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    This is the list of my favorite books:

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
    The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
    The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
    The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
    Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
    Lament by Maggie Stiefvater

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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

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    Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.

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    I love reading books about the glory of the mountains, living off of the land, being a beat-nik or a pilgrim traveler in a strange land and so forth and I also love non-fiction "how to" books about house building shelter making, etc. but to be honest, I enjoy this sort of book OFF THE TRAIL when I'm not already sort of living this experience. What I like best on the trail is trashy suspense, crime adventures with a little sex mixed in - junk that I would never read at home - books that when I'm done, I can leave in a shelter for someone else - Stuart Woods, John Grisham, that sort of thing - not particularly "high-brow" but makes for a fun rainy night in a shelter.

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    Love reading, have gone through literally thousands of books in my lifetime. Some favorites:

    Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

    Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

    Anything by Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Dean Kootnz, Ken Follet, Isaac Asimov, and way too many to list.

    Also like nonfiction, survival books, encyclopedias, anything I can learn practical skills from.

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    Cormac McCarthy fans try: Blood Meridian, his best, I think.
    Bill Bryson fans try: In a Sunburnt Country, hilarious, Bryson in Austrailia.
    Note: Mary Shelley was 19 years-old when she penned Frankenstein. Wow!

    Great thread!
    Anyone ever read Hunta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill?

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    +1 on the above Bryson book. All of his stuff makes you actually laugh out loud (well... at least most of it does)
    -Jason

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    Roughing It - Mark Twain
    West with the Night - Beryl Markham

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    Default A few recommendations...

    Touching the Void Joe Simpson. Wow. What a survival story. And Simpson can write.

    On the Beaten Path Robert Rubin. One of my favourite AT accounts. Again, great writing.

    Things We Didn't See Coming Steven Amsterdam. Weird apocalyptic fiction.
    (trailname: Paul-from-Scotland)

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    Quote Originally Posted by b.c. View Post
    Cormac McCarthy fans try: Blood Meridian, his best, I think.
    Bill Bryson fans try: In a Sunburnt Country, hilarious, Bryson in Austrailia.
    Note: Mary Shelley was 19 years-old when she penned Frankenstein. Wow!

    Great thread!
    Anyone ever read Hunta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill?
    Its Hanta Yo and absolutely the best portrayal of lakota life that ive ever read(even though its fiction).My kids know what "tatonka" means.

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    Default Books for A.T Hikers

    Living on the Wind

    Wilderness and the American Mind

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    a copy of wilderness ethics by guy and laura waterman should probably be left in every shelter along the trail.

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    Please don't do that unless you wish to donate them to hiking club members.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hikerboy57 View Post
    a copy of wilderness ethics by guy and laura waterman should probably be left in every shelter along the trail.
    ...And the new reigning world champion oxymoron is.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skidsteer View Post
    ...And the new reigning world champion oxymoron is.....
    thanks, i needed that.sometimes a good slap of reality across the face is needed.Im laughing reading my own post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hikerboy57 View Post
    thanks, i needed that.sometimes a good slap of reality across the face is needed.Im laughing reading my own post.

    I'm glad you got the joke without getting offended. You're a good sport. Rare these days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skidsteer View Post
    I'm glad you got the joke without getting offended. You're a good sport. Rare these days.
    Ive never been able to take myself seriously, and I do admit sometimes posting before thinking, so its all good. It is a very timely book, though, considering some of the conversations on WB of late.

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    Backwoods Ethics & Wilderness Ethics are classics.

    Backwoods Ethics - lays out the moral and ethical underpinnings for Leave No Trace. Discusses the basics of low-impact hiking, camping, cooking, as well as alpine management. Discusses ways to protect the physical environment of our mountains and backcountry.

    Wilderness Ethics - very much a philosophical discussion, what is wilderness? Without some management, the world's wilderness cannot survive the number of people who seek to enjoy it. But with too much management-or the wrong kind-we will destroy the spiritual component of wildness in our zeal to preserve its physical side.

    I learn something new each time I read these books.

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    Fiction. "The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk. Heck it took him 13 years to write; it oughta be pretty well-developed.

    Non-fiction--"April 1865" by Jay Winik. Shows just how ugly the Civil War endgame was, despite the tale we grew up on about the gentlemanly surrender of Lee to Grant at Appoxmattox.

    Skywalker

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    Crime and punishment by Fyodor dostoyevsky
    All stories of Anton chekhov
    All poems of allen ginsberg
    all books of Jack Kerouac
    Umakanta Sharma
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