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Roadie
Trad climber
moab UT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 1, 2018 - 07:12pm PT
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Me, Shibumi By Trevanian
proceeded by Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome To The Monkey House.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Just finished The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis. Bonnington aqnd the boys did some pretty darn committing and bold stuff. 50% attrition rate...….
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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“The Recognition Sutras,” by Wallis. Good, but probably too long. I wonder how editors advise writers regarding knowledge of audiences. (They must shoot for the bulging middle market.)
I don’t have the patience for fiction anymore. Besides, my reality is as bizarre as I can handle anyway.
Someone said that all good reading is re-reading.
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Rising Star, Setting Sun. Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, And The Presidential Transition That Changed America.
Like Mikel, I haven't had the patience to read fiction for years.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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SCI FI by underrepresented authors
anything by Samuel Delany, but especially Dhalgren
The Changeling, Victor LaVallee
Who Fears death, Nnedi Okarafor-this one was a winner-post apocalyptic, but real too-about growing up, doing the right thing with your gifts...
Brown Girl in the Ring-Nalo Hopkinton-caribbean futurism.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Levitt is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of The Becker Center on Price Theory at the University of Chicago. In 2003 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years by the American Economic Association to the most promising U.S. economist under the age of 40.
What’s fiction? Oh, right, StuporTopo.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Love, Africa by Jeffery Gettleman.
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Africa-Memoir-Romance-Survival/dp/0062284096
Jeff gave me this book last week as I was pcyched to read about his adventures.
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the NYT’s he’s a good guy and a recent transplant to Delhi.
I’m looking forward to showing him some of the back alleys and dark spots of the India I’ve come to know after a bunch of years.
Good guy, good read.
Check out the Pulitzer’s website for more of his writing.
http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jeffrey-gettleman
Actually we’re both hanging out in Newark as I type waiting for flights. I’m headed to SF then to Truckee. Yippee!!
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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I commute on a regional rail line to get to and from work. So I try to make this time somewhat useful. This ends up being my 1+ hour/day reading for the week. I need to find a new book!
Just finished: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (James Comey)
Prior I was reading whatever the top business leaders were reading last year:
* The Advantage, Enhanced Edition: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business (J-B Lencioni)
* Mastery (Robert Greene)
* Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim S. Grover)
* Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)
* Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future (Joi Ito, Jeff Howe)
* Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup 1st Edition (Bill Aulet)
* Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel, Blake Masters)
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Just finished reading Dead Run by Dan Schultz, a fascinating book about the biggest manhunt in western history after a trio of militia/enviro whack jobs kill one cop and injure a couple of others. This was back in 1998. It's very well written. Get after it.
Currently into Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind about the Renaissance of psychedelic drug use for treating mental and emotional issues. Like all his work, friggin' awesome.
BAd
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Keith Reed
climber
Johnson county TX
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“Life of Pi”
By Yann Martel.
Very good book.
Previous book was “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.
It’s a good book but so dark.
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rurprider
Trad climber
Mt. Rubidoux
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Alone On The Wall...Alex Honnold w/ Dave Roberts.
Brisinger...the Eragon Cycle....Christopher Paolini.
The Chamber...John Grisham.
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
by David Benatar
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Just finished reading Dead Run by Dan Schultz
Just added it to my Kindle. Will begin reading it on the Monday morning train. Thanks for posting this selection.
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craig morris
Trad climber
la
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In the Kingdom of ice by Hampton Sides. Bring it along on an expedition if you dare.
Conquistador Voices by Kevin Siepel. followed by Broken Spears by Miguel leon- Portilla. Its amazing what people will do for gold.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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The red book.
Carl Jung.
Pay mind to
the shadow
self.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Dead Run by Dan Schultz
I am engrossed. I wish my train ride was longer.
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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SuperTopo by the "Usual Clowns"
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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The Sympathizer by Viet Thang Nguyen. Super good so far. Just finished All the Light We Can Not See. Also great.
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Roadie
Trad climber
moab UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 6, 2018 - 04:57pm PT
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Furiously Happy (a funny book about horrible things)
Jenny Lawson
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DanaB
climber
CO
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Assessment of safety and efficacy of lamotrigine over the course of 1-year observation in Japanese patients with bipolar disorder: post-marketing surveillance study report.
Can't put it down.
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