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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Mar 19, 2009 - 02:33pm PT
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Wow Jaybro, 2 of 3 on the climbing books, and it's cool to see another person who has read "One Green Bottle".
Recent:
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
City of Shadows - Ariana Franklin
Mask Market - Andrew Vachss
Best ever:
Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
LOTR - Tolkien
Best Climbing:
Conquistadors - Terray
One Green Bottle - Elizabeth Coxhead
This Game of Ghosts - Joe Simpson
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ohhyesss
Boulder climber
San Jose, California
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Mar 19, 2009 - 02:37pm PT
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Best I've ever read....
Desert Solitare
-Edward Abbey
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kellie
climber
Seattle
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Mar 19, 2009 - 02:47pm PT
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Oh great, now I just added a dozen more books to my to-read list.
Last 3:
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch
First Spanish Reader edited by Angel Flores
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Next 3:
Looking for Trouble: One Woman, Six Wars, and a Revolution by Leslie Cockburn
Speak, Memory by Nabokov
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Best 3:
Totally impossible. You might as well ask what my favourite word is.
Right up there though: Waterland by Graham Swift, the Snopes trilogy by Faulkner, Brothers K by David James Duncan, most of Hardy and Trollope, Lolita by Nabokov, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury.....stop me now.
Best Climbing 3:
Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountains, and Me by Geoffrey Norman
Cascade Alpine Guides by Fred Beckey
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Mar 19, 2009 - 02:51pm PT
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Too funny, Dingus. I gave him grief over that as well. He took it well! The one I just read is the second to last one. The one you mention is the first one. The last one even mentions a Supertopian in passing. Fun stuff!
I liked one green bottle because it was a very human story set in a climbing milieu, I'd like to see more of that.
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Mar 19, 2009 - 03:18pm PT
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Recent 3:
The Echomaker, Richard Powers
Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link
Tomaz Humar, Bernadette McDonald
Favorite 3:
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Underworld, Don DeLillo
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
Climbing 3:
Solo Faces, James Salter
Mt Analogue, Rene Daumal
Deborah/ Mountain of My Fear, David Roberts
One Man's Mountains, Tom Patey
I know, I pretty much can't count. Plus, I'd probably write different lists tomorrow (except for the first category).
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 19, 2009 - 04:02pm PT
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hey there russ, say... neat title for a post.... :)
hey say, did you ever get my book that i sent... ?
:)
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2009 - 04:04pm PT
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hey there say...... neebee
yes and thank you. I sent an email through this site within minutes of receiving the book. I don't think the new "email upgrade" works all that well. You are not the first that has said they did not receive an SuperTopo email.
Thanks again.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Mar 19, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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last three
Rock jocks hang dogs- John Long
Roughing it M. Twain
Eat love Pray I forget
best three
Tolkien trilogy
Gone with the Wind
Huck Finn
Climb three
In the Shadow of Denali- Waterman
History of Climbing in N. America-Jones
A night on the ground a day in the open-Robinson
Climbing Ice- Chouinard
Breaking Point- Randall
Yosemite Climber- Meyers
the Long books are very good and so are many issues of Ascent
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Mar 19, 2009 - 05:03pm PT
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Last:
* Hunchback of Notre Dame
* in progressThe Color Purple
* in progressShadow of the Wind
Best (that I remember at the moment):
* Shantaram
* Life of Pi
* Call of the Wild (Jack London)
Climbing:
* Fiction: Looking for Mo (Daniel Duane?)
* Epics: Touching the Void
* Adventure: Anapurna (until the point they were carried out by sherpas)
Short Stories:
* The Necklace
* Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets
* To Build a Fire
* Harrison Bergeron
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Mar 19, 2009 - 05:10pm PT
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If we open this to short stories, we'll none of us, get out of here on time.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Mar 19, 2009 - 05:52pm PT
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CLIMBING BOOKS??
WHY would you read a book about climbing?
Why wouldn't you just GO CLIMBING instead?
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Ottawa Doug
Social climber
Ottawa, Canada
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Mar 19, 2009 - 05:53pm PT
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Best three
Shishapagma (Doug Scott, Alex MacIntyre)
Kiss or Kill (Mark Twight)
The Mountain of My Fears (David Roberts)
I stole this last one from my high school library in 1978. Mighty Hiker was one of the last people to sign it out before me. : )
Cheers,
Doug
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Mar 19, 2009 - 08:40pm PT
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Last 3:
Omon Ra, Viktor pelevin
A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell
Best 3:
Torture and Democracy, Darius Rejali
The Forever War, Dexter Filkins
The Stars My Destination-Alfred bester-best scifi book ever, about a real id and super-ego driven psycho-you super topoans should recognize that type, like your worst but best climbing partner
Climbing:
The fatal Mountaineer-about Willi Unsoeld
Conquistadores of the Useless-Lionel terray
something by rene desmaison
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DJS
Trad climber
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Mar 19, 2009 - 08:49pm PT
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Bump
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Mar 19, 2009 - 09:00pm PT
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Was the Desmasion book Total Alpinism?
That's very good, and high on my list of favorites. It's not easily found. The cheapest copy on abebooks is $55.
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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Mar 19, 2009 - 09:51pm PT
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Last 3:
Bad Luck And Trouble, by Lee Child
Children Of The Mind, by Orson Scott Card
Postcards From The Trailer Park, by Cameron Burns
Best 3:
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula LeGuin
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Best 3 Climbing:
The White Spider, by Heinrich Harrer
In High Places, by Dougal Haston
A Most Hostile Mountain, by Jonathan Waterman
And the category of Funnest 3 Climbing:
Everest: The Ultimate Hump, by Tami Knight
Kiss Or Kill, by Mark Twight
10 Keys To Climb Everest, by Pat Ament
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
planet dogboy
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Mar 19, 2009 - 10:01pm PT
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Last Three:
"Aura" -Fuentes
"A Writer's Notebook" -Maugham
"The Enchantress of Florence" -Rushdie
Best Three:
"Moby Dick" -Melville
"100 Years Of Solitude" -Garcia Marquez
"Letters From Yesenin" -Harrison
Best Three Climbing Books:
"Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High" -Twight
"Ice World: Techniques and Experiences of Modern Ice Climbing" -Jello
"Climbing Ice" -Chouinard
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ah but picking "the three best books" is like picking the three souls you love the most. who would want to? lucky for me i love far more than three.
^,,^
EDIT: forgot to mention "Go, Dog, Go!" -P.D. Eastman. that first kiss is forever the best kiss...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 20, 2009 - 02:58am PT
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Last 3
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Winchester - San Francisco earthquake, 1906)
Beowulf (tr. Seamus Heeney)
Coast Mountains Trilogy (Culbert - mountain poetry)
Best 3
Independent People (Laxness)
Europe: A History (Davies)
Farthest North/Fram Over Polhavet (Nansen)
Climbing 3
Everest: The West Ridge (Hornbein)
The Black Cliff (Crew, Soper & Wilson)
Kolsås: Klatreparadis og naturperle
Mountain Magazine
Yosemite Climber (Meyers)
Climbing - Funny 3
Night Climbers of Cambridge (Whipplesnaith)
Sheridan Anderson books
Tami Knight books & booklets
G.F.J. Dutton books
And a whole pile of others - I like to read.
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GRJ
climber
Juneau AK
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Mar 20, 2009 - 03:23am PT
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Last 3:
I-III W.E.B. Griffin's Corps Series
Best 3:
The Drifters
The Fountainhead
Shogun
Best 3 Climbing:
Conquistadors of the Useless
Starlight and Storm
Mountains of My Life (Belongs in top 3 all time)
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