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    Default Favorite List of Books

    Fiction:
    Hatchet -- Gary Paulson
    My Side of the Mountain -- Jean Craighead George
    Robinson Carusoe -- Daniel DeFoe
    Northwest Passage -- Kenneth Roberts
    The Endurance -- Caroline Alexander


    Non Fiction:
    The Foxfire Series -- Various Authors
    98.6 -- The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive -- Cody Lundlin
    When Technology Fails -- Matthew Stein
    FM 21-76 -- US ARMY Survival Manual
    Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West --Gregory Tilford
    Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants -- "Wild Man" Steve Brill
    Back to Basics -- Reader's Digest
    SAS Survival Manual -- John "Lofty" Wiseman
    SAS Combat Survival Guide -- John "Lofty" Wiseman
    How to Stay Alive in the Woods -- Bradford Angiers
    Household Cyclopedia
    The Encyclopedia of Country Living -- Carla Emery
    Backwoods Home Magazine Anthologies
    Handyman In-Your-Pocket -- Richard Allen Young
    The Humanure Handbook -- Joseph C. Jenkins
    Nourishing Traditions -- Sally Fallon
    30 Energy-Efficient Houses You Can Build -- Alex Wade
    Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual -- Reader's Digest
    Fix-It-Yourself Manual -- Reader's Digest
    North American Wildlife -- Reader's Digest
    ABCs of the Human Body -- Reader's Digest
    Five Acres and Independence -- M.G. Kains
    Practical Electrical Wiring -- Richter & Schwan
    Housebuilding, A Do-It-Yourself Guide -- Popular Science
    Complete Building Construction -- Audel
    The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home -- McGuerty & Lester
    Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Max -- Alth
    Home Plumbing Projects & Repairs -- Black & Decker Home Improvement Library
    Modern Hydronic Heating -- John Siegenthaler
    Family Medical Guide -- The American Medical Association
    Complete Home Medical Guide -- The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
    The Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency -- John Seymour
    Joy of Cooking -- Irma S. Rombauer
    New Complete Self-sufficiency -- John Seymour
    Stocking Up -- Carol Stoner
    Bespoke Shoemaking -- Tim Skyrme
    Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants -- Bradford Angier
    So Easy To Preserve -- University of Georgia Cooperative Extension
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    All Time Fiction:

    Master and Commander and the entire series by Patrick O'Brien-- If you want to see how passionate people can get about a series of books check out the archives at this list http://www.hmssurprise.org/

    All Time Non Fiction:

    The Old Patagonia Express and most any of Paul Thoreau's travel memoirs-- Its a crying shame this writer didn't get to the AT before Bryson.

    All Time Outdoors/Nature Guidebook:

    Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendez-- The only book of its type you can really enjoy on the couch before heading back into the woods.

    All Time AT Book:

    The Thru Hiker Papers. Well, not exactly a book, but they are more expansive than Warren Doyle's tome. They are at this link, and one of the few things that might be considered required reading (IMHO)prior to a thru hike. http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/THP_top.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by rickb View Post
    All Time Fiction:

    Master and Commander and the entire series by Patrick O'Brien-- If you want to see how passionate people can get about a series of books check out the archives at this list http://www.hmssurprise.org/

    All Time Non Fiction:

    The Old Patagonia Express and most any of Paul Thoreau's travel memoirs-- Its a crying shame this writer didn't get to the AT before Bryson.

    All Time Outdoors/Nature Guidebook:

    Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendez-- The only book of its type you can really enjoy on the couch before heading back into the woods.

    All Time AT Book:

    The Thru Hiker Papers. Well, not exactly a book, but they are more expansive than Warren Doyle's tome. They are at this link, and one of the few things that might be considered required reading (IMHO)prior to a thru hike. http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/THP_top.html
    Do you mean Paul Theroux... The dude who is suppose to be the greatest travel writer? I've never read anything by him but I want to.
    Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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    I like a many computers and historical book thus my favourite book list are as under.
    1) Microsoft.net books
    2) C# station tutorials
    3) Threading in C#
    4) Object oriented programming with ANSI-C
    5) The C book

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    Wow,
    I thought I was the only guy reading Kenneth Roberts & Paul Theroux!!
    Another good novelist: Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee mystery series.

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    I just finished a book called Color the Green Movement Blue. It's an environmental book but it has a lot of discussion and stories about the author's outdoor experiences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Cranky View Post
    Wow,
    I thought I was the only guy reading Kenneth Roberts & Paul Theroux!!
    Another good novelist: Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee mystery series.
    I think Northwest Passage is the first book I read as a kid and the one that got me into following trails in the woods.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rickb View Post
    All Time Fiction:

    The Thru Hiker Papers. Well, not exactly a book, but they are more expansive than Warren Doyle's tome. They are at this link, and one of the few things that might be considered required reading (IMHO)prior to a thru hike. http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/THP_top.html
    Thanks, that was great but now I'm 2 hours late to the gym.

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    the Dharma Bums - jack kerouac
    The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
    Anything by Abbey
    Into the Wild - Jon Krakaur
    The Sun also Rises - Hemingway
    The Catcher in the rye - JD Sallinger
    Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie


    Currently reading Running with sissors
    Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luddite View Post
    the Dharma Bums - jack kerouac
    The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
    Anything by Abbey
    Into the Wild - Jon Krakaur
    The Sun also Rises - Hemingway
    The Catcher in the rye - JD Sallinger
    Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie


    Currently reading Running with sissors
    Great list, I would add anything from James Fenimore Cooper( the Pathfinder)

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    Quote Originally Posted by TallShark View Post
    ^ also is "A Walk in the Woods" worth reading, I've heard some criticism.
    i hated this book and i was actually quite surprised and pleasantly so that not many people thus far have included it on their list of favorites.

    it was nothing that i expected.

    it's on everybody's "omg you must read this AT book" book list, and it was so hyped up. i went into the book thinking "hey that's awesome... this guy thru-hiked the AT and wrote a book about it and it's going to be all about his experience on the trail."

    not so much. actually, it's more about his experiences off the trail and history of the trail than his hiking at all. he didn't even finish 1/4 of the trail.

    and his attitude towards the south sucks. he pokes typical elitist yankee fun at southerners his entire way through georgia and tennessee and then he takes a cab from knoxville to roanoke and completely skips that entire portion of the trail. what the heck? you just give up and skip on to roanoke?

    i think i would have had a better impression of bryson's book if i had known going into it that he less than half-assed his way up the trail. he does include a few interesting points in his book about histories of certain trail towns and points along the way, but there have been so many other history books written on the trail that i felt he used them as filler for the book he was writing about something he never experienced.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luddite View Post
    the Dharma Bums - jack kerouac
    The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
    Anything by Abbey
    Into the Wild - Jon Krakaur
    The Sun also Rises - Hemingway
    The Catcher in the rye - JD Sallinger
    Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie


    Currently reading Running with sissors
    A hiker with a cultivated literary taste? Love it! Try Miracles, Inc. if you get the chance. You might even see it on the trail this year. I know a copy is headed its way north.

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    I have several favorites which I re-read every few years;

    Chesapeake James Michener
    Hawaii James Michener
    Shogun James Clavell
    Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
    Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Cruel Sea Nicholas Monsarrat
    Tao Te Ching Lao-Tzu
    Living Buddha, Living Christ Thich Nhat Hahn

    And of course Thoreau's Walden. You can tell I am a fan of Thoreau. My copy of Walden sits on top of my bookcase along with a small bottle of water, a rock and a pine cone. The water is from Walden Pond, the rock from the site of Thoreau's cabin at the pond and the pine cone I picked up from Thoreau's grave on Author's Ridge in Concord Mass.
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    1. Walden -Thoreau (Absolute favorite)
    2. A Walk in the Woods -Bryson
    3. Into the Wild -Krakauer
    4. A Sand County Almanac -Leopold
    "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir

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    Fans of "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer Need to read "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions On Everest" by Anatoli Boukreev.

    It is the Russian guide's perspective. Krakauer really reems him in his book and Anatoli responded with a book of his own. Boukreev's book is FAR superiour and tells the story in a much more compelling way. Boukreev is the guide from Scott Fischer's expidition who went and saved everyone who could be saved on that day. All 6 of the clients on Fischer's team survived.

    A week after the Everest summit Boukreev set a solo ascent record on Lhotse.

    Krakauer was a client and a twit and almost needed saved himself.
    "some editing should be done in parentheses for clarity where spelling prevents reading."---matthewski

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    Quote Originally Posted by crazystick View Post

    Another one i just finished reading is called "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm about the park ranger Randy Morgenson and the search and rescue attempt for him.
    Thats a good one. It was actually recommended to me by a backcountry ranger in Yosemite.

    Quote Originally Posted by Awol1970 View Post
    Fans of "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer Need to read "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions On Everest" by Anatoli Boukreev.
    Isn't Boukreeve known in the climbing community as a big fat liar?
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    wow I've never heard that. Ed Viesturs calls him the quintesintial climber. That's pretty high accolades.

    The fact is Boukreev was a heroic world class climber who saved multiple lives while putting himnself in danger. Arguably the best high altitude speed climber there ever was.

    Krakaurer is a journalist who questioned the judgements of a pro.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awol1970 View Post
    wow I've never heard that.
    You've never heard about the debate between which book is more accurate? How Boukreev abandoned his clients and never admitted to doing anything wrong?
    Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awol1970 View Post
    Fans of "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer Need to read "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions On Everest" by Anatoli Boukreev.

    It is the Russian guide's perspective. Krakauer really reems him in his book and Anatoli responded with a book of his own. Boukreev's book is FAR superiour and tells the story in a much more compelling way. Boukreev is the guide from Scott Fischer's expidition who went and saved everyone who could be saved on that day. All 6 of the clients on Fischer's team survived.

    A week after the Everest summit Boukreev set a solo ascent record on Lhotse.

    Krakauer was a client and a twit and almost needed saved himself.
    Tru dat Brother...Where do you think I got my trail name from ... LOTS of mistakes were made that day ...

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    I have a propensity for both the classics as well as science fiction, as well as a smattering of historical fiction. Here are some of my favorite novels (in no particular order):

    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

    Ubik by Philip K. Dick

    Tai Pan by James Clavell

    Downtiming the Nightside Jack L. Chalker

    The Razor's Edge Somerset Maugham

    Dune by Frank Herbert

    Dubliners by James Joyce

    The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

    Battefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

    Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

    Shibumi by Trevanian
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