eric8 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 MtnHigh said: Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett :tup Have you read anyone other books by Follet? I was so impressed by the Pillars of the Earth. That I read some other book by him book right after and found they had a lot of the same themes, tones, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Kiss or Kill Mark Twight. GREAT BOOK! He writes what everyone else is afraid to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtn_mouse Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Stones of Silence by George Schaller An interesting story of the search for the snow leopard in the Himalayas. Not as good as the Peter Mathiesen book "The Snow Leopard" but the two books overlap in content and time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpine_Tom Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 We're currently working through the Calvin and Hobbes books for bedtime reading (though I'm not convinced it's the sort of thing a five-year-old needs to be exposed to) just started "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" And reading "Legs" by William Kennedy, after the kid goes to bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Frank Smythe's "The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books" and the latest Nat. Geo. I thought The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were good reads with some good thoughts, but try taking the philosophies to the extremes. I like how she thought how great it was that man could smoke cigarettes with his amazing ability to control fire. Didn't she die of lung cancer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 "The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature" A profound and poetic book that Heinz Pagels wrote before falling to his death on Pyramid Peak ( He was both a physicist and a climber) in the 80's. Here's the last paragraph: "I often dream about falling. Such dreams are commonplace to the ambitious or those who climb mountains. Lately I dreamed I was clutching at the face of the rock but it would not hold. Gravel gave way. I grasped for a shrub, but it pulled loose, and in cold terror I fell into the abyss. Suddenly I realized that my fall was relative; there was no bottom and no end. A feeling of pleasure came over me. I realized that what I embody, the principle of life, cannot be destroyed. It is written into the cosmic code, the order of the universe. As I continued to fall in the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allison Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Greg_W said: "We the Living" by Ayn Rand Heh, I think that was a second-hand suggestion from me. Survival of the Prettiest , Nancy Etcoff Dancing Naked in the Mine Field , Kary Mullis next The Botany of Desire , Michael Pollan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 AlpineK said: A discussion on a thread here a couple weeks ago inspired me to reread the Narnia books. I've been rereading them off and on for several months, I'm down to the last one. Definitely more of kids books, but entertaining enough for adults. Pretty quick reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 freeclimb9 said: 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. I started "Close Range" towards the end of last year, I couldn't get thru it. Too gritty, not that interesting I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Figger_Eight said: The Brothers K - David James Duncan probably my favorite book ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Portnoy's Complaint, Phillip Roth U.S.A., John Dos Passos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.