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kuan
Sport climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 27, 2006 - 03:49am PT
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I'm cleaning my apartment and putting some books away into storage. This is something I've been meaning to do for a while for the sake of freeing up shelfspace, but I just haven't gotten around to it. It's really so hard to do, since books are so much more than the pages they're written on. It reminds me of going through an old address book, and erasing the phone numbers of friends whom I no longer talk to, but have good memories of.
So I'm just curious. What are some books that you've read that you keep reading over and over again? And, if you feel like it, what is this book about? Why do you keep coming back to this book? Do you find yourself reading it at certain landmark times in your life, such as break ups, new beginnings, etc...
Since I'm putting mine away and going through them as I type this, I have several:
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
The Girls of Huntington House, by Blossom Elfman
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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Sep 27, 2006 - 07:40am PT
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enduring patagonia (why not climbing related?)
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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:38am PT
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Anything by Terry Tempest Willams (no relation), but especially
The Open Space of Democracy. . .
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Aya
Uncategorizable climber
New York
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:42am PT
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I have a whole bookshelf full of books I read over and over again - it's sort of the shelf of books I rotate through the bathroom...
But coming to mind as books in particular are the Lord of the Rings series, Little House on the Prairie and all of Roald Dahl's and John Bellairs' childrens books...
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:55am PT
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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins was always a fav of mine...
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:26am PT
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They kept finding oil?
I've read Catch 22 about six times now. It is the masterpiece of 20th century American Lit. It's like an onion, layer after layer. First time I read it, it was the funniest book ever written. The last time I read it, it was the saddest.
"Help! Police!"
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:33am PT
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Currently, more or less
Crime & Punishment F. Dostoyevsky
Neuromencer William Gibson
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
Fierce Invalids home from hot Climates Robbins (sometimes JBP (as noted above)too
all the Clinton Mckinzie novels
It changes over time though, for decades The lord of the rings books were heavily in the rotation, may have read them 50 times in the last 36 years. Some things stay with you "Aragorn sped on up the hill..."
definite Heinlein, Asimov, Vonnegut, Burgess phases.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:53am PT
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I'm pretty conservative and a Republican but I always come back to Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. I think his writing gritty and raw. I had always loved the mountains but in the past decade have come to love the desert even more and Abbey is partly responsible for that. Thanks Ed.
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sketchy
Trad climber
Vagrant
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:53am PT
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Endurance, great for reminding me how good I have it.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Sep 27, 2006 - 11:24am PT
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera
Love and Garbage Klima
The Stranger Camus
La Maladie de la Mort Duras
The Lorax Seuss
Love Story Seigal
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roslyn
Trad climber
washington
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Sep 27, 2006 - 11:28am PT
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jitterbug perfume is sitting beside my bed.............just about to start it again.
i'm a big dickens fan
tale of two cities
bleak house
oliver twist
bronte sisters too
jane eyre
wuthering heights
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Sep 27, 2006 - 11:31am PT
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Books by Joseph Conrad.
"The Magus" by John Fowles.
Shakespeare's tragedies.
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slobmonster
Trad climber
berkeley, ca
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Sep 27, 2006 - 11:33am PT
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Heart of Darkness
Oil Notes, by Rick Bass
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pissed
Trad climber
Lake Placid NY
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Sep 27, 2006 - 11:51am PT
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Its Not About The Bike - Lance
Rethinking Golf - Chuck Hogan
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Hootervillian
climber
the Hooterville World-Guardian
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:03pm PT
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i'd say, Roth Portnoy's Complaint, but these days, with the internet, i can never get all the way through the dang thing.
anybody got a good liver and onions recipe?
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thedogfather
climber
Midwest
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:05pm PT
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"Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman"
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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kuan
Sport climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2006 - 12:25pm PT
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Euroford, I meant this post is not climbing related. The book can be whatever.
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:25pm PT
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Snowcrash
The Fountainhead
1984
The Count of Monte Christo
100 Years of Solitude
Childhood's End
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dufas
Trad climber
san francisco
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:28pm PT
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anything by Kesey
anything by Mailer
Tale of Two Cities
Gravity's Rainbow
McPhee's Geology Trilogy
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:33pm PT
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fattrad, making that movie was doomed to failure from the start. That book was just too deep. If you'd never read the book it was probably OK.
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DavisGunkie
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:35pm PT
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i tend to read most of myh books over and over again since i hate dropping money on new books that i don't know will be good or not
i tend to read Christopher moore books over and over again. Currently rereading David Sedairis(sp?) stuff again.
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Elcapinyoazz
Mountain climber
Anchorage, Alaska
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:56pm PT
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Back when I had the Westy: "How to keep your volkswagen alive" Read about once a week prior to turning wrenches.
“Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefevre
"Market Wizards II" by Jack Schwager
"Technical Analysis Explained" by Martin Pring
"Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets" by John Murphy
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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Sep 27, 2006 - 12:58pm PT
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again, i'm just being a smartass.
thanks for all of the great reading recomendations!
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jackass
climber
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:02pm PT
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Coming out of the Ice by Victor Herman
You won't forget it. I always go back to it. Hard to find, but is worth finding.
and the very best:
The Little Prince
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hardman
Trad climber
love the eastern sierras
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:15pm PT
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one i often read it has to be the funniest book too
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:15pm PT
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Fools Progress Edward Abbey
Dragon Lance novels
Incarnations of Immortality Piers Anthony
Big Wall climbing Strassman
Foucault, Nietzche and Plato (tho it's been awhile for any of them)
Yosemite Climber (not really reading as much as drooling)
mostly guidebooks really, california, though I will pick up the occasional PNW or Colorado book while on the pooper.
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goatboy smellz
climber
northboulder, co
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:20pm PT
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how about authorz?
good to go!
sun tzu
todd swain
anton chekhow
richard rossiter
alan watts
lou dawson
charles buowski
bernard gillet
pleaze +...
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Elcapinyoazz
Mountain climber
Anchorage, Alaska
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:20pm PT
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Fatty, I've read all the value guys. And when valuations are reasonable again (cheap) again, I'll put O'Neils CANSLIM to work for some long term additions to the taxable buy and hold portfolio.
But in the slop and chop of the last 4 years, I've made my loot trading strictly on technicals. Swing trading hot/cold sectors (energy and homebuilders lately) and daytrading gappers. On the daytrades, half the time I don't even know what the company does or it's name...they're just symbols to me. As long as it's liquid and moving on significantly above avg volume, and I can get a consolidation zone to execute against I'll trade it.
You are an investor, I am a trader. Different methodology and approach, different view of capital. To dismiss TA is foolhardy, even for long term guys like yourself.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:22pm PT
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Endurance
Watership Down
Illusions
The Dark is Rising
Camp 4
And the book I read more as a kid as probably any book I've ever read since: Charolette's Web
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pc
climber
East of Seattle
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:35pm PT
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Currently, the ones I'm reading over and over again. Every night...
Green Eggs and Ham (Seuss)
Peter Rabbitt
The Goodnight Book
Wind in the Willows - K. Grahame (I try to imitate the cartoon voices when I read it, gotta love the weasels)
Aesop's Fables - Jack and the Beanstalk (mostly)
pc
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:42pm PT
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Authors? Thomas Berger, Steinbeck, Franklin W. Dixon ( a long time ago! )
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goatboy smellz
climber
northboulder, co
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:43pm PT
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watership down, will love & haunt me throughout my life...
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Loomis
climber
Praha,Ceská republika
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:52pm PT
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Melissa, happy to see that you like Czech authors, would like to recommend Jan Neruda's “Prague Tales” The poet (Chilean) Pablo Neruda chose his last name to pay tribute to his writing style. See the Movie IL Postino
Dogfather, Zen and the art... Read that one 4 times, very good read, each time another discovery/perspective. The sequel to Zen and the art…Lila, Pales in comparison.
And Catch 22 a brilliant book, Loomis.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 01:57pm PT
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Catch 22 for sure
Cryptonomicon--neal stephenson
Glad to see others had Snow Crash on the list, that book was fantastic. I should read it again... gotta love it when the main character's name is Hiro Protagonist. classic.
Mitch--go to the library dude! Buks is free there!
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paulj
climber
utah
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Sep 27, 2006 - 02:02pm PT
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"The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov.
A story about good and evil, Jesus and Pilate, true love, and the search for a good apartment in Moscow.
It's a new book everytime I read it.
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Sep 27, 2006 - 02:15pm PT
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Hmmm, mostly SF or Fantasy for me. I guess I like to escape reality when I read.
'Dune' series by Herbert
'Faded Sun' by Cherryh - Also 'Downbelow Station' and others in that Universe are all excellent
'Lord of Light' and 'Creatures of Light and Darkness' and 'Dilvish, The Damned' by Zelazny - all his books are great
'Earthsea Cycle' and 'The Lathe of Heaven' by Ursula Le Guin
'Galapagos' or anything else by Vonnegut
'Savage Arena' by Tasker - my favorite climbing book. The Boardman/Tasker Omnibus is a must read.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Sep 27, 2006 - 03:31pm PT
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"Green Eggs & Ham," by D. Seuss. No matter how many times I read it, that crazy, unexpected ending throws me for a loop everytime, you know?!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 03:38pm PT
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couple things
1) I really like the Catch-22 movie, not sure it Could be done better.-Of course it's not as good as the book.
2) Cryptominacron? No way! I think Neal lost it somewhere around then (he should have called it quits before and after the Vickes sketch). Quicksilver didn't do it for me either, I've been hovering around page 300 of the Confusion for over amonth, and may or may not finish it (okay I probably will, I do like Jack & Eliza)
Snowcrash was genius, the diamond age was a quirky success, I liked Zodiak, Big U had it's moments, it goes down hill from there (just my opinion)
-extended rant; Neal stephenson and Kim Stanely Robinson may have been seperated at birth. Their collective best work is bang-on brilliant, their other stuff is moments of brilliance buried in a morass of, something,
The Mars books rock, but I really don't get the other ones, they don't rock.
It all seems to work for 'somebody' though, so what do I know?
As for non linear reading;
You can always open,
the art of War,
The Watercourse way
Hagakure, Way of the Samurai
or Zippy
Randomly, and come across something meaningful to your day.
Oh yeah back ot, most read,
Grendel-John Gardiner the best perspective I've seen on that tail. Most of his books have have run laps through my eyes/ brain.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 03:56pm PT
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I should read that one, when I get around to it.
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smitty
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Ca
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Sep 27, 2006 - 04:06pm PT
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I've read "The way of the peaceful warrior" eight times.
"Caught Inside" is a close second...it resides in my bathroom!
I'm geared up to read "Lonesome Dove" again!
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John Vawter
Social climber
San Diego
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Sep 27, 2006 - 04:14pm PT
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I can't believe nobody put this one on their list:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson.
Also, Fup by Jim Dodge.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 05:04pm PT
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Hey Jaybro,
Cryptonomicon might be my favorite book ever. It's the only time I started rereading a book the same day I finished it! (it's like a 1000 pages for those who haven't seen it.) Love it.
Agree about his latest though... I read Quicksilver and thought it bogged down too much, and haven't read the next two. Diamond age and big U had their moments, but I wouldn't call them great. Snow Crash is an all time classic though. Long live the Deliverator!
Oh, and add The Lord of the Rings to the list. And Dune.
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BoKu
Trad climber
Douglas Flat, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 05:05pm PT
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Round the Bend by Nevil Shute
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Thomas
Trad climber
The Tilted World
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Sep 27, 2006 - 05:44pm PT
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Steppenwolf and Siddartha by Hermann Hesse should be required reading for any human being.
Separate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan, and Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda.
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine St. Exupery.
And, of course, LOTR...
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 05:49pm PT
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Is Zap Comix a book?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 06:23pm PT
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Nobody's mentioned 'The Iliad', or one of my fav's, 'The Odyssey' by Homer.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 06:28pm PT
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Interesting, Caught. Do you think the The Baroque Cycle audience is the same as Snow Crash's? Seems like they would appeal to different folks.
Gary, the one that comes back to me from Zap comix, is Philbert Desanex' 100,000th dream. I've read that over and over again!
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Sep 27, 2006 - 06:47pm PT
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naked lunch---william s. burroughs. try diggin' this one in only one read.
invisible man---ralph ellison. cause it's a masterpiece.
iron heel---jack london. the best he ever wrote. hunger and passion in that one.
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Sep 27, 2006 - 06:49pm PT
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Peter Mathiessen's "The Snow Leopard."
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 06:57pm PT
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jaybro,
all of stephenson's books focus (IMO) on tech breakthroughs of one nature or another. crypto was my fave, because of the two timelines that fed into each other, with related technologies helping the related protagonists in both timelines. Very slick.
I think he tried to do the same thing in the baroque cycle on a grander scale, and with technologies that we take for granted but were cutting edge around the time of Newton. But by expanding into three books instead of one, he stretched it out too far, and it got a little dull and slow. Plus, Elizabethan society and characters are less dynamic... and I think that's where he lost me. I could relate to Randy, and other Crypto characters, and WWII history is much more interesting to me.
but a lot of that is just my opinion (and plenty of speculation), since I grew bored and didn't finish the baroque books. Not sure where he ended up going with the alchemy and the physics...
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kuan
Sport climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2006 - 07:36pm PT
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hardman,
i love that book - Confederacy of Dunces! It is funny, but did you find it kind of sad too? Obese megalomaniac living at home with mom...
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neuroshock
climber
Chicago, IL
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Sep 27, 2006 - 07:38pm PT
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i found Cryptonomicon slow to start, but got much better one i was many pages in.
The Bourne Identity (the original...not the movie crap)
Neuromancer
Snow Crash
Rainbow Six
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
None Braver (book about USAF Pararescue ops in Afghanistan. special ops and your job is to save lives? awesome!)
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 07:40pm PT
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ender's game, good one.
Don't know about Bourne Identity though. I read it and liked it, but after reading a few Ludlum novels, you've read them all. (I've probably read about 10.) Oh, and no one ever sleeps in those books, makes me tired just reading them!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 07:58pm PT
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Caught, yeah that's what I thought was going on, too. I liked what he was trying to do (or I thought he was trying to do) in Crypto, but it didn't quite come together, for me. I think one of the things that makes me dissappointed with the Baroques, is that I thought he was getting the bugs out in Crypto, and the trilogy would make it all come to together; sigh. It seems to have had that effect for others (both my bros and my 25 yo nephew screamed through them and are happy that they did. WTF? maybe it's us?;-)
An example of a book I thought was successful in that vein, cutting edge of the past as sci-fi (for lack of a better way to put it),was
'The difference Engine,' William Gibson/Bruce Sterling. As a degreed paleontologist, anything that uses 'Punctuated Equilibrium™ as a theme and a metaphor, gets my attention!
Unfortunatley I think I was the only one whose attention was grabbed, as it was not wildly successful, I think. Wonder if SJ Gould read it?
Difference engine and Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition,' are the only books I can think of that I started rereading immediatley upon completion, like you mentioned.
Word up though, talk around the holiday dinner table at Chez Anderson is that Smart Wheels™ make a return in the last baroque!
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:05pm PT
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Some interesting collections of titles here.
I can't help but think that some of these lists are "books I
think are great" rather than "...over and over again"
For me, in terms of number of repeat readings, I'll list
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Chimera by John Barth
Tidewater Tales by John Barth
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Catch 22? Incredible, awesome, but I've only read it like 3
times.
Add to this A Confederacy of Dunces
and both of William Gibson's trilogies
Hey Kuan! re: Flowers for Algernon, do you mean the novel or
the original story? I've only read the story. A few repeats. I
find it exceedingly moving. I heard (way back when) that the
film "Charlie" was actually a good one but never saw it.
EDIT: Of course, The Odyssey. I still haven't figured out which
is my favorite translation. thx, bluering.
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:11pm PT
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The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis
The Leatherstocking Tales J. F. Cooper
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt
Bridge to Terebithia Katherine Patterson
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kuan
Sport climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2006 - 08:32pm PT
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scuffy b,
I mean the book - so i guess that would be the novel. Flowers for Algernone is such a good book!
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:35pm PT
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Hey jaybro,
Most people read Zap for Crumb, but I found S. Clay Wilson to be one very disturbed individual. The Checkered Demon is even on topic here.
"In other words, once you have read Wilson's work, nothing will shock you anymore."
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:37pm PT
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The Leatherstocking Tales, good entertainment.
Don't you think the opening to The Pathfinder is a bit strange?
We've got, as I recall, a ship's Captain and his (daughter, niece
or some such) actually walking up to Natty Bumpo (Deerslayer,
Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking) and that Delaware (What's
his name?)AT NIGHT IN THE FOREST and Surprising them! And these
are like the most badass woodsmen of their time?
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:38pm PT
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Thanks, Kuan. I'll grab next time I see it. I recommend the
story most highly.
sm
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:39pm PT
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Free tumblers, Gary?
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Michelle
Trad climber
If it's puny, don't waste my time.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:39pm PT
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I usually run about 4 books at a time, and since I don't sleep, I read most of the time. I always have books with me of different textures. I almost ALWAYS carry The Captains Verses with me in my bag. quick and dirty beauty.
"The Sparrow" and "Children of God" - Mary Doria Russell (GO READ THESE! math plus religion = outter space)
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (I still have the same book I got when I was 13, and I could NEVER get through Steppenwolf..)
Captains Verses - Pablo Naruda
The Belgarion and Mallorion series' - David Eddings
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series (especially "Obsidian Butterfly") - Laurell K. Hamilton
Supertopo forum - us
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Island of the Blue Dolphins - I forget (at the moment)
Wrinkle in Time - I forget (at the moment)
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
the list is longer. I read alot
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:46pm PT
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Authors - Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver and Larry McMurtry. Haven't read all of their books but have gone back to the ones I love.
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:51pm PT
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scuffy -
A bit?? You gotta be kidding! Try a LOT!
I love those books, though! Funny the things you get hooked on as a kid... especially considering how freakin' verbose Cooper is. Geez!
BB
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 08:55pm PT
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Michelle, did you like 'Children of God' as well as you did Sparrow? I really liked Sparrow, read it a several times, and was let down by the second book (my expectations, I know) but liked the explenations
A Wrinkle in Time= Madalain d'engle?
As far as my own list, these are all many times repeats (not the latter stephenson), though some Are also 'best' books.
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:02pm PT
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Wrinkle is on my list, too, Jay, just not as frequent of a reread as the others; stellar book!
Anyone care to opine on C. S. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy (Prelandra, et.al.)? I'm just curious as to other's thoughts on that one...
BB
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Mountain Man
Trad climber
Outer space
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:15pm PT
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Raymond Chandler
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:18pm PT
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Wrinkle, the happy medium, dark and stormy night, speed of thought, always a classic, probably only reread it once this century, though.
Perilandra etc, it's been too long, for details.
But, related, we should all lift an absinthe to Calvin's (Calvin & Hobbes) teacher Ms Wormwood, directly from The Screwtape letters.
Also what about the concept that Treebeard in LOTR, Is CS Lewis? giving lectures in a booming voice dwon the hall from where the philologist sat scribbling?
Okay, gotta go pull some plastic, but am I the only 'girl' here who explored the world of Anne of Green gables repeatedly once upon a time?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:26pm PT
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Mountian man, you're keeping me from climbing, but oh yeah, Raymond Chandler. Reread him before I even knew who Humphrey Bogaart was, then, what fun! (then I met Cilley and pondered fractals)
"If Raymond Chandler had been kidnapped by sexy alien stand up comics and whisked to the dark side of the moon, he might have written like William Gibson," Tom Robbins in a blurb on one of the Bridge books. -from memory, TR is way more articulate.
"She just wanna stay up all night, reading Raymond Chandler"- Jim Carroll, from reading Raymond Chandler, on the Catholic Boy album.
I guess I understand why I get along with the autistic among us.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 27, 2006 - 09:58pm PT
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scuffy: Free tumblers, Gary?
Nice day fer sumthin'
"I always wanted to be a children's book illustrator way back when, but I took some LSD and took a left turn graphically."
 S. Clay Wilson
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Anastasia
Trad climber
Near a mountain, CA
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:02pm PT
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Lord of the Rings trilogy
Anything written by Carl Sagan
Shakespeare
Iliad and Odyssey
Oxford collection of Poems
Freedom of the Hills
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TradIsGood
Fun-loving climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Sep 27, 2006 - 10:27pm PT
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JC!! Is this chick hot?
"Books you read over and over again (not climbing related)" and I do not even see it before 79 posts.
Did I miss a picture somewhere?
Whack a mole!
kuan = juan + rajmit - politics - earthquakes - space.
Camp 4, Surely you're Joking..., What Do You Care What Other People Think, Tao Te Ching, The Theory of Poker ('cause I do not play enough to remember it very well).
Climbing edit
Dick William's Guides.
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reddirt
climber
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Sep 28, 2006 - 08:23am PT
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in add'n to The Lorax, Roald Dahl, Rick Bass, Ed Abbey, I'd add:
Shel Silverstein (anything incl his drawings for Playboy)
Gary Paulsen (Tracker)
Jean George (My Side of the Mtn)
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Les
Trad climber
Brooklyn
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Sep 28, 2006 - 11:37am PT
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Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Call of the Wild - London
Iliad/Odyssey - Homer (love the E.V. Rieu transl.)
Joseph Conrad (esp. Heart of Darkness; I find myself re-reading certain passages all the time (there's an online version on Georgetown U's website)).
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Sep 28, 2006 - 01:06pm PT
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe.
Surprised that one hasn't shown up here yet.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Sep 28, 2006 - 01:21pm PT
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the entire "clan of the cave bear" series. especially "the mammoth hunters".
that, plus "the collected poems of w.h. auden", "finnegans wake" by joyce, and of course dr. suess's masterwork, "green eggs and ham"
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Sep 28, 2006 - 01:31pm PT
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I saw "Watership Down" posted multiple times. Just an FYI to stay away from any of his other work. He turned into a deranged PETA-phile later in life and it will scar you forever. Stick to the original.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 28, 2006 - 02:18pm PT
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if I am honest, these are the books that keep coming up decade after decade:
The Feynman Lectures in Physics
Lord of the Rings Triology
Moby Dick
Have I Ever Told You How Lucky You Are (Dr. Suess)
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nita
climber
chico ca
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Sep 28, 2006 - 05:02pm PT
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: HARPER LEE.
Sneetches on the Beaches: Dr Seuss.
Iron & Silk: Mark Salzman
Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada & Central Valley: Laird Blackwell.
Plus any book *Barbara Kingsolver* has written . N.T.
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ms233
climber
Berkeley
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Sep 28, 2006 - 05:31pm PT
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several have mentioned Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and I'll echo that
also: Night Flight by Saint-Ex, and All the King's Men, by RP Warren
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DavisGunkie
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 28, 2006 - 05:45pm PT
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yea but free library books don't make my own wall o'Books look any more impressive
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Sep 28, 2006 - 06:17pm PT
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I've got one to add to my list, although I've only read it once. It's the best book I've read in the last 5 years. "A Fine Balance" by Mistry.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Sep 28, 2006 - 07:00pm PT
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blood meridian-Cormac MacCarthy
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 28, 2006 - 07:30pm PT
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Funny Shel Silverstein note.
My relative, who I have reffered to as 'Aunt Em,' is Sylvia's Mother, of the Shel Slverstin penned song of the same name, performed by Dr Hook(?) I have a VHS tape of her (and her daughter Slyvia) being interviewd on Dutch tv for a top 500 songs of all time show (right behind "Another one Bites the Dust'"
My favorite poem of his, is 'Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (?) who would not take the garbage out'.
I think the following;
"When I was going up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today,
Gee, I wish he'd go away."
-is his, as well, isn't it?
'A boy named Sue,' isn't bad either, and definitely his!
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2006 - 07:35pm PT
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Almost forgot: "In Cold Blood". Might be the only thing Capote wrote, but he really nailed it. Great movie, too.
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Standing Strong
Mountain climber
the trail
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Sep 28, 2006 - 07:55pm PT
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another vote for Harper Lee: "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Fannie Flagg: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl"
Janine and Jerry Sprout: "Alpine Sierra Trailblazer" (guide/history of the areas from Tahoe - Yosemite)
Jefferey Schaeffer: "Natural History of the Tahoe Sierra"
Truman Capote also wrote some short stories... "A Christmas Memory" being one of my favorites. My Dad used to read it to us around the holidays.
Another of my favorite short stories is "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Also "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 28, 2006 - 07:59pm PT
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T*, I mean, Strong, do you have the Tahoe Tree adventure book? I think maybe it's the same guy as your Nat history book (don't have it at hand)self published out of King's Beach, or somewhere like that. Lots of Geology for a tree book, I think the guy Is a retired geologist.
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Standing Strong
Mountain climber
the trail
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Sep 28, 2006 - 08:02pm PT
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I don't. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll look it up online. I'd like to check it out. Tahoe trees are a toughie for me, so many conifers... and speaking of which, the blue spruce (tower) on highway fifty cracks me up everytime i drive by... I didn't know we had those out here!
cheers,
t*strong
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 29, 2006 - 11:55am PT
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Funny, S S, I used to think the conifers were the easy part.
Unclear on your Blue Spruce reference. Are you saying there's
a building called Blue Spruce?
Tie-in to the topic: Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope,
George Sudworth. My copy is way way worn. It's loaded with
great line drawings, several per species, mostly life-size.
In some editions the big ones (Sugar Pine cone, original 23.5
inches) came on fold-outs. Published 1906.
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Brian
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 29, 2006 - 12:15pm PT
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Books I read again, and again:
Walden (Thoreau)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Seven Story Mountain (Merton)
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkein)
Wind, Sand, and Stars (St. Exupery)
Starlight and Storm (Rebuffat)
Books everyone should check out, in addition to the above list:
Ishi, Last of His Tribe
Two Years Before the Mast
Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Moveable Feast
The Snows of Kilamanjaro (esp. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Dove
Nature
Moby Dick
The Nicomachean Ethics
On the Brevity of Life
Wow, I could go on and on...
Great thread!
Brian
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ryanb
climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 29, 2006 - 01:30pm PT
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Heart of Darkness is definetly up there. Pretty amazing conrad didn't learn english till his twenties or something like that?
"V." (Pynchon) is the novel that allways gets thrown in my bag when i have no idea how many stale tent hours i'm in for. Heavily insipred by heart of darkness but signifigantly more ridicullous.
Pyncon recently promised that his next novel, due out in november, will contain his usual mix of mathematicians, drugs and cahracters that burst into song for no apparent reason.
Good stuff if your into that kind of thing.
Invisible Cities and Under the Jaguar sun (both Italio Calvino) are good if you don't mind the pretentiousnous.
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malabarista
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Sep 29, 2006 - 01:56pm PT
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Michelle, can't believe you listed: Island of the Blue Dolphins...
I've had a tattered copy of that book since I was probably 12 years old. It is by Scott O'Dell. And of course Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle -that entire series is great.
Lots of books I treasure, but the ones I flip thru on a monthly basis are probably just these:
Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks), Tao Te Ching (Ursula LeGuin transliteration), and the Joseph Campbell Companion (Diane Osbon ed).
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Michelle
Trad climber
If it's puny, don't waste my time.
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Sep 29, 2006 - 02:33pm PT
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Jaybro - I was a little let down by Children of God. I was happy that Sandoz's problem was resolved, but much of the excitement was lost since there was really nothing new to discover.. you can't top finding other people in outter space with much else and NOT be let down.
I recently reread Catcher in the Rye. didn't like it the second time either. Also, Summer of the Monkeys. (I went through my parents attic and low and behold, all of my books were there) I did read (sadly to admit) all (and I mean ALL) of the Sweet Valley High books.
What, nobody reads the Bible over and over again? What, with all the conservatism around here, someone has got to have that on their list..
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KEK
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 29, 2006 - 02:40pm PT
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I have not seen it yet so: The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, the original dirt baggers. I read it every summer.
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FinnMaCoul
Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
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Sep 29, 2006 - 04:30pm PT
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I was an english major and I still wouldn't REREAD some of the heavy stuff some of y'all list on here. I mean read 'The Brothers Karamazov' AGAIN? Geez (no offense) but geez.
Me, I always return to John D. McDonald. Ain't nothin more relaxing than rereading about the irrepressible Travis McGee.
But the most battered copies of anything I have are "Gypsy Moth Circles the World" by Sir Francis Chichester (a phenomenal adventure read) and "Starlight and Storm" by Gaston Rebuffat.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Sep 29, 2006 - 04:55pm PT
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Outline of History - HG Wells
I've been re-reading individual chapters of this book (actually, a two-book set) for 20 years or more.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Sep 29, 2006 - 05:07pm PT
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yeah, dittos on huck finn. i first read it when i was nine or ten years old, spending the summer on my grandparent's farm in central washington, and i found the same copy of the book that my dad had read as a child, buried away on one of their bookshelves.
probably read it 30 times since then. a lot of well-read, clear-thinking people beleive it is far and away the best novel ever written by an american writer.
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Sep 29, 2006 - 05:41pm PT
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FinnMaCoul, try reading The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier.
Also a really good sailing read is Close to the Wind by Pete Goss about his Vendee Glove and his sailing back into hurricane force winds to rescue Raphael Dinelli. The early part of the book is a little slow but is a good look at what it takes to obtain sponsorship these days.
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Sep 29, 2006 - 06:03pm PT
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How 'bout
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Painted Bird and Being There, Jerzy Kosinski
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson
The Goldbug Variations, Richard Powers
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Dog Soldiers and Children of Light by Robert Stone
Any and all of Paul Bowles
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Sep 29, 2006 - 07:36pm PT
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Plain Tales from the Hills, Kipling
Thousand Night and a Night (16 volms.)
JL
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 29, 2006 - 08:43pm PT
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Masters of the Chessboard by Richard Reti. Best chess book ever written.
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woodcraft
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Sep 30, 2006 - 02:26am PT
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Sherlock Holmes
Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment
Dictionary
I Ching
Advanced Rock Climbing
Jack London
Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Sep 30, 2006 - 03:12am PT
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Where to start? I'm a committed bookworm. Though a bit more oriented toward non-fiction.
Independent People (Halldor Laxness)
Finn Family Moomintroll (Tove Jansson)
Creation (Gore Vidal)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens (almost anything)
archy and mehitabel (Don Marquis)
The Great Explorers (Samuel Eliot Morison)
Everest: The West Ridge (Tom Hornbein)
The Rise of The West (W. H. McNeill)
The Discoverers (Daniel Boorstin)
Medieval Technology and Social Change (Lynn White)
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Smithsonian)
Guns, Germs & Steel (Jared Diamond)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
Europe: A History (Norman Davies)
Farthest North (Fridtjof Nansen)
Bill Tilman (anything)
Eric Shipton (almost anything)
I'm just getting started.. Not much fiction or climbing stuff there yet.
Most classic children's books are a delight to reread as an adult, and often you get a lot more out of them.
Anders
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Mark Rodell
Trad climber
Bangkok
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Sep 30, 2006 - 04:36am PT
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try Second Skin by John Hawkes
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matt morgan
Trad climber
carson city, nevada
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A People's History of the United States -- Howard Zinn
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kevsteele
climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Thoreau's Journals
Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
Far Tortuga (Peter Matthiessen)
Wind Sand Stars (Antone de Saint-Exupery)
Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
Gilgamesh (Mitchell version)
All short stories by TC Boyle
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creetur
climber
CA
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i must have read *my side of the mountain* four hundred times when i was a kid. and *bridge to terebitha* (sp?) which is so so sad.
then there was *desert solitaire*
and then there was *moby dick* somehow they all fit.
i also read *sons and lovers* (d.h. lawrence) in a camp bathroom by the emergency lights in the rain in the transvaal in south africa waiting for a break to go climbing on some game preserve. i highly recommend that whole experience.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Salt Lake
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Look Homeward, Angel--Thomas Wolfe
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Leroy
climber
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Jay Ponder fractals? Whats that? Can we do it again? Sounds like fun.
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Leroy
climber
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Jay Ponder fractals? Whats that? Can we do it again? Sounds like fun.
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Leroy
climber
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Im reading Narziss and Goldman .this time in Deutch.Its not how I remember it at all.I remember it as being really in fluencial.Now it seems like crap.Read it 30 years ago.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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How many times did you read Winnie the Pooh? Leroy?
Gary, yeah. After Cap'm Pisgums pervert Pirates, what else is there to say?
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Leroy
climber
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Oct 11, 2006 - 05:18am PT
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Winnie the Pooh,theres abook worth reading more than once.The Bible as a literary work leaves alot to desire.Better when Holleywood fleshes it out in a film.Sofia , Charlton,etc.For biblical references,Salome,by Oscar Wilde has the stuff.
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mack
Trad climber
vermont
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Oct 11, 2006 - 08:01am PT
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Handling Sin by Michael Malone
Funniest book I ever read.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Jan 21, 2008 - 04:02am PT
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Desert Solitaire
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Double D
climber
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Jan 21, 2008 - 01:23pm PT
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Wind, Sand and Stars..Saint-Exupery
The The Testament...John Grisham
Piercing the Darkness...Frank E. Peretti
The Perfect Storm...Sebastian Junger
The Hiding Place...Corrie Ten Boom
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith...Jon Krakauer
Seabiscuit: An American Legend...Laura Hillenbrand
Knowlege of the Holy... A.W. Tozer
The Bible!
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L
climber
A High Tide on a Low Coast
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Jan 21, 2008 - 01:37pm PT
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The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
Red by Terry Tempest Williams
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
and my favorite
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Jan 21, 2008 - 03:51pm PT
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Mark Twains travel trilogy:
Life on the River
Roughing it
The innocents Abroad
John Mcphees Geology series
One Mans Mountains Tom Patey
On the Road Kerouac
A History of Climbing in N. America Chris Jones
Frank O'Rourke Westerns
Tolkien
Illusions and JLSeagull
Gone With the Wind
Most of what Sigurd Olson wrote re: BWCAW
Great Gatsby
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sunshinedaydream
Big Wall climber
yosemite area
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Jan 22, 2008 - 11:42am PT
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Ishmael- Daniel Quinn
A Language Older Than Words- Derrick Jensen
Both must reads for life!
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there... say....
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(aww, shucks, ol' neebee is pushing her books again) :)
(the best kind of books, too---head injury awareness and seizure awareness and tongue-loss awaresness)
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2-- JAKE AND SOFIA
3-- JAKE HUGS TEXAS
4-- JAKE'S RANCH AND THE SECOND GATE
5, 6, 7:
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edit: after you hit the link, you must then scroll down...
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Speaking of Kuan, where has she been?
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Aug 10, 2008 - 12:34pm PT
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blood meridian-cormac maccarthy
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Jack Burns
climber
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Aug 10, 2008 - 01:05pm PT
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That's weird, I was just going to post Blood Meridian.
Also, Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen Ambrose
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peacelovehate
Gym climber
Paso Robles
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Aug 10, 2008 - 02:04pm PT
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Monkeywrench Gang!
Did a river trip last winter and there were seven copies present.
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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Aug 10, 2008 - 02:54pm PT
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A lot of my favorites have already been listed
besides Ender's Game, the whole Alvin Prentice series is great.
The Giving Tree, for sure
Fear and Loathing, yes!
Thanks, Jay - I had forgotten about "A Wrinkle In Time", and it reminds me of "At the Back of the North Wind"
Endurance was already mentioned
The Monkeywrench Gang
Horton Hears a Who
Poems from Cold Mountain
The Four Agreements
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) & Siddhartha
House At Pooh Corner
The Superlative Horse (I have given away over 10 copies of this book as gifts, my personal favorite)
The Little Prince
Medicine Cards
Riverteeth
Warlock & The Brothers K (Jim Harrison)
Master of Rock
Wizards of Rock
The Road Less Travelled
The Book of Runes
The I Ching
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samg
Trad climber
SLC
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Aug 10, 2008 - 03:47pm PT
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Gravity's Rainbow, V, Mason and Dixon- Pynchon
Journey to the End of the Night, North, Castle to Castle- Céline
Hopscotch etc- Cortazar
Petersburg, Kotik Letaev- Bely
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
The Erasers, Jealousy- Robbe-Grillet
The Man Without Qualities- Musil (usually just vol 1 but vol 2 on occasion)
Pretty much everything I own that Borges has written, which is pretty much everything he has written.
The Box Man, Inter Ice Age 4, The Ark Sakura- Kobo Abe
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids; A Quiet Life- Kenzaburo Oe
The Periodic Table- Primo Levi
A- Zukofsky, although I usually reread certain poems like A6 or A9 and not the whole opus!
The Voice of Things- Ponge
Empire- Hardt and Negri
The Glass Bead Game- Hesse
Dr Faustus- Mann
Foucault
Deleuze
Lenin
Derrida on occasion, like Signsponge when I'm reading Ponge for example.
Aw dammit, I could keep typing and typing names of books, gotta stop. I like to reread most of the books by these authors, just not quite as as much as the titles I posted.
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Redwreck
Social climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Aug 10, 2008 - 04:00pm PT
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Hyperion series by Dan Simmons
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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peacelovehate
Gym climber
Paso Robles
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Aug 10, 2008 - 04:18pm PT
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Ecodefense by Dave Foreman
just can't put it down
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Aug 10, 2008 - 10:29pm PT
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There's a lot here - I average 3-4 a week.
These are the ones I read over and over, though I've covered most of the stuff that each of the below authors have ever written.
Best of the Breed - Louis L'Amour
Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Sword of Truth Series - Terry Goodkind
Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu (translation Stephen Mitchell)
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
The Odd Thomas books - Dean Koontz
Dune series - Frank Herbert
LOTR - Tolkien
Kushiel series - Jacqueline Carey
Call of the Wild, White Fang, Stormy, The Sea Wolf, etc.- Jack London
Conan/Kull/Cormac Mac Arthur stuff - Robert Howard
-TC
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