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[janine]

Koeeoaddi wrote: "Just started Doctor on Everest. This is my 10th or 11th armchair attempt at the summit. Each one is more or less the same -- Kathmandu, Khumbu Ice Fall, Western Cwn, Lhotse Face, team of loons, great discomfort, self inflicted tragedy -- and yet, I keep coming back."

like chick-lit but about the everest? what do they call it?

[Jammies]

janine wrote: "Koeeoaddi wrote: "Just started Doctor on Everest. This is my 10th or 11th armchair attempt at the summit. Each one is more or less the same -- Kathmandu, Khumbu Ice Fall, Western Cwn, Lhotse Face, team of loons, great discomfort, self inflicted tragedy -- and yet, I keep coming back."

like chick-lit but about the everest? what do they call it?"

Cliff Lit?

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Nice one Jammies.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Koeeoaddi wrote: "Just finished Jessica Treat's excellent collection of short stories, Not a Chance: Fictions.

Just started Doctor on Everest. This is my 10th or 11th armchair attempt at the summit. E..."

I like those mountaineering/disaster books too.

[Sally, la reina]

I love anything about Everest.

[Aynge]

You read Into Thin Air, right?

[Sally, la reina]

Yes. Good stuff. Despite the pompous Krackhaur.

[Aynge]

I loved it. I read it wrapped in a blanket the whole time.

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "Yes. Good stuff. Despite the pompous Krackhaur."

Pompous? Really? I never picked that up. You could be right, though.

[Helena]

Waiting for The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival... came highly recommended.

[Michele]

I am currently re reading "Busman's Honeymoon" by Dorothy Sayers.

[Jaimie]

I just started The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas.

[ms.petra]

Helena wrote: "Waiting for The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival... came highly recommended."

it is very good. I listened to it not long ago.

[ms.petra]

Larry wrote: "Sally wrote: "Yes. Good stuff. Despite the pompous Krackhaur."

Pompous? Really? I never picked that up. You could be right, though."

Larry, I didn't get that impression either. I love his books.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I didn't like the anti-religious tone of Under the Banner of Heaven.

[Félix]

I didn't take it as anti-religious. He was just exposing to excesses of religious zeal and what it does to people's lives.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Larry wrote: "I didn't take it as anti-religious. He was just exposing to excesses of religious zeal and what it does to people's lives."

Perhaps. I thought there was a little more to it than that.

He quoted approvingly from Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay:

“Both revelation and delusion are attempts at the solution of problems. Artists and scientists realize that no solution is ever final, but that each new creative step points the way to the next artistic or scientific problem. In contrast, those who embrace religious revelations and delusional systems tend to see them as unshakeable and permanent…..
Religious faith is an answer to the problem of life ….The majority of mankind want or need some all-embracing belief system which purports to provide an answer to life’s mysteries, and are not necessarily dismayed by the discovery that their belief system, which they proclaim as “the truth,” is incompatible with the beliefs of other people. One man’s faith is another man’s delusion….
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.”

Leaving aside the loaded term "delusional," many people who subscribe to religious beliefs do not see them as unshakeable. Their faith may often be shaken, but they don't abandon their beliefs because of that. They doubt and question within their belief system.

[Phil]

Lobstergirl wrote: "They doubt and question within their belief system."

Sounds rather limiting.

But that's just me mouthing off.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Phil wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "They doubt and question within their belief system."

Sounds rather limiting.
"

I see it as less limiting, actually. More flexible and less rigid.

[Sarah]

Michele wrote: "I am currently re reading "Busman's Honeymoon" by Dorothy Sayers."

I've been on a Sayers kick recently. My sister got me her short story collection too, which I'm looking forward to reading.

[Sarah]

Loved, loved, loved Boneshaker. Now I'm mad that my library doesn't have Clementine. How can they stock the first and third books, but not the second in the series?

[Jim]

Sally, you may like this one.

Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet

[Helena]

Sarah Pi wrote: "Loved, loved, loved Boneshaker. Now I'm mad that my library doesn't have Clementine. How can they stock the first and third books, but not the second in the series?"

My library doesn’t have Clementine either- but they do have the third. I read something about that (trying to recall where) Tor books didn’t publish Clementine, but they did publish Dreadnought. Subterranean Press published Clementine. I read that it was easiest to find the Kindle version.

[Jim]

Hope you enjoy it Ko.

[Sarah]

Helena wrote: "My library doesn’t have Clementine either- but they do have the third. I read something about that (trying to recall where) Tor books didn’t publish Clementine, but they did publish Dreadnought. Subterranean Press published Clementine. I read that it was easiest to find the Kindle version. "

I think I saw Clementine referred to as a novella as well, so it may be that the library has a policy against novellas? Anyway, problem solved for me at least. Jammies is loaning me her copy, because she's awesome.

[Jammies]

I feel like my tiny little city-owned library is special, because they do have Clementine. Don't worry, though, Sarah, I'm sending you the copy I actually bought.

[Sally, la reina]

Jim wrote: "Sally, you may like this one.

Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet"
Thanks, Jim. I'm looking forward to that.

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There's nothing like a cheesy celeb tell-all to top off a quiet morning of coffee and self-loathing. Springfield shares his imagined cosmic connection to dogs - which really amounts to nothing more than a passion for braving the outdoors in the middle of a downpour for the privilege of picking up canine fecal matter with a plastic bag for a glove - and talks entirely too much about his one-eyed trouser trout. He refers to his life-long depression as "The Darkness," a term probably more apt for his eyeliner.

But I'm willing to cut him some slack for all of this hokum for his having written power-pop gem "Jessie's Girl," still fully capable of sending MILF's into a I-just-split-a-beer-with-my-BFF-and-now-I-want-to-dance-and-shout-Wooo! tizzy.

[Brittomart]

I'm reading Adam Carolla's book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks... because my brother is listening to the audiobook, and he said he's never laughed so hard. I like Adam Carolla, and I love what I've read so far.

[janine]

nick hornby - high fidelity

i started it yesterday and am already halfway through it, that should say enough.

[Félix]

You have more time to read than I do.

[janine]

yes, i do! and i love it.

[janine]

i mean, i'm sorry to hear that larry.

[Sally, la reina]

Msg 826: Heee! This is why I love you, not-Phil-but-Clark.

[Carol]

Into the Beautiful North: A Novel
by the author of the fabulous The Hummingbird's Daughter
I'm going to see a reading with him in about a month, very excited.

[Sally, la reina]

::hands tissues to the Dutch::

[Félix]

It's all good.

[janine]

Sally wrote: "::hands tissues to the Dutch::"

thanks, but i managed to keep the spillage at a minimum.

[Félix]

It looks good on you, I'm sure.

[janine]

did i drop some on you?

[Félix]

Yeah but it's not a problem.

[Jammies]

Leviathan and maybe it's me, but the cover art looks like a steampunk portrait of Joseph Gordon Levitt.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Jammies wrote: "Leviathan and maybe it's me, but the cover art looks like a steampunk portrait of Joseph Gordon Levitt."

I just noticed you were reading that, Jammies. It looks awesome! Flying genetically altered whales!

Have you read Airborn? I wonder how it'll compare to that...

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Hey I've read Leviathan. I think it was kind of cool that there was artwork in the book.

I want to read Airborn.

[[deleted user]]

Jaye wrote: "i liked The Hunger Games. while reading it, i asked myself if i really want to invest more time in these books. terrifying government laws seep in slowly.
also, i realized that if..."

Love it!

I've been slogging my way through a later and marginally crappy dragonlance trilogy. I'm almost done, not sure what's on deck. I'll see what talks to me on the shelf. :)

[[deleted user]]

Myles, they're only good until they start being written by other authors. I bought a few before I realized that they went to crap. I'm trying to make it through the ones I bought, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get any further than the one I'm nearly done with. Jean Rabe is RUBBISH!

[janine]

i finished high fidelity today, and will be starting the third millennium book this evening. i'm lookin forward to it.

[Jammies]

Damnit, Jax, now I've got another book on my to-read list! I'm really liking Leviathan so far and Stacia's right, the artwork is a big plus!

[Janice]

I won a giveaway, A Cold Night for Alligators and I started reading it tonight. This is the first giveaway I've won. I'll have to brush up on how to write a proper review. I hated writing book reports for English when I was a kid.

[Sally, la reina]

I'm really still quite enjoying The Jewel and the Crown. It is getting complex and pretty.