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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 7, 2007 - 02:54am PT
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"We Die Alone" (David Howarth)
"The Home of the Blizzard" (Douglas Mawson)
"You Owe Yourself a Drunk" (James P. Spradley)
"Chickenhawk" (Robert Mason)
"Dispatches" (Michael Herr)
"Leadership and the New Science" (Margaret J. Wheatley)
"Dracula" (Radu Florescu & Raymond T.McNally)
"Games Climbers Play" (Edited by Ken Wilson)
"Bad Movies We Love" (Edward Margulies-Stephen Rebello)
"Why Rock Climbing Sucks" (A. Toor. . .to be released fall 2019)
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spud
climber
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James Michener--anything
Great American Short Stories
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Just finished "A Soldier of the Great War", a great book. Thanks for the tip, Dingus.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Shantaram -Gregory David Roberts
Soldier of a great war was good too
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Justine, a tale of virtue and vice
DeSade
So depraved that you couldn't even spank to it, well I did but most couldn't.
Prod
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couchmaster
climber
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"The Rising Sun" Tolman
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follet
"War and Rememberance" and that whole series by Herman Wouk
Any and all 5 of the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov
The Dune series by Frank herbert.
Any Dirk Pitt novels:-)
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dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
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Another vote for "A Soldier of the Great War" - Mark Helprin I think? Read it in the hospital 12 years ago (appendectomy), but I still remember it pretty well.
"Three Cups of Tea" - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - not out in softcover yet (I don't think), but a great story about an ex-mountaineer now dedicated to building schools and other public facilities in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A good way to think about that part of the world without getting scared or angry.
"Assembling California" - John McPhee - the geology and a lot of the recent history of CA from the Bay to Reno, explained by the finest wordsmith I have had the pleasure to read.
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TopRopeGun
Trad climber
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Yo Jaybro! Shantaram FUGGIN RULED! What a story!
"No true Glory"-the true story of the battle for Fallujah
"With the old Breed" JB Sledge (marines at Tarawa)
"Not a good day to die" Sean Naylor(chaos and confusion in the mts Afghanistan)
"Guns Germs and Steel"
"Ishmael"
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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...that whole series by Herman Wouk
The Caine Mutiny is a great read. They did a nice job on the movie, too. One of the great all-time movie scenes is when Fred MacMurray rips the mutineers a new one as they're celebrating their victory at the court-martial. You've spent the whole movie rooting for these guys, then MacMurray's character flips it all around.
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Mr.T
Big Wall climber
topanga
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"Blood Meridian" - Cormac McArthy
Very Intense and Profound
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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Anything by William Gibson is a must.
for fun "Shadow Divers" is a good read
(read it before Hollywood comes out with the film version)
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tmc
Trad climber
slc, ut
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Shantaram for sure!
Also just started "Charley Wilson's War"
Said to be on par with Shantaram for a wild story. So far so good...
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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For SciFi readers, try C. J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun. It's almost as good as Dune.
I don't read books about current situations, it just pisses me off. I read for escape and relaxation and SciFi or Climbing books fit that bill.
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Darnell
Big Wall climber
Chicago
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The USPA Skydivers information manual
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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"Sleighing Dragons" by Fergus Fleming
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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almost anything by tom robbins is a good read imho...
sci fi - second the gibson (most def...), neal stephenson's snowcrash or the diamond age, vernor vinge's a deepness in the sky was pretty good too, larry niven's ringworld, tales of known space, etc...
travel books are always fun too...
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Frog Man Junior
Social climber
CA
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Gorilla Monsoon – John Long.
Weave world- Clive Barker
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea- Gary Kinder
Ghost Soldiers -Hampton Sides
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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froggy,
Ship o gold is incredible. loved that!
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Frog Man Junior
Social climber
CA
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Yeah, that's one of my all time fave's fer sure.
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