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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jul 26, 2011 - 01:43am PT
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe...Liked it.
Tortilla Flat...Like a pre-draft for Cannery Row. OK, but opt for a more mature choice if you're not already deep into your list of Steinbeck options.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 26, 2011 - 10:18am PT
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The First World War by John Keegan. Working on The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell, this is a very interesting book.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 26, 2011 - 10:47am PT
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Wings of Steel, it's being serialized on ST.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Jul 26, 2011 - 11:01am PT
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"What is the What" about Valentino Achek Deng, a "lost boy" from Sudan. Pretty fascinating.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 11:45am PT
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"When a crocodile eats the sun", a memoir by Peter Godwin. About the fall of Zimbabwe into the hands of Robert Mugabe and the devastation it caused when they started killing off white farmers and destroying their land and crops. Zimbabwe was once the bread basket of Africa with it's farms until that happened.
Devastating but an engrossing read.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 11:47am PT
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jitterbug perfume by tom robbins. cant recommend it enough. brilliant.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 11:57am PT
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Fluoride,
When my Rhodesian friend comes over next week I'll ask her if she's read
it. I rather suspect not. She is Jewish and it turns out there was a
sizeable Jewish community there. I would have thought there would be an
interesting story in that but she has never related much of what one would
expect. Of course, she was barely a teen when they left what to her had been
a fairly idyllic existence.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 01:34pm PT
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Fluoride you should read Godwin's " Mukiwa " the first book of his memoirs-i found it even better than crocodile... about his childhood, more mystical, intense about his military service.
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