hmmmm, you really think of some interesting non-hunting threads.

The last harry potter book.
Catcher in the Rye
Of mice and Men
Tracker(sorry hunting book/but fiction)
Brians Return(more survival/hunting)

mine are also in no particular order. I used to read often, now I really only read when it is required by a class. I would much rather watch a movie, some would say that it is because I have a weak imagination, which is false, it is because I love the process involved with telling stories through film!

Great thread Patrick!

Here are some of mine:

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier

Chesapeake – James A Michener

The Killer Angels – Micheal Sharra

Some I am struggling with:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig

Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

I have often re-read Hemingway and Jack London’s short stories. Love them!

Duncan

Michael Pollen wrote a series of 3 books about what we eat. I know, sounds boring. But they were really good and opened my eyes to the industrial food complex and what it means to really enjoy eating and life. He even has a section on pig hunting in California.

Botany of Desire
Omnivores dilemma
In defense of food

I found them enjoyable and informative. Best nonfiction books I’ve read lately.

Great thread, Patrick-some of my non-hunting choices-
Gates of Fire- find out what “MOLON LABE” means.- Steven Pressfield.
C.S. Lewis- anything but especially his “Narnia” series
Vince Flynn”s novels about CIA counter-terrorist Mitch Rapp- sure hope he exists in these perilous times.
The $50 Knife Shop-Revised- Wayne Goddard- Anybody forged a BH yet?
The Bible of course- I like the ESV. Why do we shoot longbows?- because God didn’t put a recurve in the sky as a sign of His covenant, GTA! Much less an infernal portable-nautilus machine, Konrad. (Just kidding- shoot what you like and like what you shoot)
Ah, a longbow and a strong bow and let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, shaft to the ear and a foreign prince for a mark!
Just finished “Going Rogue” by Sarah Palin- must read- there is hope yet!

Bible
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
13 Moons- Charles Frazier
The Frontiersman- Allan W. Eckert
Little House in the Big Woods-Laura Ingalls Wilder

Now reading: That Dark and Bloody River- Allan W. Eckert & Buckskin & Bone – Gene Wensel

It is hard to figure my favorite five but here are five I like and recommend.

A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Tao Te Ching by Lau-tzu
Become the Arrow by Byron Ferguson
The Bible

“The Frontiersmen” by Alan Eckert

“Lewis Wetzel,The Life & times of a Frontier Hero” by C.B.Allman

“Sons of a Trackless Forest” by Mark Baker

“A Selection of Narratives of outrages committed by the Indians in their wars with the white people” (orig. printed in 1888 ) by Archibald Loudon

“Boone-A biography” by Robert Morgan

Aw heck! I have to add one more…a fun one.

The Jungle Book – Kipling

-Night Song in the Jungle-
Now Chil the Kite brings home the night
That Mang the Bat sets free –
The herds are shut in byre and hut,
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
Oh, hear the call! – Good hunting all
That keep the Jungle Law!

I, too have to add one more- you’re going to enjoy this!
From “the Archer’s Craft” by Adrian Eliot Hodgkin- page 24-

Halfway between peace and war comes private vengeance. Thus:
‘Supposing I were in yonder sloping wood opposite, and in my hand a bow of red yew ready bent, with a tough, tight string, and a straight round shaft with a well-rounded nock, having long slender feathers of a green silk fastening, and a sharp-edged steel head, heavy and thick, and an inch wide, of a green-blue temper, that would draw blood out of a weathercock. And with my foot to a hillock, and my back to an oak, and the wind to my back, and the sun towards my side; and the girl I love best, hard by, looking at me; and I conscious of her being there; I would shoot him such a shot, so strong and far-drawn, so low and sharp, that it would be no better there were between him and me a breastplate and a Milan hauberk, than a wisp of fern, a kiln rug, or a herring-net!’
That is from a fifteenth-century MS., the ‘Tale of Iolo Goch’, bard to Owen Glendower; and is quoted in Hansard’s “Book of Archery”, 1841. Is it not magnificent? Can you not see the archer, tense and drawn like his own bowstring, his fingers itching to loose that shaft that would draw blood out of a weathercock? What a passage! Only an archer could have written it.

Good thread, I don’t read a lot of books, but the last couple were:

People and Peaks of the Willmore Wilderness (written by a friend of mine), and
Mountain Trails by Jack Glenn

Both local history books about the area I live in.

my favorite was flags of our fathers about the iwo jima flag raisers

Here are five of my favorites, in no particular order:
The Genghis Series, Lords of the Bow(3 Books) by Conn Iggulden
Happiness Is A Choice by Barry Neil Kaufman
Bruce Lee Artist of Life by John Little
Wooden A Lifetime Of Observations and Reflections On And Off The Court by Coach John Wooden with Steve Jamison
The Bible, goes with me everywhere…

Here’s a good one:

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
The Shape of the Journey by Jim Harrison
The Fool’s Progress by Edward Abbey
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

and that’s five, but I have to add one more–the latest gem from Rick Bass: The Wild Marsh

Patrick,

I picked up Mere Christianity. It is a great book. It makes a lot of sense.

Tom

Here are some that have recently impacted me:
Moby Dick (Herman Melville) “Real strength never impairs beauty, but it often bestows it. And whenever something is truly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” -Ishmael
Paradise Lost (John Milton) “…by thee raised I ruin all my foes, death last and with his carcass glut the grave.” -The Son
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The Bible goes without saying for me.