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Calgary, alberta
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 12:13 PM
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We've all seen that CTers are outdoor enthusiasts and flex their muscle in various fitness filled activities, but what about your intellectual fitness, tell about your favorite book. Could be this years fav, or your fav of all time..
One of my favorite books is "life of Pi". Canadian author, unusual premise and a great survival story.
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Farmington, British Columbia
Canada
88 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 1:14 PM
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| My favorite Book right now would have to be Hiking with Ghosts.The Chilkoot Trail, then and now. Its written by Frances Backhouse and the Photography was by Adrian Dorst. Its such a fantastic book, i couldn't put it down. I ended up reading it in one day. |
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Victoria, BC
Canada
348 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 1:54 PM
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| The Alchemist, can't remember the author |
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Calgary, alberta
Canada
670 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 2:16 PM
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The author of the Alchemist is Paulo Coehlo, haven't read it...... yet
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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 2:38 PM
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| "Full Tilt" by Dervla Murphy. A fantastic first person account by a woman who rode her bicycle from Ireland to India in 1963 on the equivalent of $1 per day. Whe she was 62 she did something similar through East Africa on a mountain bike("The Ukimwi Road"). |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 8:31 PM
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| Shadows in Paradise - Erich Maria Remarque. You have to be born in a certain place, time, and immigrate (in paradise) to understand his works. |
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 Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5468 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 8:45 PM
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Anything by Bill Bryson will keep me chuckling out loud. Even his more serious books (A short history of nearly everything, The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way) make for interesting reading and are amusing as well.
Teeka, I must try and get my hands on that Chilkoot book. I'm dying to get up that way. |
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Hope, B.C.
Canada
726 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 8:57 PM
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"Seven Years in Tibet" by Heinrich Herrer; he is still alive, and the book is much more exciting than the movie. Alerts one to the plight of Tibet. So good.
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Road raging trail blazer
Surrey, B.C.
Canada
1722 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 9:42 PM
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Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
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Calgary, alberta
Canada
670 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2005 : 09:03 AM
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So many great suggestions, I love hearing what other people loved to read. It gives me new genres to try.
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Farmington, British Columbia
Canada
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Posted - 04/22/2005 : 12:48 PM
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Teeka, I must try and get my hands on that Chilkoot book. I'm dying to get up that way.
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Hey WS,
It's a must read, especially if your going to hike the trail. I just got it from the library, But i think i'm going to buy it. It will be nice to read again after i do the trail. |
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Langley, BC
Canada
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Posted - 04/22/2005 : 12:58 PM
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My special book is The Chrysalis, a book from high school english.
It'a all about acceptance. I've carried that book with me for >20 years, through too many moves, room mates and ex's to count.
I'm all about the Chilkoot, so I'll be checking out Teeka's book.
I hiked it as a teen, I want to go back again.
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the road
557 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2005 : 1:05 PM
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Eiger Dreams: short storise about climbing
Above Timberline: A wildlife biologist spends a year in the rocky mountains filming a wildlife video. The book is his daily journal entries
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5468 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2005 : 3:07 PM
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I couldn't put down, "The Bear's Embrace" which was written by a woman who survived a grizzly attack, and its aftermath of hospital surgeries, pain and depression.
As for the Chrysalids, that is one of my favourite books too, one of the few books we were made to read in high school that I actually enjoyed (the other was "To Kill a Mockingbird"). Having to answer questions at the end of every chapter and write essays about books will kill the pleasure of reading for just about anyone, but those two books managed to still be enjoyable (for me) in spite of high school English.
The Chrysalids was written by John Wyndam (sp?) and all his other books were good too. I liked his short stories a lot. |
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Red Deer, Alberta
Canada
50 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 12:33 PM
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| The Dune series by Frank Herbert. Fantastic, intelligent and relevant to our modern world Sci-Fi writing. |
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Tumbler Ridge, BC
Canada
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Posted - 04/24/2005 : 2:38 PM
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My fav book is also the ultimate Hiking Book: Lord of the Rings.
(Yes, I know it's six books across three volumes, but it was meant to be published as an omnibus).
The book that I read most recently that had the biggest impact was Into Thin Air. I've never really cared for all the Everest paraphanalia, but Jack Christie gave this one to me so I felt obligated to read it. Then I re-read it. I don't know why, it just really got me.
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5468 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 2:45 PM
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| Backroader: Me too. I'm generally not into reading about mountain climbing trips, but when everyone raved about Into Thin Air, I picked it up and absolutely could not put it down. So then I read (by the same author) "Into the Wild" and more recently...oh I can't remember what it was called now, but also by Jon Krakauer, about fundamentalist Mormons. |
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
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Posted - 04/24/2005 : 7:59 PM
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My all time favourite is 'Space' by James A Michener. It chronicles the space race from the end of WWII to about the late eighties, through the eyes of four fictional families. I love it enough to pick it up, start anywhere and enjoy a bit.
I also rather enjoyed the Chrysalids, although I never studied it in school. I thought Day of the Triffids (by John Wyndham) was pretty awesome too. |
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Surrey, BC
Canada
423 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 8:09 PM
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My favorite author is John Grisham, not really much to do with hiking, but a good read nonetheless if you are into law/court drama types, is a more recent one of his called "The King of Torts".
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
98 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 8:40 PM
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Although the movie was rather good, I thought the book The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger (That's high school English for ya, "M-U-S-T underline the title of every novel..."). Fictionally true story of the lives of a couple of seamen who lost their lives trying to make a buck. I guess this is a little more relavent for be because I spend a LOT of time on the ocean, and work on a boat similar size to the one in the story.
Into Thin Air - John Krakuer was another excellent book, a,though I preferred the one mentioned above, I don't really do a whole lot of mountain climbing, so it was a little less relevant, but a good read regardless.
No offence to those that liked it, but the Chysalids and To Kill a Mocking Bird ranked as severe lows in my high school readings. I guess there was so much hidden meaning and metaphors, that went straight over my head.
What have I learnt from these books, never mess wiht nature, it can turn on you and kick your ass any day of the week. Books about actual events are a lot harder to analyze because they actually happened (i.e. The rouge wave in The Perfect Storm wasn't a metaphor of life...and couldn't be analyzed to death).
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown, also deserves special mention.
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