Reading List-2007

Really, there’s a stalker book? I gotta read that one.

—Jim Carey, Eternal Sunshine

Do not think that I am so pretentious to think that anyone really cares what I have been reading this year. I just thought I would include it because I have read some really good books this year even though most of the books that filled my year were not reading books but guide books. Enjoy!

Books
· Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Fantastic, for a while… good, for a while… still there, for a while…. And it continues to go on and on and on… and on. Still working on this one.

· Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

A must read, I couldn’t put it down… mysterious and compelling; loved the movie

· A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Liked it but after I read some cliff notes on it I couldn’t finish it; only got half way through the book

· Decision at Trafalgar, Dudley Pope

Excellent; on the Napoleonic battle at Trafalgar

· The Plot Against America, Philip Roth

Terrifyingly believable… fantastic… but the end was awful, suddenly everything magically worked out

· I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max

Amusing… one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.

· Walden, or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau

Boring… just stick with Thoreau’s famous quotes, the rest is

a waste of time.

· To the Ends of the Earth, Gordon Wiltsie

Brilliant… this would be my career of choice.

· Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aaron Ralston

Well written… I suggest reading the book, its must cheaper than paying $50,000 to hear the bastard speak.

Guides

· Central America on a Shoestring: Lonely Planet

I spent hours upon hours in this book… good but out of date

· Yucatan: Lonely Planet

· Lonely Planet Blue List 2007: Lonely Planet

· Mexico’s Volcanoes: The Mountaineers

· Rock Climbing New Mexico: A Falcon Guide

· Jemez Pock and Pecos Area: Sharp End Publishing

· Indian Creek: A Climbing Guide: Sharp End Publishing

The best written guide book I’ve ever seen

· Hikers and Climbers Guide to the Sandias: University of New Mexico

· New Mexico Hikes: The Mountaineers

· Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills: The Mountaineers

Has been a favorite for many years, and many to come

· Self Rescue: NOLS

· Cookery: NOLS

· Fifty Summits, Joseph Poindexter

· Colorado Ice, Jack Roberts

· Colorado Ice Climber’s Guide, Cameron Burns

· Ice: Tools and Technique, Duane Raleigh

Poetry, Selections, Short Stories, and Essays

· All the Hits So Far, Bradley Hathaway

Inspiring and amusing

· A Leaky Tent is a Piece or Paradise, Short Stories

Most of these essays aren’t written by outdoorsy people at all but by people who went on a hike… once… a long time ago.

· Mixed Emotions, Greg Child

Vivid tales of mountaineering

· Lewis Thomas

· Friedrick Nietzsche

· Plato

· Ayn Rand

· Thomas Hobbes

· Henry David Thoreau

· Ralph Waldo Emerson

· Robert Frost

· Langston Hughes