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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    brainofPJ wrote:
    thanks Helen.

    i'll have to look these up on Amazon. sounds like she might really enjoy these.
    Trust me... I can actually guarantee these... especially touching the void but IMO into thin air MUST be followed by the climb... if she doesn't like them I'll eat my boots :eek:


    So it's the climb by Anatoli Boukreev and touching the void by Joe Simpson (his other books are quite good reads too)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Atonement by Ian McEwan.

    The second book I have read by him, I picked this one up recently when I saw an interview on The Hour with McEwan, and learned that they were turning it into a movie out this december
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    I'm almost done with Into The Wild. Don't know what book I will pick up next. Any suggestions?
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    smarchee wrote:
    Atonement by Ian McEwan.

    The second book I have read by him, I picked this one up recently when I saw an interview on The Hour with McEwan, and learned that they were turning it into a movie out this december

    I read Saturday by him. Not the easiest book to get through but enjoyable.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

    I can barely put it down.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Love in the Time of Cholera....it was my dad's. not sure when he bought it but probably 14-15 years ago. just started it.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    The Origin of Wealth published by Harvard Business Review
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    rrivers wrote:
    I read Saturday by him. Not the easiest book to get through but enjoyable.

    I totally agree. I really liked Saturday, but it did start out slow. Same with this book, first 100 pages were tough to get through, now it's tough to put him down. I would definitly read anything with his name on.
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    2005 ~ London, Toronto
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    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
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    2014 - Detroit
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,182
    Enjoyed Into the Wild so much I just picked up Into Thin Air
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  • Heather Evers
    Heather Evers Posts: 168
    the catcher in the rye
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Puckoon. For the second time.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    a glimpse of eternal snows: a family's journey of love and loss in nepal - jane wilson-howarth.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    know1 wrote:
    "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

    I can barely put it down.

    im asking for that for xmas. i just recently read 'no country for old men' and it was awesome.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    im asking for that for xmas. i just recently read 'no country for old men' and it was awesome.

    if youve not read his border trilogy, may i recommend you do so. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • pearljamjen
    pearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
  • happyandtrue
    happyandtrue Posts: 85
    King Dork by Frank Portman - you will not be disappointed. BTW, it is catagorized as "Young Adult" but do not be deterred. Seriously, you will love it!

    And to the poster above me, if you like Tim Robbins, try Jitterbug Perfume. It is my favorite book of his.

    Oops, I meant Tom Robbins.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    small town beck wrote:
    Banner of Heaven is great!! So truly bizarre.

    Did I mention it's my all-time favorite book? There is a documentary I watched recently (Banking on Heaven) and Krakauer appears on it. One of the FLDS's "Lost Boys" 'adopted' Krakauer as his dad. Brought a tear to my eye!
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Did I mention it's my all-time favorite book? There is a documentary I watched recently (Banking on Heaven) and Krakauer appears on it. One of the FLDS's "Lost Boys" 'adopted' Krakauer as his dad. Brought a tear to my eye!

    I would be interested in seeing that. I just watched a documentary on brain washing and religions.. interesting. Terrifying and bizarre but interesting.

    I am re reading Summer Sisters by Judy Blume, great book.
  • PJ1973
    PJ1973 Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 421
    I'm reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and I just finished Into the Wild. I read Into Thin Air years ago and was not a big fan of Krakauer's style so I never read Wild, but I liked Into the Wild much, much more.
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    catefrances wrote:
    woohoo!!! finally finished what's welsh for zen by john cale. what a fascinating musician that man is. he gave an interesting insight into both lou reed and andy warhol, so twas all good. :)
    ah I've heard of that, I'm a big fan of : Paris 1919, Vintage Violence, Hobosapiens. Dont really know much about him though, other than he's welsh(no problem with that). Always much preferred his music over that of Lou Reed but Cale seems to not have much popularity in england.

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