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Ben Emery
Trad climber
Australia via Bay Area via Australia...
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Has any one read a Narrow Road To The Deep North yet? It won the Mann Booker Prize this year.
Not yet picked up that one, but Richard Flanagan's back catalog is well worth checking out, especially "Death of a river guide" and "Gould's book of fish". Having lived in (or at least traveled to) Tasmania helps.
I'm currently re-reading Moby Dick and loving it, which a friend who read it at high school was a tad surprised by. I'm increasingly convinced that having to study classics at school completely ruins them for many.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Kind of opposite of Dark Winter.
The book is about how we must change our fundamental economic model (capitalism) in order to battle the effects of our over-charged CO2 machine.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 15, 2014 - 09:40am PT
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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, an edition that supposedly contains material deemed to disturbing for 1900.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Dec 15, 2014 - 10:20am PT
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Endurance- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Pretty darn epic, hard to conceive of anything more audacious in the history of humanity in terms of Man vs Nature. There was enough technology to make audacious things possible, but not so much as to make the effort seem contrived or trite. They pushed the state of the art technology to barely reach a state where survival was possible, and that only with an incredible amount of fortitude, skill, and perseverance. Maybe in terms of pushing Technology, Apollo 13 was similar... But it would have been more similar if it was a disaster on Mars, and it took a few years to unfold and suffer never being sure they would make it home, and then everyone surviving. I saw that Netflix documentary recreating just the open ocean travel part of Shackleton's adventure- the modern adventure looked like a weak cop-out in comparison (but still very far beyond what I would willingly subject myself to). It is even more of an eye-opener to see how much and how long the group went through other challenges even before the open ocean piece. I can't imagine the feeling of abandoning a ship that is being crushed by ice as you are carried farther from land on an unstable ice pack that will eventually melt out when you are hundreds if not thousands of miles from land.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Dec 15, 2014 - 10:23am PT
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The Selfish Gene~ Dawkins
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 27, 2014 - 08:47am PT
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Not unlike the blood and stone episode of a Doctor Who...
Sophocles,Faulkner & Kafka, yow! Now those are influences!
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Dec 27, 2014 - 08:51am PT
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I, Asimov
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Dec 27, 2014 - 12:12pm PT
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Anyone here read Dhalgren ? It's been recommended by a friend.
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krahmes
Social climber
Stumptown
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Dec 27, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
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On the last book of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun it is not the masterpiece like Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, but it is more accessible.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Dec 27, 2014 - 12:25pm PT
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Read Dahlgren years ago. It was a bit too trippy and wandery for me. But I'm a chunk younger than you and maybe you'll relate better having lived through the 60s and early 70s when I was a tyke.
I just finished "One Day as a Tiger" by John Porter, the biography of Alex MacIntyre. Which has it's own separate thread on ST. I liked it, but it was a bit depressing. Reminded me of This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson. The death toll in that group of elite British alpinists in the late 70s and 80s was terrible. I moved to Seattle in the early 90s hoping to do that sort of climbing, but took another path. Reading those books, makes me glad I did, though part of me feels a missed adventure.
Now catching up on the Bernie Gunther novels by Philip Kerr, about a detective in Germany during the rise of the Nazis. I'd highly recommend them if you like detective novels and historical fiction.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2014 - 01:11pm PT
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Santa brought me Kelly Cordes' The Tower, the history of Cerro Torre.
So far I've only started looking at the pics and, believe me, there are
a LOT! WOOT! I have skimmed a few sections and it seems very well written, too.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Dec 27, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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Now catching up on the Bernie Gunther novels by Philip Kerr . . .
I like those!
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Dec 31, 2014 - 03:29pm PT
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I'm in the midst of "The Peripheral" by William Gibson. I'm pretty confused, but it could be the beer. ;-)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 31, 2014 - 03:49pm PT
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.... It's not the beer.....
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Dec 31, 2014 - 05:02pm PT
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"This is Your Brain on Music", Daniel Levitin. Good read if you like music. My son gave it to me for Christmas.
Happy New Year
Peace
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Bad Climber
climber
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Lots of killer ideas here--and such a literary bunch!
Just finished two climbing books:
The Calling by Barry Blanchard--excellent and must read.
Buried in the Sky about the stupid tragic events of 2008 on K2 when a bunch of people died during what was probably some of the best summit conditions that mountain has seen in many years.
Currently reading: One Summer: 1927 by Bill Bryson. Phreakin' awesome! All of his books are great. Got read 'em.
BAd
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mwatsonphoto
Trad climber
Culver City, CA
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Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey)
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