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dirtbag
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Dec 30, 2011 - 10:07pm PT
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Oh no, ANYTHING but THAT!!! ;-)
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Dec 30, 2011 - 10:15pm PT
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Just finished "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner
My all time favorite book. You'll also like Big Rock Candy Mountain by Stegner.
Animals lovers.... How many of you have read "The Art of Racing In The Rain".
Forget the Kleenex box...break out the jumbo roll of paper towels.
Just finished __"Sarah's Key". Another tear jerker.
Susan
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fosburg
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
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DS66, I read 11/22/63 last week, it's a piece of shiite. Writing valid historical fiction might be a pretty high calling.
Curious about that new Murakami someone mentioned upthread, that guy is a trip.
I'm reading Arthur & George by Julian Barnes right now.
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DS66
Mountain climber
Dislocated
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Dec 30, 2011 - 10:36pm PT
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fosburg, thanks. As I expected, 3/4 of the way through THe Dome by King. Not like he used to be I don't think. Understandable after 75 books or so.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Dec 30, 2011 - 10:38pm PT
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@Sully....don't you just hate when you go on endless backward mapping? At least yours sounds fun. In grad school ( way before Internet) I used to get hung up on back tracking through citations and references on this endless backward chain....like it was a surprise. ... The writer had usually bastardized the original authors' intent. Like a game of telephone at a birthday party.
Looking forward to January...bunch of my favorite authors have new books coming out.
Susan
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DS66
Mountain climber
Dislocated
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Dec 30, 2011 - 10:59pm PT
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Anyone read Legends of the Fall? Any good?
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Dec 30, 2011 - 11:14pm PT
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I loved "art of racing in the rain"!!!!
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laughingman
Mountain climber
Seattle WA
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Dec 30, 2011 - 11:24pm PT
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Wild swan by Jung Chang...
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
note: Cao Cao is super cool.
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fosburg
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 11:33pm PT
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Hey laughingman , ever read 9 Stories by J. D. Salinger?
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Gene
climber
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Dec 30, 2011 - 11:36pm PT
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laughingman,
What do you think of Wild Swans? I had a difficult time accepting Jung's potrayal as even close to the truth.
g
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Dec 30, 2011 - 11:58pm PT
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The Stephen Mitchell translation or Ranier Maria Rilke's Selected Poetry
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Dec 31, 2011 - 09:45am PT
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"Tillich: A Guide for the Perplexed" O'Neil (about the thought of Paul Tillich, 20th century protestant theologian proposing Christianity without the myths)
and on my I-Pod for by bicycle workouts, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" - makes me sick of my race (or of the human race).
and
"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the future of Religion" Sam Harris: he's one of the neo-atheists who are on a campaign to erase religion in all its forms from the face of the earth. Not what I expected but interesting all the same. Did you know that all evil is the result of religion? Its true, and Sam will tell you so, over and over again.
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BBA
climber
OF
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Dec 31, 2011 - 10:30am PT
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Gary - You could be right about us being the Turks of today. I just finished The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, an interesting case history. It seems we have our own empire today run by old, crazy, ugly surrogates all over the place left over from the cold war to whom money is given which is used for military control. Maybe it's crumbling? It is a different model than the British had, but it appears to work for our moneyed classes. The sad conclusion (my deduction, it isn't mentioned in the book) is that Osama may have had a point in wanting to attack us because our troops are stationed in their lands. No one wants a foreign presence running their lives whether directly or through surrogates.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Dec 31, 2011 - 10:35am PT
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1Q84
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fosburg
climber
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Dec 31, 2011 - 02:45pm PT
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How are you liking Murakami's new one Wade?
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buckie
Trad climber
Oregon
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Dec 31, 2011 - 06:39pm PT
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Freinds of the Abyss, by Scott Schmidt. Look it up, I won't ruin the ending but I think you can figure it out.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Dec 31, 2011 - 06:47pm PT
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Kevin- it's Murakami supersized. read it 3/4's of the way through then put it down for awhile before finishing. There's some particularly brilliant structural stuff I won't spoil by discussing. If you want it email me or facebook an address and I'll send it. Happy New Year to you and yours.
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Dec 31, 2011 - 07:46pm PT
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The Road by McCarthy. He just gave Oprah his first interview. He says he wrote it in a few weeks and that it was like taking dictation. It was dedicated to his eight year old boy and written as a love story for him.
I have not read it for a long time but I have read it twice. I am going to have to do it again now. It is that good.
http://www.oprah.com/oprahbookclub/Cormac-McCarthy-Comments-on-Passages-from-The-Road
Edit: looks like the interview was from 07
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Elizabeth George, believing the Lie, I really like British mysteries. Although an American she writes wonderful Brit mysteries.
Susan
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