the Bible; Black Elk Speaks; Limbaugh's 1st book. for fun its Cussler or Ludlum.
the Bible; Black Elk Speaks; Limbaugh's 1st book. for fun its Cussler or Ludlum.
Bible, The Life You've Always Wanted-John Ortberg, Mere Christianity-CS Lewis, The Case for Faith/The Case for Christ-Lee Strobel, The Emerging Church-Dan Kimball, Running with the Buffaloes/Sub 4:00-Chris Lear
Not in any order.
The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Youth - Joseph Conrad
Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
A Light in August - William Faulkner
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
The Magus - John Fowles
The Secret Miracle - Jorge Luis Borges
The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men - John Stienbeck
A Short History of Nearly Everything
And of course, Once a Runner - John L. Parker
Some authors deserved more than one book.
Why I an not a Christian, by Bertrand Russell
Orthodoxy, Heretics, The Common Man, Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis of Assisi and volumes of other writings by G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and God in the Dock by C.S. Lewis
The Recovery of Belief, C.E.M. Joad
Cosmic Religion, Albert Einstein
And, of course the Bible
Kilgore wrote:
THE STRANGER
by Albert Camus
THE PLAGUE
by Albert Camus
RUNNING WITH THE BUFFALOES
by Chris Lear
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
by Friedrich Nietzsche
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
by Alexandre Dumas
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
by Aron Ralston
Out.
So, A Man In Full was a passing fancy? And you're done with the Stoics? Interesting.
first off: Bible. summer after 9th grade when my grandfather died, read it and it changed my disgust to God to a love for Him.
Finishing Strong: Finding The Power To Go The Distance. You'll love the chapter "156 Buck Naked Miles to Bighorn" about a guy on the Lewis and Clark expedition who ran 156 miles being chased by the Blacfoot tribe. Book is a GREAT read!
The Paradox of Power: A Transforming View of Leadership, by Patt Williams.
The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself, by Rodney Mullen (don't kid yourself, it's an auto-biography. so good, i read the whole thing in one night, then was late to work the next morning. awesome read).
Hawk--Occupation: SKATEBOARDER, by Tony Hawk. The similarities between competitive skaters and competitive runners are astounding, esp during a time when skating was viewed the way running currently is.
Running/ Training:
(In no order)
-Run With The Best, Benson, Ray
-Run To The Top (Lydiard)
-PRE, Jordan
-The New Power Program, by Dr. Michael Colgan (Great insight into Lydiard and PRE and Michael Johnson.)
-OAR
-Coaching Cross Country Successfully, Henderson
-Optimal Muscle Recovery, Burke
and fun/ general info:
-Fast Food Nation--today's verson of "the jungle"
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. (A masterpiece.)
- The Analects - Confucius. (The only realistic moral thory I've found as of yet.)
- Beyond Good and Evil - Freidrich Nitzsche. (Why western ethics is largely "tainted.")
- The Education of Little Tree - Forrest Carter. (About what people are and can become. The book was written by a former KKK member and known racist. He wrote George Wallace's 'Segregation Forever' speech.)
- Things Fall Apart - Chiuna Achebe. (Just liked it.)
- Elbow Room - Daniel Dennett. (How we don't have as much control as we think we do.)
- The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil. (How the human mind isin't as great as people make it out to be.)
- The Bible. (Can't even begin to explain it's influance: direct and indirect.)
- Sidhartha - Hermann Hesse. (On being and learning.)
The Selfish Gene--Richard Dawkins
I also forgot to mention "A Civil Action". (The book, as always, was WAY better than the movie).
T.Rex!! Long time no see.
The Stoics were a passing phase for me. The reality is that there is no stable definition of what constitutes virtue. Or as Machiavelli pointed out, virtue is often vice depending upon the situation and vice versa.
The life and death of Pat Tillman is a case in point. Was Tillman a hero? Or was he an idiot cut down by his own country in a fruitless war?
I just got through watching The Motorcycle Diaries, and I liked Che Guevara's spirit and compassion for the unfortunate. OTOH, what gets lost in the story is the numerous human rights violations committed by Castro's revolution. As well intentioned as Che was, he did nothing more than perpetuate the very injustices he was fighting.
Right now, I am having an internal tug of war between Nietzsche and Camus. In other words, should I be nasty or nice?
Out.
Tao De Jing
The Vedas
Quaran
and many others that made me realize that Christianity isn't the only religion out there.
it is very easy to talk about the mass injustices of Castro, but there is almost no way of knowing what actually happened as all we are going to hear of here is propoganda.
What we do know is that american big buisness and our mob had destroyed cubas culture(with Bautista's help of course). This continues to happen to other south, and middle american countries.
I have a certain respect for Castro(and Cesar Chavez) in that he has been able witness the uglist face of american imperlisim, raise his fist and contiue to maintain cuba at a comfotable level.
Cuba sends out more Doctors to small countries for its size than any other nation.
Cuba donates more blood per capita than any other nation.
They have natinalized health care and nationalized education.
There certainly were atrocities commited, Castro hundreds of pimps drug smugglers(and those that were geting rich off them). But he did give Cuba back its Identity.
By the way my favorite book is .
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
i was going to join the marines before i read this book.
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead & We The Living - Ayn Rand
Zen and the Art of Motorcycyle Maintenance - Robert Persig
Anything by Hemingway, esp. Islands in the Stream
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
bump
The Joy of Cooking - my life was changed after I learned how to bake my own apple pies.
In reading history, you realize there are no villians or saints. There are only winners and losers.
Out.
Playboy
Penthouse
Hustler
Jugs
40+
"Cities and the Wealth of Nations," by Jane Jacobs.
skinnbones wrote:
The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Yes, Og Mandino wrote some great books.....also check ou "The Greatest Miracle" by him.
"how to win friends and influence people": Dale Carnegie
BUT most importantly, for sure: The Holy Bible
The Book of Mormon--complied by Mormon and Moroni, translated by Joseph Smith Jr.