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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 17, 2018 - 05:39pm PT
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What, Gary, you finally broke down and got an English version?
I got a version that had a list of the characters with all of their various names! Finally, I knew who was who.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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Nov 17, 2018 - 05:41pm PT
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Some of the more recent Steven King books except for the latest “Outsider”.
I loved his early stuff but the last few years just couldn’t get into his books. It really may be my aging and that my tastes have changed.
Susan.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Nov 17, 2018 - 05:41pm PT
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This was another one I just couldn't wrap my head around...I finally gave up.
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I guess it's some kind of cultural statement?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 17, 2018 - 08:36pm PT
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Naked Lunch
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Crime and Punishment
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Lituya
Mountain climber
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Nov 17, 2018 - 08:42pm PT
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The Stand, by Stephen King.
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Nov 18, 2018 - 03:14am PT
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I liked Ulysses. Funny and surprising.
Lord of the rings was silly, nostalgic and childish.
Magister ludi was overly involved tho a good ending. Other Hess stuff is good tho.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Nov 18, 2018 - 07:55am PT
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I have read Gravity's Rainbow several times cover to cover but never at home, only while travelling/working in places like India or Pakistan. Your mind has to be in a different space to read this book.
By the way as in all Pynchon novels you never do learn what is really going on.
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Nov 18, 2018 - 05:38pm PT
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^^^^ My hero ^^^^
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Nov 18, 2018 - 06:28pm PT
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Gravity's Rainbow has long been on my list, along with Under the Volcano and The Magic Mountain, a copy of which I carried around in the back of my car for so long and which got so beat up I had to chuck it.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Nov 18, 2018 - 08:26pm PT
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perswig
climber
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Nov 19, 2018 - 02:43am PT
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Island of the Day Before
Memoir from Antproof Case
Pillars of the Earth
Took a couple starts to get through Gravity's Rainbow.
Vollmann's The Rifles has been sidelined several times but remains on my must-finish-or-die-trying list.
Dale
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Nov 19, 2018 - 10:52am PT
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The Sugar Barons by Mathew Parker.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/matthew-parker/sugar-barons/
Cotton slaves at least had a reasonable chance at some type of survival, the sugar slaves were done for in a few terrible years. Was just too grim for me, I read more than enough to get the idea and then stuck it in one of my book shelves where it just sits.
It was also considered the final straw for America starting the Revolutionary War. The sugar barons were sending their product back to England for fantastic profits and had representation in Parliament that represented them. America was doing the same but for far less profits and no say or representation in England's Parliament. Boom.
Caylor!
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Nov 20, 2018 - 05:27pm PT
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"Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. The screaming that came across the sky was me throwing the book across the room sixty pages in when I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on."
I had the same experience. I tried to read that POS twice. I got 600 pages in both times. The first time I burned it, the second I shot it full of holes.
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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Nov 20, 2018 - 06:40pm PT
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GIANTS, the global power elite. by Peter Phillips
This book is all about the Transnationalist Capitalist Power Elites, and who rules the world. How all the giant transnational corporations own stock in one another, to the point where they are totally in cahoots with each other. No wonder they are too big to fail !!!
This book is "so heavy" I can only manage a few pages a night, then I must put in down.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Nov 21, 2018 - 06:31am PT
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At least two of the books on Trump (Wolfe, Bernstein). The real news was far more interesting and up-to-date.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Nov 21, 2018 - 02:57pm PT
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I actually got through Gravity's Rainbow, but then faltered trying to read Pynchon's "V".
I put down The Name of the Rose, too ponderous for me.
Loved Cryptonomicon, had to put down Anathem, I was always lost.
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