Well I'm sold... arriving in 2 days!12ersRule wrote:"The Sun also rises" by Hemingway. Reads like a series of Bonehead posts.
What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?
Don't bash each other; bash willows.
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Re: What are you reading?
"QB" by Steve Young. Either he or Jerry Rice is my favorite NFL player of all-time, so it was good to get his life history. I met him back in 1984 at this house in Provo that he was staying at over the summer. Watched Carl Lewis win the 100m final with him. Another life transforming event took place a few days prior to that. We were driving between Minnesota and Lake Powell, UT, and it was my first time ever in Colorado. It was an awesome sight seeing the Rockies for the very first time from I-76, a wall of mountains like I had never seen before. I spent my first 9 years in Redding, CA with Mt Shasta looming over, so I known big mountains, but that first view of the Rockies was truly transcendent.
Reading "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama right now. Probably should've read that one a long time ago.
"AWOL on the Appalachian Trail" next in the queue.
Reading "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama right now. Probably should've read that one a long time ago.
"AWOL on the Appalachian Trail" next in the queue.
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Re: What are you reading?
"AWOL" sounds interesting, David. Thanks for the suggestion!
My wife and I just watch the film, Tracks. After viewing it, I may need to find the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Tracks-Womans-Ac ... 0679762876
The movie was quite fascinating.
My wife and I just watch the film, Tracks. After viewing it, I may need to find the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Tracks-Womans-Ac ... 0679762876
The movie was quite fascinating.
Re: What are you reading?
Truevine by Beth Macy. A nonfiction work about 2 albino African American brothers from a small town in Virginia who were either kidnapped or given away to a circus sideshow in the early 1900s in the Jim Crow south. Macy spent over 20 years researching this story. Even though I grew up in Roanoke, I had never heard the tale before.
http://listsofjohn.com/CompletionAll.php?M=dpage"
www.mountainproject.com/u/derick-page//110079707
"Resist much. Obey little." -Abbey
www.mountainproject.com/u/derick-page//110079707
"Resist much. Obey little." -Abbey
- highpilgrim
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Re: What are you reading?
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Curtis is the source of many of the iconic photographs of Native Americans at the turn of the 19th century. Very cool stuff, with the stories to support the images.
"Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared."
https://play.google.com/store/books/det ... &gclsrc=ds
Curtis is the source of many of the iconic photographs of Native Americans at the turn of the 19th century. Very cool stuff, with the stories to support the images.
"Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared."
https://play.google.com/store/books/det ... &gclsrc=ds
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Re: What are you reading?
Finished: Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey An American Heritage by Michael R. Veach
Started: The Milky Way An Insider's Guide by William H. Waller
Started: The Milky Way An Insider's Guide by William H. Waller
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Currently working on the Longmire Series by Craig Johnson, currently on book #7 (A Serpent's Tooth)
The basis of the TV and Netflix series about a small-town Wyoming sheriff who runs his little mountain county with a bit of old west resolution. Based on Buffalo, Wyoming, which is in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains.
The basis of the TV and Netflix series about a small-town Wyoming sheriff who runs his little mountain county with a bit of old west resolution. Based on Buffalo, Wyoming, which is in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains.
"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there." -Vince Lombardi-
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Re: What are you reading?
Three good ones lately:
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. Race to break the Grand Canyon boating speed record, against the backdrop of the damming of the West's great rivers and the birth of the national environmental movement.
The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinski. Evangelical pregnancy whodunit.
The North Water by Ian McGuire. Psycho killer on a 19th Century whaling ship. Cormac McCarthy + Patrick O'Brian + Joseph Conrad.
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. Race to break the Grand Canyon boating speed record, against the backdrop of the damming of the West's great rivers and the birth of the national environmental movement.
The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinski. Evangelical pregnancy whodunit.
The North Water by Ian McGuire. Psycho killer on a 19th Century whaling ship. Cormac McCarthy + Patrick O'Brian + Joseph Conrad.
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A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Smile, You're Traveling by Henry Rollins
Smile, You're Traveling by Henry Rollins
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Re: What are you reading?
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander. An interesting look at innovation and discovery in the field of physics.
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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. 30 year old book my wife got me as a gift in 2004 but never got around to reading it. Crazy story of one couples' search for and achievement of immortality that covers 1,000 years and skewers commerce and Christianity along the way. Dark humor and highly recommended. Next up True Summit by David Roberts about the first climb of an 8,000 meter peak in 1950. Only so much fiction I can take.
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Re: What are you reading?
Scary Close by Donald Miller
Great book about the path towards true intimacy in relationships and how we as humans often feel the need to perform in order to get others to like us instead of truly being open and honest about who we are.
Also re-reading Bowerman and the Men of Oregon by Kenny Moore.
It's an awesome recap of an amazing journey for Bill Bowerman and his impact on the men he coached while at the University of Oregon. He was the track and field coach for many years there.
Great book about the path towards true intimacy in relationships and how we as humans often feel the need to perform in order to get others to like us instead of truly being open and honest about who we are.
Also re-reading Bowerman and the Men of Oregon by Kenny Moore.
It's an awesome recap of an amazing journey for Bill Bowerman and his impact on the men he coached while at the University of Oregon. He was the track and field coach for many years there.