What is everone reading ?

“The Seven Mountain books by Tilman, first is starting well. Just finished Shipman's six mountain books. Great great reading.”

“In February I read:

The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev
Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Side Canyons by Laurie Wagner Buyer
The Climb up to Hell by Jack Olsen about a rescue on the Eiger.
There are a few others that aren't coming to me.

Right now I am read Trial by Trail which appears to be nothing more than a collection of trail reports of hiking in the Smokies.

For March I have stacked up:

Saving Cascadia, by John Nance
Walk Across America
A book of ghost stories about a local backpacking area.
Shackleton's forgotten expedition : the voyage of the Nimrod by Beau Riffenburgh.
Gateway by Frederik Pohl. I have it because the follow up book was on the new release rack at the library and I love reading books in a series one after the other.
and finally Carolina Journeys : Exploring the Trails of the Carolinas--both real and imagined by Tom Fowler.”

“Lord of the Rings.”

“An englishman A la campagneby Michael Sadler. Food and French things”

“hyway - you might enjoy, "The Last American Man." It's about a guy that lives up in Boone, NC.”

“and the list grows longer ...”

“Still waiting on HP book 6 to come out :D”

“American Man was pretty good. He thru-hiked the AT and caught his own food as he traveled. He did a horse and buggy trip across most of the MidWest and into Canada. There is also a Crocodile Dundee scene in it where he's in NYC. He makes friends in Harlem and a drug dealer show him his knife. The guy from Boone pulls his out and the drug dealer yells out something like, "Look, it's Daniel Boone, it's Daniel effing Boone."

The guy lives very primitively in the woods outside Boone. He even eats fresh roadkill and dumpster dives from time to time. Waste not, want not I guess.”

“July 16 Treebait!”

“Its a fine line between rugged outdoors man and vagrant :). Sounds interesting. There really is no end of good books out there.”

“Just finished a good book on WWI.

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour : Armistice Day, 1918World War I and Its Violent Climax
by JOSEPH PERSICO”

“He saves money until he gets enough to buy pieces of land that connect other parts of his property. He's been on CNN before. He owns thousands of acres around Boone, but chooses to live off the land as much as possible. I'll try to find a website. He's a bit of a nut, but I enjoyed the book.”

“Here is his website: http://www.turtleislandpreserve.com/index2.htm”

“I've seen this fella before. I really admire him. He seems like one of the most peaceful humans on earth.”

“You ain't never fought him over half a Big Mac, have ya?”

“I guess it depends on if it's one or two days old bit.”

“the third chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal

it explores why, if we share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees, are we so much more advanced than the rest of the animal kingdom”

“wow, thats awesome. I am going to show that Turtle Island website to my daughter. I would love to send her to camp there.”

“shoot, I was planning to read One Man's Wilderness, the story of Richard Proeneke who built a cabin in the alaska wilds and lived in it for 30 years. Now I am torn which one to read first.”

“I saw the short documentary on that last night during the PBS drive.

I sorta plan on doing the same thing, only in Tennessee.”

“Huh?”

“Sorry, the "One Man's Wilderness" thing. There was a documentary on PBS last night. The guy went up into the wilds of Alaska, built a cabin (this is what the documentary shows) and lived there, alone, for the next 34 years. His cabin is still there, maintained by the park service, I think.”

“Ahhh, gotcha.”

“Lots to learn from that one about building a log cabin by yourself. Very cool.”

“Currahee, I've already got a copy "prepurchased," and plan on attending the midnight party. :)”

“dayhiker - Education of Little Tree is one of those books that has been challenged and, subsequently, banned in school districts all across American. Dumbfounding, isn't it?

Currahee - I've only read one book by Hiaasen but I loved it. It was Sick Puppy. Would you recommend a good follow up?

Last American Man was a great book. What an interesting fellow. A bit self-absorbed, imho. But, on the other hand, he has a dream and he's so passionate about it that he has trouble coming to terms w/ ppl who don't see things his way. I think he has a great heart, just difficulty expressing it sometimes...

Currently finishing Looking For Alaska by Peter Jenkins. Excellent book. After reading Walk Across America and The Walk West, I had to pick up another one of his books. He's a very engaging writer.”

“They're all great. Double Whammy, lucky You, Skin Tight are 3 of my favorites.
Try to read them chronologically, there are reoccurring characters that get weirder and weirder.”

“tara - I know the local librarian and he mentioned the same thing. I thought Alabama was the only place that banned books? Do you know why it was banned? What was challenged? The guy I talked to said something about it being written as a biography as an Indian when he was a white kid living in Bama. I checked out a '95 re-release so some of the grey areas may have been cleaned up. This reminds me of the Steve Martin joke about his growing up as a poor black boy...”

“"Now and Again" by Doris Mortman. Just finished "Life Expectancy" by Dean Koontz. I never read his books before and this one was very strange, but good. It was a departure from all the FBI, detective type books I read.

Then throw in a few books on dog nutrition.”

“Last year I started making a list of the books I read. I just can't remember every book, especially if you read a lot of books by the same author you know what you've read and what you want to read next.”

“The Boardman/Tasker Omnibus (4 mountaineering stories. Keep putting it down then when I pick it back up a week later I forgot what I read and have to re-read. I am attributing it to the fact that I just turned 35 years and am loosing my memory. A really great book.”

“I found a website on Forrest Carter, the author of The Education of Little Tree. I don't know how accurate the piece is, but it does seem to have a lot of bibliographical background.

Forrest Carter also wrote Gone To Texas, the book upon which the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales is based.

Banning a book simply because the author was a racist seems a little hypocritical to me, especially when you can probably go into nearly any library where The Education of Little Tree has been banned, and find a copy of Mein Kampf.”

“hyway - One Man's Wilderness would be a great book - our local PBS station did the video based on it a couple of months back and I just happened to catch it - i bet the book is great!”

“Give this guy a shot. Also if you are a true fan of cheesy Florida fiction read some of the old John D. MacDonald books about Travis McGee. Named my son Travis after him.

http://rwwhite.com/

http://www.gwillick.com/Spacelight/mcdonald.html”

“Thanks for the heads up.”

“ok, sounds like I just need to read this as a novel and see what I learn. I read about 5 paragraphs into what bit posted and saw that this dude was a KKK guy. So far it appears to put him in the, "Sucks as a human being, but can write" category. Thanks for the heads up.”

“"A Week In the Woods" by Andrew Clements. I liked it better than "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen which was excellent also. These are kids books by the way. I guess that shows my mentallity. :o) And I'm anxiously awaiting the 6th Harry Potter book also.”

“I just got jmtch's book "backpacking PA"
As far as technical guide to the trails in PA, this book rules !!”

“Hey the guy @ Turtle Island is a nut case ..
I live in boone and hike near his place and he thinks he owns land that we have owned for 75 yrs .. but any way didnt think to many people knew of him ..
small world
Later JB2638”

“Life of Pi
it's better than i was expecting.”

“that is an excellent book, hel! it just keeps getting better. how far into it are you?”

“"Kill It And Grill It" by Ted Nugent”

“I read life of Pi a few months ago. Interesting ending and talking discussion points in the copy I read.”

“I read through some of the best parts of "Pride and Prejudice", for maybe the fiftieth time, while getting a nice long hot soak in the tub. It doesn't get much more relaxing than that.”

“The Fabric of the Cosmos -

Brian Greene”

“I've read a lot of candy books lately (no thinking required). Kamper bought me Thoreau's Walden & Civil Disobedience. I'm gonna start that tonight and see if I can reverse the mental atrophy.”

“CB-i finished Life of Pi in one day.

sunshine--i picked up Hatchet for the kids to read, but found myself sneak reading until i was finished. it was a good story except for the quickie ending. is A Week in the Woods really better?”

“Well, I got a great looking new book called "Voyageur" from the library about a diary of an English quaker who came to the Northwoods to find his missing missionary sister (she went missing on my favorite place to take the kids camping). It started off wonderfully but then I had to start reading for school and I haven't had a chance to pick it up since. I think I'm going to have to buy it so I can read it bit by bit. Looks like a fantastic story though.”

“"The Seven Summits"

Story of the first two guys to climb the highest point on every continent.

-percious”