Our apologies for taking so long with this. After the server crashed, it seemed like a good idea to do some work on other machines. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, anyway.
So without further ado, here it is, and we hope you guys find something on here worth hauling to the beach, or wherever. Enjoy!
Seven Types of Ambiguity 
crises from several different points of view. It's very long, but I
will have no trouble finishing it.
The Tortilla Curtain,
For fun summer reading try the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde,
Sports fans, go back to the source material and read Fever Pitch
Hornby, it's worth it. Also, in the sports fan memoir genre, True Believer
Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King is great fun. Although if you're a Red
Sox fan and you haven't read it already, what's wrong with you?
The Devil's Teeth
Good book about the Great White shark studies conducted on the Farallon
Islands near San Francisco
I have two recommendations:
If you feel overwhelmed with trying to do it all, David Allen's Getting Things Done
managing all the things we try to do--it's worth the money just to see how
he recommends organizing "to do" lists.
The Wave
read) tells the true story of a high school teacher in California (1969) who
tries an "experiment" on his students as they study Nazi Germany
and the Holocaust. From amazon:
"The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic
movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher
Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before
long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through
discipline, community, and action, " sweeps from the classroom through
the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie
Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The
Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late."
Daniel Quinn'sIshmael
is wrong with human civilization. I never stop recommending this book
as it's my all time favorite.(below is from the webpage - not my writing.
I particularly like review #1)
In 1989 Ted Turner created a fellowship to be awarded to a work of fiction
offering positive solutions to global problems. The winner, chosen from 2500
entries worldwide, was a work of startling clarity and depth: Daniel Quinn's
Ishmael, a Socratic journey that explores the most challenging problem
humankind has ever faced: How to save the world from ourselves.
Comments and Reviews of Ishmael
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"From now on I will divide the books I have read into two categories -- the ones I read before Ishmael and those read after."
-- Jim Britell, Whole Earth Review -
"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species
in the planet... laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few
would deny."
-- The New York Times Book Review -
"Wonderfully engaging... Think of Robert Pirsig in Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
- Los Angeles Times Book Review -
"Quinn entraps us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible
lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition... It was surely for
this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was awarded its
prize."
-- The Washington Post -
"... unusual, even eccentric enough to place Quinn on the cult literal
map... both Socrates and King Kong might be pleased."
-- Kirkus Reviews -
"...Suspenseful, inventive and socially urgent as any fiction or
nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year."
-- The Austin Chronicle -
"... fascinating... Quinn's smooth style and his intriguing proposals
should hold the attention of readers interested in daunting dilemmas that
beset our planet."
-- Publishers Weekly
What I'm reading - "Cataclysm
political history(as opposed to a military history) of WWI - perhaps a little
heavy, but, hey - interpose it with a couple of trash novels. This work
enhances an understanding of the background for current world problems &
the lessons we should have learned. Still stunningly relevant for today.
Best, Vic
Nashville
(Track '62)
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The Devil in the White City
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Saint Dale
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Freakonomics
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Dead of Night
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Peninsula of Lies
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Batfishing in the Rainforest
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The Kite Runner
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Double Play by Robert Parker
- The Historian
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Shadow Divers
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A Salty Piece of Land
Five Point Play
(who wouldn't wanna read that?)
Basically, just read anything by Coach K
Finally read "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay