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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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The Name of the Wind Patrick Roth fuss
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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that reminds me, I just read R. Crumb's illustrated, Genesis.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Just finished Killing Dragons by Fergus Fleming. On par with his Barrow's Boys. (It shares some common material too.) Now I gotta give James Ramsey's son, Bill, a call.
Some interesting choices there Donald.
I gave my mom's copy of A Distant Mirror to a young art student, but no way am I giving away my 19th century edition of Le Decameron even if my french still sux (yeah, I know, but it is a french translation my grandma owned).
Likewise I'm hanging onto my dad's first editions of The White Nile and The Fatal Impact as well as Emil Ludwig's The Nile.
Ten years ago I was reading (my paperback edition of) The Fatal Impact by the terrace of the Cliff Lodge when, to drop another name, Liz and Royal Robbins walked by. Liz was curious as to what I was reading and was surprised that it is not a book about climbing. lol
Woody's recommend of The Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors was so good that I just started Hornfischer's Ship of Ghosts.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Recently finished Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. My wife and I had been talking to a Nigerian and he'd mentioned the story, and I'd planned on getting a copy. My son had it assigned as his summer reading, so I picked it up and finished it pretty quickly.
I enjoyed the storytelling, insight into life in rural Africa, and the dual theme of how our actions and "modern life" encroaching on traditions can have quite negative effects.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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After having it recommended to me over a year ago, I've begun reading it and I'm really enjoying it. I think it's important to understand, on very deep levels, the feminine points of view. This book is like a guidebook, not a topo, to the feminine psyche.
Some reviews:
"Recommended for men who dare to run with women who run with the wolves."
-Sam Keen, author of "Fire in the Belly."
"Through myth, fairy tale, and an extended 'soul conversation,' Estes calls back into life the wild neglected places of the feminine psyche. This is an inspiring and complassionate book."
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Right now I am reading Jared Ogden's Big Wall book....for the third time. Still trying to grasp all the concepts and ideas, and then take them outside.
So far, so good. Hauling will be coming up soon though. Want to get better at frog jugging first.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Boo Dawg,
tell us how you feel at the end of the month.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Somebody, please, kindly inform poor BooDawg that the sensitive metro types
are poorly suffered on ST; bad things have happened to their ropes.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Exercise 6 days a week and reduce you chance of getting cancer, heart disease and alzheimer's by 70%.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Almanac of the Dead
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Riley, Gary and I climbed 'climb and punishment' last Thursday. You know that the tv character Columbo, is based on the detective in Crime and Punishment? At one point, as he's leaving he turns around and confronts Raskolnikov with, "you know, just one thing bothers me....."
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Currently pouring through three books. All have some very interesting insights and aspects.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle
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"The Ascent of Rum Doodle"
fiction-1956
W.E. Bowman
I'm re-reading this parody of mountaineering expeditions. Info is on Wikipedia. I especially enjoyed the antics of the expeditions cook-Pong. The Guardian includes it in it's list of "1000 novels everyone must read". It was part of our groups' early '60's indoctrination to climbing.
KL
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Spirit of the Hills by Dan O'Brien. I don't know how it reached my bookcase
but I am pleasantly surprised. Best of all it involves Native Americans,
guns, a stoopid Forest Service district ranger, a classic Park Service LEO who
sees terrorists behind every tree at Mount Rushmore, and wolves!!!! Yes,
campers, this could be the go-to book for every tacohead! Interestingly it
takes place in the 70's so the 'terrorists' are the Native Americans trying to
take back the Black Hills.
I'm also reading Fur, Fortune, and Empire, by Eric Jay Dolin.
Did you know that BITD the Catholic Church permitted the eating of beavers'
tails on Fridays as the beaver lived underwater and
"such meat was viewed as "cold" and apparently unlikely to excite libidinous passions."
More interesting might be that the Indians saw the beaver's tail in the exact
opposite and it
"was usually reserved for the sachem or chief, and was, as a seventeenth-century
English observer of Indians in lower New England noted, "of such masculine
virtue, that if some of our Ladies knew the benefit thereof, they would desire
to have ships sent of purpose, to trade for the tail alone."
I've been thinking of starting a beaver appreciation thread but that could
get out of hand here.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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City at the End of Time - Greg Bear
Just finished, Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
An interesting read, he was kind of an over enthusiastic neophyte when he first started mountaineering (as were a lot of us), but he certainly learned some skills that allowed him to make it through that terrifying situation (somewhat self induced).
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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BITD the Catholic Church permitted the eating of beavers' and was
unlikely to excite libidinous passions."
Reilly, somebody isn't doing it right.
lol
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Slightly OT but the Art of War jogged my thinking..
For the chronic reader who finds themselves with no book at odd times;
There are stacks of free books available online, generally of the, 'I should read that someday' category. I try to keep at least one book like that on my phone so that I always have something to read. Besides the Art of War and the Hagakure, I recently downloaded Uncle Tom's Cabin into it. Alice in Wonderland, and the Winnie the Pooh books are in there as well, for comfort reading...
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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We put our bookshelf and hence library in storage earlier this summer, and while the monster bookshelf is finally back in place, the shelves are still mostly empty.
Somehow the Huber Brothers book The Wall wasn't put in storage, and I re-read it the other day. It's a decent read, and a reminder to take my kids out climbing more often.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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I'm reading The Sorrows of an American. It's the best book I've read for quite a while.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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anyone read Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins? my new favorite book, has me eating beets and thinking immortality is possible.
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