OT: Summer Reading List (contribute)

Ok, our season is done and we are heading into that
all too short summer season. A perfect time for reading
a good book or two. Some of you may enjoy a light
thriller or mystery. I can't help there. But if you want
to tackle something more substantive (yet still a good
read) here's a couple of suggestions:

1.The Tangled Wing. Melvin Konner. This 400 plus
page book is nothing less than a brilliant and beautifully
written book on the leading findings in sociobiology/
evolutionary psychology. Without getting into it, let me
say that this growing field, in my opinion, will ultimately
redefine who we are as a species and may (in my hope)
lead to a new moral/ethical framework that will be based
on who we truly are, and thus help free us from the absurd
cultural directives we all suffer under. (Props to RMJ23
for turning me onto this.)

2. One River. Wade Davis. A journey into the South
American Rainforest in search of medicinal plants (many
of them psychoactive) and their secrets. Wade Davis
is an ethnobotanist who describes his adventures and
those of his mentor, Richard Schultes. A trip into a
world fast disappearing that is evocative and elegiac.

Others?

bryguy


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