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I'm trying to figure out how to implement Thoreau's ideas into my life without quitting my teaching job and building a cabin in the woods. I think I have a decent start since I don't waste money on material goods - buying only what's needed and making good use of hand-me-downs from relatives...

Sounds enlightening. Anyone interested in a research book specifically about the treatment of the Mi'kmaq, an eastern Canadian First Nations tribe, should try We Were Not the Savages. The man my home town was named after gave Mi'kmaw people small pox infected blankets as gifts. And, the...

Totally different from how I pictured them in my mind. I saw them as much weirder looking.

You have probably already seen the news about this guy. If not you can read about him on the link below. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/17/thai-warrant.html It's quite a big deal in Korea because it's the last country he was working in before he fled to Thailand last week. First I...

Totally. I can't believe how much of The Outsider and The Great Gatsby I missed when I read them in grade 11. I should read Sons and Lovers and Great Expectations soon.

Great for out-of-print books. Most sellers make their money on their shipping fee. I ordered about twenty total to overseas (I really needed them despite the $9.99 shipping) and only one didn't arrive. I got the A-Z refund. Satisfied.

I read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and American Pastoral, and both are great reads. I'd pass on The Alchemist if I were you. Seriously. For some reason the name Paulo Coelho got in my head as a literary writer - yeah right! The idea of the book is not bad, but requires just a few sentences to be...

I'm going to bump this thread because I was just talking about it in another thread. Anyway, I've been making wonderful progress with my nature reading. Most of my reads come from references made within books I've been reading to other good books.

If you are not scared of books for younger readers may I suggest Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George? Also, I started a thread a while ago about nature literature, and lots of people gave me suggestions that I enjoyed quite a...

Does this get the award for longest thread in Members' Introductions yet?

Farley Mowat's The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, although not actually fiction, is written in Mowat's near fictional quality, and it is really funny. I don't know how lightly funny it would be for a young reader, but I certainly found it a riot. It is definitely a children's book.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad never disappoints.

It's truly amazing how he pulls everything off. The brilliance is discouraging to any want-to-be writers. I know I couldn't do it like he does it.

Well, his work(s) seem to have gotten him recognized by the Nobel committee.

Okay, I finished A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and in my opinion it's quite dull. But, I'm re-reading Walden now, and re-loving it. Oh, Thoreau, you grumpy comedian: "As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be...

Or using a sword. My wife studied Korean sword fighting for six years and could lop off a head in about half-a-sec. I'd hate to clean up that home invasion, but I think swords are safer than guns. She bopped me on the shoulder with a wooden practice sword once when we were dating. We were in...

Maybe Running with Scissors, but reading it may be as painful as the possible result of doing the same.

I read The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp. Irving's scope and vision is astounding. Just the extent of his story-telling imagination makes his stories pleasant to settle into. Comparing him to Dickens is not inappropriate, and especially so since Dickens' work appears in The...

Can't beat Thoreau, that's for sure. I have to re-read Walden soon.

I'm going to consider both of those recommendations. Eragon has mixed reviews, but I think it might appeal to younger readers especially if they know a young person wrote it. Wizard of the Earthsea sounds like something I want to read, plus it's short. I'm also going to consider Redwall and The...