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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:38pm PT
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An inquiry into values:
An inquiry into lack of values:
That's two, pick eight more from the lists here.
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:38pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:43pm PT
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All of Ayn Rand
Surely fifty pages is sufficient.
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Les
Trad climber
Bahston
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Nov 13, 2012 - 04:14pm PT
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Seriously, Ayn Rand? ugh.
Love Roger Breedlove's list (and the reasons for reading them -- have read The Iliad numerous times, it's just that good)
Will second DFW's "Infinite Jest." Utterly brilliant. At once hysterical, maddening, profound and deeply disturbing. Best writer of our generation. Don't read the websites devoted to the book (there are many) until AFTER you've read it.
Didn't see these mentioned, but they are some of my personal favorites (along with others already mentioned):
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (easily the finest closing page in all of American literature)
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
and, a guilty pleasure (just a great, entertaining read), Shogun -- James Clavell
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 04:34pm PT
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Okay, Dostoevsky has replaced Tolstoy to cover the period from Shakespeare to the post- existentialist (the way I would think of it). Sounds so reasonable, doesn't it?
I think that picking a single work to cover the dawning of individualism and the collapse of the certainty of moral underpinnings is a bit crazy, but the limit of 10 books forces the issue everywhere. This would be fun to do in bar. "I'll trade you "The Odyssey" and "The Divine Comedy: Paradise" for a spot for Dostoevsky and Tolstoy with Gogol's "The Overcoat" thrown in. This was countered by "You can keep either Dostoevsky or Tolstoy, but not both, to make room for Dickens."... Definitely willing to trade Paradiso (yawn) for Dostoyevsky, though if any of his works are represented it would have to be The Brothers Karamozov. A titantic work. I think you could trade The Odyssey as well. Homer is terrific but The Iliad in his better work. Anna Karenina is a good choice, though I haven't read The Overcoat. Once we start opening the door to more than one 19th or 20th century author, then we really need to consider Moby Dick which, despite its standing, I still believe is underrated as a piece of fiction.
Dickens is terrific but can definitely be excluded from such an exclusive canon.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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May 11, 2013 - 07:45pm PT
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Bible
The Republic
Ovid's Meta.
Divine Comedy
Shakespeare's Complete Works
Candide
Moby Dick
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Magic Mountain
Blood Meridian
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 11, 2013 - 08:16pm PT
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The white Spider. my first climbing book
50 Classic Climbs
at least one Louie LAmour book
The Cat From Hue
Citizen Soldiers, Stephan Ambrose
Band of Brothers
A Stillnes At Apponmatox by Bruce Caton
How to bag the biggest buck of your life by Larry Benoit (Vermonter)
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
For Those I loved
An American in the Gulag
Trancendant summits, Gerry Roach
any decent climbing guide you can get your hands on.
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Tracker by Tom Brown Jr
Wattership Down
Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy
Anything by Carl Haisen sp?
that should get you started. i have a book to read now....
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Dr Lefttoe
Social climber
Zamora, CA
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May 11, 2013 - 08:22pm PT
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FICTION:
Beowolf - some dead guy (Seamus OHeaney translation)
Odyssey - Homer
Moby Dick - Melville
Hamlet - Shake a spear
Portrait of the Artist - Joyce
Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Stranger - Camus
Steppenwolf - Hesse
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
NON-FICTION
Mismeasure of Man - Gould
Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
Secret Knowledge of Water -Craig Child
Brief Acconut of the Devestation of the Indies - de las Casas
Wonderful Life - S.J. Gould
Cadillac Desert - Reisner
Double Helix - Watson
La Relacion - Cabeza de Vaca
Desert Solitaire - Abbey
Founding Fish - McPhee
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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May 11, 2013 - 09:55pm PT
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without reading any of the posts I'm selecting the Book of Love
I wonder who wrote it?
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ng
Trad climber
southwest
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May 11, 2013 - 09:59pm PT
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Best greatest incredible (every superlative there is) survival / manly book written:
"UNBROKEN" - Laura Hillenbrand
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 12, 2013 - 07:40am PT
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Abbys Road
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 17, 2014 - 12:32am PT
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time to bump this
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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May 17, 2014 - 12:40am PT
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Ed, you're too cerebral for this place.
I suggest No Exit as a book "all" "men" "must" read before "they" "die".
check u l8tr
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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May 17, 2014 - 12:45am PT
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All men Should read 10 books before they die. Agreed.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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May 17, 2014 - 07:35pm PT
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a few more
Wind, Sand and Stars
The Big Dr Suess books--I'm serious- Eternal themes and the best art work
Devil Take the Hindmost
How to keep your Volkswagen Alive for the complete idiot
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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May 17, 2014 - 09:08pm PT
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how is the translation whack? (full disclosure: my French is very poor. I am, however, fluent in American.)
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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May 17, 2014 - 09:28pm PT
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Green Eggs and Ham
Tao of Pooh
Art of War
To Kill a Mockingbird
Emerson's Essays
I'll think of others later.
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nopantsben
climber
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hm.
infinite jest / david f wallace
underworld / don delillo
everything is illuminated / jonathan s foer
l'etranger / a camus
the great gatsby / s fitzgerald
catcher in the rye / j salinger
siddharta / h hesse
faust /j w goethe
der prozess / f kafka
classical electrodynamics / john d jackson
but then there are a lot of books i have not read yet-
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Angle of Repose
The Brothers K
Soldier of the Great War
The Poison Wood Bible
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Cutting for Stone
Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas
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