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1. The Turner Diaries

2. The Lebensborn Experiment

just so you know someone knows the reference--assuming you're just a troll, not a neo-Nazi.

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THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING by Christopher C. Horner that shows, among other things, that Al Gore is a tendentious moron.

yeah, but that's the important part--your opinion of Gore. The actual issue is beside the point to the politics.

climate change, who cares? Better to be proudly un-PC and congratulate yourself.

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Isabel Wilkerson's "The Warmth of Other Suns" - wonderful chronicle of the largely undocumented migration of southern blacks away from jim crow laws during the 20th century....highly recommended reading....

won many awards and universal acclaim. And probably a slight Stones connection--does she discuss the blues at all?

Online updates from Japan.

"Ravenwood: The Complete Series" by Frederick C. Davis and "Hans Teufel" by Paul Feval.

'Three Chords For Beauty's Sake' - Tom Nolan (The Life of Artie Shaw)

'Gulliver's Travels' - Jonathan Swift

'Soul Diamond' - Robert Nicolas

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. First read it on the beach in Nice back in 1983 after swapping it with a guy for Tropic of Cancer, which I had just finished, while backpacking around Europe at age 19. It fell apart before I made it back to Paris so I chucked it, and I never found it again till yesterday. Miller is awesome.

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Isabel Wilkerson's "The Warmth of Other Suns" - wonderful chronicle of the largely undocumented migration of southern blacks away from jim crow laws during the 20th century....highly recommended reading....

won many awards and universal acclaim. And probably a slight Stones connection--does she discuss the blues at all?

not much.

the book goes from the specific (personal tales from selected individuals who migrated from the south to various northern cities) to the general in a very seemless fashion. a marvelous read.

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Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. First read it on the beach in Nice back in 1983 after swapping it with a guy for Tropic of Cancer, which I had just finished, while backpacking around Europe at age 19. It fell apart before I made it back to Paris so I chucked it, and I never found it again till yesterday. Miller is awesome.

can'tstandya comes to mind....

It was Tropic of Cancer though, not Capricorn, that George took out in 1971 and never returned.

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It was Tropic of Cancer though, not Capricorn, that George took out in 1971 and never returned.

very confusing

Just finished the Stieg Larsson trilogy. Now reading Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader.

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Just finished the Stieg Larsson trilogy. Now reading Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader.

Is that Erik_'s bio?

Some John O'Hara short stories.

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Just finished the Stieg Larsson trilogy. Now reading Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader.

Is that Erik_'s bio?

LOL,just started it. But unless Erik is a dyslexic ATF agent on a special assignment for the president. Then I don't think so.

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1. The Turner Diaries

2. The Lebensborn Experiment

just so you know someone knows the reference--assuming you're just a troll, not a neo-Nazi.

CC not sure what you mean by the reference, Just happens to be the books Im currently reading.

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Michael Dibdin, Dead Lagoon.
A detective story set in Venice.

Hopefully a better read than "Death In Venice".... I know other people might rate that one high, but I find it to be a cheap one

It is. Dibdin was no Simenon. But his stuff is ok. I got interested after watching the bbc series about his detective Zen.

Best murder story set in Venice still is Those Who Walk Away, by Patricia Highsmith. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan is also highly recommended.

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Michael Dibdin, Dead Lagoon.
A detective story set in Venice.

Hopefully a better read than "Death In Venice".... I know other people might rate that one high, but I find it to be a cheap one

It is. Dibdin was no Simenon. But his stuff is ok. I got interested after watching the bbc series about his detective Zen.

Best murder story set in Venice still is Those Who Walk Away, by Patricia Highsmith. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan is also highly recommended.

Thanks for the tip

Right now....reading Hermann Hesse: "Der Steppenwolf"

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

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Right now....reading Hermann Hesse: "Der Steppenwolf"

Erik, how long does it take you to read thru a book of 300 pages or so?

Some reviews from Amazon:

This book changed my life when I read it in college and I have re-read it a couple of times since. Every time I was amazed by Hesse's simplicity and the truth that lies beneath. This is a must read for anyone coming of age in the burgeois world. It highlights the inherent contradictions within us all. But, before you enter his world, remember the words, "for madmen only."


I love this book, and I'm forever grateful to its author.
Hesse has said about Nietzsche that he was a man caught between two ages, suffering in deep aloneness a hundred years ago what thousands go through today. Hesse was such a man, of course. As the book's fictional bourgeois narrator says about Harry Haller:

...He called himself the Steppenwolf, and this too estranged and disturbed me a little. What an expression! However, custom did not only reconcile me to it, but soon I never thought of him by any other name; nor could I today hit on a better description of him. A wolf of the steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a more striking image could not be found for his shy loneliness, his savagery, his restlessness, his homesickness, his homelessness....

He also has this to say, and for me this beautifully sums up the novel's impact:

And now we come to these records of Haller's, these partly diseased, partly beautiful, and thoughtful fantasies...I see them as a document of the times, for Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts. These records...are an attempt to present the sickness itself in its actual manifestation. They mean, literally, a journey through hell, a sometimes fearful, sometimes courageous journey through the chaos of a world whose souls dwell in darkness, a journey undertaken with the determination to go through hell from one end to the other, to give battle to chaos, and to suffer torture to the full.

--And yet, and yet...Hesse later wrote a beautiful Author's Note in which he emphasized that to descend is not enough; to live in shadows and be eccentric and feel despair...no, that's not the novel's destiny and shouldn't be the reader's either. Here is the last piece of that Note which expresses Hesse's view of regarding the work as only doomful:

These readers, it seems to me, have recognized themselves in the Steppenwolf, identified themselves with him, suffered his griefs, and dreamed his dreams; but they have overlooked the fact that this book knows of and speaks about other things besides Harry Haller and his difficulties, about a second, higher, indestructible world beyond the Steppenwolf and his problematic life. The "Treatise" and all those spots in the book dealing with matters of the spirit, of the arts and the "immortal" men oppose the Steppenwolf's world of suffering with a positive, serene, superpersonal and timeless world of faith. This book, no doubt, tells of griefs and needs; still, it is not a book of a man despairing, but of a man believing.

Of course, I neither can nor intend to tell my readers how they ought to understand my tale. May everyone find in it what strikes a chord in him and is of some use to him! But I would be happy if many of them were to realize that the story of the Steppenwolf pictures a disease and crisis--but not one leading to death and destruction, on the contrary: to healing.

I just finished re-reading the four 'Rabbit' novels by John Updike. The books were written at ten year intervals and do a beautiful job of capturing the changing American lanscape between 1960 and 1990. It's funny how small details from books can stay with you forever, while you completely forget some of the more important parts. And the sex was more shocking to me today than it was when I first read the books (at least the first three) nearly thirty years ago.

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Erik, how long does it take you to read thru a book of 300 pages or so?

Thanks for the Amazon reviews

300 pages......1 or 2 days is what it takes. Depends on the weather and the job.

many of my friends love Hermann Hesse - he's got such a cult following - and I really liked reading his books, "Steppenwolf" and "Demian", but they are far from my way of thinking and seeing the world. it was something else, rrrright - but not for me. on the other hand it's easy for me to understand why others love it so much!

for Hesse lovers, let me recommend something by his friend - Thomas Mann. now, that was a writer!



he was wicked in some way, too - first world war was a damn great thing for him until it lasted, for example - but he got straight some time later. well, he certainly was a gifted writer!

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"The Nature Faker", a new biography of William Flynn, one of the great (and underappreciated) golf architects of the golden age (1909-1929).



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"One Train Later" by Andy Summers, and "Elvis In Texas" by Stanley Oberst


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The Holy Bible of course - I want to know everything about Keith!

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It was a pleasure to see author Ian Rankin introducing the Boogie for Stu gig at the Ambassador. Try his novels, which include titles such as Black and Blue, Let it Bleed and Beggars Banquet.