Jebus H Bomz
climber
Reno, Nuh VAAAA duh
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I wish the Steve House book chronicled his 2010 accident and subsequent recovery. That would be a wild couple of chapters indeed!
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Borut
climber
french, spider, cheater
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check the "Speaking" Tab
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Donald Thompson
Trad climber
Los Angeles,CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2012 - 01:40pm PT
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"The Lonely Crowd" by David Reisman
What an excellent read. A great companion volume to Erich Fromms " Escape from Freedom"
"Western Civilization: The Renaissance to the Present" by j.Russell Major
An long overlooked book but thorough,exhaustive, and well written.
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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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Donald Thompson
Trad climber
Los Angeles,CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
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Another explanation of the cosmos for the layman but with some very interesting and very memorable metaphors, especially as regards the Big Bang
Howard Bloom is trip: an irrepressible atheist who attempts in his book to explain, on his own terms ,how creative and magnificent, and paradoxical the physical universe truly is.
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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 - 03:00pm PT
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Julian by Gore Vidal. Early Christianity and its politics. Fascinating
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eKat
Trad climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
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Mar 22, 2013 - 03:05pm PT
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Right now?
MacBook!
:-)
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Mar 22, 2013 - 04:36pm 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 - 05:15pm 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 - 05:17pm 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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rrider
climber
Mckinleyville, Ca
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:46pm PT
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Kind of a tangled-up presentation of a huge subject. Some good history to ponder plus the usual dialectics. The author's original ideas are in la-la-land sometimes; but other times he has a few valid points to make as well. My opinion is that humans are nowhere near the end that the author rhapsodizes about; and we will constantly evolve new forms of "good" political/economic systems which will in turn become corrupted in new unforseen ways. Freedom does that.
97 reviews@: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57981.The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man
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Hankster
Social climber
Golden, CO
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:49pm PT
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The Rise and Fall of he English Empiew.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:52pm 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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