Books

[RichardGraham]

Hey Folks,

Anyone reading any good books lately?

I'm reading "The Big Sky Reader, A Treasury of the Best Writing from the Big Sky Journal," an anthology of writings from a Montana magazine called "Big Sky Journal." I got it when I was working at Sports Afield magazine a while back. The writing is excellent, but is it ever depressing. So far, it's all about lost loves, lost self-respect, loss of pristine wilderness environments, and so on.

Time to get to a stinky indoor inline hockey rink and forget about the big world outside! /wtimages/icons/shocked.gif /wtimages/icons/wink.gif

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[WMBG_GM]

I'm working on two: "The Milagro Beanfield War" which I am enjoying. The second is "Real World Photshop CS" which is a drag, but I need to polish the skills <sigh>


Ben Loyall

[MDE3]

Dan Brown....&quot;The Da Vince Code&quot; and a couple of his earlier works...&quot;Digital Fortress&quot;, and &quot;Deception Point&quot;...if you are a fan of Clive Cussler....you will probably like Dan Brown....some interesting moral/ethical conflicts strewn among the adventures of larger than life hero's and heoines.

The Da Vinci Code just recently(maybe 2 weeks ago) was banned at least by the Papal Office if not by the Holy See Himself...probably raised sales another 30%......

[RichardGraham]

Hi Ben,

>I'm working on two: "The Milagro Beanfield War" which I am enjoying. The second is "Real World Photshop CS" which is a drag, but I need to polish the skills.<

I read and liked "The Milagro Beanfield War," but I try to stay away from manuals of any kind. lol

"The Big Sky Reader, A Treasury of the Best Writing from the Big Sky Journal," got a lot better as I continued along. It has a section on Montana's best saloons, which I'm sure a lot of IHC's readers can relate to. /wtimages/icons/wink.gif Still, we need to do more to protect our wildnerness environments, or we're going to lose them.

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[RichardGraham]

Hi Mike,

I read "The Da Vince Code" last summer. I found it a good read, but could also understand why religious leaders of all stripes would take issue with it...

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[CoachFoo]

Rich,
Ever read the book "The Big Sky"? Very good book. Read it years ago.
Did you see the movie about the beanfield war? The book was much better but the movie can be enjoyable.

Book I'm still working on is the instructions to my VCR. I never finished that one, now VCR's are out dated.

[RichardGraham]

Hi Rich,

Is &quot;Big Sky&quot; a novel about Montana?

When I was traveling through Montana in 1984 on a cross-continent trip across Canada and the U.S. with a college buddy, we stopped in a one-building &quot;town&quot; -- I think the building included the post office, the town restaurant, and somebody's home! Anyway, two little boys were watching &quot;Scooby Doo&quot; and a land shark cruised past a window behind Scooby and his buddies.

One of the two little kids said, &quot;I ALWAYS look out the window when I'M having an adventure.&quot; LOL. I thought that was classic.

I haven't seen the movie of &quot;Milagro,&quot; no.

VCR manual, huh? Got any 8-track tapes? /wtimages/icons/wink.gif

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[stietz00]

"The Miracle Of St. Anthony" by Adrian Wojnarowski

[Bliz]

I have 8 tracks of BTO, Deep Purple, 3 Dog Night..........
My little boy tried to stick one in the VCR.

I think Guthrey wrote The Big Sky, second book was the Way West. Then there was a third book. It was about mountain men, but it was done very well. Allot of history in those three books. If you like the history of the northwest.

[NLane]

Speaking of the West, anyone watching Deadwood?

[RichardGraham]

Hey Bliz,

Great post. I'm still a huge Deep Purple fan. Unfortunately, about 50 percent of my CDs were stolen about four years ago and I haven't been able to replace them yet. Oh well...

>My little boy tried to stick one in the VCR.<

That cracks me up. My nieces apparently ruined my brother-in-law's car CD player by putting coins in the slot. They said, "ALL the kids are doing it!" ha ha.

>I think Guthrey wrote The Big Sky, second book was the Way West. Then there was a third book. It was about mountain men, but it was done very well. Allot of history in those three books. If you like the history of the northwest.<

I'll have to check them out. They sound like books I'd like to read. Thanks for the heads up.

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[RichardGraham]

Hi Stietz00,

Is this the one about the inline hockey coach with the ragtag group of players that wins the NARCh Finals? /wtimages/icons/wink.gif

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[RichardGraham]

Hi Nancy,

I don't watch too much TV anymore. After spending most of the day staring at a computer screen, the last thing I want to do is stare at a television screen. I have heard that Deadwood's a pretty good show, though. It's about an inline hockey player who switches to composite sticks, isn't it?

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

[NLane]

Just an all in one so he can buy a new stick everytime! Or is it the xray results of one too many pucks to the head?

[stietz00]

Lol, no unfortunatley that one has yet to be written. The book is about St. Anthony a small Catholic high school in NJ and its coach, Bob Hurley (father of Bobby Hurley who played for Duke in the early 90's) who is widely considered to be one of the best high school basketball coaches ever.

A great read that I would definitley reccomend.

[WMBG_GM]

no, it is the sad sorry tale of the poor goalie with the broken cup....

;)

I'll shut up and go pedal now!

Ben Loyall

[NLane]

OUCH!!

[Seaspray]

Have any of you guys read "From behind the red line : an American hockey player in Russia" By Tod Hartje? I know it is hockey reading, but it is about ice hockey in Russia. An American player goes to Russia to play with a team there and he writes all about it. Very interesting read about how he adapts to the Russian culture, how and where they practice, how they live, etc. It really opened my eyes to how they train for hockey and how they live and eat, and How we take so many things for granted here in the USA.

If you have time, check it out!

[SWAMPDONKEYS29]

Although I enjoy reading online and various magazine articles, I'm usually not much of a book reader. However, this book certainly sounds both enjoyable and informational. I'm going to visit the local Barnes & Noble to look for this one. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Seaspray]

Let me know if you enjoyed it!

[RichardGraham]

Hi Folks,

For some reason, I've been doing a lot more reading lately. Any books my roommate has that seem interesting, I've been grabbing:

"Stealing Time," by Alec Klein is all about the AOL-Time Warner merger a few years back. Pretty interesting stuff. I remember still being at InLine Hockey News in Santa Monica and thinking that it might be nice to buy some AOL stock. Good thing I didn't buy a lot and hold on to it... what a mess. It's interesting stuff and I got through it in a couple of days.

"The Miracle of Language," by Richard Lederer, is apparently a collection of columns written about the English language. It's a neat book, written in 1991, which I thoroughly enjoyed, probably because I am a former English major and I love almost anything relating to words. Here's a little bit from one chapter. Notice the wordplay and puns:

--The colas of the world have been shaken up explosively by translation. When Pepsi-Cola tried to convert the slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi generation" into Chinese and German, the effort fizzled. In Chinese the message emerged as "Pepsi brings back your dead ancestors," in German as "Come out of the grave with Pepsi."

Also, "Coca-Cola" in Chinese means "bite the wax tadpole."

"Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World," by Bruce Schneier, is all about how we can best protect ourselves in this post-911 world. It is a fascinating book, and one I believe gives the straight story about the subject, without a lot of scare tactics, and with a lot of logic and examples from real-life episodes.

The book I'm currently reading, I almost gave up on early. It's a 1950 fictionalized biography of John Adams, the second president of the United States. I almost gave up because it started so slowly, because I didn't have much interest in Adams in the first place (bad American, Rich, bad American!), and because I'm leery of fictionalized biography in the first place. The fiction comes in where there are conversations between people that definitely would have met at the time, but where the words themselves are imagined, based on the historical realities of the time, place and people. So, as you're reading facts about a person, you're also getting a writer's imaginative rendition of conversations that MIGHT have come close to happening. All in all, a weird feeling for me, as a journalist. (Of course, LOTS of journalists lately are making things up; just do a Google search on "journalism fabrications" and see what comes up.)

Well, if I'm going to get back to sleep tonight (see my recent post on "Dreams"), I'd better get back to "John Adams and the American Revolution." /wtimages/icons/wink.gif

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central