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Hoots
climber
Toyota Tacoma
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Oct 22, 2010 - 11:51am PT
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Two recent faves include:
The Glass Castle- Jeanette Walls (An amazing, page turning memoir)
Undaunted Courage- Stephan Ambrose (The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition)
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Mad
Social climber
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Oct 22, 2010 - 11:57am PT
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.....won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Oct 22, 2010 - 12:58pm PT
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Just finished the Grapes of Wrath.....Steinbeck, in my quest to read all of his books.Great read! This book was an eye opener to a better understanding of what the farm workers go through now. Plus, it talked about the area I live in. Now what to read next??????
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 22, 2010 - 01:02pm PT
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I thought the Grapes of Wrath was about SuperTopo?
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Johnny K.
Mountain climber
California
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Oct 22, 2010 - 01:03pm PT
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Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Oct 22, 2010 - 02:46pm PT
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Don't waste your time with all those touchy-feely contemporarys.
Celine...Journey to the End of the Night. Or his trilogy, Castle to Castle: North: Rigadoon.
Rip your head off.
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Fingercrack
Trad climber
Just left of there
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Oct 22, 2010 - 03:02pm PT
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Reilly wrote:
"I thought the Grapes of Wrath was about SuperTopo? "
perhaps you meant "the ingrates of wrath"
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 22, 2010 - 03:05pm PT
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Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Oct 22, 2010 - 03:13pm PT
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Up And Down California by William H. Brewer
The journal of Brewer while leading the California Geological Survey of 1860-1864
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Dickbob
climber
Colorado
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Mcreel mentioned Little Bee by Chris Cleave. It crossed my path and was very well written. Based on some facts of the disturbing oil conflict in Uganda.
Full Dark, No Stars by King. Four Novellas. The first and the last are the best. For those in the know...all things must follow the beam. 19
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2010 - 10:09pm PT
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Wow- I've got a list long enough to keep me going till I'm like.. 99 years old by now. Well... maybe just 92 once I filter out the touchy-feely ;)
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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BR, yea "Up and Down California" awesome read!!!
Here's two great fiction stories, full on life epic's:
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", by Johathan Safran
"Cutting for Stone", by Abraham Verghese
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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The Road to Reality
Rodger Penrose
I probably won't live long enough to finish that one, let alone comprehend it all.
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Definitely not highbrow literature, but Wilbur Smith writes entertaining adventure stories about ancient Egypt, Dutch and English pirates, white settlers in Africa, etc.
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