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... next set:
Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy Isaac Bashevis Singer
1984 George Orwell - an early influence
The Prize Daniel Yergin - a history of oil
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Intuitively I would put this at or near the top, ... VG - I see you have a copy of the The Prize and Annals of the Former World - two of my favorite geology related books. I highly recommend both, although McPhee avoids oil (and politics) - at least he does in Annals. I had never heard of The Queen of the Oil Club - Wanda Jablonski sounds ... Well, if you want a story about how we got to where we're at, try The Prize Books mentioned in Coming Clean that I haven't heard of or looked into
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
Blood and Oil by Michael Klare
The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth Deffeyes
Winning the Oil Endgame by Amory Lovins
Freed ... ... Personal Odyssey by Tristan Jones
The Reckoning by David Halberstam
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rebuffat The Prize is very good, and timely. > 9
I second The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin. It's a book that everyone should make the time to read. I just started The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. No need to feel guilty about "crap" sci fi
after a long read of historyThe Prize : the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power or Ship of Ghosts : the Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors, even a long sci fi like Battlefield Earth : a Saga of ... ... by Franz Broswimmer (now out of print, but can be easily found on abebooks.com, etc)
Oil/Political Economy: The Prize by Daniel Yergin
Power: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
American Foreign Policy: Killing Hope: U.S. Military ... ... (which are separate from the regular fiction). One series that I found there was the O'Henry Prize Stories (for example, The O'Henry Prize 2007. In her book Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People who love books and for those who want to write them, Francine Prose raves about the ... ... got me reading Terry Pratchett
Annals of the Former World - sorry, a bit of a specialized interest for my geology side.
The Prize - sorry again, I work in the oil industry, and this is special.
Crime and Punishment - re-fired my reading, esp. of classics. Led to Checkhov among others
Sno ... ... then back to Texaco) and somewhat indirectly to Humble Oil (which leads to Exxon). If you interests go that way read the the Prize by Daniel Yergin, it won a Pulitzer and deserved it.
I would like to hear about more locally focused books on Texas oil. I've found The Last Boom on the ...
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