What is everone reading ?

“manuka, maybe I am remembering wrong, but the Mountain Madness Guide knew where the camp was once they got off the rope but didn't want to go across the steep icy sections in white out conditions so he tried to steer them further right of the camp where it was flatter, but went to far and ended up on the other side of the crown of the South col and then got confused on the right direction. later when they had a glimpse of stars one of them knew the right way, but it was too late for some of the others who were already having troubles long before they got off the mountain.
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“The Flashman Papers are great. I recommend reading them in the order they were written. They jump around on an actual timeline though.

Another good one is Mr. American by the same author. It has a 90+ year old Flashy make a cameo.”

“Hyway, a col is the low point between two high points, so it will not have a crown.

The actual area can be pretty big, and the drop off can be pretty enormous. They needed to either dig in as a snow cave, or get back to camp. I think they went too far West and ended up on the lip of the Kangshung face
Here is a good picture
http://www.bielefeldt.de/map_e_e.htm”

“y2 - I misread - you're finishing up the series.”

“Mankiller, A Chief and Her People.

An Autobiography by the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller.”

“Finished "Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz and it sure was odd and then just finished "Three to Get Deadly" by Janet Evanovitch in her Stephanie Plum series about this female bounty hunter. It's light and humorous.

I have two more books in the home now, "Midnight" by Koontz and The "Confessions of Max Tivoli" about a man who ages backwards.”

“Recently finished McCollaugh's (SP?) biography of John Adams (on tape). What I got out of it was that he prevented what many felt was a certain war with France, and things don't change, there was political fighting even then, same as today.”

“Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert

Follow the River by James Alexander Thom

Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman

Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia by Wayne Winkler

The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People by N. Brent Kennedy

Because so many of the Old World peoples journeyed to North America to escape religious persecution I am also reading:

The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs”

“Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom”

“Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson”

“ul 15, 5:24 PM EDT

Dog fights off 700-pound alligator

PINOPOLIS, S.C. (AP) -- Dogs don't usually survive alligator attacks - especially when the reptile is three times the canine's size. But Cooper, a 5-year-old golden retriever, is an exception. The spirited dog fought off a 14-foot, 700-pound alligator in a Lake Moultrie canal last month and lived to howl about it.

"I thought he was dead," said 14-year-old Chase Kierspe of the family pet. "The alligator was huge. I didn't think he could fight it. He fights me, but that's all."

Cooper escaped from the backyard for a swim across the canal and apparently attracted the gator. Chase was cutting the grass when he saw the alligator spying his pet. He threw a cup and a lawn chair at the gator, but it didn't budge.

Then Cooper leaped and the gator followed. Chase ran and screamed for help.

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After it was all over, Cooper had lost a few teeth and had flesh and muscle torn from a front leg and chunks of skin missing from both haunches. The gator suffered bites to its snout.

"I never heard of a dog getting away from an alligator in the water," said Tom Kierspe, Chase's dad. "You always hear that they grab them, go under and do the 'death roll.' "

The state doesn't keep records of alligator size, but this was "one of the largest if not the largest" the Department of Natural Resources has seen in some time, said Walt Rhodes of the wildlife agency.

The gator's head and hide sit in Kierspe's freezer. He has contacted local museums and parks about getting it mounted and is considering applying to get it certified as a state record.

As for Cooper, Kierspe said, "we changed his name to 'Lucky.'”

“Tecumseh Resident Remains Critical After Four Snake Bites

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OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) _ A Tecumseh man remains hospitalized in critical condition after being bitten four times by two different snakes.

James Cave's wife Gloria says Cave was working at a garage near his home Sunday when he felt a pain in his foot and reached down and was bitten in the hand and foot by a pygmy rattlesnake.

Gloria Cave says Cave then fell backward over a barrel and onto a copperhead that bit him in the foot and groin.

Cave's son and a neighbor drove him to a nearby hospital where he received antivenin and then was flown to an Oklahoma City hospital where he remains.

Neil Garrison with the Martin Park Nature Center in Oklahoma City says it's unusual for someone to run into two poisonous snakes at once. And he says snakes usually don't strike unless provoked, stepped on or humans just get too close.

Garrison says one tip is to never put your hands or feet into areas where you can't see.
Source: Associated Press”

“I love books by Dean Koontz, Dark Rivers of the Heart is my favorite.

Currently I'm reading the Catcher in the Rye, almost done as it's short...then next is the new Potter book then the Davinci Code.”

“I know I'm going to have to read the Da Vinci Code, if only because it was banned by the Catholic Church. Wonder if it tells about something they don't want us to know?”

“Catcher in the Rye was summer reading for my kids summer 2004, I read it but they didn't. It was good.

I am sure there is a separate thread for this but..Aron Ralston's book is a bit hokey but extremely inspirational

Truth and Beauty and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, enjoyable girly books :)”

“Catcher in the Rye was assigned reading for
freshman English when I was in college years
ago. I think they were trying to shock us.
My how times have changed.”

“Eh, I've never read it nor had it assigned to read and as I've been reading some of the classics, I put it on my list and now I'm reading it. Fast book, interesting.”

“I went to High School with a Mulungeon. I will have to read the books.”

“a history of god: the 4000 year old quest of judaism, christianity, and islam

by karen armstrong”

“Just finished "Lance Armstrong's War". I enjoyed it. Same characters in last year's Tour de France as this year's.

Also got Chris Carmicheal's Cookbook, with some chef who I is supposed to be famous. shrug Looks like a good one. South Beach Phase three for the training year.”

“I just finished "The Taking" by Dean Koontz and just started "Nano" by John Robert Marlow.”

“Currently reading Naked by David Sedaris. I read Me Talk Pretty One Day in late June. It was so freakin' good I had to keep the fix going by moving right into another one of his.

I think Atlas Shrugged is on deck.”

“Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose about Lewis and Clark and the opening of the American West, since this is like 200 years this year that they were out there seeing what we all love to see now.”

“Gotta pick up a copy of Robert Jordan's New Spring, though I'm not sure why he wrote a prequel to a series that's not finished yet. I'd like to see an end/resolution to the Wheel of Time series. The first book to that series, Eye of the World, is one of the most captivating books I've ever read.”

“I preordered Harry Potter and I'm still waiting for it to arrive. When it does, that's what I'll be reading. I'm also reading the Magic Kingdom of Landover series by Terry Brooks.”

“just finished the latest potter book. Good read...didn't build the story as much as i was hoping. And for all the young kiddies out there...it had a good bit of cussing, kids hooking up to "snog", and someone was called a slut....LMAO”

“"Tao of Photography"
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“"Bound for Glory" by Woodrow Guthrie.
You think your life is tough?”

“Lost Triumpth: Lee's real plan at Gettysburg and why it failed by Tom Carhart

Just finished the above. Pretty decent book on the battle of Gettysburg. Tom explained that Pickett's charge was only part of the battle Lee was intending. Cavalry of 5,000 under Stuart were supposed to get behind the Union lines and attach from the rear as the 13,000 troops under Picket smashed through the center.”

“Catcher in the Rye was assigned reading for
freshman English when I was in college years
ago. I think they were trying to shock us.
My how times have changed.”

joe pye

I think they must have. My daughter read it in 8th grade and used it for a book report in 9th.”

“Just finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Good book. Can't wait for the next one, I think there will be some interesting stuff in there.

I'm about in the middle of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.

After that, I'll be reading Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould”

“The currect Potter book is #6. Is #7 the final one?”

“Gotta pick up a copy of Robert Jordan's New Spring, though I'm not sure why he wrote a prequel to a series that's not finished yet. I'd like to see an end/resolution to the Wheel of Time series. The first book to that series, Eye of the World, is one of the most captivating books I've ever read.”
PhantomSoul
11:34:46 PM
7/17/05

Holy effing CRAP man! I absolutely love the WOT books, so incredibly well written, but finish the damn story already Robert!!! I'm convinced that Jordan is afraid to finish these books, they have become his life or something. The whole thing has slowed to an agonizing pace.”

“The last 10 books I've read:

10.The Stand by Stephen King (7th time reading this one)

9. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

8. The 9/11 Commision Report (cover to cover)

7. The DaVinci Code

6. The DaVinci Hoax by Carl Olson & Sandra Meisel

5. Shadowland by Peter Straub

4. The Cave by Jose Saramango

3. Inside Secret Societies by Michael Benson

2. The Broker by John Grisham

1. Sandstorm by James Rollins

Reading now: America's Secret War by George Friedman

Reading Next: Countdown to Terror by Curt Weldon


Note: If you read the 9/11 report (very well written, BTW) you should follow it up with "America's Secret War" and you will get a really great & fairly detailed non-partisan look at what is happening in our world today (terror-wise) and why it is happening.
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“Trail Talk... LOL”

“I forgot!

My list doesn't include the many, many hiking, camping, & backpaking books I've read this year.”

“Currently: McCullough's 1776.


Am going to steal my son's Potter soon though.”

“Harry Potter. I'm having trouble remembering what the hell happened in the last one though.”

“Harry Potter just arrived today and I'm about a third of the way into it already.”

“11 on Top by Janet Evanovich and

A Child called It by David Pelzer”

“Tango, I think I heard about that book called "A Child Called It". It was pretty sad. I think I remember the guy who was "it" on tv talking about it a long time ago.”

“Yes the same one LH. His case is still the 3rd worst case of child abuse in California. I am waiting for his sequel to show up on my door step. I also read his brother's account of his own abuse by the same mother.”

“"Have you defeated the Dementors like I asked you?" Dumbledore demands - snappily - as he storms into Gryffindor to find Harry still in bed at midday.

"Er, no, not yet," Harry replies, sleepily.

"How many times do I have to tell you?" Dumbledore fumes, explosively. "If you don't do it, who do you think will?" "Take a chill pill, man," says Harry, insolently. "I've said I'll do it, yeah?" Harry then rolls over, falls back asleep and is roused only when Dumbledore comes back into his room an hour later and, in his fury, issues a spell that makes the bedclothes disappear.

Grumbling about how there is irrefutable scientific evidence that teenagers need more sleep than adults, Harry then pads into the dining-hall in his pyjamas, pours himself a bowl of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes and, when he has finished, fails to return the milk to the fridge, leaves his dirty dish on the table and heads off to sit in front of the PlayStation for the next two hours, trying to work out the pornography-cheat on Grand Theft Auto, the one that allows you to have virtual sex with a character, the one that has got Hillary Clinton in such a flap.

He then heads out about four o'clock, not telling Dumbledore where he is going, and texts Ron and Hermione - who have spent the afternoon together with nine mates chilling over a single cup of latté at Starbucks - to meet him outside HMV. Meanwhile, the Dementors have over-run Hogwarts and installed Voldemort as headmaster. On his return at 2.30 am, when challenged, Harry declares it is not his fault and demands to know why everyone is getting at him.

-- from the Daily Telegraph”

“" In defence of Democracy" - Natan Shiransky
also Jmitch's book on PA trails.”

“Im about halfway through,Between a rock and a hard place by Aron Ralston. It goes into much more detail than they did on tv not just about his struggle but also about his parents attempting to find him etc.Theres some pretty funny stories from his past like the time he was stalked by a black bear.”

“Just finished The Endurance, now starting on re-reading Undaunted Courage.”

“Prairieyrth by William Least Heat Moon”

“"The Canal House" cant remember author off hand

about a journalist, a photographer and an aid-worker. but more about people,how we are shaped by our environment and how things in life can cause us to question our own lives, lifestyles and relationships...something like that..Great Book!”