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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 29, 2006 - 08:43pm PT
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Masters of the Chessboard by Richard Reti. Best chess book ever written.
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woodcraft
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Sep 30, 2006 - 02:26am PT
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Sherlock Holmes
Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment
Dictionary
I Ching
Advanced Rock Climbing
Jack London
Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Sep 30, 2006 - 03:12am PT
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Where to start? I'm a committed bookworm. Though a bit more oriented toward non-fiction.
Independent People (Halldor Laxness)
Finn Family Moomintroll (Tove Jansson)
Creation (Gore Vidal)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens (almost anything)
archy and mehitabel (Don Marquis)
The Great Explorers (Samuel Eliot Morison)
Everest: The West Ridge (Tom Hornbein)
The Rise of The West (W. H. McNeill)
The Discoverers (Daniel Boorstin)
Medieval Technology and Social Change (Lynn White)
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Smithsonian)
Guns, Germs & Steel (Jared Diamond)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
Europe: A History (Norman Davies)
Farthest North (Fridtjof Nansen)
Bill Tilman (anything)
Eric Shipton (almost anything)
I'm just getting started.. Not much fiction or climbing stuff there yet.
Most classic children's books are a delight to reread as an adult, and often you get a lot more out of them.
Anders
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Mark Rodell
Trad climber
Bangkok
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Sep 30, 2006 - 04:36am PT
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try Second Skin by John Hawkes
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matt morgan
Trad climber
carson city, nevada
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A People's History of the United States -- Howard Zinn
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kevsteele
climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Thoreau's Journals
Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
Far Tortuga (Peter Matthiessen)
Wind Sand Stars (Antone de Saint-Exupery)
Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
Gilgamesh (Mitchell version)
All short stories by TC Boyle
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creetur
climber
CA
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i must have read *my side of the mountain* four hundred times when i was a kid. and *bridge to terebitha* (sp?) which is so so sad.
then there was *desert solitaire*
and then there was *moby dick* somehow they all fit.
i also read *sons and lovers* (d.h. lawrence) in a camp bathroom by the emergency lights in the rain in the transvaal in south africa waiting for a break to go climbing on some game preserve. i highly recommend that whole experience.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Salt Lake
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Look Homeward, Angel--Thomas Wolfe
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Leroy
climber
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Jay Ponder fractals? Whats that? Can we do it again? Sounds like fun.
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Leroy
climber
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Jay Ponder fractals? Whats that? Can we do it again? Sounds like fun.
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Leroy
climber
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Im reading Narziss and Goldman .this time in Deutch.Its not how I remember it at all.I remember it as being really in fluencial.Now it seems like crap.Read it 30 years ago.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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How many times did you read Winnie the Pooh? Leroy?
Gary, yeah. After Cap'm Pisgums pervert Pirates, what else is there to say?
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Leroy
climber
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Oct 11, 2006 - 05:18am PT
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Winnie the Pooh,theres abook worth reading more than once.The Bible as a literary work leaves alot to desire.Better when Holleywood fleshes it out in a film.Sofia , Charlton,etc.For biblical references,Salome,by Oscar Wilde has the stuff.
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mack
Trad climber
vermont
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Oct 11, 2006 - 08:01am PT
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Handling Sin by Michael Malone
Funniest book I ever read.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Jan 21, 2008 - 04:02am PT
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Desert Solitaire
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Double D
climber
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Jan 21, 2008 - 01:23pm PT
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Wind, Sand and Stars..Saint-Exupery
The The Testament...John Grisham
Piercing the Darkness...Frank E. Peretti
The Perfect Storm...Sebastian Junger
The Hiding Place...Corrie Ten Boom
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith...Jon Krakauer
Seabiscuit: An American Legend...Laura Hillenbrand
Knowlege of the Holy... A.W. Tozer
The Bible!
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L
climber
A High Tide on a Low Coast
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Jan 21, 2008 - 01:37pm PT
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The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
Red by Terry Tempest Williams
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
and my favorite
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Jan 21, 2008 - 03:51pm PT
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Mark Twains travel trilogy:
Life on the River
Roughing it
The innocents Abroad
John Mcphees Geology series
One Mans Mountains Tom Patey
On the Road Kerouac
A History of Climbing in N. America Chris Jones
Frank O'Rourke Westerns
Tolkien
Illusions and JLSeagull
Gone With the Wind
Most of what Sigurd Olson wrote re: BWCAW
Great Gatsby
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sunshinedaydream
Big Wall climber
yosemite area
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Jan 22, 2008 - 11:42am PT
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Ishmael- Daniel Quinn
A Language Older Than Words- Derrick Jensen
Both must reads for life!
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