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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Finshed Victory Season: The End of World War Ii and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age by Robert Weintraub yesterday.
It's the story of the 1946 baseball season, with the real major leaguers just returned from overseas, and apart from a few "fingers on the chalkboard" factual errors pertaining to WWII events, it's pretty good. (Weintraub's primarily a sportswriter, so I'm prepared to forgive him.)
Jackie Robinson breaking the AAA color line with the Montreal Royals; the Dodgers/Cardinals dead heat and three-game playfoff for the NL pennant; the Cardinals/Red Sox world series that the Sox lost in 7, beginning decades of heartbreak. Good stuff.
Is it opening day yet?
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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There's been a plethora of books on psychopaths/sociopaths in recent years. Most of these books try to address a perceived need out there by ordinary individuals to identify these types of personality disorders in their families or in the workplace.
This book is a sort of inexpensive manual that helps to achieve those aims in a brief and uncomplicated way as a type of field guide to the identification of these destructive personalities.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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^^^
The subtitle on that is AWESOME! "How do you keep these crazy MFs out of your life"
Is that for real? Guess I'm off to amazon to see.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Mar 11, 2014 - 06:05pm PT
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I really enjoyed my first Moore novel "A Dirty Job" so I thought I'd look into his older works. Total escapism when you just want a time out.
I'm digging it.
It's impossible to describe a Christopher Moore novel. The word indescribable was especially coined so that it could be used to describe Christopher Moore novels. Suffice it to say that the novel is extremely sick, extremely funny and extremely extreme. I loved it.
-Alan Robson
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Mar 11, 2014 - 06:56pm PT
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Reading this again. "Here and now..."
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Mark Rodell
Trad climber
Bangkok
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Mar 12, 2014 - 10:54pm PT
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My novel, A Stance of Wonder, is almost two years old. I reread it last week and it almost felt like someone else wrote it.
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Modesto Mutant
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Mar 13, 2014 - 01:28am PT
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Re-Reading A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) for the first time since senior year of HS (1973). I didn't realize this until I started reading the book again, but Burgess original UK/Euro version had 21 chapters. The USA version and the Kubrick film only included the first 20, not the full book. The last chapter was quite a departure and changed the story line.
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Bluelens
climber
Pasadena, CA
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Mar 15, 2014 - 09:33pm PT
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Intense, inspiring story of researchers who left Merck in disillusionment to make new drugs for diseases with no cure, like hepatitis C and cystic fibrosis. You need basic biology/DNA/chemistry literacy to understand what the researchers do at their new company. Its a page turner with smart, eccentric, live-on-the-edge characters.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 18, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
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Today's bit of prescient irony; lately I've been rereading the Novels of William Gibson. I recently finished Virtual Light, so it was time for Idoru. I didnt seem to have a copy around, and neither did my local public library, or thrift store. Eventually I broke down and bought an electronic copy to read in iBooks. So, the first William Gibson book a bought a virtual copy of is the one about a media star who turns out to be a web construct!
His work is amazingly predictive, did he in 1996, anticipate this particular work being bought and read electronically? Not on a phone certainly, all those guys missed the coming of the smartphone
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Mar 20, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
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Pud, I'd recommend 'Fluke' by CM as well. He writes great books for whenever I'm desiring something light.
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duck on a bike
climber
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Mar 22, 2014 - 05:56pm PT
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Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn. "Page turner" for sure. WOW!!!
D...
Picked up on it from fresh air interview. Non-fiction. I'm on chapter 12.
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Mar 23, 2014 - 11:40am PT
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Read some trashy potboilers lately, not worth posting about, but now I'm into Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, which is absolutely classic.
Best novel I've read since Angle of Repose.
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telemon01
Trad climber
Montana
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Mar 26, 2014 - 08:58am PT
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Just started Pat Ament's Stories Of A Young Climber
great candid descriptions of the early years in Boulder with Kor and others
well done Oliver!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Mar 26, 2014 - 11:22am PT
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Right now I'm reading Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Boy, House of Cards got nuthin on those early Pilgrims and the local tribes! The amount of back-stabbing, intriguing between Pilgrim and tribe, tribe and tribe, Puritan (in Mass. bay, now Boston) and tribe, makes one think that this nation was founded on corrupt politics from the get-go. It reads kind of like a textbook, and has about 100 pages of references and appendix, but I'm certainly getting my money's worth since I picked this up in the $1 rack at a used book store the other day.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 26, 2014 - 12:19pm PT
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ydpl8s, yes, I read about those holier-than-thous in Fur, Fortune, and Empire,
a history of the fur trade. Those Puritans were worse than the Westboro gang!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Mar 26, 2014 - 12:27pm PT
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Yeah Reilly, when the native tribes would go to war with each other it was all about courage, skill and ego, usually no more than a handful on each side lost their lives.
They were totally disgusted when the Europeans fought with a scorched earth policy of killing every person in a village (women and children) and then burning the homes, people and animals to ash.....toting their bibles for inspiration.
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weezy
climber
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Mar 26, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
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few pages into John Dies At The End. I love it so far. Definitely my kind of humor.
gonna finish Snow Crash after it.
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