Book Recommendations Sought

[Dechristo]

I have to wonder, though, will her boyfriend/hubby be able to read that when he's banging her doggie-style thirty years from now...?

 

The elderly, I'm told, enjoy large print.

[OrygunJim]

 

I have to wonder, though, will her boyfriend/hubby be able to read that when he's banging her doggie-style thirty years from now...?

 

People still have sex in their fifties? Damn, hope my shit's still working then...

[billcoe]

Never hurts to crack the Good Book every once in a while.

 

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Books: "The Rising Sun" by John Toland.

 

Titan: by Ron Chernow.

 

or how about "Complete Idiot's Guide to Biblical Mysteries"

by Donald Ryan ?

 

It's very well done and interesting I thought, and I'm not saying that just cause he posts here.

[sobo]

 

I have to wonder, though, will her boyfriend/hubby be able to read that when he's banging her doggie-style thirty years from now...?

 

People still have sex in their fifties? Damn, hope my shit's still working then...

 

I'm only two years away from 50, and my shit's still workin' just fine. I think it'll keep running for a few more years after that. At least, I hope it does...

After that, there's always Viagra. 8D

[mccallboater]

"The Seven Mountain Travel Books" by Tilman

 

Anything written by Kim Stanley Robinson

 

"Wind, Sand and Stars" by De St Exupery

 

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins

 

"Darwin Among the Machines" by Bellingham's own George Dyson

 

 

[Skeezix]

I second the recommendation on Joe Tasker. He's my favorite writer on hard-core alpinism.

[plexus]

"History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," if you've got the endurance.

 

You either are a masochist or an aid climber. Nobody else could enjoy that kind of pain. I suppose you floss with Devil's Club as well? skull

 

As for Viagra, my buddy calls it his little blue friend.

[JayB]

"History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," if you've got the endurance.

 

You either are a masochist or an aid climber. Nobody else could enjoy that kind of pain. I suppose you floss with Devil's Club as well? skull

 

As for Viagra, my buddy calls it his little blue friend.

 

You must be joking!

 

Take the following;

 

""The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."

 

""The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might be usefully employed to assert the rights of mankind; but so intimate is the connection between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince."

 

"Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

 

""The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind...."

 

""A being of the nature of man, endowed with the same faculties, but with a longer measure of existence, would cast down a smile of pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. it is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view. In a composition of some days, in a perusal of some hours, six hundred years have rolled away, and the duration of a life or reign is contracted to a fleeting moment: The grave is ever beside the throne; the success of a criminal is almost instantly followed by the loss of his prize; and our immortal reason survives and disdains the sixty phantoms of kings who have passed before our eyes, and faintly dwell in our remembrance."

 

And multiply by a gazillion.

 

 

[Dechristo]

I'm gonna pick that up

[sobo]

I'm gonna pick that up

Screw that! Do what I do for getting through dense books/subjects:

really good college level course lectures on tape/CD/DVD

It's like going to college in your car. Just not quite that expensive (although some of these titles ain't cheap, neither).

 

I've already been through:

Military and Social History of WWII (Thomas Childers - this guy is GREAT!)

History of Hitler's Empire (another Childers masterpiece)

High Middle Ages

The Era of the Crusades

History of Ancient Rome (so thar ya go, DeC)

From Yao to Mao: 5,000 Years of Chinese History

History of Ancient Egypt

History of the English Language

Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution (modern physics for non-scientists - this is a great set if you ever wanted to know about this shit and you "didn't get it" in college)

The American Civil War

Robert E Lee and His High Command

US Economy in the 20th Century

Origins of the Universe

Dark Matter, Dark Energy

Human Pre-History and the First Civilizations

 

...plus a whole raft of others that I can't quite remember right now. My wife started me on these things when we were first dating, and she already had a bunch of them. Almost ten years later and I still can't quit the addiction.

[Macson]

Encounters with the Arch Druid - John McPhee

 

This Game of Ghosts - Simpson

 

Addicted to Danger - Wickwire

 

The Goal - Eli Goldratt

[Buckaroo]

"K2 The Savage Mountain" by Jim Curran was okay but "The Endless Knot" by Kurt Diemberger tells the 1986 story in greater detail. Curran only made it to base camp, Diemberger went to the summit and was at high camp when the storm hit.

 

The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer

 

Thin Air by Greg Child

 

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" "Complete 911 Timeline"

online book by Paul Thompson, the most comprehensive documentation of 911 in existence. Makes the commission report look like the whitewash it is.

 

"Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast, the world's best investigative reporter, was reporting on Enron 10 years before the bankruptcy

 

"George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"

Online book by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin. All about the Bush family evil empire.

 

"The Police State Road Map"

Online book by Michael Nield. Everything you ever wanted to know about the real people behind the curtain that rule the world. Took years of surfing to run across this book. It's the best example of a look into the inner workings of the very highest levels of power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dan_forester]

"George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"

Online book by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin. All about the Bush family evil empire.

 

I got as far as "American Caligula"

 

When W puts his favorite horse up for Attorney General, then we can really start to worry.

[plumbbob]

Recently read "The Boys of Everest" and would recomend it!

[chucK]

I can't believe anybody would recommend that Curran book on K2. Fuck what a terrible writer that guy is. Although he had great material to work with, the story read like the worst of the blow-by-blow stale-cardboard internet trip reports. Boring non-descriptive, repetive details went on for a couple hundred pages, replete with all too frequent whining about his various camera equipment malfunctions.

 

An account of a mountain disaster it is. Prose it ain't.

[newdawnfades]

I liked Good Morning Midnight by Chip Brown. Great character study about a hiker/climber who goes to the top of a mountain to commit suicide from exposure.

[sobo]

Is that book about Guy Waterman?

[svilar]

Two by Mac Bates:

 

"Three Fingers" - good if you've been to the lookout and are curious about the history of the fire lookouts

 

"Cascade Voices" - perfect for reading while on the can, filled with short interviews of legendary Cascades climbers

[newdawnfades]

Yes, it is the Guy Waterman book. Great read.

[plexus]

I'm gonna pick that up

 

Remember to bend your knees, lift with the legs.

 

I have a copy of Joyce's Ulysses as well anybody can have. Tried reading the bloody thing three times. Each time I get about 100 pages in I ask myself, "What have I just read? What's going on?"

 

It's a shame because I really enjoy Dubliners.

[televinny]

'how the english conquered the Alps'

awesome history of mountaineering/skiing/mass tourism

thumbs up!

[Sunnyside_up]

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

 

Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey

 

The Places In Between by Rory Stewart

 

 

[emsung]

"Climb" - Boukreev's account of the '96 Everest disaster. Anything that makes Kraukauer look like the sanctimonious prick that he is has to rate high.

 

After nearly 10 years, I finally read "Climb" and was amazed at the light in which Krakauer described Boukreev in "Into Thin Air." It was good to finally read the other side of the story. I know Lene Grammelgaard also wrote an account of her viewpoint, has anyone read her book or know what she had to say about it all?

[octopuswithafez]

"The White Death" Combination avalanche science primer and tale of a lost climbing party in Glacier. Also cool Washington state tie-in with the avalanche around Stevens Pass that took out a couple of trains in the early 1900s.

[lizard_brain]

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins