Alan's Book List

• Mann of his Time Ed Youngblood
• The Vulture/The Nigger Factory Gil Scott-Heron
• Citizen Soldier Stephen Ambrose
• Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba Christopher Baker
• Goodbye, Darkness William Manchester
• Sport Riding Techniques Nick Ienatsch
• Life of Pi Yann Martel
• Suzuki GSX-R Mike Seate
• Pro Motocross and Off Road Motorcycle Racing Techniques Gary Semics
• South of Haunted Dreams Eddy L. Harris

10 most recent books I've added to my bookshelves (starting with the most recent):

• Motorcycle Handling & Chassis Design: The Art and Science Tony Foale
• Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba Christopher Baker
• Now and Then: Poems of Gil Scott-Heron Gil Scott-Heron
• The Vulture and The Nigger Factory Gil Scott-Heron
• Goodbye, Darkness William Manchester
• Sport Riding Techniques Nick Ienatsch
• Suzuki GSX-R Mike Seate
• Pro Motocross and Off Road Motorcycle Racing Techniques Gary Semics
• South of Haunted Dreams Eddy L. Harris

I should probably add a list of some of my favorite books here as well. In no particular order...

• Turtle Island Gary Snyder [My hero!]
• Walden Henry David Thoreau [Why I went to the woods...]
• Siddhartha Herman Hesse [Buddhism as it should be taught.]
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson [ Bad gonzo!]
• The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac [Poetry, spirituality and nature.]
• Tao Te Ching Jane English & Gia-Fu Feng [The poetic Tao, as it should be.]
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryu Suzuki [Zen taken out of the college course and brought back to the Zendo.]
• Labyrinths of Reason William Poundstone [Another view of how the human mind works.]
• The Mind's I Douglas R. Hofstadter & Daniel C. Dennett [Who is I?]
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig [A philosophy book of incredible depth.]
• Kim Rudyard Kipling [My childhood dreams!]
• Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Mark J. Plotkin, PhD [A captivating insight into a fascinating culture.]
• The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet Benjamin Hoff [A view of Taoism only bested by Lao Tzu.]
• The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley [What is there we don't see?]
• The Dunwich Horror and Others H.P. Lovecraft [Fantasy of a different sort.]
• The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell [A melding of religion, sociology, anthropology and philosophy.]

...and finally, I have an alphabetical listing of my bookshelves available.

If you want the publisher's info on any of these, just drop me some email.

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