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Old 1st October 2007, 02:52 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
Originally Posted by Nunavut Patrick View Post
I read The Climb and it filled in the spots were Krakeur was suffering altitude sickness. I think Boukreev died before the book was published. As I recall his English wasn;t good but he had an American climbing mate and told him that Krakeur was questioning him. If I recall, Krakeur questioned Bourkeev climibing without oxygen, but he was accomplished at high altitude climbing without oxygen.
I got a recorded version of The Climb on CD, I was listening to the end of it cycling on my own in the Wicklow Mountains* in winter a couple of years ago. The book was all first person narration of Boukreev's story, and just after the narrator who was 'playing' him got to the end, as night was falling and the rain was coming in, there was a pause and then some other guy came on and said that Boukreev had died in a climb just after the book was finished. Then there was silence, just cold wind and rain whipping around me.

Jesus fucking Christ that was one of the most eerie moments of my whole life






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Old 1st October 2007, 02:59 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
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Cheers. I've started to realise that I'm a bit of a genre fan. Mainly crime and the less nerdy SF, but also now getting into some historical stuff and westerns, too.
I'm a big crime fan, don't like them too grim though. Highly recommend Carl Hiaasen (comedy thrillers set in Florida, Skinny Dip particularly good) and Elmore Leonard (all time master of thriller writing).

In SF, have you read the classic Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke? The actual writing is clunky but the depiction of the awesome weirdness of an interaction with an alien intelligence is fantastic.

I read the Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brien last year after seeing the film, very entertaining naval adventures in the Napoleonic Wars. Haven't a clue what's going on in the actual naval battles though, it's way too technical.

Second the recommendation for Flashman as well
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Re: Read anything good recently?
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but for any crime fans 'The Broken Shore' by Peter Temple is excellent. Great lead character in 'warts and all' Joe Cashin ; don't let the setting....outback Australia....put you off. It deserves the awards its received.
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Old 1st October 2007, 03:51 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
railway man by eric lomax (can't remember whether i posted this or not before)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Railway-Man-.../dp/0099582317
its agony reading some of it, and imagining the pain he endured
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Re: Read anything good recently?
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If you enjoyed Dean Koontz, you will also enjoy: Richard Laymon, I would recommend "Funland" as a good starting point into the world of the sadly departed one. "Island" is also a good way one to begin with, as is "One Rainy Night".
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Incidentally, if you think that the delay in the Koontz Frankenstein book 3 is bad, the Moonlight Bay Trilogy has been stuck firmly at book two for 8 years now.

I love a good horror, me.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Anyone read Scorsese on Scorsese (ed by David Thompson and Ian Christie)? One of my favourite film books. Just reading it again. I'm awaiting the delivery of Cassavetes on Cassavetes at the moment as well.
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Old 6th October 2007, 12:42 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Just started,
Darker than the Deepest Sea. The search for Nick Drake.
by Trevor Dann.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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Just started,
Darker than the Deepest Sea. The search for Nick Drake.
by Trevor Dann.
Thats not a bad little read that Vladi, hope you enjoy it.
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Old 6th October 2007, 02:16 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Just started Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur.
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Old 6th October 2007, 10:41 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
'Heavier Than Heavan'

A biog on Kurt Cobian, on which I am only five or so pages into so I can't comment if it's any good or not. Shit ending though.........

also

Lonley planet's guide to Thailand as my sisters wedding is over there next June and I'm franticly trying to digest as much info about the place (and plan my bag packing trip after the wedding's over).
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Old 6th October 2007, 10:46 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I read the Cobain bio a few years back, it's very good.
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Ah spendid. I shall read on then
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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Ah spendid. I shall read on then
Yeah, its well worth the read mate, you will enjoy it. Don't want to spoil it for you, but the hero gets bummed and eaten by a stalker in the end like....
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Yeah, its well worth the read mate, you will enjoy it. Don't want to spoil it for you, but the hero gets bummed and eaten by a stalker in the end like....
Fucking hell, some peole are just born unlucky.

(jnp would like to state he wasn't and has never been bummed by a woman!)

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Old 7th October 2007, 02:25 PM
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I'm currently reading Derren Brown's Trick of the mind, and it is superb. It has a list of 20 things that you are meant to try and remember. After one read through his method which took me about 90 seconds I can still remember the list now, two weeks on, without even straining. It's all about conjouring vivid images that stick with you; there is some seriously good shit in there.
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