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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Ecric B I got that for xmas, the meeting of Skink and Chemo, too funny! Like all of those KH books.
Nigel did you read pattern recognition or Spook Countryfirst? I'm going back over it
(PR) for details on the ZH characters. since I read it 5-6 yrs ago...
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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"Wild Swans", J. Chang
Memoir of three generations of Chinese women; feudal, communist, and post Mao. Very good book. I was visiting China so it seemed like a good idea to read something. If even half of the book is true Mao was one scary dude. Thirty years in the jungle fighting for revolution side by side and shoulder to shoulder, then one day he orders your best friend to kill you because he feels threatened. Sounds like some people I know. lol
Back in the USA yesterday. Hey, what happened to summer here?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Not the most recent, but in the las few weeks
Maculated's Kiss Every Frog
Two Thumbs up!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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My boy Jake has insisted I read the "Lemony Snickets" series. I have read 4 in the last 2 weeks, #2, #4, #5 and #6.
It's a series of "unfortunate events".
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman.
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
B.C.
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Jaybro, I read Pattern Recognition a few months ago, so all that was still pretty fresh, but have yet to get my hands on a copy of Spook Country. Wonder what I missed there? ...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I'm going to reread all three as one book, I think. There's a lot in there.
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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The Rivers Ran East by Leonard Clark.. one of the true explorers of our century..
this is his account of traveling through unknown jungle down the Amazon from the Cordillera takes place after the second world war. Crazy fearless.
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silentone
Mountain climber
wisconsin
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Unbroken
Great story of Louis Zamperini the long distance runner and ww2 POW.
S.O.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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A passage To India-EM Forster.
Slow but steady.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Currently reading the Journals (1952-2000) of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. My wife and I were in a dollar store a few weeks ago, and I wandered over to their book shelf. There I found five pristine unused copies of this expensive book ($40+) for $.99 each. I consider this a real bargain! It's too bad more Americans don't have a sense of the value of our collective history (right, Kerwin?). Fascinating descriptions of life within the Kennedy Administration, anecdotes, etc.
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adam d
climber
The Bears, CA
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I'm just starting the new TC Boyle novel, When the Killing's Done, set on the Channel Islands. Time to stop looking at this and get back to it!
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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Dood, TY for your post, Gunfighters Highwaymen & Vigilantes(Violence on the Frontier) - Roger D. McGrath I'll have to find it. I've read lots similar.. especially liked "Men to Match Their Mountains" Irving Stone
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Bargainhunter
climber
Central California
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Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 9th ed.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Not the last book I read, but recent, very good, and highly recomended: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff.
I now have so much more respect for Elizabeth Taylor.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Jun 12, 2011 - 10:44pm PT
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+1 for Unbroken--simply freakin' tastic.
Workin' on another WWII story: Operation Mincemeat about a secret plot to fool the Nazi's about the allied invasion of Sicily. Really, really, ridiculously big fun--and all true.
BAd
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jun 12, 2011 - 11:50pm PT
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Walleye: Re your read---Sometimes a Great Notion.
I have to hunt that book down and read it again.
I last enjoyed it sometime in the 1970's.
Still on my "best reads ever" list.
Ohyeah. What I have read lately?
Several Sci-fi novels, and I am also working through: "Minerals of Idaho" by Earl Shannon. Original unread book from 1922.
I know it is unread: because when it was printed, the pages were not cut when it was bound.
Read two pages, cut the next two pages open, and repeat.
The thrill of discovery.
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Dickbob
climber
Colorado
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Jul 26, 2011 - 01:40am PT
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I did not like how Opra handled this whole thing so I re read A Million Little Pieces by Frey. It was even better the second time around.
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