What are you currently reading?

Wow, I don't need to read it now, you have summarized everything for me. Thank you.

I like the idea of off the beaten path kind of travel. While I do think it is cool to go to touristy places as well, it is also healthy to step outside of the box while traveling, and really put yourself in the shoes of the locals.

 

Hello,

well, there is more . The author explains some basics of how our brain works and tries to map that on his ideas of slow travel and 'normal' travel. There is another chapter about how slow traveling on horse back and shamans helped an autistic kid. I'm not sure what to think about that chapter. It doesn't seem to fit into the book so well.

I think I never visited touristy places (except in school when I had been forced to do so). I'm happiest with a rucksack in the woods. But I have to confess that I have been seen on 'hiking autobahns' that are specially made so that you are never far away from an inn and never feel a sharp stone under your feet.

Regards
Gyro

 

Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic by Thomas Karlsson
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castanda
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

 

I'm rereading To Kill a Mockingbird before I read the newer book

 

Finished aftermath...have nothing I am fealing like jumping into.

 

I'm currently reading Blonde by Joyce Carol Oats. Although the author advises readers to consider the book a work of fiction, I think the tragedy in the story of Marilyn's life is very, very real.

 

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I thought it was as much based on the fact that the british Americas were treated more as colonies than an equal part of the english emipire, which led to the old economic (and also social) dissatisfaction. If there was no reason to be so dissatisfied it's likely neither science nor liberalist thoughts would pushed american people around that time over the edge and start a revolution. The british just gave them good enough reasons to try to seperate.

 

Naturally (I would say)

 

Sea of Blood by Reggie Oliver,

It's a collection of short stories in the tradition of MR James (one of my favorite authors growing up). It was really hard to get hold of in the UK, had to order direct form the publishers, postage cost as much as the book.

 

Kevin Mitnick's "Ghost In th Wires"

 

I read a book by Joyce Carol Oats once, We Were the Mulvaneys. It was pretty depressing. Then I picked another book by her, can't remember the name of it and it might be Blonde, but when I got home and read the jacket I realized the premise involved an incestuous relationship with the protaganist's uncle. I haven't been able to bring myself to read it yet.

 

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

I've tried a couple of times to read 2 of Joyce Carol Oats books before and I just couldn't get into it...too depressing and weird. When I say something is too weird for me, it usually pretty damn weird.

AND about what you said...I bought this book "Backroads" because it was on the Oprah Reading Book List or whatever...had her little circle and all. OMG! It started out fine and got me hooked, you might say. It wound up being SO AWFUL, one of the worse books I've completed. It was centered around a "country family" that you found out was a very abusive home with sorry, self-involved parents, and eventually the sister worried her older brother to no end, (verbally, mentally, physically) until she finally managed to seduce him. I will never read another Oprah recommended book again.

Well, if I do read another Oprah book it will be by accident and not because her stamp of approval is on it.

 

I'm a couple of chapters in; pretty interesting so far.

 

again

 

Haha I've read a couple of books that had the oprah seal of approval that were okay but I imagine she picks some pretty awful chick lit sometimes.

I like reading about weird subjects and usually don't mind reading about taboo subjects but I have to draw a line at incest.

 

An instance of the fingerpost - Iain Pears

 

Infamy by Richard Reeves. It's about the internment of Japanese American citizens during WWII. The stark parellel is with the anti Muslim sentiment of today by the far right.