what are you reading?

[skinny minnie]

Want to share your favorite books and what you are currently reading? I''m in need of suggestions for stuff to read on my upcoming thru.

Non-AT would be good - books written by climbers and adventurers would be awesome though! Anything, really...

I just read the Cactus Eaters by Dan White. Very Bill Bryson meets the PCT. Funny, but the author is kind of unlikable.

Also Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan. About the Armenian genocide. Intense. Very well written.

[DAJA]

Print off Tipi Walters trail journal... Priceless reading, highly entertaining... And you can burn it as you go...

[skinny minnie]

Print off Tipi Walters trail journal... Priceless reading, highly entertaining... And you can burn it as you go...

Ha!


Tempting. I'm bringing a kindle though (I know... technology on the trail is bad... it's too heavy... etc etc! It's my luxury item. I'm ok with it. ). Tell Walter to convert his Trail Journal into a pdf and we can make this work, though!

[Rabbott]

Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine De Saint Exupery.
Very philosophical and inspiring.

[skinny minnie]

Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine De Saint Exupery.
Very philosophical and inspiring.

very cool. just added that to the library check out to do list.

[white_russian]

Mark Twain's Roughing It

[Cookerhiker]

Last book I finished - in early February - was Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. It covers only TR's Presidency, not his life and actions before and after.

Right now, I'm getting caught up on a stack of magazines plus a hiking guide & maps for a (hopefully) upcoming long-distance hike.

[tuswm]

death in yosemite

its written by SAR and talkes about the mistakes everyone made before they died. Its a good book. There are about 1000 short stories.

[skinny minnie]

this is awesome!

you guys keep naming stuff I either wanted to read and forgot about, or that just plain sounds good.

more, please! keep em coming!

[Manwich]

"The Greatest Show on Earth - The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins.

It's 500 pages long or so. I have two copies, one i've cut into 100 page sections so I can bring it backpacking, sans the picture-pages in the middle.

(Not trolling by the way, any theist, diest, panthiest, vegan or nontheist can find the beauties and intricacies of life and the cosmos in this book to be extravagant)

[tenbeer]

Journey Home, Desert Solitaire, The Fools Progress, by Edward Abbey

[sixhusbands]

I might suggest A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Right now I am reading Inside The Revolution by Joel Rosenberg and Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernov.
Either one you choose will likely ad a few pounds to your pack unless you have enough batteries for Kindel.

[Spokes]

Six Sentences.

Check it out samples on their blog HERE.

[JJJ]

"Born to Run", Christopher McDougall (still just hardbound I think)
"Into Thick Air", Jim Malusa
"The Poisonwood Bible", Barbra Kingsolver
"South: The Endurance Expedition" Ernst Shackleton
"Another Roadside Attraction", Tom Robbins -just for kicks

[steve43]

books are my one luxury i take on the trail... but at the present time, i'm reading two... Crazy '08... a book about the baseball season of 1908. and the the other is Kindness, Clarity and Insight by The Dalai Lama which is a book of various lectures he gave during his first teaching series in north america.

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[TheKO]

WhiteBlaze.net

[V Eight]

I would like to recommend

“Still Life With Woodpecker” by Tim Robbins.
Has nothing to do with Hiking/ or Camping, but I found it very entertaining.

[jamarshall]

Anything by Tony Hillerman. I just finished reading all 17 of his mysteries set in the southwest. Since he's gone now, there won't be anymore.

[Avatar]

May I suggest Endruance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Possibly the greatest adventure story ever told, with the added benefit of making any hardship you encounter on the trail seem trivial by comparison!

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[johnnybgood]

I just picked up Colin Fletchers' "The Man Who Walked Through Time " to read when I do my section hike next month.