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Borut
climber
french, spider, cheater
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Good read; whether you have any interest in the Klamath or not.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Dispatches by Michael Herr, for the 7th or 8th time.
First published in 68 and considered at the time one of the finest pieces on the Vietnam experience.
It's evident that Coppola and Stone lifted entire scenes intact out of this book for Apocalypse Now and Platoon.
Herr's writing style seems to break all the rules and capture the sociopolitical paradigm of an era.
This work belongs with other Vietnam war must reads such as:
Vietnam (Stanley Karnow)
A Bright and Shining Lie (Neil Sheehan)
Chickenhawk (Rober Mason)
About Face (Dave Hackworth)
We Were Soldiers Once and Young (Moore and Galloway)
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Just received an amazon copy of Flight Behavior the latest Kingsolver novel.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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THE CAT FROM HUY
John Lawrence. non fiction.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Just finished "The New Jim Crow" or why there are 2.3 million mostly black men in prison in the USA. Important book.
Now I'm back on "Theology for the Third Millenium" by Hans Kung. Progressive (some might say heretical I suppose) catholic and highly interllectual theology. Loving it. For me it hits the sweet spot where the intellect and faith converge.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Mar 22, 2013 - 06:00pm PT
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Julian by Gore Vidal. Early Christianity and its politics. Fascinating
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Mar 22, 2013 - 07:36pm PT
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Just finished watching Showtimes's The Tudors and found this book via a Twitter connection. Very good so far. The court of Henry the VIII via the eyes of Thomas Cromwell.
Henry was one heck of a horndog!
Eric
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:15pm PT
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Just finished "Old Man's War," by John Scalzi. Great stuff! Not much of a sci-fi guy, but my son is, and he insisted I read it. Dang it...now I have to continue with the series.
The top of the back cover reads something like: "John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday: he visited his wife's grave, and he joined the army."
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:17pm PT
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A fascinating book about Henrietta Lacks whose cells were the foundation of cell cultivation in clinical research for all types of diseases. They were harvested unbeknownst to her and her family. There are all types of connections to segregation and medical services in the early 50s. Really astounding book!
Susan
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Mar 22, 2013 - 11:52pm PT
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Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher. Highly worthy.
(book that inspired Robert Redford's character Jeremiah Johnson)
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Apr 12, 2013 - 07:40pm PT
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The summit was a corniced crest of ice, and the precipices on the far side which plunged vertically down beneath us, were terrifying, unfathomable. There could be few mountains in the world like this. Clouds floated halfway down, concealing the gentle, fertile valley of Pakhara, 23,000 feet below. Above us there was nothing!
My wife gave me a first edition Annapurna by Maurice Herzog for Christmas. I had never read it before.
You also should check out Benediction by Hent Haruf. It is his new novel that takes place in his fictional, eastern Colorado town of Holt that his previous work was set in. Its a story of a character known simply as "Dad" who finds out he will die of cancer. Incredible dialog with fantastic character development
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Apr 24, 2013 - 09:30pm PT
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last couple of books:
Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson.
and now reading The Best and The Brightest by Halberstam.
(Halberstam could describe a mothball for seventy-five pages and I believe I would find it interesting.)
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Apr 24, 2013 - 09:51pm PT
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"The Red and The Black" -- Stendhal
"A Brief History of Time" -- Stephen Hawking
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:14am PT
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The Compleat Conductor by Gunther Schuller. He says everybody is doing it wrong, but him. Not sure I'll finish this one.
Lolita sure was a hoot, though.
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