Oppo Holiday Reading Suggestions

"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly) 11/24/2017 at 04:11 • Filed to: None

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It’s pretty simple. We can spend all our time reading workshop manuals, old magazine articles and blogs on the Internet. But it’s bad for us...it will make us stupid. It’s like looking at the nutrition information on a bottle of beer.

So let’s make a list of Oppo Appropriate Reading. May it help us row our respective boats to Enlightenment.

Here’s my contribution:

The story (or at least some of it!) behind the four films that concern themselves with the character of Max Rockatansky. Frankly it is bonkers and the opening chapter is just as mad as the opening sequence of the first Mad Max movie. Unsurprisingly, it concerns this very sequence...

It’s great fun. And contains many giggles.

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 11/24/2017 at 09:38

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Matt Nichelson > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 11/24/2017 at 10:12

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One of the best books I have read in quite a long time.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 11/24/2017 at 16:05

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http://www.librarypoint.org/yugo_vuic  

SpeedSix > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 11/24/2017 at 18:47

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It probably goes without saying that Lehto’ s books are quite well done.

DipodomysDeserti > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 11/26/2017 at 20:30

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For those that want to get really deep into human ecology and explore some of the evolutionary explanations for many of society’s ills:

One of my favorite scholars of all time, may he rest in peace.

Going along with the Mad Max vibe, here is one of the most violent, apocalyptic, and awesome fictional stories I have ever read. The story is told by a young man who falls in with a group of sociopathic marauders in the Antebellum American Southwest.

And a few of my favorites from my favorite author of all time. For those who are ready to start cutting fences in the most beautiful place on earth. A place I’m lucky enough to call home.

Desert Solitaire is a memoire about Cactus Ed’s summer in the Arches NP before it had really been developed. It documents how he fell in love with the desert he eventually called home. The Monkey Wrench Gang is a classic anarcho-environmentalist novel which tracks a ficticious? group of radicals as the wreak havoc on those seeking to exploit their beloved desert. The Journey Home is a collection of essays that mostly deal with environmental issues in the American Southwest.

I’m currently reading Phillip K. Dick’s, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, because I’m on a sci fi and Bladerunner kick.