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Currently reading The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, by Frederick Taylor. Very well written account of the events leading up to the division of Berlin to stop East Berliners from crossing into West Berlin (and then on to West Germany). A real page-turner. It prompted me to order from the library:

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert F. Kennedy.

Also, recently read When I Was A F**king Mormon Missionary, by Bailey Jones. Am currently reading her first book, When I Was A F**king Mormon. Two books by a bright girl who just couldn't swallow it all.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
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Herzog's Annapurna - again. Then decided to check youtube for the video footage they keep talking about shooting - its out there (in French) and great to watch after reading the book.


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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism. I couldn't resist after listening to Bob Edward's interview with Ms. Goodman on National Socialist Radio, when the book was released. Those guys added some shape to the 20th Century.
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"The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science," by Natalie Angier. After not "getting it" in high school and college chemistry, I'm finally beginning to understand chemical bonds. And the chapter on evolutionary biology should be required reading in every high school.
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EZSide wrote:Herzog's Annapurna - again. Then decided to check youtube for the video footage they keep talking about shooting - its out there (in French) and great to watch after reading the book.



I read Annapurna last Spring and man did I want to see these films! Thanks for the great find! Shame there isn't English subtitles.
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel

Interesting book....until he starts trying to tie math to love. The math part is excellent. (Geek note - there is a lot of math in the book, but Frenkel discusses it in somewhat-easy-to-understand terms.)
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Minus 148 Degrees by Art Davidson.

Great quick read that I recommend to anyone. Will forever make you feel like a candy ass.
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Oman wrote:
Hungry Jack wrote:One could craft a pretty interesting debate about which survival story is most impressive: Shackleton, the Corps of Discovery, or Powell's first descent of the Grand Canyon (well chronicled in Into the Great Unknown).
Also, check out Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King. Twelve shipwrecked U.S. sailors are taken as slaves by Bedouins in the Sahara Desert. Supposedly the original account of this story is what turned Abraham Lincoln against slavery on moral grounds.
Another survival story is 'The Ice Master' by Jennifer Niven. Ship sets out in 1913 to explore the Arctic. They get trapped in ice and eventually some of the survivors trek 700 miles for rescue. The fact any of them lived is pretty amazing.
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Jon Frohlich wrote:
Oman wrote:
Hungry Jack wrote:One could craft a pretty interesting debate about which survival story is most impressive: Shackleton, the Corps of Discovery, or Powell's first descent of the Grand Canyon (well chronicled in Into the Great Unknown).
Also, check out Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King. Twelve shipwrecked U.S. sailors are taken as slaves by Bedouins in the Sahara Desert. Supposedly the original account of this story is what turned Abraham Lincoln against slavery on moral grounds.
Another survival story is 'The Ice Master' by Jennifer Niven. Ship sets out in 1913 to explore the Arctic. They get trapped in ice and eventually some of the survivors trek 700 miles for rescue. The fact any of them lived is pretty amazing.
I just finished Skeletons on the Zahara. What an amazing tale!

The treatment of the shipwrecked captives as slaves by their owners varied quite a bit. In some instances, they were treated as well as family in terms of nourishment and sleep. But the life described by the novel in the western Sahara then (and now, I am sure) is shockingly harsh, devoid of any sort of bounty (except sand, rock, and heat), and unforgiving. The sailors suffered terribly at times. I am amazed that most apparently survived.
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DaveLanders wrote:I just finished "Surviving Survival" by Laurence Gonzales (author of "Deep Survival").
This one is about how people deal with the aftermath of traumatic experiences.
If you liked "Deep Survival", you might enjoy "Surviving Survival".
He lives just north of here, in Evanston. Really enjoyed Deep Survival. Hope to meet Gonzalez someday.
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