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A Wolf Called Romeo. by Nick Jans.
With my 7 year old son. 3/4 the way through and have a bad feeling about the ending...
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Light reading:
The Dragon Of Never Was , book2 of of two, the 1st book is Hatching Magic.
Ann Downer
.Smart Fantasy, not dark, whimsical fun to read.
Heavy reading;
Huxley ; both,
Doors of perception and ,more, Brave New World.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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The Third Gate by Lincoln Child and The Circle by David Poyer.
I've read a couple of the Dan Lenson books by Poyer, but recently obtained all the rest, so I'm back at his first story: when Lenson is an ensign. I really enjoy naval stories - not quite sure why, but 60 years ago I almost went into NROTC but chose AFROTC instead.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2015 - 04:32am PT
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I am looking forward to reading this, I always wondered what Scout did with herself as an adult.
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite books,as is the film.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I guess I'll reread Mockingbird in anticipation.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2015 - 11:29am PT
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Sullly, i don't buy into the theory that Capote penned the novel for Harper Lee.
Of course, that doesn't mean to say it is not possible; but in my mind not likely. Since the book deals with a lot of realities in Harper Lee's life, I would offer that Capote may have indirectly been involved in Lee's writing the story that centered on the events in Monroeville. As you stated, there is the idea that Dill is modeled after Capote. The idiosyncratic personalities of the two, Dill and Capote, can't be dismissed as pure coincidence or happen-chance .
Add the realism of Lee's father being a real life attorney who was involved in defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman would certainly be branded on both of Lee's and Capote's mind forever. I'm sure that as children in that era the two friends spent a great deal of time discussing the event.
It is interesting that the authors spent time in NYC, just prior to Lee's publishing of the book and that she did research for Capote in Kansas for his book In Cold Blood. Payback? I doubt it, just friend's helping friends.
My thoughts are not intended as argumentative, just my thoughts, pure and simple.
I took a course in college on Southern Authors in Southern Literature. It involved a look at the names anyone that reads would name as Southern. I have to say Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were two at the bottom of my favorites list. At the other end were Walker Percy, Pat Conroy, William Faulkner and a few more I can't bring to mind.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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I'm doing a few pages at a time with Anna Karenina, and love it so far. I haven't read any other Tolstoy or Dostoevsky works yet, but had a false start on Crime and Punishment about 20 years ago.
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski - A history of Poland's martyrdom at the hands of Hitler and Stalin, as well as an account of this nation's disproportionate contribution to Allied victory in World War Two.
The book also examines the appalling betrayal of Poland by the Western Allies, especially in the face of its brutal post-war occupation by the Soviets.
A must read for any history buff with a serious interest in broadening their understanding of the horrors of WW II endured in Eastern Europe.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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"God's Middle Finger" about the lawlessness in the heart of the Sierra Madre.
Pretty good. Cheers Tobia!
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway
Just finished it. Great reading for me. Probably not for everyone. More drinking per page than any book ever written. It's basically a bunch of cool people who go drinking in Paris, then Spain. There is a little bit about bullfighting, a tiny bit about trout fishing. Not much sex. Just drinking. But in a good way.
The Last Season, Eric Blehm
Mid book. About the Search for Sequoia back country ranger Randy Morgenson, who went missing in 1995. I believe I met Morganson once and I've traveled the trails of SeKi backcountry enough to be well oriented. Not actually enjoying it that much. Too much personal detail. I'm glad to see the big dedication to Patty Rambert, a lost friend, who did quite a bit to promote the book in the LA Sierra Club scene.
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi edited by Larry Siems
I'm about half way through it. Good book, and it reads as if "you can't make this stuff up!".
The sad thing is that they have yet to charge the poor man, with anything, and he has been in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. He had previously been rendered to Jordan, and then to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. A federal judge ordered his release in March 2010, but the U.S. contested the decision Never charged with a crime!
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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That looks like an interesting one Lynne. Thanks. On to the Amazon wish list it goes.
Just ordered Neil Gaiman's new collection of short stories. He's almost always excellent, and one of my favorite authors.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2015 - 08:46am PT
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Sullly, Change is seldom seen in these parts. Were you in LaGrange? The college there has grown; but the town itself refuses to grow. In some ways that is good; but as related to the attitude you described, it seems to be unable to change. Surprising, as learning institutions are usually the springboards where change originates. I don't know why.
So much for thread drift.
Just started American Sniper (Chris Kyle) along with Problems with Pain (C.S. Lewis).
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Feb 12, 2015 - 05:14pm PT
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the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok
(the first Viking)
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 12, 2015 - 06:21pm PT
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I'm speeding through: "In The Kingdom of Ice." It's about an American North Pole expedition that went up towards the pole though the Bering Sea in 1879. It of course came to grief, & their ship went down after being locked in the ice for 1 1/2 years. At the moment, the crew is going across the ice to Siberian islands. (I know most of them survive.)
An absolute page-turner epic story, with a lot of great history in it. Yeah, it is nearly another Shackleton story, but I haven't finished it yet.
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Spider! Re your mention!
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway
Just finished it. Great reading for me. Probably not for everyone. More drinking per page than any book ever written. It's basically a bunch of cool people who go drinking in Paris, then Spain. There is a little bit about bullfighting, a tiny bit about trout fishing. Not much sex. Just drinking. But in a good way.
During a quest in my 20's to read all Hemingway's books, I read that one. I could relate to some of it, including the drinking & the fishing. It of course ends up in Pamplona for the "Bull-Running." So far, the only Hemingway books I've read twice are: "Farewell to Arms" & "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
Besides, my old man used to drink with Hemingway, as did most Ketchum Idaho males in the early 1960's.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Feb 12, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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ragnar comes with a comapanion, too
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 12, 2015 - 06:58pm PT
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The Madonnas of Echo Park
-Brando Skyhorse
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 12, 2015 - 09:26pm PT
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sully! Thanks for the feedback. I do have a fair number of 1st person Hemingway stories from his time in Ketchum in the early 1960's, which include my father destroying his suicide shotgun.
I'm still not happy with how I've put the stories together, but I will hopefully share them one of these days.
Yeah! I've been in the suicide room.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Julia Phillips (RIP) does an awesome job of telling it like it is.
Ever wonder how movies are really made?
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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12 Years a Slave. It's got to be better than the movie!
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