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! [img]/wtimages/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/wtimages/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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


Ben Loyall

[MDE3]

Dan Brown...."The Da Vince Code" and a couple of his earlier works..."Digital Fortress", and "Deception Point"...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. [img]/wtimages/icons/wink.gif[/img] 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 "Big Sky" 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 "town" -- I think the building included the post office, the town restaurant, and somebody's home! Anyway, two little boys were watching "Scooby Doo" and a land shark cruised past a window behind Scooby and his buddies.

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

I haven't seen the movie of "Milagro," no.

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

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? [img]/wtimages/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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.