Top products from r/whattoreadwhen
We found 22 product mentions on r/whattoreadwhen. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
Sentiment score: 1
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2. Letters to a J.E.R.K.: The No-Bullsh*t Guide to Relationships and Living a Life Meant
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Number of reviews: 1
3. How to Make Sh*t Happen: Make more money, get in better shape, create epic relationships and control your life!
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Number of reviews: 1
4. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
6. The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
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Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
7. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
9. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
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The First 90 Days Updated and Expanded Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
11. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
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Number of reviews: 1
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12. Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
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Number of reviews: 1
Where the Sidewalk Ends Poems and Drawings
14. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
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16. Neuromancer
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18. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
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There is nothing like reading White Fang or Call of the Wild while in the Alaska backcountry. You start reading, and with no evidence of civilization suddenly it's 1890. Also read the short story, to build a fire.
Get a copy of a book or Robert Service poetry. You have to read the Cremation of Sam McGee at least once around a campfire (our most famous poem), it's even better if you cam manage to recite it from memory.
Here's a YouTube vid of Johnny Cache reciting it.
Here's one I read years ago where the sea breaks it's back it's the story of how captain Vitas Bearing and scientist George Stellar discovered Alaska. A truly harrowing tale.
this book is the memoirs or Dick Proenneke. He lived by himself in a cabin by a lake in remote Alaska for decades. The documentary based off of it (alone in the wilderness) is excellent but I haven't actually read the memoirs myself.
Since you're in the mountains read desperate passage this is an exceptionally well researched and written account of the Donner Party, it's chilling, I read while snow camping in the Chugach, powerful stuff.
Anther great thing to read in the wild, journals of famous adventurers. The Lewis and Clark diaries, for example.
A translation of the Poetic Edda (pretend your living in Viking times)
True Grit always an enjoyable slogging through untamed wilderness read.
Hatchet by Paulson, this book is aimed at a younger audience, but it's a good book for reading when out in the woods.
I'll second song of fire and ice, Alaska is the perfect place to read it and imagine themselves the king in the north, or wandering out beyond The Wall.
Also blood meridian is another good suggestion. Adventure in the wild lands with a big element of the unknown and sleeping under the stars. By that same token I'd recommend Dead Mans Walk by McMurtry, the fist prequel to Lonesome Dove, lots of slogging through the wilderness and mountains.
Those are all I can think of at the moment.
Also a note on into the wild, I've never read it but it a lot of people up here do not like it because it's caused a lot of people to come up and emulate the guy, some of them have died or almost died. So don't tell anything to the effect of that book being your inspiration for coming to alaska.
It's not fiction, but it changed my life.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Happiness-10th-Anniversary-Handbook/dp/1594488894/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Also, I hear they're making great advancements with micro-doses of psilocybin in regards to PTSD, you may want to look into it.
Good luck.
For sheer 'play in the virtual world' stuff, you MUST read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. You'll blaze through that, so follow it up with Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Good YA dystopic future stuff:
The Windup Girl
Station Eleven
Finally, get into Neuromancer, by William Gibson. It's a fantastic--some would say genre-defining--cyberpunk novel.
Then go devour everything Stephenson and Gibson put out there. That should get you through at least the first half of the summer. Happy reading!
To mix it up with some great poetry, I read Where the Side Walk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
Loved that book, i'm also into How To Make Sh*t Happen - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1984268945/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1984268945&linkCode=as2&tag=bitcoinmine03-21&linkId=56d2c25242488c82b2a094ef124e65d7
You could try Feeling Good, a self-help classic. First few chapters give you the most important tools you need to change your thoughts and behaviour.
https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Genocide-American-Revolution-Bleeding/dp/0300218125
The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron. A spiritual approach of being an artist.
Check out this book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NDV6SB3
Letters to a JERK
The War of Art