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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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There Was A River (Essays on the Southwest) Bruce Berger (Someone mentioned it on the forum but I don't see it on this thread) A good read!
The Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan
The HelpKathryn Stockett
Behind Sad Eyes Marc Shpiro
The Last Season Eric Blehm
The Rising Sun John Tolland
Hop On Pop Dr. Seuss
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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I have just finished Into the Silence, by Wade Davis.
The book is long and sometimes ponderous, however I found descriptions of the climbers and the time which they lived to be revealing. His treatment of George Mallory is not always sympathetic, but if it's true it explains much of the reasons behind the 1924 disaster.
You may want to skip some of the book,as they spend much of the time describing world war 1, the last chapters give a very detailed account of the 1924 expedition.
You come away from this book feeling that you know as much as anyone could about what may have caused the deaths of Irvine and Mallory.
The book concludes with the finding of George Mallory's body.
While it is a long sometimes slow book, I would recommend it to anyone who is a serious fan of Mount Everest climbing history.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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The dry grass of august.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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I love those Follett's Lolli. Reading Fall of Giants right now and loving it too. Do you ever read Henning Mankell, the Swedish author of the Kurt Wallander series? They are my favorite crime/mysteries, set in Ystad.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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I have a confession, I just finished re-reading C.S Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series. I first read them as a child and loved them.
Now, as an adult I find them to be engaging stories. However, as the series progresses there seems to be an ever growing sense of Christianity, which never registered on me as a kid.
Lots'a god in those books.
As a recommendation I'll offer up Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. It's a history of water use in the western states.
Edit; I read Pillars of the Earth in my teens. That type of story is my favorite when compared to Folletts spy novels.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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I've read all the Wallander's Lolli, are there other Mankell's you'd recommend?
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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I'm just getting into:
Fatal Crossroad: The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge
by Danny S. Parker
(Da Capo Press: Cambridge, MA, 2012)
Finally solves the long-standing mystery of the murder of nearly a 100 American POWs by the Waffen SS at a crossroads outside Malmedy in Belgium on the German border.
The rot begins at the top! Yes, indeed, there were secret orders instructing the SS to terrorize civilians and murder POWs during their advance into Belgium in December 1944. Of course, those orders have not survived, but there are German vets who saw them. So, despite the fact that no one was ever convicted of the massacre during a trial after the war in 1947, a war crime did take place that was condoned by the highest level of the Nazi regime. Parker even has maps showing where the individual tanks and SPWs were parked and who the drivers and occupants were. Extensive interviews with Waffen SS vets too. A real historical landmark.
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Gary
climber
That Long Black Cloud Is Coming Down
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The Last stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Excellent stuff. The story of the pilot who emptied his .38 at the Yamato was too cool for words.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Home Sweet Home, Tucson AZ
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Leggs, Isn't R. Chandler amazing? Femme fatale, hardboiled detective, LA at night. Sully, YES! I can't get enough... Chandler takes his readers right to the era in which he writes about.... Makes me want to meet my own P. Marlowe. ;)
Peace, Leggs
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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"Sarah's Key". Very moving. I enjoy fiction that combine contemporary events with historical events.
Any recommendations gladly received.
Susan
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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"Passing Strange"...A biography of the multi-faceted climber, author and east coast enigma Clarence King
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Niels
climber
Denmark, formerly Sacramento
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I'm reading Thin Ice by Mark Bowen. The story centers on Lonnie Thompson, a scientist who takes ice core samples from high-altitude peaks in the tropics (e.g., Peru) to study the history of climate change. He was profiled in one of the climbing mags a while back. The author is a climber and physicist and does a great job of explaining the science. If you are interested in mountaineering, climate change, and science in general, it's a great read.
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tornado
climber
lawrence kansas
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"Shadow Country" Peter Matthiessen
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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We Were Soldiers once... And young
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Weatherford)
The Red Pony (Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
Beginning PHP 5.3 (Doyle)
I like to juggle a few in parallel... one for the torlet, one for the bedside, one for the couch, one for when I'm not in the moods for the others.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I recently read Into the Silence. It's very detailed, but I don't know that it adds an awful lot to the historiograpy of Mallory, Irvine and Everest. Still, well worth a read.
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