What are you reading?

[dpage]

A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park from Wolverine Farm Publishing here in Ft Collins. If I can't hike in Rocky I can at least read about the things that make up this place I love.

[boudreaux]

Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War by Nicole Etcheson. What happened in Kansas many believe was the precursor to the Civil War.

[Future Ruins]

The Wiseman's Fear, second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. I'm not normally huge on fantasy series but this one is phenomenal.

[Future Ruins]

Perhaps this was already recommended but I just finished "Empire of the Summer Moon" by SC Gwynne. It's about the Comanche Indians and what happened when they met the westward expansion. Blew my mind how formidable the Comanche warriors on horseback were...true bad*sses. And some great under-told history as well.

This book was amazing. Highly recommended and not for the weak in the stomach.

[Jim Davies]

I'm almost done with The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest by Broughton Coburn. This book is a 50th-anniversary account of the 1963 American Everest expedition that put six climbers on the summit via two routes, notably the unprecedented West Ridge-South Col traverse by Hornbein and Unsoeld. I've read a lot of expedition-history type books, and this is one of the best, IMO. Well-written and interesting.

[edhaman]

"Killing Jesus" sounds interesting, although it is a little different from the Lincoln and Kennedy books, as the latter two are clearly and unambiguously historical figures. If you want to read a definitive book on the Kennedy assassination, try "Reclaiming History," by Vincent Bugliosi.

[wildlobo71]

Watching all of Breaking Bad over again while I wait for the final two weeks - noticing all the nuances in a different light...

Reading! Currently reading medicine labels and revisiting "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg" - one of my very favorite Bloom County editions. I also still have the insert vinyl record, their one and only single.

Gaack!

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[jaymz]

"Along the Colorado Trail" by John Fielder and M. John Fayhee. Somewhere in the future, my 70-something year-old self is sitting somewhere near Kenosha Pass, rubbing his blistered feet with his arthritic hands, cussing out the 33 year-old me for reading this and putting a CT thru-hike on his bucket list.

[WarDamnPanic]

Just finished "Savage Arena" by Joe Tasker, probably my favorite mountaineering book to date, he was an incredible writer. Check it out if you haven't read it

[highpilgrim]

A favorite author of mine:

Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession by Craig Childs

A great book about the antiquities of our ancestral Indians and the "industry" that steals them for profit. A great book for those of us that have admired the ancestral Pueblo Indians and their culture and architecture.

[jrs1965]

Today I just started reading "The White Spider." Heinrich Harrer recounting of his making the first ever ascent of the Eiger's north face.

Interesting man to say the least, he also wrote "Seven Years in Tibet." Terrible cheesy accent, but how cool is it to have Brad Pitt play you in the movie about your book...

[Hungry Jack]

Today I just started reading "The White Spider." Heinrich Harrer recounting of his making the first ever ascent of the Eiger's north face.

Interesting man to say the least, he also wrote "Seven Years in Tibet." Terrible cheesy accent, but how cool is it to have Brad Pitt play you in the movie about your book...

Excellent choice. A good sequel to that book would be "The Climb Up to Hell," the tale of an ill-fated attempt on the north face that resulted in a body dangling from the cliffs for several weeks.


I just picked up "League of Denial" at Costco. It is the story of a few intrepid medical researchers who dared are the NFL's dirty laundry about brain trauma from the game.