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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 2, 2007 - 01:26pm PT
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I haven't been in bookstores much for a while. What's new and worth reading these days? I need something to help a plane ride pass.
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M.Tea
Trad climber
Utah
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Shantaram
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Old and worth reading, pretty much anything by Philip K. Dick...
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mr Tea beat me to it.
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M.Tea
Trad climber
Utah
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Damn good read...eh Jaybro? have handed that book to 10 friends..10 out of ten said about the same thing:
"holy sh#t, what a story""
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Currently, I'm reading an older book, "Inklings", that is the storied biography of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and other 'scholars' from Oxford back in the day that used to get together and discuss their literature. They called their group the Inklings.
Great book.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2007 - 01:30pm PT
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Awesome. I looked at the synopsis (Shantaram) and excerpt and it reminded me of one of my favorites, "A Fine Balance." Then I scrolled down and amazon tells me that 'customers who bought this book also bought A Fine Balance.' :-)
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scuffy b
climber
The deck above the 5
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This is several to many years old already, but there's a chance
you haven't read it yet
A River Sutra
Gita Mehta
It's been worth a few repeats for me.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2007 - 01:36pm PT
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I just looked up the audiobook...It was $51 and 49 hours long! The hard copy must require its own suitcase w/ wheels! There's a waitlist for it at the library...which is probably good b/c it doesn't sound like something I could finish in 3 weeks.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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An amazing story, indeed. Currently my daughter has it. Guess I'll have to read A Fine Balance.
The quick overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoP5vvTU4oU
Bender style edit, you can never go wrong with Phillip K Dick, those books will always be current.
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M.Tea
Trad climber
Utah
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It's a beast...no doubt...but one that is tough to put down.
though based on some true events...it is a novel. Still amazing.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2007 - 01:42pm PT
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I you like harrowing stories about India of a few decades back, "The God of Small Things" is another must-read.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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okay, that one's on the list, too.
-One of my favorite parts of shant... was the gangster's home night philosphy meeting. -like the wildest bookclub you've never been to!
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ADK
climber
truckee
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Khaled Hosseini's 2nd novel is on the shelves, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Its apparently better liked than the 1st (Kite Runner)
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Wheatus
Social climber
CA
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"Kite Runner" and even better is "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini.
"Life of Pi" - you will either love it or hate it
"Snow" by Pamuk - Interesting look at modern Turkey from a Nobel Prize winner.
"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami - very original strange semi-science fiction
"The Natural" an interesting perspective on Clinton's presidency
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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"A Thousand Splendid Suns" would be a great plane ride book.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
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not india, but close. "running in the family" michael ondaatje... writes of his dutch-ceylonese family history after a journey through his home island, sri lanka.
"michael ondaatje is here at his agile and evocative best... brightly colored, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and other-worldly, [this book] achieves the status of legend." - margaret atwood
he wrote "the english patient", so his name might already be familiar.
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euro-brief-guy
climber
mountain view, ca
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Russ,
Nice....
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SM
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