What is everone reading ?

“Ed Abbey is fun and interesting.

I just got "Sky Burial," a book by a guy (Blake Kerr) who went backpacking in Tibet with a college buddy and stumbled into a vicious Chinese crackdown on Tibet. He and the friend were jailed and that began a long relationship with the cause of Tibetan freedom.

I got interested in the book because I know one of the key people in it (not the author), but it seems great. It has a brief foreward by the Dalai Lama.”

“I'm reading "the complete walker III" by Colin fletcher.

it's actually pretty darn good even I thought at first it was a little outdated. Still a good book!”

“Ever read the follow-up? In that one, his new wife is with him, and he sometimes longs for the days when he had his dog with him, who wouldn't complain, lol....


lyra, have you gotten to the part of the book where he stays at The Farm, in Summertown, TN?”

“no, he's just now entering TN! i like how he calls his dog "Coops"...cute.”

“OK cool, well, anyway, when my mom and stepfather had my brother, my stepfather wanted to be present for the birth of his child. At the time, hospitals in this area wouldn't let the father in the delivery room, so they decided to go to The Farm for the delivery. We lived there for about six weeks, until he was born.”

“damn hippies.”

“lol yep. They were all stoners too, lol...”

“Stephen King's
From A Buick 8

(did not know he had a new out until treebeard came home with it)

so far it's good.”

“Just finished The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy. It was ok, a bit too political, but not up to his usual standards. Before that I read Hunting Badger, can't remember the author, but I am sure someone here knows it. Right now I am rereading a fantasy novel I wrote a year or so ago. I am really enjoying it and can't imagine why I got so many rejection letters from agents LOL (or should I be crying, I can't decide)”

“Also, just finished Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card. Thanks for the memory bump stovestomper. It wasn't great literature, but I like the Enders Game series so I enjoyed it.”

“I recently finished Founding Brothers and now I’m reading Into The American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier.”

“I like Tom Clancy... Did superior American ingenuity win the day in that one by any chance?”

“"Valentine Pontifex" by Robert Silverberg. Sci-fi at its finest!”

“ynami, I think many in the media must have been basing their early projections on the Iraqi war on what they read in a Clancy novel. :)”

“The last two I read were "Siddhartha" and "All Quiet on the Western Front"”

“I read "all Quiet on the Western Front" back in high school. It was one of the few assigned books that I really enjoyed.”

“I liked Sidhartha and All Quiet. Ages ago, I loved Steppenwolf so much that I started reading Hesse pretty fanatically.”

“The Encyclopedia of World History”

“I had intended to read All Quiet forever and never got around to it. I saw it in the local used book store for about $2 and picked it up. I really enjoyed it.

I thought Siddhartha was ok. There were about 4 pages that really struck me. I will probably read some other Hesse stuff in the future.

I think I'll pick up some Tim Cahill next. It may be getting time for a LOTR reread and maybe a Lonesome Dove reread.

I have a 4 day Smokies trip coming up. Does anyone have any recommendations for "small" books. Siddhartha would have been ideal, but I went ahead and jumped on it.”

“Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
by Tom Wessels, Brian D. Cohen (Illustrator”

“Get real dayhiker. With those mileages, you are not going to read. ;)”

“Still working on "river Horse" by William Least Heat-Moon. It's a great book to pick up and put down. You don't lose a bit reading it slowly. (which is good because I'm just not getting as much reading in at work as I'd like)”

“I'll at least read about 20 pages per night. On "reflective" type trips I like to read more than I like to bs by the fire.

The last time I was in the local used book store they had alot of Graham Greene books. Any comment on him?”

“Given that the news is so depressing, I've been listening to books on my commute rather than NPR. This is my second time thru "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier. Its as good or better the second time as it was the first. Highly recommend it, check out a copy at the public library and listen to it on your next long trip.”

“I'm reading the nonsense on Trail Talk.”

“Try something called "the reluctant messiah". I am not sure about that title, though. There may be two titles for this book. Might be Reflections of the reluctant messiah. Its lightweight, but fulfilling.”

“Into thin air

also,
I just picked up this one:

What Liberal Media? --Eric Alterman
... a sobering reminder that TV long ago abandoned serious journalism and that the watchdogs
and skeptics are thin on the ground in all media.”

“Just finished "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. He was a member of the 1910 expedition to the South Pole in which Robert Scott and four of his men perish. Excellent reading!”

“This thread made me think of Cold Mtn and it turns out the movie will be released Christmas Day. I may have to reread it as well.”

“Just finished "Balkan Ghosts" by Robert Kaplan (one on my favorite writers).Sort of a travel,history and study of the Balkans and their past prior to the war in the early 90's and shortly thereafter. Depressing but very informative.

I am currently reading "Close to the wind" by Pete Goss. a travelogue/autobiography of a solo-sailors transatalantic and global circumnavigation voyages. Not much of a sailor but enjoy reading about it.”

“Walk Across America is great. The farm was one crazy sounding place. Glad to know people came out alive. The section about his experience in Mobile was odd in my opinion. Kind of caught me off guard. Good read though. A Walk in the Woods is also good. Just realized that the last three books I read all have the word walk in the title.”

“Is Shadow Puppet another Ender novel? I don't know that one, though I've read most of his others.

Currently I'm reading, "Walking on the Happy Side of Misery" - an AT tale that is a lot of fun and John Muir's Travels in Alaska and Chaim Potok's "Davita's Harp". One to make me laugh, one to make me feel and one to make me think. My nighttime reading depends on my mood.”

“i am in the middle of two totally different themed books:
Walkin' on the Happy Side of Misery by J.R. 'Model-T' Tate (about his thru-hikes on the AT)
and
CAD: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor by Rick Marin (this one is a good book for the single women out there who are struggling to find out WTH is up with men!! it is quite eye opening and funny imo!)”

“what page you on in "Walkin?"”

“Small book recommendation:
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad - a classic and a the major story line influence for Apocalypse Now! It's inspired by Conrad's experiences in the Belgian Congo. Available very inexpensively (the Dover Thrift Edition costs one dollar).”

“Just started reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk”

“I read heart of darkness a while back. good book. it really pulls you in.

yes, Shadow Puppet is one of the follow ups to Enders Game. Actually it is a follow up to Enders Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon, which are the story of the boy named Bean and the rest of the Battle School children who return to Earth after Ender heads off into space with the colonies.”

“Eiger Dreams for a few days last month, but lately I've quit reading so much and been plinkin around on the piano”

“Area 7
........Matthew Reilly”

“"Cadillac Desert" - a really good nonfiction about the western water grab.”

“Thanks for the tip, ped. I've had Eiger Dreams on my todo list for a while. How was it?

I picked up Steppenwolf from the library yesterday.”

“The Terrorism Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman, Gerry O'Sullivan.

I just wanted to make sure that John Poindexter and the good folks at The Incredibly Intrusive Surveillance Awareness Office have something fresh for my file.”

“Ped, gotta agree with you about Heart of Darkness. One of my all time favorite books.”

“Re-reading the book . A novel of the Battle of Thermopylae. Understand that they are going to make a movie of the excellent book.”

“Tai Chi - The Unpublished Violent Teachings”

“I just finished "A Walk In The Woods" - good book, funny and informative(recommended by several folks on this site).

Now I'm starting "Open Season".”

“Eiger dreams is okay; I think if you've already read Into Thin Air you'll not be as interested, partly because Eiger is a collection, rather than one story line.”

“I just finished reading "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer and "A Life on the Edge" by Jim Whittaker.

I found both books fascinating. It usually takes me a few weeks to finish 1 book but I read both in 6 dayd. Both were in my "could not put down" class.

I just started reading "The Other Side of Everest" by Matt Dickinson and in queue is "Ultimate High, My Everest Odyessy" by Goran Kropp.

Can you tell the 50th anniversary of Hillary's Everest climb has me enchanted?”

“Using LIRSEL for Structural Equation Modeling. Anyone interested in a book club?”