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Richard
climber
Bend, OR.
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I just finished "The Kite Runner" as well. Excellant read
Also, "The Red Tent" (albeit a few years older) is a great read as well.
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Thomas
Trad climber
The Tilted World
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"Merle's Door" by Ted Kerasote.
It won the National Outdoor Book Award this year.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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I lost my copy of Kite runner about 1/2 way through, will definitely continue when the time is right. I'd be inclined to read another by that author.
Strong, have you read this new one that they are raving about? Did you like it? The English Patient was a brilliant novel and a better than average movie (better, if you hadn't read it first) kinda like 'The unbereable lightness of being' that one reads way better than it shows.
E-B-G, that is an entirely rude and nasty thing to say about Sooze!
I'm guessing you meant it in a good way, though.
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester. About quakes in California. I heard Geraldo Rivera discussing it on the radio the other day, although he didn't mention it by name.
I'll also recommend a book that isn't new. I've enjoyed Neil Gaiman's Stardust as inflght reading many times. Comes to the big screen in a week (8/10), and it might be good to read it before watching it.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
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reading it now. mrrrrr.*
*mrrrrr = satisfaction / contemplation.
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Pistol Pete
Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
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Anything by Tom Robbins:
(greatest hits)
Still Life with Woodpecker
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Villa Incognito
***edit because I can't spell
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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When will there again be a current Tom Robins? Guy takes his time, but gets it right.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
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also sitting on my bedtable (can't wait to begin this one)
"a primate's memoir: a neuroscientist's unconventional life among the baboons" robert m. sapolsky
"with uncommon expertise and insight, robert sapolsky explains the relation of biology to complex properties of human behaviors. his perspective... is both unsettling and liberating." - edward o. wilson
hee hee.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Lance to Landis by David Walsh
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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The best book I read in 2007 was Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
If you like that one he also has a new one that just came out. I haven't read it yet.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Well, in keeping with Russ' political genre, may I suggest...
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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David, I thought Pattern Recognition was genius, his best since the Neuromancer Trilogy. I put up with the bridge books, though All Tomorrow's Party's is good.
Didn't know there was a new one, I'm on it!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Harry Potter
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gly
Trad climber
Flatlands
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If you have the time. Ayn Rand's 'Fountainhead' is a good read.
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Dr. Taco
Social climber
New Freedonia, Caledonia
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Missy, you should be ashamed, hanging out and fraternizing with a bunch of men.
Sounds like the Bible is just the read you need.
Dr. Taco is concerned for your health.
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kellie
climber
Seattle
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Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler, a portrait of modern China explored partly by looking at the daily lives of individuals.
Among others, he follows several of his English students from his Peace Corps days that he wrote about in his book River Town -- notably William Jefferson Foster, who as a student "always had his head buried in a dictionary," and after class would sidle up to Hessler to enquire, "How is your premature ejaculation?"
Also Eric Newby's Something Wholesale -- it's been around forever but is still hysterical.
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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re."his best since the Neuromancer Trilogy. I put up with the bridge books, though All Tomorrow's Party's is good.
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That was my take also.
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wayne w
Trad climber
the nw
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"Fossil Legends of the First Americans"~Adrienne Mayor
"Engaging, enlightening, and most of all, educationally entertaining. We have precious few examples of Native American interpretation of prehistoric events as they may have been passed down through the generations, and in this book Adrienne Mayor unveils several. In so doing, she opens up a new world." Robert Kaplan
"Color"~Victoria Finlay...from the preface;
"An image reflected in a mirror, a rainbow in the sky, and a painted scene
Make their impressions upon the mind, but in essence they are other than what they seem
Look deeply at the world, and see an illusion, a magician's dream." the seventh Dalai Lama:"Song of the Immaculate Path"
"Until I read this book I was color-blind" Cynthia Rowley
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