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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:39pm PT
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Free tumblers, Gary?
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Michelle
Trad climber
If it's puny, don't waste my time.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:39pm PT
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I usually run about 4 books at a time, and since I don't sleep, I read most of the time. I always have books with me of different textures. I almost ALWAYS carry The Captains Verses with me in my bag. quick and dirty beauty.
"The Sparrow" and "Children of God" - Mary Doria Russell (GO READ THESE! math plus religion = outter space)
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (I still have the same book I got when I was 13, and I could NEVER get through Steppenwolf..)
Captains Verses - Pablo Naruda
The Belgarion and Mallorion series' - David Eddings
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series (especially "Obsidian Butterfly") - Laurell K. Hamilton
Supertopo forum - us
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Island of the Blue Dolphins - I forget (at the moment)
Wrinkle in Time - I forget (at the moment)
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
the list is longer. I read alot
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:46pm PT
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Authors - Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver and Larry McMurtry. Haven't read all of their books but have gone back to the ones I love.
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:51pm PT
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scuffy -
A bit?? You gotta be kidding! Try a LOT!
I love those books, though! Funny the things you get hooked on as a kid... especially considering how freakin' verbose Cooper is. Geez!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:55pm PT
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Michelle, did you like 'Children of God' as well as you did Sparrow? I really liked Sparrow, read it a several times, and was let down by the second book (my expectations, I know) but liked the explenations
A Wrinkle in Time= Madalain d'engle?
As far as my own list, these are all many times repeats (not the latter stephenson), though some Are also 'best' books.
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:02pm PT
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Wrinkle is on my list, too, Jay, just not as frequent of a reread as the others; stellar book!
Anyone care to opine on C. S. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy (Prelandra, et.al.)? I'm just curious as to other's thoughts on that one...
BB
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Mountain Man
Trad climber
Outer space
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:15pm PT
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Raymond Chandler
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:18pm PT
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Wrinkle, the happy medium, dark and stormy night, speed of thought, always a classic, probably only reread it once this century, though.
Perilandra etc, it's been too long, for details.
But, related, we should all lift an absinthe to Calvin's (Calvin & Hobbes) teacher Ms Wormwood, directly from The Screwtape letters.
Also what about the concept that Treebeard in LOTR, Is CS Lewis? giving lectures in a booming voice dwon the hall from where the philologist sat scribbling?
Okay, gotta go pull some plastic, but am I the only 'girl' here who explored the world of Anne of Green gables repeatedly once upon a time?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:26pm PT
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Mountian man, you're keeping me from climbing, but oh yeah, Raymond Chandler. Reread him before I even knew who Humphrey Bogaart was, then, what fun! (then I met Cilley and pondered fractals)
"If Raymond Chandler had been kidnapped by sexy alien stand up comics and whisked to the dark side of the moon, he might have written like William Gibson," Tom Robbins in a blurb on one of the Bridge books. -from memory, TR is way more articulate.
"She just wanna stay up all night, reading Raymond Chandler"- Jim Carroll, from reading Raymond Chandler, on the Catholic Boy album.
I guess I understand why I get along with the autistic among us.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:58pm PT
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scuffy: Free tumblers, Gary?
Nice day fer sumthin'
"I always wanted to be a children's book illustrator way back when, but I took some LSD and took a left turn graphically."
 S. Clay Wilson
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Near a mountain, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:02pm PT
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Lord of the Rings trilogy
Anything written by Carl Sagan
Shakespeare
Iliad and Odyssey
Oxford collection of Poems
Freedom of the Hills
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TradIsGood
Fun-loving climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:27pm PT
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JC!! Is this chick hot?
"Books you read over and over again (not climbing related)" and I do not even see it before 79 posts.
Did I miss a picture somewhere?
Whack a mole!
kuan = juan + rajmit - politics - earthquakes - space.
Camp 4, Surely you're Joking..., What Do You Care What Other People Think, Tao Te Ching, The Theory of Poker ('cause I do not play enough to remember it very well).
Climbing edit
Dick William's Guides.
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reddirt
climber
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Sep 28, 2006 - 08:23am PT
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in add'n to The Lorax, Roald Dahl, Rick Bass, Ed Abbey, I'd add:
Shel Silverstein (anything incl his drawings for Playboy)
Gary Paulsen (Tracker)
Jean George (My Side of the Mtn)
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Les
Trad climber
Brooklyn
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Sep 28, 2006 - 11:37am PT
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Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Call of the Wild - London
Iliad/Odyssey - Homer (love the E.V. Rieu transl.)
Joseph Conrad (esp. Heart of Darkness; I find myself re-reading certain passages all the time (there's an online version on Georgetown U's website)).
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Sep 28, 2006 - 01:06pm PT
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe.
Surprised that one hasn't shown up here yet.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Sep 28, 2006 - 01:21pm PT
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the entire "clan of the cave bear" series. especially "the mammoth hunters".
that, plus "the collected poems of w.h. auden", "finnegans wake" by joyce, and of course dr. suess's masterwork, "green eggs and ham"
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Sep 28, 2006 - 01:31pm PT
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I saw "Watership Down" posted multiple times. Just an FYI to stay away from any of his other work. He turned into a deranged PETA-phile later in life and it will scar you forever. Stick to the original.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 28, 2006 - 02:18pm PT
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if I am honest, these are the books that keep coming up decade after decade:
The Feynman Lectures in Physics
Lord of the Rings Triology
Moby Dick
Have I Ever Told You How Lucky You Are (Dr. Suess)
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nita
climber
chico ca
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Sep 28, 2006 - 05:02pm PT
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: HARPER LEE.
Sneetches on the Beaches: Dr Seuss.
Iron & Silk: Mark Salzman
Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada & Central Valley: Laird Blackwell.
Plus any book *Barbara Kingsolver* has written . N.T.
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ms233
climber
Berkeley
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Sep 28, 2006 - 05:31pm PT
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several have mentioned Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and I'll echo that
also: Night Flight by Saint-Ex, and All the King's Men, by RP Warren
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