What is everone reading ?

“Lyra.."Good Grief" by Lolly Winston is sad, yet funny at the same time”

“I finished "When the Wind Blows"
Monday night. I have read about 1/3 of
"The Lake House", the sequel. I have
purchased "Maximum Ride" which is
the third book in the series. They are
by James Patterson.

I can hardly put the books down once I
begin reading them.”

“I just went to a book reading and signing for "Losing the Garden" bu Laura Waterman. She and husband Guy were living "off the grid" homesteaders for 30 years and wrote many good boopks on hiking, camping and the wilderness. He committed suicide by freeing to death on Mt. Lafayette a few years back. I went to take a peak, but was drawn. I picked up a book and started reading. Looks poignant and well written.”

“Their books together about hiking in the Northeast, and hiker's responsibility are supposed to be very good.

Have you read any of them?”

“Greenland Expedition - Where Ice Begins

A story about Kayaking and Dog Sledging around Greenland. Amazing pictures and tale of an extreme (to put it lightly) adventure.”

“I just discovered audiobooks for the ipod... Oooohhh... this is gonna get me in trouble! lol.”

“thanks Wintersolstice!”

“thanks Wintersolstice!”

“di, you have an iPod?

I finished my Jane Austen biography this morning. The bus is the best thing to happen to my reading hobby. I'm zipping through books. Woo Hoo!
I'm going to read Nisa: !Kung Woman next.”

“Dean Koontz's "The Face". He writes some unique weird books.”

“i'm just reading a walk in the woods by bill bryson. i've heard so much about it so i thought it was time i came to my own conclusion. so far its not so bad.”

“Yeah pixie. Work gave them out at the party to employees. Pretty cool. I'm listening to mine now. :) Helps me tune out whiney sales peeps!! LOL”

“im reading "trail-talk"

its quite a fascinating read

sort of a literary reality show”

“What a fab gift!”

“I agree CB, it's been my only reality show for quite a while.
http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/9232,-1,2.php”

“I stopped by the library tonight to pick up a DVD I had requested. While I was there I found out they had a book sale going on. I spent over an hour browsing the books.
I finally walked out with 3 Stephen King hardback books (The Tommyknockers, Hearts in Atlantis and Dreamcatcher), The Deerslayer (hardback) and a Time to Kill in paperback. Total cost 12.00.

I passed on lots of books including the LOTR collection in paperback.”

“Ewker

Dreamcatcher is one creepy book.”

“by Lolly Winston

Thirty-six yr. old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. alas, she is more of the Jack Daniels kind. Self-medicating with ice cream for breakfast, breaking down at the supermarket, and showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slipppers-soon she's not only lost her husband, but her job, house and...waistline.

With humor and chutzpah Sophie leaves town, determined to reinvent her life. But starting over has its hurdles: soon she's involved with a thrteen-year-old who has a fascination with fire and a handsome actor who inspires a range of feelings she can't cope with-yet.”

“I am finding this Dean Koontz book called "The Face" to be very disturbing as it give ideas that are easily doable for nuts to create havoc anywhere they go.”

“Training manuals from work. UUUGGGGGGGHHH!


Trying to get into Centennial by James A. Michener. Great book just really long winded. May have to put it down for a while and get a fix with an adventure novel.”

“I love Centennial. I re-read it every few years.

Oh yah, the story picks up a bit once you get past the creation of the earth and the animals dying. But it's all part of the story.
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“"The Face" is 608 pages.”

“Stephen King kicks ass! I recently finished book 6 of the Dark Tower and was glad I didn't put the series down during the early books. How he spun the fantasy world of the book into our reality was amazing. I keep seeing roses and 19! Damn you Stephen King!

I picked up the Davinci Code next. The story was good though at times I felt the characters were idiots. Like not recognizing the backwards writing for what it was or the missing apple from Newton's tomb. I also hated how the teacher was in plain daylight when he killed the "manservant" and his identity was witheld. I thought this was cheap writing at that point just to keep the suspense going a little longer. Otherwise it was a good story. I'm not sure where to stand on the whole conspiracy issue though.

Now I'm reading Blood Brother by the so-called sister of Scott Peterson. So far she hasn't presented any real damning evidence. Just her opinion. I had to see if she had anything legite to present though. So far she doesn't. Just another woman looking to hang a man.”

“I'm reading the journal of Fredrick Remington, but I usually read anyhing written by Zane Grey”

“The autobiography of Jim Comstock.”

“I finished "The Lake House" Friday night.
I'll begin "Maximum Ride" late tonight.
James Patterson has written three books
with a continuing theme. The first one is
"When the Wind Blows"”

“The St Croix, Midwest Border River by James Taylor Dunn...it's my Dad's copy from 1966...strangely riveting....”

“Has anyone read "The Eight" by Katherine
Neville? It has been a few years since I
read it. I'm moving it to the top of my
reread list.”

“I'm also reading the Bible (N.I.V.) - it's been a long time since I read more than a passage or two at a time. I decided to take it slow and enrolled in a Bible in a Year program on line. It seems very good, you have choices as to how its presented and which version you read.

http://www.bibleinayear.org/”

“"THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY", and I hope to find bios on Churchill and Nathan B. Forrest next.”

“I just bought the following to take to the beach next week:

Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0820321540/qid=1117636281/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9916996-5816165?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156899825/qid=1117636310/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9916996-5816165?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Touching the Void

I doubt I get to read all 3, but I'll try.

Dunadan recommended the first 2 to me.
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“The chronicles of Narnia

and

Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card”

“Recently picked up these 2 books.

His Excellency: George Washington
by Joseph J. Ellis

Backpacking Pennsylvania: 37 Great Hikes
by Jeff Mitchell”

“It'll be fun reading the Narnia stuff when my kids get old enough. I enjoy CS Lewis, but missed the Narnia stuff growing up.”

“If you read "touching the Void", please also read "The Shining Mountain" by Peter Boardman.

The void is all about bad decisions compounding and extroadinary drive to survive in a remote mountaineering setting. The Shining Mountain is about supreme competence and great teamwork in a remote mountaineering setting, an inspiration to go mountaineering, but do it right.

The outcome, The void, Yeates never climbed again, Simpson has done some. Shining Mountain - both dead attempting an unclimbed face of Everest after multiple successes and first acsents of several Himalayan peaks.

Siula Grande 6,344M 20,813ft
Changabang 6,864M 22,519ft”

“Thanks for the tip. I'll look into that one.”

“Just finished "Death in Yellowstone" by Lee Whittlesey.

Terribly written, but full of lots of interesting information.”

“dayhiker, I am getting my kids to read Chronicles of Narnia now before teh movie comes out. We just bought a paperback about 5" thick that has all the books in it. There was a preview of the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before teh Starwars movie and it looked like it was going to be a very fun and exciting film. Can't wait to see it, but I want to read the ones I missed and reread the ones I read. Then I will let my daughters read them. Savannah has already read The wardrobe one.”

“Into Thin Air”

“Another tale of incompetance leading to tragedy in the mountains.

I prefer tales of success.”

“Hyway, we saw the promo for the Narnia movie also; HPM was immediately ticked that they changed so much of the story. I haven't read then yet, so I don't know.
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“manuka - you might enjoy Teewinot. It's a year in the life about climbing in the Tetons.”

“Dayhiker, Thanks, I will look for it.”

“The author climbed all over the world. The end of the book he takes some offtrail trips with a local ranger. I've read and re-read it. Very peaceful type of book.”

“they always change the stories, whats important is that they keep the spirit like Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy”

“Flashman and the Great Game.”

“Funny thing, I tried to read "Hitchhiker's" a couple of times but never got into it. I'm not interested in the movie version either. However, I loved Terry Pratchett's book "Good Omens." That was frickin' hilarious.”

“y2 - I've read about 6-8 of Flashy's books. They're great.

Which one is the Great Game?”

“Ewker,

I sound harsh with "Into Thin Air" but several people died in the South Col because they could not find camp.

Mark Chavin is a professional guide in the White mountains and has this on his web site
http://www.chauvinguides.com/PresiTraverse/presirouteplanguide.htm
Basically how to get out/down in whiteout conditions by compass directions.
The clients that died in the South col were down from the mountain, but had no idea where camp was. Compass craft.”

“Dayhiker, I think I've only got this one and Flash and the Redskins to go. The Great gameis set around the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and Russia and GBs moves over the subcontinent. It's one of the good ones too.

Before this I ploughed through Tilman's seven mountain books, and Shipmans six mountain books. The Shipton one I'd recommend to anyone who loves mountains.”