Seeking out the best books

[_SteelHead]

I am going to have to start reading some true teatises one of these days and become something more than a literary light weight, but for now my two favorite books are:
A River Runs Through It & The River Why.

As both mix religion, philosophy, and fly fishing.

What is on your suggested reading list?

[_LDSToronto]

I am going to have to start reading some true teatises one of these days and become something more than a literary light weight, but for now my two favorite books are:
A River Runs Through It & The River Why.

As both mix religion, philosophy, and fly fishing.

What is on your suggested reading list?

Any topic/genre? Or do you have something specific in mind?

H.

PS. Don't be too hard on yourself. There are more uber-brilliant and well-read people who hang out here than in most places (and, for all of that, incredibly humble and willing to share) so don't think this place is the norm.

H.

[_Hoops]

I have pmed several of you on books you would recommend - in various disciplines and genres. With not much response - actually, no response at all.

So, maybe this more public forum will spur some offerings. I am very, very interested in what all of you read - I'm looking at you Blixa, Harmony, Liz, and Jersey Girl - and I'm looking at stax, DrW, Chap(s) LSDcanuck - and Runtu, and lots and lots of others.

Perhaps its my new kindle giddiness - but I am at least pretending really well right now.


Edited to add: unless its romance novels, have no interest in those. So save your typing stax.

[_Hoops]

I'll start

http://www.amazon.com/Answers-Book-Kids ... 803&sr=1-1

[_LDSToronto]

Well, here are some books I've enjoyed over the years.

These two books are my favourite:
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
The Outsider (alt. The Stranger), Camus

Fantasy fiction:
A Song of Ice and Fire (5 books, 2 more on the way), Martin

General fiction:
The Bishops Man, MacIntyre

Philosophy:
Fear and Tremling, Kierkegaard

LDS:
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Newell & Tippets

Lots, lots more, but we'll start there and let you ask more questions.

H.

[_SteelHead]

I read a couple of hundred pages a night 3-4 days a week.

Toronto I have read about 1/2 of your list. I am going to look at a couple of your suggestions.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Edited to add: unless its romance novels, have no interest in those. So save your typing stax.

Steel,
Any subject? Or just stuff relating to Mormonism? I can talk forever about Philosophy books and books dealing with Theology, if that is what your looking for. The Twilight Fan Fiction is a category that Hoops dominates, so I'll leve that to him.

[_Fence Sitter]

If you are interested in the Nauvoo period here are a couple.

Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi, Robert Bruce Flanders.
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited : Nauvoo In Mormon History, Edited by Roger D Launius and John E. Hallwas

[_Quasimodo]

I am going to have to start reading some true teatises one of these days and become something more than a literary light weight, but for now my two favorite books are:
A River Runs Through It & The River Why.

As both mix religion, philosophy, and fly fishing.

What is on your suggested reading list?

One of my favorites is "The Great Thoughts" George Seldes. Short paragraphs from all the Philosophers and important people. It's a fun book because you get the essence of everyone's point of view, but you can pick it up and put it down. Makes a good "bathroom" book :).

http://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Revised-Updated-George-Seldes/dp/0345404289

Of course, if you fly fish, you are already well along the path to enlightenment. No book will bring you closer to God than a day on a trout stream (steel head?).

Especially if it's catch and release.

[_SteelHead]

Of course, if you fly fish, you are already well along the path to enlightenment. No book will bring you closer to God than a day on a trout stream (steel head?).

Especially if it's catch and release.

Amen to that, but since relocating off of the banks of the SF of the Snake last year to central Texas, the trout streams are few and far between. Hence I am looking for a placebo for fishing in the form of books.

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories