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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Nov 12, 2012 - 09:51pm PT
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+1 for Infinite Jest. Did you ever give it another go JCA?
I moved to a new town and brought Geek Love to the book club. Not everyone's cuppa but I loved it. Have not picked a book since because the internet has destroyed my brain and I hardly read anymore.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Nov 12, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
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I see that at least one person already mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is the finest example of a human being in literature that I think of. (Sylvester Stallone in Rambo II gets my vote for 2nd).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 12, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
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Not yet Rhodo. But I'm halfway through anathenum as a gauge warm up.
Yeah that geek love is good for raising a few eyebrows, my mom at 87 or something, couldn't put it down though, much as she wanted to ....
You're too right about the Internet. Living in a tent the last almost 2 months, at least has me reading regularly again. Though the net still reaches its garroting tendrils through the smaht phone pretty efficiently anyway.....
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Nov 12, 2012 - 10:26pm PT
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I only managed to get through Gravity's Rainbow on a solo backpack trip in the Escalante. Now i couldn't even tell you the last book I've actually finished. I should get off this thing...something about immediate gratification is really bad for us. Good for you living in a tent.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Nov 12, 2012 - 10:43pm PT
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The Histories - Herodotus
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
(OK, anything by Thomas Berger, the most under-rated and under-appreciated American author)
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Dr. Sax - Jack Kerouac
(Both Cuckoo's Nest and Dr. Sax should be read after taking a tab of acid. Dr. Sax, especially won't make any sense if you are straight. And the opening of Cuckoo's Nest is a wild ride as you hook up with the chief)
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (the follow up "Flotsam" might even be better)
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Octopus - Frank Norris
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Nov 12, 2012 - 11:14pm PT
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What Ten Books Must All Men Read BeforeThey Die ?
"men?"
Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch should be in there somewhere....
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Nov 12, 2012 - 11:26pm PT
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Gravity's Rainbow
Freedom at Midnight
In Exile From the Land of Snows
other 7 I have to think about
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MisterE
Social climber
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Nov 12, 2012 - 11:36pm PT
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FYI, Zip? Per your first reference, if you are using the word "sheer" and the word "manliness" in the same sentence? You might be gay.
That being said:
Narcissus and Goldman
Siddhartha
The Pearl
Start Where You Are
The Tao of Pooh
Catcher in the Rye
Out of Freedom, Into Slavery
Desert Solitaire
Brave New World
On The Road
Breakfast of Champions
Book of 5 Rings...
I could go on.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:03am PT
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I'll give you one.
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 01:34am PT
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A Theory of the Consumption Function, Milton Friedman 1957
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:35am PT
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Ten's hard but if only ten:
King James Bible
Divine Comedy
Shakespeare's plays
Candide
Wordsworth's Collected Poems
Magic Mountain
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Tender is the Night
Blood Meridian
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 13, 2012 - 05:09am PT
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Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection by Antero Alli
Or, Fairy Tech: A Modern Republican's Guide to Reality Selection by Karl Rove
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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Nov 13, 2012 - 05:41am PT
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Call of the Wild
Black Stone Knife
Beyond the Stars
The Four Agreements a Toltec Book of Wisdom
Where the Red Fern Grows
Last of the Mohicans
Oliver Twist
The Raft
Treasure Island
Freedom of the Hills
any book by Louis Lamour if your into the old west
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lubbockclimber
Trad climber
lubbock,tx
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Nov 13, 2012 - 06:17am PT
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The electric koolaid acid test
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 13, 2012 - 06:52am PT
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What ten books to read
Ere I bow? Were I a fly
I would leave right now.
You brought up The BIG DAMN BOOK of Manliness. the bigger they are, the more satisfying they are and the longer you can keep the world at bay.
You’ll want to get your money’s worth, so based on the number of words alone,
All the Gary Jennings.
All the Colleen McCullough series on Rome
All of Ayn Rand
All of John Steinbeck
All of the Old and New Testament
The Lonesome Dove series
The Stand, either version, it won't matter in the end
In Search of Lost Time by Proust (there’s another title, but I can’t think of it--it will come)
Gone With the Wind but not the insipid sequel by some money-grubbing sycophant
1,001 Arabian Nights
Alternate selection is Bancroft's History of California.
If you want a substitute for All of John Steinbeck, there is none; and it is the same for the Bible.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Nov 13, 2012 - 10:41am PT
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This just goes to show it's hard to restrict the must read list to ten.
All of Ayn Rand?
All of John Steinbeck?
Interesting juxtaposition there!
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nov 13, 2012 - 10:48am PT
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If you only read 10 you might as well be dead.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 11:12am PT
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when I was a kid my goal during the summer break was to read 10 books, roughly 1 a week... and I did that from at least the 3rd grade through high school...
it was a good habit I somehow dropped when I "got busy" with college and graduate school...
...I should probably try to reinvigorate that habit in the sunset years here now...
got Fitschen's book on the "in box" on my desk, what am I waiting for?
a good list in this thread can be created
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:55pm PT
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The Encyclopedia Britannica, all 26 volumes.
Now that is manly.
Charles, does a bookshelf full of comic books count?
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Nov 13, 2012 - 01:02pm PT
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I just finished reading Fire On The Mountain and The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey.
Both were great reads.
Death Valley in 49 by Manly is a great true story of epic survival.
Life Amongst The Modocs by Juoaquin Miller is a great book on early California life.
Death Valley Men and Death Valley are both fun reads by Bourke Lee
The Story of Inyo by Challfant is worth the read too.
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