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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 27, 2014 - 03:00pm PT
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Desert Towers!
We have a copy at work that I am perusing, but I'm going to buy my own copy and run down that Crusher guy to autograph it! An encyclopedic volume of stuff that runs deep in the lives many of us live! I really want to support this!
Crusher, do you do any direct, autograph sales??
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Sep 27, 2014 - 03:44pm PT
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Desert Towers!
We have a copy at work that I am perusing, but I'm going to buy my own copy and run down that Crusher guy to autograph it! An encyclopedic volume of stuff that runs deep in the lives many of us live! I really want to support this!
Crusher, do you do any direct, autograph sales??
Hey, just clicked in this random thread and there's a question for me.
Answer is yes indeed! I can sign copies and send them your way. I can take credit cards, checks, sexual favors, whatever. Well, OK, maybe scratch the last option....
And, since my birthday is coming up in a couple weeks, as is desert season and I'm getting psyched to sell some books and go exploring, how about any copies I sell between now and then, through Supertopo, I'll sell for 40 bucks, 20 percent off regular retail.
Send me a PM or just phone three-oh-three, four four three, zero nine five five
http://deserttowersbook.com/
Oh, and I've been reading Deer Hunting with Jesus, by Joe Bageant. Great writer, pithy yet hilarious dissections of modern life in the US, with something of the best of the Abbey/Thompson gonzo tradition.
Crusher
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 27, 2014 - 04:15pm PT
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Pm sent!
Um, no sexual favors, but I do have plastic and paypal!
Happy birthday to come!
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Sep 28, 2014 - 01:12pm PT
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Hey Jaybro, have not seen any PM yet, sorry. Try my regular email, stephenbartlett (at) yahoodotcom
Crusher
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 28, 2014 - 08:55pm PT
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Will send it now
Edit: email ( titled "Desert Towets) sent, can you hear me now?
Thnx Crunch this is a cool thing you're doing!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Hi Tobia,
Long time.....
Currently reading The Book Thief by Zusak. It's good. Different type of writing, but good.
Cheers for Life, Lynnie
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Sully, you always read such quality literature and have such profound insights. Wish I could still read like that. I'm on the entertain or thrill me track.
Currently reading Denali's Howl about the disastrous Wilcox expedition.
Susan
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Oct 21, 2014 - 10:27am PT
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Hey, if anyone tried sending a message to me via Supertopo's message function and is wondering why I've not responded, apologies. The messaging function does not seem to be working very reliably lately.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2513972&tn=0#msg2513983
Just email me direct.
stephenbartlett "at" yahoo dot com
Crusher
In the meantime, Joe Bageant's Rainbow Pie and Deer Hunting with Jesus are fabulous reads about modern life in the USA--feisty, informative, heartfelt, classics.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 21, 2014 - 10:42am PT
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sullly,
If you enjoyed Lady with the Pet Dog (or Lap Dog, Toy Dog, etc.), check out The Doctor's Visit. Though it sounds cliche, Chekhov is the master at observing the human condition in the ordinary.
Also, if you admire Nabakhov's opinion on literature, check out Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. I just reread that recently (between reading otehr things of course). Despite what you think you know about the story, as Nabakhov pointed out, it reaches the point of "great art". Most of Stevenson I believe is underrated, but you have terrific things like his novella, Markheim, or even Kidnapped and Treasure Island are masterful adventure yarns.
Other terrific short story/novella recommendations for those unwilling to commit to a novel:
The Golden Land, Faulker.
The Road to Colonnus, E.M. Forester
A Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Parker's Back, Flannery O'Connor
At Sea, Checkov
The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
That's just off the top of my head. There's just too much good stuff out there.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Oct 21, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
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Just finished "Buried in the Sky" and "Dead Mountain, The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident".
Both are worthwhile.
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john bald
climber
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Oct 21, 2014 - 07:25pm PT
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Joe Brown, The Hard Years.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 21, 2014 - 07:46pm PT
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I am looking to read In The Dust Of This Planet by Eugene Thacker - He describes himself as an author of books nobody will read...or something like that... Strangely... I have no idea how this may feel. Figure I'll try to finish the book and see if I can figure it out.
I think I'm punching above my weight class with this one...
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Oct 21, 2014 - 08:00pm PT
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians... by Cynthia C. Kelly and Richard Rhodes (Feb 10, 2009)
Fascinating insights into this incredible undertaking, including letters and manuscripts by famous scientists and authors as well as a touch of fiction: H. G. Wells had a story published in 1914 about the atom bomb. In his imagination, the bomb (2 feet in diameter, black and spherical with two handles) was hand-dropped from an aircraft by the pilot.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2014 - 06:40am PT
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Nothing Venture, Nothing Win by Sir Edmund Hillary
Interesting read, highlighted by the chapters Aftermath of Everest summit, and The Race To The Pole.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 29, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
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Do you mean enormous wings rips off the hunger artist? I don't see it. Elaborate please, Sully!
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Just finished Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby. Which I thoroughly enjoyed. A POW in Italy in 1943, he escaped through a hospital window and survived in the Italian landscape thanks to the help of several peasant families. Among many adventures he had before being recaptured, Newby managed to meet the woman he would marry after the war. A blithe and delightful tale.
(Newby's the author of the classic climbing book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, which, in my opinion, is one climbing lit's handful of absolutely mandatory reads.)
I also just reviewed Elizabeth Samet's //No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America// for The Washington Post. Should be mandatory reading for all serving officers. It is, if nothing else, a paean to the military value of a literary education. My review is posted here.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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"War That Ended Peace" about the lead up to WWI...
... fills up some missing history for me.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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The Peripheral, William Gibson's latest, and his first science fiction in a long time. Throughly enjoying it, he is a terrific writer.
Todd, have you read A Peace to End All Peace?
Sounds like it might be right up your alley.
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