{"id":595,"date":"2005-08-04T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/08\/04\/readin\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T22:42:30","slug":"readin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/08\/04\/readin\/","title":{"rendered":"Readin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping this journal for just over three years now.  Cra-zy.  What started as an attempt to avoid having to write lots of email while I was <a href=\"\/journal\/2002\/08\/07\/mt-st-helens-national-monument-washington\/\">traveling in Alaska<\/a> has now turned into just a general attempt at avoiding having to write email.<\/p>\n<p>In a completely unrelated note, a while back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/item.aspx?user=misaphotog&amp;tab=weblogs&amp;uid=294850257\">Lynn<\/a> decided to post some of her favorite and most recently read books online, in the hopes that other people would do the same, and the result was a pretty nice reading list.  Not sure if it will work here, but I&#8217;ll give it a shot.  To post your own recently-read\/favorites list, click on the comments link at the top of this entry, then click on the &#8220;Reply to this message&#8221; link to enter a comment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>The Five People You Meet in Heaven<\/u> by Mitch Albom.  Just finished this one, recommended by Nish.  A great story about a man who dies and his experiences upon arriving in heaven.  The author also wrote <u>Tuesdays With Morrie<\/u>, and while that wasn&#8217;t a bad book I didn&#8217;t enjoy it nearly as much.<\/li>\n<li><u>The Fountainhead<\/u> by Ayn Rand.  A great story about an architect who takes on the world.  Guaranteed to make you feel at least a little bit cocky, so keep reminding yourself of all the stupid things you&#8217;ve done in life while reading it.<\/li>\n<li><u>Atlas Shrugged<\/u> by Ayn Rand.  An even better story than <u>The Fountainhead<\/u>, with the exception of the hundred page rant by John Galt near the end.  Guaranteed to make you feel even cockier than <u>The Fountainhead<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li><u><strike>Into Thin Air<\/strike><\/u> <u>Into the Wild<\/u> (sorry, goofed up the title) by John Krakauer.  A great (true) story about a guy who says the hell with society and takes off to live life like some of us would like to do, but few of us have the nerve to do.<\/li>\n<li><u>Never Cry Wolf<\/u> by Farley Mowat.  Based on Mowat&#8217;s experience as a field biologist in Canada studying wolves, a hilarious take on beauracracy that also includes recipes for preparing cream-of-mouse.<\/li>\n<li><u>The Old Man and the Sea<\/u> by Ernest Hemingway.  The closest Hemingway ever got to writing a story that doesn&#8217;t depress the hell out of you, and one of my all time favorites.  For anyone who isn&#8217;t familiar with the book, it&#8217;s about this old man, and the sea.<\/li>\n<li><u>Contact<\/u> by Carl Sagan.  I just started this one, but thus far I&#8217;m liking it even more than the movie (which I enjoyed).  Also, Ellie is a hottie.<\/li>\n<li><u>Shogun<\/u> by James Clavell.  The Asia Saga (starting with <u>Shogun<\/u>, and spanning four hundred years of East-Asian history) is a great read.  Clavell writes stories filled with mystery, adventure, romance and intrigue, but adds enough historical context to remove that &#8220;kind of trashy&#8221; feeling you might get from similar books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s my contribution.  Anyone else want to <a href=\"\/journal\/2005\/08\/04\/readin\/#comments\">add to the list<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping this journal for just over three years now. Cra-zy. What started as an attempt to avoid having to write lots of email while I was traveling in Alaska has now turned into just a general attempt at avoiding having to write email. 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