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The Elements of Style- Strunk & White
The Purple Decade- Tom Wolfe
This week's issue of Player's Choice
This month's issue of Playboy Magazine
This week's issue of The New Yorker.
three, hot Budweisers
pint of Jim Beam
four Marlboro Lights
random corrected pages of a screed that I sent to an RH editor
$. 29 in pennies
Autographed picture of Jesus

Anarchist's Cookbook
For Whom the Bell Tolls-- Hemingway
The Rum Diary- HST
Rolling Stone
Barely Eighteen
The New Yorker
heroin needle (not mine)

Naked Lunch-- William S. Burroughs
Different Seasons- Stephen King
The Naked and the Dead- Norman Mailer
Lie Down in Darkness- William Styron
this month's issue of Playboy- various
this week's issue of The New Yorker-- various
printed copy of the postings on ALL THOSE THAT SHOULD BE KICKED IN THE NUTS!!!-- that I am sending to have autographed.
NRA Handbook
three strands of long, blond hair--various
Buck Knife
Fifth of Wild Turkey

As they gently led him back to the rubber room, Casillero-del-Diablo smiled. It had been a good day....no badgers....no cereal killers....clean underwear...and an evening with Nurse Ratchett to look forward to.

Memo to self: nail down water cooler and move silent Native American to ward next door.

I've got three books by my bed:

"Paris" by Julian Green - GREAT book on Paris, written by an American Expat who became a very successful French writer. The book is translated from French.

"The Art of Pilgrimage" by Phil Cousineau. I've read this book three times and counting. Simply put, this book helped inspire, define, and add meaning to my travels.

"The Map That Changed the World" by Simon Winchester. Haven't cracked the spine yet.

~Kahunna
www.kahunna.net

October 2002 issue of "Backpacker" Magazine (headline that caught my eye? "At Last! Beer For Backpackers!")

The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy. I've been getting into the whole LA crime novel genre. And Ellroy (of "LA Confidential" fame) is a master at prose.

5th Edition - March 2002 - "Ireland" Lonely Planet...preparing for trip in December/January (any actual help from real travellers and not corporate travel writers appreciated!)

and Brandon, nice to see that you picked up a copy of Burroughs (or perhaps dragged out your present copy for a thorough re-read...true journalistic junkie prose at its best!), I'm impressed...next up should be 'Junky' if, of course, you have not already read it.

Harry Potter -- JK Rowling
The Erotic Adventures of Candy -- ee cummings
Hell's Angels -- Hunter S. Thompson
Eaters of the Dead-- Michael Crichton
Tales From Margaritaville -- Jimmy Buffet
The Animal Rights Source Book-- Colombia Law School
This week's issue of The New Yorker-- various
Barely Legal-- various
Over Forty-- various
Punishing Sarah-- Johann Van Order
Last of the Mohicans-- James Fenimore Cooper
The Sun Also Rises-- Ernest Hemingway
This month's issue of Playboy Magazine-- various
Personal letter from Bob Guccione, Jr.
Anticipated reply
three small, sweet cigars
a condom
some girl's t-back
three long, blonde strands of hair-- various
Fifth of Wild Turkey
Four chilled Heineken
A lighter
Heroin needle (not mine)
Bong (also, not mine)
Four tabs of blotter acid (only one was mine)
Half an ounce of cocaine (it WAS ALL mine)
Papers with various Japanese tourist girls' phone numbers on them
LOVE-- in a bottle
ONE WHOLE GLASS OF TAAKA VODKA (untouched)
$.98 in pennies

Should I say welcome back BD?

Next to my alarm clock are the following;

Keep the aspidistra flying - George Orwell,
Ends and means - Aldous Huxley,
The Republic - Plato,
Pen and paper,
Tall glass of water & up above on the cieling(looks right now) is a large handwritten sign
reading "SORT YOUR LIFE OUT YOU LAZY BASTARD"

For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway
This months' issue of Atlantic Monthly-- various
This week's issue of The New Yorker-- various
This week's issue of Players' Choice-- various
The Fourth K-- Mario Puzo
Full Dress Gray-- Luscian Truscott IV
On the Road-- Jack Kerouac
This Side of Paradise -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bear-- William Faulkner
Proverbs of Hell-- William Blake
Democracy in America-- Alexis de Tocqueville
Letter cancelling my subscription to Playboy Magazine-- (I no longer need it.)
Letter cancelling my subscription to....well, never mind (same reason.)
Quart of Quaker State motor oil-- (don't ask)
Fifth of Jaegermeister (hot)
Four, ice cold, canned Guiness pints-- (no, I'm not a purist and they're not mine.)
Feature article that I wrote for the local alternative weekly.
Autographed copy of The Revelation of St. John The Divine.
Advil
$2000 in unmarked bills.

I just started 'Road to McCarthy' by Pete McCarthy ( McCarthy's Bar ). Maybe this guy is obsessed with his own name or it might be he had such success with the first book he wants to develop name recognition.

Anyway his new book is his account of world travels looking for places called McCarthy. I reality Pete's observations about other people are what makes him a strong writer. I can visualise some of the people he runs into and he uses metaphor very cleverly. In one chaptor he talks about how cell phones have become such a part of modern life that people sometimes have conversations in public places involving very persoanl details and expect bystanders not to overhear. He recounts a situation on a train where a married man talks to his teenage daughter about how his marriage is on the rocks. Pete said by the time this guy got off the train his whole personal life was laid before everyone like wreckage strewn from a train crash. I thought that was a great way to sum it up.

I'll let you konw how the rest of the book is later.

Nick

Just finished Bruce Northam's Globetrotter Dogma - amazing book. 104 simple "canons", one-liner statements to ponder, with experiential and factual explanations to follow. Gives you a lot to think about, and I'm going to have it on my next trip, right with my Tao Te Ching.

I'm reading "Tales of a Female Nomad" by Rita Golden Gelman. Very tempting to take off and visit Bali. The way she is able to live in and be a part of each community is inspiring!

"Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that,
the quicker we will be able to treat Life as Art."
Maya Angelou

My sweet Mum gave me the best present ever. River Dog: A journey down the river Brahamaputra. Mark Shand takes off to trace the journey of the river, across three countries, India, Tibet and India together with an Indian pi-dog Bhaiti (which means little brother). Bhaiti has cool deep brown hypnotic eyes. Cant wait to finish this book, it reminds me of my tiny adventures with my dog Poochie.
and Mark Shand is also my favourite author

I will break the monotony of all ye litrary rats!!!

I am reading "Thinking in Java" By Bruce Eckel. Boy, am I bored or what? There is nothing more fun than reading about the ins and outs of classes, modules and the like. Long live Java!!!....



NOT!!!

currently:
le flanuer
down and out in paris and london (orwell)
groucho
and some book by flaubert (i think its madame bavuert or something)

Travel books?--would rather read about travel @ home...when on the road I find inspiration in Coelho, Rumi, Gibran, Terry Pratchett, and my all time favorite: Watership Down by Richard Adams. Hey, if rabbits can do it, why not me? -have recently read all of the Carlos Castaneda books and am still recovering-do not take these on a journey if you want my $.02. My tip-top was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance while traveling to, and around Montana (in my bug tho-won't get on a motorcycle)

ummmmm, where am I? oh yeah, , hehe, here.
what time is it?? oh yeah, , hehe, Now.

right now - anything and everything Europe travel-related that I can get my hands on...

Have a couple of things on Paris to look over currently...

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.

It tries to tackle the quetion, as he puts it, of why some people got the metal tools while others were still toiling with the stone ones. Basically, why is our world the way it is, why have some cultures and races dominated while others have not. He takes a scientific and ecological look at it, and race rarely enters the picture. It's pretty cool, but pretty apparant that he thinks white people are the inferior race. good stuff

cs

"Flirting with Mermaids"
a travel log about a sailboat delivery skipper. Entertaining but not great...

H
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