), but not as satisfying as reading.
