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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 17, 2013 - 09:05pm PT
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The Outpost.
Combat Outpost Keating, Nuristan Afghanistan. Excellent!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2013 - 09:04am PT
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Planet Largo.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 26, 2013 - 07:52am PT
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Yer just a pinkneck if you have read the sequel.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 27, 2013 - 03:16pm PT
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Blood, Iron and Gold
Fascinating, excellent read.
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adam d
climber
CA
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Nov 27, 2013 - 03:50pm PT
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Nov 27, 2013 - 06:06pm PT
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Nov 27, 2013 - 10:26pm PT
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
first of a trilogy-subtle amazing book about an end of the world.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 27, 2013 - 10:46pm PT
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The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
How to land an A330 Airbus
Next up: Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Nov 30, 2013 - 10:31am PT
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Vanished, by Wil S. Hylton, which I reviewed for the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Good book.
I can't link you directly to the review, you'll catch the WSJ paywall if I do, but I think I can link you to a google search, and by clicking the top link you'll get past the paywall to the full text of the review.
Here's the search that should do it.
And yes, I'm a bit miffed that they spelled my name wrong. Also, Ghoulwe gets a tip of the hat for some hilarious fact checking on this one.
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Nov 30, 2013 - 06:31pm PT
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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The story takes place in Alaska in 1920. Its a novel about a couple homesteading and discover a mysterious little girl who calls herself Faina. She is mysterious and appears after the couple create a little snow girl that they decorate with mittens and a scarf. She is a child of the woods and was inspired by a classic Russian fairy tale of a snow maiden.
I am half done with it and I find it hard to put down.
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enjoimx
Trad climber
SLO
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Nov 30, 2013 - 07:15pm PT
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Russ Walling...I read Storming Heaven, it was good. I would also recommend "Breaking Open the Head" by Daniel Pinchbeck, along that same topic.
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Thanks to Stahlbro for recommending "Gunfighters and Outlaws"
Really great book on the local history of Bodie and Aurora mining towns.
I highly recommend you read this before you visit Bodie if you are planning on going, it will make the experience much better. I have been to Bodie, but want to go back now that I have read the book and put names, faces and/or stories to the past residents who lived there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sully, I've seen five of the Pittsburgh Cycle at the Mark Taper Theatre.
Every one was a gem. He is surely one of the top ten all-time greats.
Claud, I'm reading Pete Aguereberry, Death Valley Prospector. Add it
to yer list, mon ami (Pete was French Basque).
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Cool, thanks Reilly, will do. I'm reading the other one you recommended about mining towns.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis.
A bit slow and long, written in 1926, but a fascinating, vivid character study. Brings to life the culture and people of the Midwest in the early 1900s.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Subtitled: "Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason":
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Faith-Religion-Terror/dp/0393327655
Hey, why not a new ecumenical movement to deconstruct Islamic, Christian and Jewish fundamentalism and literal interpretation of religious texts?
An idea whose time has come as Christian and Muslim mobs kill each other on the streets in Africa. Another "100 Years War" in the making, this time with WMDs?
So much for the Victorian compromise and the myth of progress.
"Interestingly, Harris is not just focused on debunking religious faith, though he makes his compelling arguments with verve and intellectual clarity. The End of Faith is also a bit of a philosophical Swiss Army knife. Once he has presented his arguments on why, in an age of Weapons of Mass Destruction, belief is now a hazard of great proportions, he focuses on proposing alternate approaches to the mysteries of life." - Amazon review
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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1491
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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The Maestro Myth by Norman Lebrecht.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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ENTER AT YOU OWN RISK
I'll admit I was curious how the genres could collide. No more. If someone asks me to make an expression of disbelief, I know how to do it now, because that was stuck on my face for the entire time reading that webpage. I don't know if it's worse someone dedicated enough time to make books like this, or that there is potentially a market that inspired their creation.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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I'm currently reading a publisher's proof copy of The Pagan Lord, the 7th volume in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales series; excellent novels of the Alfred the Great era in British History. I'm an Amazon Vine reviewer; they send me free books to read and comment upon.
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