Goldberg, Writing down the bones
Bettger, How I raised myself from failure to success in selling
Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
Rogers, Fighting to win
Caples, Making Ads Pay
Brande, Wake up and Live
Polya, How to solve it
Pirsig, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations
Carnegie, How to stop worrying and start living
Tolle, The power of now
Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love
Timothy Gallwey, Inner game of tennis
Charlie Wilson’s War - George Crile
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Bob!
A Very Happy and Successful New Year 
Ive just noticed: Youve got the same gap in your smile, as I have in mine
Take care
Vic
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription; William F. Buckley JR.
http://www.amazon.com/Cancel-Your-Own-Goddam-Subscription/dp/0465002420
Just finished it last night.
Great book.
By the way, perhaps if you read it, you might be able to explain to me what Immanentize the eschaton means.
Best,
Howard
The Empty Space by Peter Brook is incredible if that’s your thing.
Fnord!
(You need to read The Illuminatus Trilogy)
Howard,
No, don’t just tell him! Where’s the fun in that? 
Buckley meant it in the sense of “Don’t wish for Heaven on Earth,” a refutation to liberal thinking.
And then he got Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.
ahhh…
Live and learn!
Thanks all.
For quality of writing, Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain is a delight - just enough humour, just enough author’s voice, just enough interpretation of the facts…
For density and diversity of material around a given topic (asymmetry, in this case) I’d go for Right Hand, Left Hand by Chris McManus (or maybe it was Left Hand, Right Hand - too busy reading the book to remember the title 
).
I’m so regularly disappointed by fiction I find non fiction a great comfort to return to in between disappointments…
That is sadly so for me as well. The more I write my own fiction, the fussier I have become.
But, being an information junkie, I am glad to read good non-fiction.
Anything by Jack Olsen, true crime.
Jared Diamond writes anthropological studies. Guns, Germs, and Steel has delighted everyone I have lent it to.
Barbara Ehreinreich goes undercover to investigate economic realities. Nickel and Dimed is now a classic.
I was blown away by Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant. It’s a lyrically written, highly insightful book about the American working class.
Barbara Ehreinreich goes undercover to investigate economic realities. Nickel and Dimed is now a classic.
This is correct. A GREAT book! so is her newer one, Bait and switched. Brilliants Stuff.
H
Hi Vic-k, Sorry didn’t notice this until now. I wish you also a successful year 
. Love to read what you write, because you almost always write from an unsuspected angle 
All the Best
Bob
Coming from The Master, those words will be cherished. Thank you
Take care
Vic
Mountains beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder. A brilliant story about on of the world’s one-offs.
At the risk of being partial I’ll mention
“If You Want To Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit”
by Brenda Ueland
Brenda Ueland quote
