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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
by Joe Simpson
Kyusik Chung's review
bookshelves: outdoors, nonfiction
Sep 06, 11
bookshelves: outdoors, nonfiction
Read from August 16 to September 06, 2011
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Reading Progress
| 08/26/2011 | page 33 |
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19.0% | |
| 08/29/2011 | page 71 |
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41.0% | "If I hadn't watched the documentary dozens of times, I think I would be having an extremely difficult time visualizing what Joe and Simon were climbing. I guess I'm not enough of an alpinist...though I never feel this confused with Krakauer's writing. I know...maybe an unfair comparison." |
| 08/31/2011 | page 140 |
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81.0% | "Tip: get past the first 70 pages, when nothing has gone wrong. It's a struggle bc Simpson does a poor job of helping the reader visualize the climbing. But after page 70, when the climbers are struggling, the going gets much easier for the reader." 1 comment |
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Aug 24, 2011 01:43pm
I'm having a hard time plowing through it. His descriptions of the terrain are a little hard to parse. The way he talks about it in the documentary felt a lot more natural.
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I read this book on my first trip down the Franklin River with my husband! Amazing story, very staccato writing (as I found out when my fellow rafters had me read out parts of it to them!).
