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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Check out Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 consecutive novels considered by many to be the best historical fiction ever written. The first book is Master and Commander - yes, the movie was taken from random bits of the series but has nowhere near the quality of the books themselves. If you like sea stories or tales of the Royal Navy, you'll never do any better. I've read all 20 more than once.
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sempervirens
climber
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Barbarian Days: A Surfer's Life, by William Finnegan. Just finished this, it was recommended on another thread here. It's sort of biographical and focuses on the surfing in the author's life. Includes a lot of discussion of waves. I thought it was great.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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That'll learn me not to unearth an old thread.
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Todd Townsend
Social climber
Bishop, CA
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A mystery, wrapped up in the fantasy world of the imagination of a 12 year old boy, growing up in Alabama in the early 1960's. Great storytelling, extremely enjoyable. Read it.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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These are all greatly worth your time:
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails by RJ Secor
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Gary Kinder wrote:
Ship of Gold (In the deep blue sea)
A phenomenal telling that describes the sinking of the USS Central America in 1857 juxtaposed with the modern and immensely technical search for the treasure-laden ship...
Loved this non-fiction narrative.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Wild Trees. Rigged. Where Clouds Can Go ( if you can do 19th century), A Ladies Life in the Rockies, The Professor and the Madman.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Try watching the series Ballers on HBO instead. You'll never make it through all the books recommended! (and The Rock is quite a stud)
;>)
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Gary's right - Catch 22.
Almost anything Philip K. Dick wrote.
Jack Vance if you like science fiction with amazing universes and conversations.
Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey series if you like sea stuff.
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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InnerCity--I really enjoyed Ship of Gold as well. Although I think there's a pretty substantial epilogue to that story that isn't in the book. Lots and lots of lawsuits. Worth flexing your google muscle to investigate.
Traditionally, the loss of the SS Central America has been considered a contributing cause of the Panic of 1857. Although serious modern economic analysis reasonably places the lion's share of the blame in other quarters.
I read all of the Patrick O'Brien novels when I was installing the infamous ball washers, which gets mention--and hopefully a laugh--in Enduring Patagonia. Loved every one. The books, not the ball washers. The guy who invented those is now at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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TooTall539
Social climber
Maine
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In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner
The Klondike by Pierre Berton
The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet
Trout Fishing In America by Richard Brautigan
Maine N.H. based:
Tall Trees,Tough Men by Robert Pike
We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich
Randall Probert a retired game warden now living in Bethel who has self published several books loosely based on his experiences in northern Maine. A quick enjoyable read. Easily available on Amazon Kindle.
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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"(Anyone read Patrick Rothfuss? Do you think he will EVER finish?)"
Yes! I was totally captivated by the first book. Second was good. No idea when the third will come out.
Have you read The Slow Regard of Silent Things? Did you enjoy it?
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Sep 28, 2016 - 05:29pm PT
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Bump 'cause I finished Angle of Repose and ready for a new suggestion....
Something historical &/or non-fiction...I love Stegner, McPhee...
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John M
climber
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Sep 28, 2016 - 05:33pm PT
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Joe Hill.. by Stegner ( based on history )
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Sep 28, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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Angle of Repose and ready for a new suggestion....
My all time fav book.
Have you read his other stuff. "Crossing to Safety", "Big Rock Candy Mountain"....both very good and very different from Angle.
Susan
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 28, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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Fossil Climber, I knew I liked you for some reason. Two goes through the
series for me and trying to put off a third go for reasons of a large stack
of bought books pining to be read. As a sailor O'Brian's knowledge, wholly
gained by perusing the Admiralty's captains' logs and such, is impressive.
According to our inimitable Guido, who took the blighter sailing once,
'e's a right lubber! His birding knowledge is equally impressive and by
all accounts genuine.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Sep 28, 2016 - 06:37pm PT
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LOVED. IT.
The last few chapters were riveting...the symbolism of the rose garden, and Lyman's dream were especially intense.
I read 'West of the 100th Meridian' years ago, which put me onto Stegner. 'Angle of Repose' was a wonderful fusion of history and human experience, and as Stegner found parallels between his grandparents, father, and current life, so too did I find those parallels in my own life.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Sep 28, 2016 - 08:51pm PT
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uh oh, I missed lab rat's post back in august. Yes, I read Slow regard and I really liked it. I think he has a monumental case of writer's block and we won't see the next book for 10 years.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Sep 29, 2016 - 03:36pm PT
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"Skeletons on the Zahara"
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