Night stand

ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

OK, from time to time I posted this question at HAZ (or should we call it "the website that shall not be named...Harry Potter anyone...)...anyway...since we've got this nice new sandbox to play in, thought I'd continue the tradition...

What are you reading and/or what was the last book you read? Anybody reading anything of interest?
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mike · What box? Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134

Currently re-re...reading "The Hobbit". I think the book before was probably a geeky computer book, likely about PHP.
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dennisbench · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 275 Location: El Mirage

I just started leafing through "On the Arizona Trail", and I'm also part way through the third volume of Shelby Foote's Civil War Narrative.
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Shawn · Posted: 1/14/2003, 6:10 am Post subject:

Gary Toppings history of the Glen Canyon/San Juan basin area.

I also recommend "Portal to Paradise" a pioneer history of the Chircahua Mtn area. You will never feel the same hiking in that area after you read it.
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tracker · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 28 Location: Gilbert AZ

I'm reading "Hiker's guide to the superstitions"
Cool

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Nealz · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 131 Location: Alpine, Arizona

I'm still plowing my way through Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins' The Complete Walker IV. Also I just picked up Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in a Rugged Land by Craig Childs. Childs is a frequent contributing writer to Arizona Highways.

-Nealz

ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

cactuscat · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 459 Location: Phoenix

I'm currently reading "A Season On The Appalachian Trail". Love those long-distance hikers!
Anybody else read "Over The Edge: Death In The Grand Canyon"? It's fascinating! Eek

Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

I often skim through Gerry Roaches "Colorado's Fourtenners From Hikes to Climbs," and Colorado Thirteeners From Hikes to Climbs." i find the hight country very fascinating.
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Ally · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Fountain Hills

Edward Abbey - Desert Solitare, (borrowed from cactuscat), will return it soon!!!

cactuscat · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 459 Location: Phoenix

Okay, I've got your next reading assignment ready! Wink

Daddee · Posted: 1/14/2003, 4:27 pm Post subject:

"Chaos" by James Gleick - a great book on the development of Chaos theory - much deeper than I anticipated it.

Another great Gleick authored book I'll probably re-read when I'm done is "Genius" - a biography of the life and science of Richard Feynman (one of the truly interesting characters in the 20th century).

Truly absorbing reading - and Gleick makes the science fairly accessible to the layman as well.
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Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

Lance Armstrong and Amateur Geologist.

ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa