What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?
OH YEAH! Just came in the mail today. This is my kind of page turner!
• It's by getting away from life that we can see it most clearly... It's by depriving ourselves of the myriad of everyday experiences that we renew our appreciation for them...I've learned from my experiences in the mountains that I love life. — Dave Johnston
• Mountains are not climbed merely to reach a geographical location — but as personal and spiritual challenges to the participants. — David Stein
• Mountains are not climbed merely to reach a geographical location — but as personal and spiritual challenges to the participants. — David Stein
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Re: What are you reading?
Psychovertical, by Andy Kirkpatrick. Recommended by DaveSwink. I really enjoyed this and it's no wonder it won the Boardman-Tasker Award. The follow up, Cold Wars, was not as good but still an interesting read.
Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains by Tom Wolf. Excellent reading if you, like me, are trying to figure out some of the history of this area. He didn't go into the Bacca Land Grants as much as I would have liked but he covers a lot ground. Good mix of science and history.
Does anyone know of other titles that cover the Sangre's?
Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains by Tom Wolf. Excellent reading if you, like me, are trying to figure out some of the history of this area. He didn't go into the Bacca Land Grants as much as I would have liked but he covers a lot ground. Good mix of science and history.
Does anyone know of other titles that cover the Sangre's?
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Re: What are you reading?
Finally, Centennial by James Michener. I know, it's 40 years old, but it is interesting. SJ Ron
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klinger wrote:
New father? I Am familiar with that that title too. Little Hungry has been enjoying The Lorax lately, though I am not sure he fully grasps the significance of it quite yet. He's not quite 3.
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Sacred Summits: John Muir's Greatest Climbs; edited by Graham White.
John Muir was this country's most accomplished mountaineer for the latter part of the 19th century.
Numerous FA's to his credit, most of them solo.
He was into ultralight backpacking 100 years before the term was coined.
He was tough as a cob.
John Muir was this country's most accomplished mountaineer for the latter part of the 19th century.
Numerous FA's to his credit, most of them solo.
He was into ultralight backpacking 100 years before the term was coined.
He was tough as a cob.
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Gerry Roach's Beyond the Seven Summits series. Excellent!!
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Has anyone read "Race across the Sky" By Derek Sherman?
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Across-Sky-A ... 0452299063
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Across-Sky-A ... 0452299063
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Re: What are you reading?
Missed this earlier but thanks, going to have to check it out!Jim Davies wrote:I just finished Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts.... I assumed it was going to be a weak clone of "Wild", another in the growing "woman writes memoir of thru-hiking in California in the 90's" genre. Instead, I found myself liking it more than "Wild".
I, too, was excited by "Wild" when it first came out, but not as enamored with aptly-named Strayed.
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I agree. While the writing about her trek (Wild) was interesting, I was not especially pleased with her character which seemed to me to be quite naive and borderline stupid.madbuck wrote:Missed this earlier but thanks, going to have to check it out!Jim Davies wrote:I just finished Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts.... I assumed it was going to be a weak clone of "Wild", another in the growing "woman writes memoir of thru-hiking in California in the 90's" genre. Instead, I found myself liking it more than "Wild".
I, too, was excited by "Wild" when it first came out, but not as enamored with aptly-named Strayed.
For non-climbing, general fiction, I just finished Genova's Still Alice which is about a 50yo Harvard psychology professor's descent into early onset Alzheimer's. It's an excellent read, although is very difficult to get through emotionally in many ways. Kind of makes you wish for cancer or some other disease if you have to die young.
Some other of my favorite authors include Lisa Unger and Spencer-Fleming (thriller/mystery) and Elizabeth Berg (although I think her earlier books are better than her more recent ones.
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"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. History AND science... it doesn't get any better than that.
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The complete works of H.P. Lovecraft. I'm about 60% of the way through and they are great stories.
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1984
More relevant than ever.
H.P. Lovecraft stories are classic.
Richard Rhodes book is right up my alley.
More relevant than ever.
H.P. Lovecraft stories are classic.
Richard Rhodes book is right up my alley.