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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : moonwatcher's books in 2008 | | 27 | moonwatcher, Thursday 8:04pm |  |
| 50 Book Challenge : Adobe's 100 books in 2008 | | 53 | ChocolateMuse, August 11 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Mistress 'rissa's challenge | | 27 | prophetandmistress, August 7 | |
| Books that made me think : Message Board | | 133 | Cwrens, July 5 | |
| Awful Lit. : 10 years of awful books my Bookclub has read | | 35 | Peripa, May 18 | |
| Books People Tend to Love or Hate : A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | | 8 | Sandydog1, May 5 | |
| Graduate Students : The most influential book you have read in your subject | | 25 | medievalmama, March 24 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008 | | 209 | Cariola, January 26 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Watershed Novels | | 49 | wisewoman, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : What did you buy today? May 2007 Edition | | 96 | Shrike58, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: philosophy in reading : books and thoughts | | 7 | tropics, April 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books | | 335 | Cariola, Saturday 12:58am |
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| Book talk : Bookmarks (the ones you . . . er . . . put in your Books) | | 151 | cal8769, April 6 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Stupid game to play | | 432 | siubhank, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: Reading the States : Reading about Utah | | 10 | runobodyii, March 2007 |
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... visit the bookstore and see if there is anything there that interests me. While out west this summer, I picked up the book Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. Several of the rangers working in the visitor center bookstore recommended it to me, but I have to say that I put the book down midway ... ... Children by Salman Rushdie
The family snapshots,
like God's own puzzle pieces,
fit and fall apart.
75. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
A world without men
would be lovely and wordless,
safe from metaphor. 23. Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
I read the Monkey Wrench Gang in college and enjoyed it, so I decided to read his nonfiction account of a summer working at Arches National Monument in Utah. Abbey is a little too radical for me in places (he seriously proposes banning cars from national ... Have you read Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire? A very different flavour of wild love for place and nature, full of passion. ... with Foreigner was the opening paragraph describing the emptiness of deep outer space. And I've been thinking about Desert Solitaire a lot recently, for whatever reason. So, I guess there is some kind of theme. Does that inspire any suggestions? ... father and the more methologically-oriented one of my sisters could not hack her. They both read Abbey (Desert Solitaire) without complaint and Abbey, who thought Dillard used the big G word too many times, conceeded that she filled Thoreau’s boots better than anyone else ... ... in a voice but cannot express it in words without using specific expressions often related to the big G word which Abbey found too frequent in Dillard even though he granted that she filled out thoreau's boots better than anyone else around. If you, like me also wrote in Japanese, you ... ... Farley Mowat because, quite frankly, that book turned me on to the idea of field research in the first place! and... Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, and Desert Notes River Notes by Bary Lopez... yes, I come to forestry from the environmental side of things. To me, the only ... "What about children?"
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Heh, heh, good game, Morph! Hugely excited - my Amazon books arrived today to add to this months purchases:
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Hayduke Lives also by Edward Abbey
Epitaph for a Desert Dreamer: the life and legacy of Edward Abbey by James Bishop
I first tried to get hold of Desert Solitaire a couple of ... Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire first introduced me to this curmudgeonly modern-day American philosopher who died in 1989. A bundle of contradictions, he has been variously described as an iconoclast, a loose cannon, a defender of nature, a wilderness anarchist, a mysogynist and a bigot. Confes ... ... that really struck me
Eye of the World - got me reading books
A River Runs Through it - my favorite book, maybe
Desert Solitaire - for the line "implacable indifference" in reference to the desert
Small Gods - got me reading Terry Pratchett
Annals of the Former World - sorry, a ... ... with The Monkey Wrench Gang in the mid 1970's and went on to the sequel, Hayduke Lives!. The past few years I've read Desert Solitaire, Down the River and Fire on the Mountain. He was a not-your-average pioneer in the environmentalist movement. He makes you think and laugh at the ... For non-fiction: Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. It's mainly about Arches Nationalpark. ... try to match the bookmark with the book in some way, like a picture of the Chinese New Year Monkey stamp from USPS for Monkey by Arthur Waley, or a postcard of the Mayan ruins for Fingerprints of the Gods, or a credit-card size REI ad for one of Sujata Massey's books in her Rei Shimura ...
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