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yeahman
Mountain climber
Montana
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This book will haunt your dreams...totally engrossing and disturbing as hell.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons. I just started reading it and doubt I will have it done in the three weeks the library allows (600+ pages). Might have to buy it and read at leisure. Sherlock Holmes meets Henry James.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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a fascinating man according to
his thick story seeped in
women, tragedy, alcoholism,
serendipity, risk, reward;
a virtuoso in so many regards,
ludwig.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Nice statue, sycorax. I've reached the point in the book where Holmes faces the ultimate existential threat: He realizes he is a fictional character. 540 pages to go.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Lot of folks seem to be reading Crime and Punishment, which is terrific of course. First I need to finish rereading The Brothers Karamosov, (for the third time I think) which I picked up a while back but got bogged down with the length and my own commitments, etc. Really one of the standout books of Western literature. That was the nice thing about reading Gatsby is that the length wasn't daunting and didn't seem an impediment to finishing it, which begins to feel worrisome. I had a similar reaction to David Copperfield, which is great. But when you read and write all day at a desk, long books can become a chore.
Also need to finish Cadillac Desert, which, for a book about water, is really compelling.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Just yesterday, while rummaging through a closet, I found a box I have moved many times, but not opened, in about 20 years. Books of course, those heavy things I always seem to drag around the country when I move, yet never actually unpack, or shelve.
Last night I enjoyed dipping back into Soul of Wood, by Jakov Lind. It will be interesting to see the difference, if any, 20 years makes in my overall impression of this book, and the rest of the boxes contents.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi
In the near future water wars between Las Vegas and Phoenix are serious. Phoenix is a dying city with much of it abandoned and the houses stripped of plumbing and wiring. Good stuff for those with a post apocalyptic appetite.
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Roger Brown
climber
Oceano, California
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Enemy at the Gates
Words cannot describe the horror, but William Craig does a pretty good job. Over a million soldiers killed, 40,000 civilians dead in the city alone in the first two days. Reading words like "The primitive instinct to survive at any cost" And "monumental human tragedy" and the stories/facts behind those words leaves my mind reeling.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 17, 2015 - 04:42pm PT
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i failed this subject
once or twice,
so i'm studying up
for my last go-round:
teenage daughters.
i got this.
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Aug 17, 2015 - 06:36pm PT
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Just finished Cat's Cradle for the second time. Vonnegut might be my all time favorite author.
Now I'm reading a book I found in the children's section of the library called The Art of Racing in the Rain. It's about a dog who is a Formula 1 racing fan and trying to get reincarnated as a human.
Anxiously awaiting Cormac McCarthy's new novel The Passenger.
edit: also have The Martian on deck since I've heard nothing but great things about it.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2015 - 04:05pm PT
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I finished Fur, Fortune And Empire by Eric J. Dolin, less than a week ago. If you are interested in North American History and how the fur trade drove the international economy, it would be of great interest to you.
I read Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker in a few days time. It is the book which the movie Jerimah Johnson was loosely based on. A lot of documented history, again involving the fur trade. It was a quick one. I need to read the other book used to write the movie script, Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher. (I may be reiterating information posted up thread somewhere.I am not sure where I learned of this.)
I just started Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs. When first written she used another name and apparently no one put much stock into it. Someone did some research and discovered it to be a factual account and a true autobiography. (It is one of my mother's books that has been sitting among others that I want to read. I thought I had about four in that category; but it turns out I have a whole shelf full.)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 28, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
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You can have it next, WBraun.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Just finished reading Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward.
Boy can that guy research a story. Scary on many levels.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Mouse, can i borrow the book after Warner?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 12, 2015 - 04:30pm PT
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Timely since it's about a disastrous fire in Jackson.
Loaned to me by the present owner of the mine.
Inheriting a gold mine isn't all it's cracked up to be.
It's a really well put together book weaving the technical and personal aspects without shortchanging either, the coming of age of mass media, coverage of a disaster, and women in the press.
There's probably lot of folks with connections to the area here that would really like it
http://www.amazon.com/47-Down-1922-Argonaut-Disaster/dp/0471446920
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Sep 12, 2015 - 07:45pm PT
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Excellent memoir from a New Yorker writer that was a surfing bum in the 70s. One of the first couple guys to surf Tavarua in Fiji, and early days at a number of the other now well known SE Asia spots.
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john hansen
climber
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Sep 12, 2015 - 08:04pm PT
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I am finishing up "To Hell and Back" by Charles Pellegrino. The Last Train From Hiroshima.
He gives the stories of people who lived through the atomic bomb blast of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
Some people very near ground zero survived in cellars or concrete buildings. Very horrific tales of radiations effects depending how far away you were. Sometime just being protected by the leaves of trees would be the difference between living or not.
Like a kid that dove down to the bottom of a river and held on while he tried to hold his breath as long as he could, and came up to a world destroyed around him but no radiation effects.
Lots of good science.
There were quite a few people who experienced both of the blasts and survived , having gone from Hiroshima to Nagasaki to get to family or just to get away.
Some very powerful stories.
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Scylax
Trad climber
Idaho
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Sep 13, 2015 - 09:29am PT
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"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer- story of combat on the Eastern Front by a German Infantryman. Intense.
"Me, Myself, and I" by Andy Kirkpatrick-the PDF version. HEY ANDY!! Hurry up on the print version, would you??
😉
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Sep 13, 2015 - 09:40am PT
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