[monkey5]

And~~ Here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brai...=9780446673730 ~~ If you do not use or want Nook book..buy it from the used book store from Barnes And Noble! Easy as pie! Enjoy! monkey5

[monkey5]

Jahnice, Thank you for starting this thread! Great idea for a thread! I hope you read and enjoy the selections I posted up! monkey5

[kaochiu]

Originally Posted by Jahnice

What exactly was the punch about? A steak or something?
Sounds like 'coke rage' to me. Stars...

Pearls and hash looks like an interesting biography but I can't read the authors name.

You reminded me of the Mr. Nice bio
Loved it and loved the film too...
But the book I want to read is from 'MRS. Nice'
I bet she has lots of good stories. Lol

Nope, much simpler. After a morning of work, good old Jeremy went on to have lunch, only to find out it wasn't a hot lunch, just cold sandwiches. Cold sandwiches! So he punched the guy, who wouldn't?
As for the book in the photo, sorry. The authors are two, Ida Treat and Henry de Monfreid. In this case Ida Treat organized with him a kind of bio, but all the stories from Abd El Hai/Henri de Monfreid were already written by himself, notably his "Hashish, a smuggler's tale". He's very popular in France, he also was made a character in Tintin comics and other authors found inspiration in his adventures.
Ida Treat works in this book just as Mrs Nice, now you say. What you are proposing is not just a novel, but a total new genre, or at least a solid collection. Sometimes you read about people and their wives appear just like part of the atrezzo, when often are the very reason why the book was written in the first place, even sometimes they are the ones doing the hard part of the writing job and their husbands taking the credit.
But i think being an author takes much more than just being a man or a woman...

[Jahnice]

thanks monkey5,
a diet change is essential as you get older and your metabolism changes.
all the bread, cheese, and french fries catch up to you.....

@kaochiu
nice, thanks for clearing that up.
i get bbc news on satalite but they only ever glossed over the true story.
sandwiches......how dare they serve only sandwiches!
how uncivilized!

i will look for the 'pearls' book.
it sounds like a good one.

@snook
emperor wears no clothes is one of the few 'pot genre' books i have never read.
i met Jack Herer once at a festival. i shook his hand and such.
he was rushed off to the hospital a few hours later.

RIP Jack Herer

[Snook]

why did you edit your original post, Jahnice?
Pics or it never happened>> HAHA!! just breakinem..

[DickAnubis]

I just finished "An Arsonist's Guide to Write's Homes in New England" by Brock Clarke.
This is a very funny and at the same time sad book that is for anyone who has felt that they are stumbling through life and want to know what the heck has happened?

I also recommend Owen King's (yes, son of Stephen) "Double Feature"
If you've ever been to art school, wanted to make a movie or have an absurdly overblown parent you'll identify with this story. But everyone can relate to the characters and King's expertise with seeing behind our social masks. A great First novel.

While in the King family, I also suggest "Horns" by Joe Hill. Just an amazing story.
I never saw the movie version and don't really want to. The characters as created by Hill are so vivid I would only be disappointed by tne actors of choice. Daniel Radcliff plays the lead in the movie and although I like his work, NO he is wrong for this part.
Read it, you'll see what I mean.

Great thread Jahnice! Without books I'd have rooms filled with oddly configured wooden structures.

DA

[MrBelvedere]

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

The Floating Opera - John Barth

Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade [Hardcover]
Peter Maguire (Author), Mike Ritter (Author)

All Donald Goines novels

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Bowden, Mark

Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.'s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Ferranti, Seth

All Seth Ferranti books

Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano
Tim Newark (Author)

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell (Author)

All of FinShaggys threads on RIU

[vostok]

I have too confess I've been struggling to find a great read ....just read Robin Cooks Toxin ...and er 2 others but find them BLAND tv type stories

will be subbing here ...lol

[DickAnubis]

For down and dirty crime fans I recommend "Stark" by Edward Bunker.
He was a real jailbird who turned actor/writer.
An enjoyable read.

[Genghis Kush]

Best Ganja smuggling books:

"Mr Nice" - Howard Marks
"Thai Stick: surfer, scammers, and the untold story
of the Marijuana trade" - Mike Ritter

books I thought where great:

'Sirens of Titan"
"Slaughter House Five"
"Galapagos" - Kurt Vonnegut'
'The Snow Leopard" - Peter Mathiessen
"Adrift - 76 days lost at sea" - Steve Callahan.
"A Pirate of Exquisite Mind, the life of William Dampier" - Preston
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" - Milan Kundera
"Siddhartha" - Herman Hesse
"Call of the Wild" - Jack London
"Deep Survival: who lives, who dies, and Why" - Laurence Gonzalez



books that have changed my life:

Bhagavat Ghita
Thus Spake Zarathustra" - Friedrich Nietchze
The Hero With a Thousand Faces." - Joseph Campbell
"Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" - Chogyam Trungpa
Tao Te Ching" Lao Tzu
"Sugar Blues" - William Duffy