What are your favorite books?
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Jbrow327
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What are your favorite books?
What are your favorite books? What books do you recommend?
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coneydogron
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Re: What are your favorite books?
Just picked up an original first edition copy of 'Letters to a Friend' by John Muir which completes my collection of his books.
Problem is, I'm too worried i'll ruin them by turning the pages so went an purchased a reprint
Problem is, I'm too worried i'll ruin them by turning the pages so went an purchased a reprint
"A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't" - Tom Waits
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Gandalf69
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Re: What are your favorite books?
Gary roaches 14er book. He spends a whole paragraph talking about how the board walk through the willows on bierstadt is a plight on the landscape. ](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
There are books that break the state into sections which are really good for finding less crowded areas. It's fun to game plan a hike for summer in the dead of winter.
There are books that break the state into sections which are really good for finding less crowded areas. It's fun to game plan a hike for summer in the dead of winter."There's always the possibility that some a**hole will be offended." -Clint Eastwood, Escape from Alcatraz
"Life is cruel, why should the afterlife be any different".-Davey Jones
"The decision to triage us to death...I understand. I don't know that I would agree with it. Certainly not in retrospect because obviously I made it."-Beck Weathers, Dark side of Everest
"Life is cruel, why should the afterlife be any different".-Davey Jones
"The decision to triage us to death...I understand. I don't know that I would agree with it. Certainly not in retrospect because obviously I made it."-Beck Weathers, Dark side of Everest
Re: What are your favorite books?
I just finished "The Bond" by Simon McCartney-for those who like to read about sufferfests rather than experience them! Seriously, a really incredible book by a guy who, together with his partner (both in their 20's) put up the first ascent on Mt. Huntington's north face in 1978 and Denali's Southwest face in 1980. Very entertaining details about the climbs, neither of which was smooth or easy, more like hellish-in fact this book was published in 2016-after Denali the author abandoned climbing. Walked away and never looked back for over 30 years. Can't recommend it enough! For those of us who will never be there, McCartney puts you right on the faces with him.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow-learn as if you were to live forever-----Mahatma Gandhi
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greenonion
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Re: What are your favorite books?
Loved "English Passengers" by Matthew Kneale.
Currently reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" (only 70-80 pages in) and loving it. Very well written.
Currently reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" (only 70-80 pages in) and loving it. Very well written.
