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nature
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back in Tuscon Aridzona....
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Aug 26, 2011 - 10:46pm PT
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LOL!
yes we do!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Aug 26, 2011 - 11:05pm PT
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"Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast."
by Milton Love
Milton Love is a very funny guy. Professor at UC Santa Barbara and recognized as one of the foremost experts on fish of the Pacific Coast.
Informative and one of the funniest books I have ever read.
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fsck
climber
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Dec 29, 2011 - 11:14am PT
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100 pgs into this
found my copy of this so it's next
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Gary
climber
That Long Black Cloud Is Coming Down
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Dec 29, 2011 - 11:28am PT
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Just finished the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence. I saw the movie ages ago, and was curious about the book when I ran across it at Powell's in Portland. The book is 10 times better than the film. What is most disturbing are the images of the Arabs, and how it looks like they haven't changed an iota since 1918 - still shooting in the air and acting like wild men. I think they will get a regime in Libya they deserve, and the farther we are away from them, the better.
And if you substitute "American" for "Turk" it's like reading today's newspaper.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dec 29, 2011 - 11:48am PT
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Toys, by James Patterson. Best seller, got it in my Christmas stocking. Completely stupid worthless total crap. I guess if Patterson puts his name on it, everyone buys it, because its not because of content. How low have we sunk if this is on the best seller list?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Dec 29, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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My last read climbing book was Bernadette McDonald's "Freedom climbers". The one before "Freedom climbers" was a spot-rereading of Lynn Hill's "Climbing Free".
I have recently read "Chasing the sun. The epic story of the star that gives us life." Richard Cohen.
I have read Cormac McCarty's "Blood Meridian" two times before and have been spot-rereading it lately.
All four books highly recommended.
The next book will possibly be Umberto Eco's "The Prague cementry".
I have never read "The Da Vinci Code".
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Dec 29, 2011 - 12:32pm PT
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I pick up a Faulkner every year or so to have my mind blown. Right now it's Go Down Moses.
Recently finished a biography of Bradford Washburn, it was good. Got a Kindle recently too, first book on it is Seven Years in Tibet. Yeah, I mostly read the old stuff.
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Dec 30, 2011 - 05:19pm PT
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Charles Frazer's Night Woods. He is the guy who wrote Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons.
11/22/63 by King. Give it a chance. What have you got to lose?
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enjoimx
Trad climber
Kirkwood, ca
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Dec 30, 2011 - 05:23pm PT
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Shantaram
It's pretty good so far, only just begun.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Dec 30, 2011 - 05:28pm PT
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God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
The Litigators by John Grisham
Westmorland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
11/22/63 by Stephen King
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DS66
Mountain climber
Dislocated
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Dec 30, 2011 - 06:01pm PT
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Just picked up:
BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN, BY STEVE HOUSE
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NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN about Sig Hansen's Family (deadliest catch)
How is the new King book about Kennedy? Anybody finish it yet?
Thanks
Dan
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Dec 30, 2011 - 06:20pm PT
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"Blink"
and, "The Hunger Games"
Getting some good ideas from this thread and going to head to the used bookstore soon.
Good one Sully, fun with fiction indeed :-)
-and eKat I really like the cover design of the book you're reading!
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Double D
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 06:48pm PT
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While not a climbing book, I just finished Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, an incredible non-fiction account of a Hurricane Katrina survivor. It's quite timely regarding our country's recent abandonment of our constitutional right to a trial.
Also in the middle of Born to Run, a hidden tribe of super athlete's... very interesting to anyone who's ever trained in the mountains.
Read On!
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Dec 30, 2011 - 06:59pm PT
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Born to Run Fantasic read. Looks not only at the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, but other facets of running including the cycles and types of injuries modern day runners experience, the history of Nike and the marketing behind selling running shoes and equipment (it's all BS). It's safe to say this book was quasi-responsible for the barefoot running trend of late. It's a fun read even for non-hardcore runners (like me). Recommended.
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Zander
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 07:03pm PT
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I received 1Q85 for Christmas but haven't started it. Looking forward to it.
I'm about halfway through Independence Day by Richard Ford. I'm enjoying it. A serious endeavor though.
I'm also halfway through the second book of a romp that starts with 1632 by Eric Flint. My bro from Seattle always sends me the start of a series for Christmas and this is it for '11. It's not great literature but it is a lot of fun. The premise is that a town of coal miners gets send back in time to Germany in 1632 into the middle of the Thirty Years War. Check it out.
Zander
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dirtbag
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 09:11pm PT
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Just finished "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner and am now reading "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave."
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dirtbag
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 09:14pm PT
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Donald, I read the "Hidden Life of Dogs" several years ago.
It had its moments, but I found the notion that a few of her neighbor dogs were "married" a bit much.
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Gene
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 09:23pm PT
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I'm browsing Roper's 1964 Climbers Guide to Yosemite. Thanks Harrison.
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dirtbag
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 09:42pm PT
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Okay, I'll do that! I was also planning to read "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian"
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