kintaro 0 Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 I just finished reading "Into Thin Air" about the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy. The author, jon krakauer, was also one of the climbers and really tells a harrowing story about what happened to his and a few other groups on their descent from the summit of Everest. High altitude climbing sounds insane. Any of you mountaineers ever climbed above 8000 meters? This book made it sound pretty scary! Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Hidden Horrors - Japanese War Crimes in WW2 by Yuki Tanaka I read that a while back, very sobering read it was too. Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Touching the Void - by Joe Simpson - true report of mountain climbing accident in the Peruvian Andes Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I read Touching the Void last year. Good book. Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Good movie too. Best mountaineering movie that I've seen. Lots of interview footage from the two climbers after the fact. Excellent scenery. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 That story is almost beyond real. Quite amazing. I kind of like the way Joe Simpson writes. Best I can tell, he started out life as an abrasive macho Sheffield wanker and ended up a reasonably thoughtful and observant person who can write a pretty good story. I quite like the way he says things. "The Beckoning Silence" is also quite good. An nice aspect is that it there is no 'struggle, triumph, hero' story line at all. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I haven't read anything decent for ages. Looking for something for the plane ride back to the UK. Any good lightweight but interesting novels around now? Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 Recently Nuclear Showdown by Gordon Chang. Subtitles "North Korea takes on the World". At the moment I've just started Mishimas Sword - Travels in Search of A Samurai Legend which seems really interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 just finished Martian time slip by Philip k.Dick awesome book Link to post Share on other sites
dale#1 1 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I'm currently reading "The Last Generation" by Fred Pearce. It's another book on climate change but seems different to others I have read. Not just reports but analysis, very thought provoking. It makes you mad angry that more is not being done with the knowledge that we have. Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 The Smartest Men in the Room - the story of the fall of Enron. Interesting. One of the authors is Bethany McClain. I've read her anylist reviews for years. What a failure Enron was. Nearly unbelievable that so many smart people could screw up so big! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 U2 by U2. Not a huge fan but it's a very interesting read, surprises me how much I enjoyed it actually. Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 tried reading `The Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History`, but instead of provoding much info on the current crisis, it was just a reply to the book `The Case for Isreal`. The most current harry Potter was much more satifying. And i have just started Dalliare`s `Shake Hands with the Devil`. And when i have time, i VERY slowly try to read `Kokka no Hinkaku`, by Fujiwara. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 scouser, yes that book is a good read. Quite a lot of insight into a juggernaut such as U2. Link to post Share on other sites
dale#1 1 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 I'm on The Smartest Men in the Room , good book, Link to post Share on other sites
AK 77 0 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 The Cloud Atlas by ... er, somebody or other. Good read though. Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 AK77-Cloud Atllas by David Mitchel, yeah it`s an awsome book, really enjoyed reading that, awseomt he way he intertwines the different time periods. Great line in it, "Humans, someone says, have the intelligence of gods and the souls of jackals." Oceans End- Colin Woodward, as depressing a read you can get about the future of our seas. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Risk Management 2. Very stimulating reading! Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 Citizen Hughes. Howard was a trippy dude! Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by Kintaro: The Smartest Men in the Room - the story of the fall of Enron. Interesting. One of the authors is Bethany McClain. I've read her anylist reviews for years. What a failure Enron was. Nearly unbelievable that so many smart people could screw up so big! Then you should read : When Genius Failed: The Rise an Fall of Long Term Capital Management, by R Lowenstein. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 for fun: londonstani - gautam malkani for uni: freud - dora Link to post Share on other sites
JPchucky 0 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Above the clouds, by: Anatoli Boukreev. Just started it though. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Finished up Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Enjoyed it up to the ending and found myself going rereading Hardboiled wonderland and the End of the World by same author. Enjoying it much more this time around Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Black Swan Green - the new one by David Mitchell. Really liking it, but I cant help feeling that it is heavily inspired by Zadie Smiths first novel (in that it is full of 80s kids language). He is an amazing writer though, how on earth could he go home and write after spending all day teaching eikawa I'd like to know. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 hes the bloke who used to live in Hiroshima about 6 years ago yeah bobby? Link to post Share on other sites
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