Library

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:25 pm

While we have a bar or 2, we don't have a Library.

and we really should.

I have to admit the only things I have read recently are all tech manuals, SOP's, MSDS crap, and it has made me just a bit fucking cranky.

HELP.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:33 pm

One that I read a long time ago, highly recommended, if you need to lighten up, "like I do". Or to get in trouble with the wife because you have woken her up when your laughing to hard while reading in bed.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:51 pm

What a delightful idea, Goathead!

You didn't just fall off a turnip truck, did ya'?

I'll have to look around for a picture of a book. I'm reading an old one right now: James Michener's Hawaii.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:54 pm

My oh my, I didn't realize it was written so long ago: 1959. Heck, it's older than I am.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:02 pm

but not as old as me....

I read it years ago, have read many of his books in fact.
All good reading.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:07 pm

goathead wrote:but not as old as me....

That's how come you get to be called "Pa"!

I read it years ago, have read many of his books in fact.
All good reading.

I love reading fiction like his. There's so much detail in his books, you almost feel like you're living through the history.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:10 pm

That is why I love Patrick McManus.

Have pulled many of the same stupid stunts.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:12 pm

goathead wrote:That is why I love Patrick McManus.

I haven't heard of him but it looks like fun.

Have pulled many of the same stupid stunts.

Such as?

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:15 pm

Deb Prothero wrote:
goathead wrote:That is why I love Patrick McManus.
I haven't heard of him but it looks like fun.
Have pulled many of the same stupid stunts.

Such as?

READ HIS BOOKS....

Why would I want to spoil it for you?

Reading for the unadulterated pleasure of REALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD,
and the sore muscles that follow.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:20 pm

Ah, then you might enjoy Farley Mowat's The Boat Who Wouldn't Float or The Dog Who Wouldn't Be.

Hilarious stuff.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:24 pm

Could be,

, like lots of different reading material.
Just need to find some stuff to smuggle into work to make
the night go faster.

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:29 pm

I have been trying to read this book for nearly three years now! The first time I bought it, left it in the my car when the police impounded it and never saw the book or the car again. Second time, I bought it and someone, I have no idea who, stole it when I was only a couple chapters in. Checked it out from the library and forgot it at a friends house who months later returned it for me. The last time I tried to read it I borrowed it from a friend and after an argument he took it back like we were kids or something, and loaned it to someone else who claims they lost it. The other night I downloaded it but no way can I finish a book of that size on a computer screen.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:41 pm

This looks like fun.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:50 pm

LMAO

Yes it does.

Wonder if I could slip some in my daily reports?

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:54 pm

I like Michener as well, but I got a bit tired of his introductory chapters about pre-history and how the universe was formed. Centennial is one of my favorites.

Anything Larry McMurtry has written is recomended. I recently enjoyed his series called the Barrybender Narratives

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:42 pm

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:54 am

oneeyeddick wrote:

Not as good as If Chins Could Kill (B. Campbell is my boyfriend, you see.)

I'm reading Savage Beauty, a bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and prior to that I believe it was Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, and a Carl Hiaasen I hadn't read.

If any of you haven't read everything Christopher Moore has written, DO IT NOW! Except Fluke. If you can listen to that one, the narrator is abjectly hilarious.

At work I have an issue of Time, "Conflicting Images of Man," and some old Mental Floss'.