Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
|
|
Hedge Fund Market Wizards - Schwager
Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings - Forrer
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs
The stack waxes and wanes, but there is always a stack in progress.
|
|
Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
|
|
Hey Toad, have you read Tortilla Curtian by Boyle? Another one worth delving into.
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
|
|
The Bounty Trilogy - this is a reread and it's gonna take a while.
|
|
bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
|
|
I'm reading something old, high-brow
and in another language
that helps me feel superior.
|
|
Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
|
|
Hey Jennie, did you know Mister E's relative wrote Look Homeward A.? Pretty impressive, this ST bunch.
Yes, I remember Mister E posting of Thomas Wolfe being a kinsperson, Sully…and I agree 100% apropos our impressive ST bunch.
I’ve been a Thomas Wolfe aficionado since my teens, grasping every TW novel, anthology and biography I could lay my hands on. (…even reading history of the“Pennsyvania Dutch”.)
Look Homeward, Angel is his brightest gem. Wish I could write like that…
Raintree County by Ross Lockridge is in similar sub-genre and nearly as captivating. Although the war narration and foot racing chronicles become a mite tedious.
|
|
Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
|
|
The stack waxes and wanes, but there is always a stack in progress.
Ain't that the truth. And they aren't pancakes, either.
Has anyone read the new translation of Kristin Lavransdatter? Sort of historical chick-lit, but well written. Won the Nobel Prize. The author was some sort of distant cousin.
|
|
Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
|
|
The Chaperone
|
|
Zander
climber
|
|
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind by Colin Renfrew
Pillar Mountain by Max Brand
|
|
Captain...or Skully
climber
|
|
|
Jul 30, 2012 - 09:29pm PT
|
A Kindle is NOT a book.
Eff Kindles. How much Coal burned while you were reading?
Huh?
Real Books are amazing. Unplug. At least some of the goddam time, eh?
It'll do you good.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Jul 30, 2012 - 11:47pm PT
|
Yeah, but keep an un read book on your phone at all times!
Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
-in a fancy paperback edition. from a used bookstore. That my mom read first....
|
|
rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
|
|
|
Jul 30, 2012 - 11:49pm PT
|
Rowells Vertical World of Yosemite....Good bed time stories...Beaver appreciation thread..2 thumbs up...
|
|
Captain...or Skully
climber
|
|
|
Jul 30, 2012 - 11:55pm PT
|
I gotta phone(at) home. If I put a book on it, it gets hard to find.
Old school.
Books n shelves n sh#t. It lasts. Hard to take on the Bart, though.
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 01:27am PT
|
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren, erster Teil
Thomas Mann couldn't finish it, but I did.
|
|
ninjakait
Trad climber
a place where friction routes have velcro
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 03:01am PT
|
The Foundation Trilogy by Asimov. Quite possibly one of the finest works in science fiction.
|
|
ninjakait
Trad climber
a place where friction routes have velcro
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 03:44am PT
|
Thanks, will check out, he was an odd duck for sure.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
|
The foundation series is fascinating. Over the years I read the trilogy in order, then the additions as I came across them. Maybe a decade later I read them in order.then the the third party spinoffs and the various extra robot books. Once I tried to read them in order of publication.
Spoiler alert, procede (or don't) with caution if you haven't read Foundation's End.( I think that's the name of the last one....)
I found it fascinating how an avowed atheist made a universe that could be looked at with a religious perspective esp the later books with the Gaia stuff and referring to robots as eternals and even "angels."
Was this Asimov explaining how beliefs in religion might form to explain linear yet infinitely complex histories and events. I loved how he wrote in various peoe's ignorance ofthe past and how they made up traditions and myth to fill in the holes.
And through it all r Daneel has the most complete 'godlike' knowledge of the history and continuity of the human race while being aware that there are gaps in his own knowledge.
|
|
Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 01:31pm PT
|
Donald Thompson, the best Italian restaurant in Huntington Beach was started by a fellow named Lino who was on the Andrea Doria. He made a great pizza.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 01:34pm PT
|
Off topic and old news to Sully I'm sure... I find it sort of morbidly fascinating that Asimov died of Aids acquired from a blood transfusion, in the days before they checked for that. I imagine he was blindsided. Though he was in his eighties, he was still profic. I gotta wonder what else he might have had to say about the foundation/empire/robot universe..
|
|
nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 01:39pm PT
|
I was deep into fantasy and science fiction books in junior high and high school, then somehow drifted away from it. I would like to go back and re-read the Foundation series in order. I think I read 2 or 3 of them, never read any of the Robot ones. I never finished the later books in the Dune series either. I bet I would get more out of both series now than I did at the time. Or at least something different.
Right now I'm 48 pages into "The Enchantress of Florence," a work of fiction by Salman Rushdie. Interesting so far, more of a joy for the writing and side stories and descriptions and musings, rather than the main plot which has yet to be developed. I think the main plot will be about the collision of cultures between early-renaissance Europe and the Mughul empire at peak influence. The prose is a little dense, but not as challenging as Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose." I had to work to enjoy that book, this one is more relaxing but many notches above say Tom Clancy spy novels.
It is interesting for me because the names and places draw upon scattered bits of history I've accumulated through travels in Italy and India and other reading.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Jul 31, 2012 - 03:04pm PT
|
I generally like Rushdie a lot though I haven't read that one.
Last year Marty(r) and I drove from the BA to Inian creek and had the Satanic Verses on mp-3 it had been at least fifteen years since I read it, but I 'm convinced that it's a deeper experience to hear aloud, than read! Like poetry. The language is exquisite! There was so much nuance and humor, much more than I remember from the first time...
I never got farther than the first Dune either. it really would be interesting g to see what's there now and whether it seemed different now...
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!