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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Sep 20, 2014 - 09:20am PT
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Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy and the Power to Heal by Tom Shroder, which I reviewed for The Washington Post.
Acid Test review
Pretty fascinating stuff about the therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs, particularly in the treatment of PTSD.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 20, 2014 - 05:18pm PT
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2014 - 07:04pm PT
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Gregory,
Does the book cover the use of Psilocybin for treatment of depression? I've read a couple of articles (or heard news stories on NPR) about research in that area.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 20, 2014 - 07:10pm PT
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Dead Souls was probably the first novel to address the twenty first century style of robber baron consciousness.
Man, were those backwoods Russians prescient or what?
Edit; published in 1842!!
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Sep 21, 2014 - 06:56pm PT
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Think of a Number by John Verdon. A detective novel as literature.
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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Sep 21, 2014 - 08:44pm PT
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The Plutonium Files, by Eileen Welsome, 1999. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning series written by Welsome in the Albuerque Tribune. A very well documented read.
Check out the thumb-nail sketch in Wikipedia at the very least. This is the second time I've read this book through the years,-- some really, really heavy stuff!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 22, 2014 - 07:44am PT
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Being 100 years since the start of The Great War and all...
No Parachute by Arthur Gould Lee. A good read about a no name fighter pilot in a no name squadron flying obsolete aircraft. Lee had an amazing run of good luck. He gives a portrayal of not only the horror of the air war, but also the joy of flying in those days. Imagine cruising at 20,000 feet in an open cockpit wood and doped fabric airplane, no oxygen, and with nothing more than an altimeter and a compass.
‘They could see him struggling to get clear of his harness, then half standing up. They said it was horrible to watch him trying to decide whether to jump. He didn’t and the machine and he were smashed to nothingness. … God imagine his last moments, seeing the ground rush up at him, knowing he was a dead man, unable to move, unable to do anything but wait for it. A parachute could have saved him, there’s no doubt about that. What the hell is wrong with those callous dolts at home that they won’t give them to us?’
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Sep 22, 2014 - 05:38pm PT
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Tobia--It does, briefly. The main focus is MDMA and PTSD, but those profoundly pychoactive drugs apparently have lots of therapeutic applications. I found it pretty interesting.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Sep 22, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Sep 22, 2014 - 06:32pm PT
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The Guns of August
dug it out for the 100 year annivesary of the events. Still chilling after many reads.
On the heroic King Albert of Belgium..."His ultimate passion was mountaineering, which, incognito, he pursued all over Europe."
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 22, 2014 - 07:52pm PT
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Albert is one of our fallen brethren.
A passionate alpinist, King Albert I died in a mountaineering accident while climbing alone on the Roche du Vieux Bon Dieu at Marche-les-Dames, in the Ardennes region of Belgium near Namur. His death shocked the world and he was deeply mourned, both in Belgium and abroad. Because King Albert was an expert climber, some questioned the official version of his death. Nonetheless, rumors of murder have been dismissed by most historians. There are two possible explanations for his death: the first was he leaned against a boulder at the top of the mountain which became dislodged; or two, the pinnacle to which his rope was belayed had broken, causing him to fall about sixty feet.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24912558
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Sep 22, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
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I've just re-read The Forever War. I think Dexter Filkins especially captured the contradictions wrapped around every aspect of the war in Iraq. There is a scene he describes where during the battle of Falluja in 2004, amidst the sound of guns and bombs, one can hear the rally from the local minaret to the neighborhood people to pick up their weapons and fight the invading Americans. At the same time, the Marines are blasting Hell's Bells by AC/DC at full volume on an outdoor sound system they had brought along to help with battle psyche.
I read And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini at the end of the summer. I just really enjoy how his novels span lifetimes, and his descriptions of Afghanistan and its culture. As with his other books, one feels the regrets that his characters tend to carry throughout their lives, but ultimately his stories are uplifting.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Sep 22, 2014 - 09:49pm PT
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Blood Brotherhoods, John Dickie's 800 page account of the rise of organized crime in Italy since 1860 or so:
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brotherhoods-John-Dickie/dp/034096393X
What happens when an entire society is corrupted by extortion, graft and murder. A real page turner. I like to read it in short snippets over breakfast. It's good in a way for the USA that Christian Sunday School cadets like Herbert Hoover built and entrenched themselves in the FBI and DOJ where they remained incorruptible (if reactionary) Christian soldiers. Now the Italian police force on the other hand . . . !!!!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 23, 2014 - 02:55am PT
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hey there say, sierra ledge rat... man oh man, what a book!
"the backyard blacksmith"
:)
say, please, wow, hope you can post on what things you learn to make:
in the 'what are you building thread'
:)
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Sep 23, 2014 - 03:36am PT
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Edward abbey
Desert Solitaire
One of the best nature/ society books ever !
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Sep 23, 2014 - 05:40am PT
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just finished H.W. Brands' biography of Grant--superb writing about the most underrated and underappreciated general in american history
also read Winston Grooms' "Shiloh" and "Vicksburg"
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Sep 23, 2014 - 06:23am PT
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De spam bump
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Sep 23, 2014 - 12:27pm PT
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I don't read anymore.... in fact I may have forgotten how. ha
But books on tape, Teaching Company University lectures and Podcasts keep me going.
Just finished a great pod-cast on Genghis Khan. Great "read". 5 free pod-casts of about 1.5 hours each. What I guy he was. Biggest empire in human history I believe. From Beijing to Turkey or something... even into parts of Russia. His 'hordes' used to ride 120 miles overnight, attack a city, murder 20,000 people then ride home.... non-stop (these 'facts' from some other book I read years back). Kind of like the nose in a day. Imagine 20,000 of the most talented horsemen and dynamic archers in history galloping down on your town. They regularly would kill every single man women and child. Even sent teams back a few days later to make sure no one had survived.
They say he may have been responsible for 60,000,000 deaths. Hitler, Stalin and Mao couldn't compare.
anyway... the pod cast. Dan Carlin, hardcore history. The ones I just finished are titled 'Wrath of the Khans'. Real page turners to say the least.
http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive/Show-43---Wrath-of-the-Khans-I/Mongols-Genghis-Chingis
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Sep 27, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
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Two books:
World Order, Henry Kissenger
The Wondrous Life of Oscar Woa, Diaz
Both awesome reads, depending on the mood of the moment. Been reading both for a few weeks now. Should be able to finish one or both now that we're on school break here on Tassie.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Sep 27, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
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Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales.......fascinating stuff.
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