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Dark Harbor (Stone Barrington, #12)
by (shelved 37 times as woods)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,400 ratings — published 2006
New York Dead (Stone Barrington, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as woods)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,526 ratings — published 1991
Dirty Work (Stone Barrington, #9)
by (shelved 35 times as woods)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,567 ratings — published 2003
Lucid Intervals (Stone Barrington, #18)
by (shelved 34 times as woods)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,154 ratings — published 2010
Cold Paradise (Stone Barrington, #7)
by (shelved 34 times as woods)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,179 ratings — published 2001
Dead in the Water (Stone Barrington, #3)
by (shelved 33 times as woods)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,166 ratings — published 1997
Fresh Disasters (Stone Barrington, #13)
by (shelved 33 times as woods)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,631 ratings — published 2007
L. A. Dead (Stone Barrington, #6)
by (shelved 32 times as woods)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,869 ratings — published 2000
Swimming to Catalina (Stone Barrington, #4)
by (shelved 32 times as woods)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,886 ratings — published 1998
Two Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington, #11)
by (shelved 32 times as woods)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,914 ratings — published 2004
Dirt (Stone Barrington, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as woods)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,353 ratings — published 1996
The Short Forever (Stone Barrington, #8)
by (shelved 31 times as woods)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,129 ratings — published 2002
Reckless Abandon (Stone Barrington, #10; Holly Barker, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as woods)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,122 ratings — published 2004
Orchid Beach (Holly Barker, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as woods)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,610 ratings — published 1998
Worst Fears Realized (Stone Barrington, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as woods)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,492 ratings — published 1999
Shoot Him If He Runs (Stone Barrington, #14)
by (shelved 29 times as woods)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,402 ratings — published 2007
Blood Orchid (Holly Barker #3)
by (shelved 28 times as woods)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,906 ratings — published 2002
Santa Fe Dead (Ed Eagle, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as woods)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,336 ratings — published 2008
Hot Mahogany (Stone Barrington, #15)
by (shelved 27 times as woods)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,681 ratings — published 2008
Kisser (Stone Barrington, #17)
by (shelved 26 times as woods)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,887 ratings — published 2010
Son of Stone (Stone Barrington, #21)
by (shelved 25 times as woods)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,768 ratings — published 2011
Bel-Air Dead (Stone Barrington, #20)
by (shelved 25 times as woods)
avg rating 3.98 — 10,217 ratings — published 2011
Loitering with Intent (Stone Barrington, #16)
by (shelved 25 times as woods)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,144 ratings — published 2009
Severe Clear (Stone Barrington, #24)
by (shelved 24 times as woods)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,527 ratings — published 2012
Strategic Moves (Stone Barrington, #19)
by (shelved 24 times as woods)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,021 ratings — published 2011
Hothouse Orchid (Holly Barker, #6)
by (shelved 23 times as woods)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,831 ratings — published 2009
Iron Orchid (Holly Barker, #5)
by (shelved 23 times as woods)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,690 ratings — published 2005
Orchid Blues (Holly Barker, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as woods)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,643 ratings — published 2001
Carnal Curiosity (Stone Barrington, #29)
by (shelved 21 times as woods)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,473 ratings — published 2014
D.C. Dead (Stone Barrington, #22)
by (shelved 21 times as woods)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,946 ratings — published 2011
Beverly Hills Dead (Rick Barron, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as woods)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,776 ratings — published 2008
Mounting Fears (Will Lee, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as woods)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,285 ratings — published 2008
Capital Crimes (Will Lee, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as woods)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,713 ratings — published 2003
Short Straw (Ed Eagle, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as woods)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,268 ratings — published 2006
Below the Belt (Stone Barrington, #40)
by (shelved 20 times as woods)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,770 ratings — published 2017
Insatiable Appetites (Stone Barrington, #32)
by (shelved 20 times as woods)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,580 ratings — published 2015
Hot Pursuit (Stone Barrington, #33)
by (shelved 20 times as woods)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,210 ratings — published 2015
Santa Fe Edge (Ed Eagle, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as woods)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,507 ratings — published 2010
Palindrome (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as woods)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,601 ratings — published 1991
Sex, Lies & Serious Money (Stone Barrington, #39)
by (shelved 19 times as woods)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,021 ratings — published 2016
Cut and Thrust (Stone Barrington, #30)
by (shelved 19 times as woods)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,350 ratings — published 2014
Standup Guy (Stone Barrington, #28)
by (shelved 19 times as woods)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,675 ratings — published 2014
Doing Hard Time (Stone Barrington, #27)
by (shelved 19 times as woods)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,395 ratings — published 2013
Unbound (Stone Barrington, #44)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,920 ratings — published 2018
Fast & Loose (Stone Barrington, #41)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,277 ratings — published 2017
Naked Greed (Stone Barrington, #34)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,333 ratings — published 2015
Paris Match (Stone Barrington, #31)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,259 ratings — published 2014
Unnatural Acts (Stone Barrington, #23)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,617 ratings — published 2012
Santa Fe Rules (Ed Eagle, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,565 ratings — published 1992
The Run (Will Lee, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as woods)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,951 ratings — published 1995
“In the act of embracing one tree, we express gratitude to the entire forest.”
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“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.
You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.
At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.
You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.
At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
