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Russ Walling
Social climber
THIS SPACE FOR RENT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 11, 2005 - 11:59pm PT
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last 3:
Positively Fifth Street, James McManus
Tesla, Man out of Time, Margaret Cheney
Useless Japanese Inventions, Kenji Kawakami
best 3:
Two Years Before the Mast, R.H. Dana
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
Ball Four, Jim Bouton
Best 3 Climbing:
Camp 4
Downward Bound
The Games Climbers Play
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James
Social climber
My Subconcious
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Oct 12, 2005 - 12:01am PT
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The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Symposium by Plato
The Oxford English Dictionary
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Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Gray's Anatomy-the classic collector's edition
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Games Climbers Play
Moments of Doubt by David Roberts
Advanced Rockcraft by Royal Robbins
Indian Creek Guidebook by David Bloom
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maculated
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Oct 12, 2005 - 12:32am PT
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Last 3:
Lighting Out, Duane
Roxana, DeFoe
Jude the Obscure, Hardy
best 3:
Story of B, Quinn
"On Nature", Emerson
East of Eden, Steinbeck
Best 3 Climbing:
Camp 4
Big Walls, SuperTopo
Looking for Mo, Duane (I know, I know, but I'm telling you, do some analysis on it and you'll find it more than worthy)
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James
Social climber
My Subconcious
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Oct 12, 2005 - 12:43am PT
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Maculated...
Last Saturday was James Dean's death and they showed East of Eden at the Castro in San Francisco. I've never been too much of a Steinbeck fan, although Runaway Bus was good, but James Dean sure knows how to make the ladies swoon. I'm aspiring to be such a player and mysoginist...I think I've all ready made significant headway.
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Jy
Trad climber
California
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:04am PT
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Last 3:
Wilderness & the American Mind, Roderick Nash
Guns Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond
Kite Runner, (I forget who wrote it already)
Best 3:
Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald
Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
Best 3 Climbing
The High Lonesome
Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs
Stone Crusade
-Jay
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:09am PT
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Last three:
Camp 4
The Devil Wears Prada ( no, really )
The Bounty -- Caroline Alexander
Best three:
Mother Night -- Kurt Vonnegut
Little Big Man -- Thomas Berger
Catch 22 -- Joseph Heller (THE classic of 20th century Am. Lit.)
Best three climbing:
The Endless Knot -- Kurt Diemberger
This Game of Ghosts -- Joe Simpson
And the best:
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage -- Hermann Buhl
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maculated
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:19am PT
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James, I'm going to have to rent the movie, but I bet they had to cut a good deal out of it to movie-fy it. It's one hell of a long book.
It's kind of odd that I like Steinbeck as much as I do - I think it has to do with living on the Central Coast and the book he wrote about travelling with his dog. Plus, my creative writing, everyone relates my style to him, so maybe we're just kindred.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:21am PT
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Steinbeck! That reminds me, I forgot all about "In Dubious Battle".
And Jack London. Damn. There's too much good stuff.
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maculated
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:23am PT
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Gary, truly there is. :)
And THIS is why I love SuperTopo! Your lists are awesome.
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Jy
Trad climber
California
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:25am PT
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Jack London is awesome... anyone ever read his socialist fiction thing... The Iron Heel?
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SoloBolo
Trad climber
groveland, ca
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:35am PT
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last 3:
camp 4
climbing free
a peoples history of the united states - howard zinn
best 3:
into the wild - krakauer
peoples history
outsiders
best 3 climbing:
camp4
eiger dreams
into thin air
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Oct 12, 2005 - 01:42am PT
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Last 3
Forward the Foundation Asimov
Prelude to Foudation " "
Pebble in the Sky " "
(I'm half way through a read the intertwined Empire, Robot and Foundation series, in order, project)
Best 3 (this one is harder)
Crime and Punishment Dostoeyevsky
[tempted to go with a theme and pick Notes from the underground & The Idiot but instead];
Monkey's Journey to the West
Jittterbug Perfume T. Robbins
Best 3 Climbing
One Green Bottle (?)
Downward Bound Warren Harding
Vertical World of Yosemite Galen Rowell
Runners up;
Master of Rock P Ament
Rockjocks etc J Long
Climbing California's Mountains -haha
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Festus
Mountain climber
Antelope Valley
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Oct 12, 2005 - 02:33am PT
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Damn, I just finished Positively Fifth Street...and Ball Four is the best sports book ever written, but I have to put it in another thread. Other two most recent: Ministry of Fear--Graham Greene, Neither Here Nor There--Bill Bryson
Best 3? Vonnegut and Graham Greene would both have a book there, but don't make me pick. For the third? Cry the Beloved Country--Alan Paton. But, damn, Mother Night is one of my favorite Vonneguts, and I remembered what a great book Little Big Man is when someone listed the movie in that thread, and I can't argue with Catch 22...and I think In Dubious Battle is Steinbeck's best book. Dammit, Gary, are you the guy who broke into my garage and stole beer and paperbacks? And is that your toe I found in the rat trap? EDIT: Sh*t, I forgot Huck Finn, Moby Dick, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Things Fall Apart, 100 Years of Solitude, Donald Trump's fine body of work and...
Best climbing books, of the few I've read:
Vertical World of Yosemite
Into Thin Air (though I like Into the Wild even better)
Downward Bound
Haven't read any of Long's--what do you think is his best?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Oct 12, 2005 - 03:03am PT
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best 3 Graham Greene;
Ministry of Fear
The Power & the Glory
The Third Man
Which leads to
Best 3 Sommerset Maughm
The Razor's Edge
Of Human Bondage
The Summing up?
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Festus
Mountain climber
Antelope Valley
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Oct 12, 2005 - 03:18am PT
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Jaybro, can't argue with those but what about The Heart of the Matter, The Comedians, Monsignor Quixote...
Aw, screw it! Who the hell started this anyway? Well, I'm out, goddammit. Give me a a Danielle Steel, a chilled glass of Chardonnay and leave me the hell alone!
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Shack
Big Wall climber
So. Cal.
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Oct 12, 2005 - 03:37am PT
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Would you settle for the last 3 I remember reading?
One Shot, One Kill - Charles Sasser & Craig Roberts
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
Something or other? - Ed Rosenthal
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Oct 12, 2005 - 04:38am PT
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Festus, good point. I especially forgot about Heart of the mater. As you eluded to in a related thread, the numbers are pointless, a motivator to think about what moves us, I guess. As impulses strain to bridge synapses I can feel my own choices change as we ... well, whatever it is we do here.
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Burns
Trad climber
Arlington, VA
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Oct 12, 2005 - 07:37am PT
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Last 3:
Kite Runner -
Life of Pi -
Another Roadside attraction - Tom Robbins
Best 3:
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
1984 - George Orwell(?)
Lord of the Rings (the whole flippin thing) - JRR Tolkien
Climbing 3:
Mountains of my Life- Walter Bonatti
Climbing Free - Lynn Hill
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
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imnotclever
climber
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Oct 12, 2005 - 08:25am PT
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Last 3 - I can't remember them in order, so I'll just do currently reading:
Eiger Dreams- Krakauer
Profiles in Courage - JFK
two different history books
Best 3:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Touching the Void - Simpson
War and Peace - Tolstoy
3 Climbing:
Touching the Void - Simpson
Into Thin Air - Krakauer
Any Long book (I'm sucking up here. :))
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andy@climbingmoab
Big Wall climber
Salt Lake City
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Oct 12, 2005 - 09:37am PT
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Last three:
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
System of the World - Neil Stephenson
Absolute Friends - John Le Carre
Best three:
Papillon - Henri Charriere (much better than the also very good movie)
Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Climbing books:
Camp 4
Downward Bound
Any John Long book, so i'll just say Gorilla Monsoon
Desert Solitaire gets the climbing book/favorite book hybrid award. There isn't really any climbing in it, but it is still required reading for any desert climber.
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