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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....
neebeeshaabookway books: aLL published now at lulu.com !!!
YES---YOU MAY HAPPILY BUY THEM...
(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)
1-- JAKE (I'm thinkin'...')
2-- JAKE AND SOFIA
3-- JAKE HUGS TEXAS
4-- JAKE'S RANCH AND THE SECOND GATE
5, 6, 7:
 STEPPINGSTONES THROUGH JAKE'S RANCH
(VOL. 1-3) (so far)
*you can't keep a good cowboy down--at least, not if he's got a good twin-sis...
edit: after you hit the link, you must then scroll down...
http://stores.lulu.com/neebeeshaabookwayreadjakeanddonate
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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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