Dru Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 What are you reading right now, besides your computer screen? Quote
snoboy Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Nothing. I just finished _Fierce Inavalids Home From Hot Climates_ by Tom Robbins though. Good and rascally. Strangely current. Quote
catbirdseat Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 I'm reading the Jim Whittaker biography. He is the most shameless name dropper there ever was. My next book is going to be "Three Tracks in the Sand", by Dick Hangslow. Quote
adventuregal Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 For info: Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes For fun: Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace Reading is good! Quote
AlpineK Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 A discussion on a thread here a couple weeks ago inspired me to reread the Narnia books. Quote
Attitude Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 The Boardman-Tasker Omnibus and High Altitude Medicine and Physiology. Quote
freeclimb9 Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 The last three good books I've read have been "Sweets" by Tim Richardson, "Close Range" by Annie Proulx, and "Gould's Book of Fish" by Richard Flanagan. I read instead of doing TV time, so I go through a lot of books. I'm still waiting on the book store to get me a copy of "Loaded" by Sabbag; It's been 7 weeks already. Quote
Necronomicon Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Multi-tasking: "Harry Potter and the Sorcorer's Stone" (wife and I take turns reading it to each other at bedtime) Collected Jack London Short Stories H.P. Lovecraft "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" "On the shoulder's of Gaints" edited by S. Hawkings table of contents of "The Structure of Evolutionary Biology" S.J. Gould and finally, "A Gentleman's Guide to Modern Physics" Ottto H. Theimer Quote
ChrisT Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 My son *loves* H.P. Lovecraft and the daughter digs Harry Potter. She's read each one four times!!! (Max is also fascinated with the Necronomicon...sounds like you two might have a lot in common) Quote
catbirdseat Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Necro, that's some pretty highbrow literature. I assume you have already read Hawkings, "A Brief History of Time". Quote
sk Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 snoboy said: Nothing. I just finished _Fierce Inavalids Home From Hot Climates_ by Tom Robbins though. Good and rascally. Strangely current. Tom Robbins RULES I am currently reading the fountainhead- Ayn Rand Quote
Necronomicon Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Yeah, great book, great introduction to some powerful concepts. Another good one, a bit older though, is "The Dancing Wu Li Masters". Sort of clouded with eastern mysticism, though. Quote
specialed Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 I just did a cool-ass climb at J-Tree called the Dangling Woo-Li Master It was allright Quote
minx Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Alice in quantumland and catcher in the rye (in french...sorry rightwingnuts) Quote
bDubyaH Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 I am well entrenched in the ever popular "Long-term growth dynamics of young Pacific halibut: evidence of temperature-induced variation" . But I did manage to sqeeze in " Summit Fever" by Andrew Greig a month or so ago. Quote
specialed Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Dru said: What are you reading right now, besides your computer screen? Civil Procedure, Cases and Materials, 8th Edition Collateral Estoppel anyone? Quote
Fejas Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 I'm reading two... the first for personal knowledge, and the second for entertainment... 1.) Modern man in surch of a soul, by C.C. Jung 2.) The Yosemite, by John Muir both good stuff, but I like books that most don't too... the later is very desriptive, great visuliztions... Quote
fern Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Heat Transfer in Cold Climates, Virgil Lunardini. on hiatus is Words and Rules by Steven Pinker. I got the latest Joe Simpson as a present so that'll probably be next. Quote
Dru Posted March 27, 2003 Author Posted March 27, 2003 I am bogged down in "Nekropolis" by Maureen McHugh. About half way through. Will finish it when unemployed with more time to waste. Just finished rereading "The Picts and the Martyrs" by Arthur Ransome. Bathroom reading is the new Alpinist and the March/April issue of American Scientist. Two good complementary pieces on how flu pandemics originate, and growing antibiotic resistance. Quote
fern Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Will finish it when unemployed with more time to waste so this weekend then Quote
minx Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Dru said: I am bogged down in "Nekropolis" by Maureen McHugh. About half way through. Will finish it when unemployed with more time to waste. Just finished rereading "The Picts and the Martyrs" by Arthur Ransome. Bathroom reading is the new Alpinist and the March/April issue of American Scientist. Two good complementary pieces on how flu pandemics originate, and growing antibiotic resistance. scary stuff antibiotic resistance is although it isn't relevant to a flu outbreak. i found it interesting that so many new variants of the influenza virus start in asia. (Before anybody hollers about me being a racist...there's no such motivation in my statement. Just an interesting phenomena!) Quote
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