Comments on: Burning Man Book Club… http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158 The global travels of Scott Sporleder Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:10:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Greg http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-1029 Greg Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:41:39 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-1029 Yes, Mikey re Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins! Also, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - all time favorite. Great idea, btw! Peace & love, Burners. Yes, Mikey re Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins!

Also, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving – all time favorite.

Great idea, btw!

Peace & love, Burners.

]]> By: Shana Lory http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-991 Shana Lory Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:43:56 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-991 "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Passl "Cruddy" by Lynda Barry "Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang" by Joyce Carol Oates “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” by Marisha Passl
“Cruddy” by Lynda Barry
“Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang” by Joyce Carol Oates

]]> By: Suze http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-974 Suze Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:33:14 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-974 Brilliant! "Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell "Authentic Happiness" by Martin Seligman "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens (fun to read!) "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker Brilliant!

“Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell
“Authentic Happiness” by Martin Seligman
“David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens (fun to read!)
“The Blank Slate” by Steven Pinker

]]> By: Fairy Godmother http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-973 Fairy Godmother Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:27:07 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-973 Excellent project! Any way you could provide a periodically updated "complete" list? My suggestions: Daniel Quinn's Beyond Civilization Robert Heinlein's Fear No Evil Excellent project! Any way you could provide a periodically updated “complete” list?
My suggestions:

Daniel Quinn’s Beyond Civilization
Robert Heinlein’s Fear No Evil

]]> By: Mikey http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-961 Mikey Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:53:55 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-961 You gotta have Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates By: Tom Robbins on the list!!!! You gotta have

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates By: Tom Robbins on the list!!!!

]]> By: Naked Bruce http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-959 Naked Bruce Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:17:33 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-959 Great collection ! I've probably read a quarter , and have wanted to read another half ,and now have even more to persue ! I would add ' Letters from the Earth " by Mark Twain . Great collection ! I’ve probably read a quarter , and have wanted to read another half ,and now have even more to persue ! I would add ‘ Letters from the Earth ” by Mark Twain .

]]> By: AnnieQ http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-956 AnnieQ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:28:24 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-956 Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver

]]> By: Dianna Rice http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-949 Dianna Rice Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:17:41 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-949 Thank you for this! A most amazing and wonderfully written book is "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Thank you for this! A most amazing and wonderfully written book is “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel.

]]> By: Gerflash http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-948 Gerflash Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:19:49 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-948 Very nice effort! Along some mostly untapped veins in your list, I offer: The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman; Man of Steel and Velvet by Aubrey Andelin; The Go-Getter by Peter B. Kyne; and Your Personality Tree by Florence Littauer. Very nice effort!
Along some mostly untapped veins in your list, I offer: The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman; Man of Steel and Velvet by Aubrey Andelin; The Go-Getter by Peter B. Kyne; and Your Personality Tree by Florence Littauer.

]]> By: Mish http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-941 Mish Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:06:15 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-941 this was a bloody brilliant idea!! thanks heaps! i'm always looking for recommendations for books. now i have a few years worth of reading to catch up on! cheers mate!! this was a bloody brilliant idea!! thanks heaps! i’m always looking for recommendations for books. now i have a few years worth of reading to catch up on! cheers mate!!

]]> By: Rick Hendel http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-935 Rick Hendel Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:36 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-935 Scott what a great undertaking... I wish I had thought of it. I am always asking folks I meet for book recommendations. I have come to Burning Man 4 years now and I am not at all surprised at the large number of books that are metaphysical... and the variety! ...pleasantly surprised that I have read many of them. I desperately wanted to see Daniel Pinchbeck last time we were together... after hearing him on NPR and tv and then realizing he wrote the forward to a coffee table book on BM... but I could not find the lecture place. If you want to expand the project or want help next year, I volunteer. Louise Hay is the Earth Mother. I have seen Terrance McKenna lecture ( he died) and he was truly amazing. People asked questions on shamanic drugs and he answered with specific information on differences between them from having done them with certain tribes! he was Harvard educated and I thought that odd at the time. I could go... but I do want to add to the list 'The Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela. They say he was South Africa's George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and ML King all rolled into one. It is an astounding story... Love Undetectable (Andrew Sullivan) has an amazing treatise on friendship that is not to be missed. Thank again for the list and your labor of love! Rick Hendel Scott
what a great undertaking… I wish I had thought of it. I am always asking folks I meet for book recommendations. I have come to Burning Man 4 years now and I am not at all surprised at the large number of books that are metaphysical… and the variety! …pleasantly surprised that I have read many of them. I desperately wanted to see Daniel Pinchbeck last time we were together… after hearing him on NPR and tv and then realizing he wrote the forward to a coffee table book on BM… but I could not find the lecture place.
If you want to expand the project or want help next year, I volunteer.

Louise Hay is the Earth Mother. I have seen Terrance McKenna lecture ( he died) and he was truly amazing. People asked questions on shamanic drugs and he answered with specific information on differences between them from having done them with certain tribes! he was Harvard educated and I thought that odd at the time. I could go… but I do want to add to the list ‘The Long Walk to Freedom’ by Nelson Mandela. They say he was South Africa’s George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and ML King all rolled into one. It is an astounding story… Love Undetectable (Andrew Sullivan) has an amazing treatise on friendship that is not to be missed. Thank again for the list and your labor of love! Rick Hendel

]]> By: johnnyjet http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-933 johnnyjet Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:28:21 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-933 for a number of years I ran the 451 Bookmobile at the Burn - and as I was volunteering with the DPW, BMorg always gave me good locations. my recommends are: the Jefferson Bible (he was Unitarian, if you take out the miracles it's a real short book) Deathbed Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ( there are lots of poems that describe BM) the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway the Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (particulary Youth and Heart of Darkness) all of the Ancinet Greek Plays everything by Shakespeare esp. Misummers night Dream for a number of years I ran the 451 Bookmobile at the Burn – and as I was volunteering with the DPW, BMorg always gave me good locations.
my recommends are:
the Jefferson Bible (he was Unitarian, if you take out the miracles it’s a real short book)
Deathbed Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ( there are lots of poems that describe BM)
the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
the Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (particulary Youth and Heart of Darkness)
all of the Ancinet Greek Plays
everything by Shakespeare esp. Misummers night Dream

]]> By: Eduardo Pérez http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-932 Eduardo Pérez Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:54:03 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-932 Wow,.- what a list. !! There is a book called--- Atlantean_Secrets-Sleeper_Awaken by Samuel Sagan very very good .. : No thought, Only Dragon. Wow,.- what a list. !!

There is a book called— Atlantean_Secrets-Sleeper_Awaken by Samuel Sagan

very very good .. :

No thought, Only Dragon.

]]> By: Mr. Bee http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-928 Mr. Bee Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:11:01 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-928 Too bad no one chose the one book that more than any other, REALLY exercises your mind, 'Ethics' by Aristotle. Read it sometime, it contains more truth than any of the books in the list. Too bad no one chose the one book that more than any other, REALLY exercises your mind, ‘Ethics’ by Aristotle. Read it sometime, it contains more truth than any of the books in the list.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-927 Anonymous Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:24:19 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-927 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

]]> By: Sage http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-925 Sage Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:01:14 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-925 Please add the following books: Bloodline of the Holy Grail by Laurence Garner The Magalene Legacy by Laurence Garner The Shadow of Solomon by Laurence Garner Realm of the Ring Lords by Laurence Garner Lost Secrects of the Sacred Ark by Laurence Garner Genesis of the Grail Kings by Laurence Garner Something in This Book is True by Bob Frissell Nothing in This Book is True, But It;s Exactly How Things Are by Bob Frissell The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life vol.1 and 2 by Drunvalo Melchizedek Wild Things They don't tell Us by Reg Presley HACKED High Tech Election Theft in America by DeLozier and Karp Evolve your BRAIN by Joe Dispenza, D. C. The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean by Doreal The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour Please add the following books:
Bloodline of the Holy Grail by Laurence Garner
The Magalene Legacy by Laurence Garner
The Shadow of Solomon by Laurence Garner
Realm of the Ring Lords by Laurence Garner
Lost Secrects of the Sacred Ark by Laurence Garner
Genesis of the Grail Kings by Laurence Garner
Something in This Book is True by Bob Frissell
Nothing in This Book is True, But It;s Exactly How Things Are by Bob Frissell
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life vol.1 and 2 by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Wild Things They don’t tell Us by Reg Presley
HACKED High Tech Election Theft in America by DeLozier and Karp
Evolve your BRAIN by Joe Dispenza, D. C.
The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean by Doreal
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour

]]> By: cELlery http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-924 cELlery Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:59:47 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-924 The Man Burns Tonight - This is a murder mystery by Donn Cortez is based loosely on BRC-2003. The time pressure is obvious; solve the mystery by Saturday night before all witnesses and suspects...go home. The Man Burns Tonight – This is a murder mystery by Donn Cortez is based loosely on BRC-2003. The time pressure is obvious; solve the mystery by Saturday night before all witnesses and suspects…go home.

]]> By: jodhi http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-923 jodhi Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:55:12 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-923 Such an awesome idea! ~ Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz can i have two ??? >>>> Never Trust a Rabibit Jeremey Dyson Rocks your socks is a collection of short stories. I already love you Such an awesome idea! ~ Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz can i have two
???
>>>> Never Trust a Rabibit Jeremey Dyson Rocks your socks is a collection of short stories.

I already love you

]]> By: Jenny Mundy-Castle http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-922 Jenny Mundy-Castle Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:00:33 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-922 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

]]> By: Santosh http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-921 Santosh Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:43:17 +0000 http://www.sporlederart.com/blog/?p=158#comment-921 One of our book titles, "Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations" 2nd edition features a write up on Burning Man and includes a short interview with Larry Harvey who makes an important case for BRC as a sacred site. See page 54: http://cccpublishing.com/sacred-places-north-america-108-destinations One of our book titles, “Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations” 2nd edition features a write up on Burning Man and includes a short interview with Larry Harvey who makes an important case for BRC as a sacred site.

See page 54:
http://cccpublishing.com/sacred-places-north-america-108-destinations

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