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... of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
wherein someone thinks it is a good idea to sail around the world
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
wherein someone thinks it's a good idea to climb a mountain
The Brendan Voyage by ... ... trip reports, and I wish more cavers would write - there are very few caving equivalents of touching the void or everest despite even the UK having much potential for such tales. Don't read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer about his ascent of Mount Everest in cold weather. Brrrr!!!!
*shivers*
My husband actually felt short of breath while reading it. However, don't miss it, either - as it's excellent!! ... this New Year.
Best Poetry: Poetry, you say? Well...ahem...ah...let me refer you to my associate...
Best Nonfiction: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer, as all other choices were introductions to chess or photography.
Best Fiction: The ... ... C. J. Cherryh**
7. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
8. Dawn's Early Light, Elswyth Thane
9. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
10. **The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer**
11. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
12. **Harry Potter and the H ... Five stars:
*Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Four and a half:
*Shatter, Michael Robotham (a mass-market thriller and I'm not sorry!)
Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh
Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
Into the Wild, Jon Krakau ... I'm hoping to get to Into Thin Air in 2010. It's been languishing on my nightstand for about five years. It actually fits into two different categories for my 1010 challenge so I'm thinking I'll actually read it :) Hey, Milda! That book looks good.
For cold places, though, have you ever read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer? It's an exciting read about an ascent gone wrong. Just reading about the author's scaling Mount Everest made my husband short of breath. :)
I have a cousin who's now trekking ... I LOVED both Into Thin Air and Into the Wild!
I finished The Brothers Karamazov so I needed something fluffier, so now I'm on to A Dirty Job.
My first Christopher Moore. Eh, 'must be getting old. ... much interested in wilderness/adventure type writing but Krakauer is a very thoughtful, engaging writer. I'll probably read Into Thin Air as soon as I'm done with this.
I'm also about to start American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (why the hell doesn't this touchstone work? blah.), which ... ... subject, but I have read several books on the Everest tragedy a few years ago. Among the books read were Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Matt Dickinson's The Other Side of Everest, and Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb.
I have also read a couple of books on George Mallory. I will take a ... >266: Hi, other Bonnie. By all means, move up Into Thin Air to the top of the TBR pile. I also thought Into the Wild was excellent. I would even recommend Where Men Win Glory. Krakauer is an amazing writer -- even if I disagree with his politics! Hi Donna,
I've only read Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven which I thoroughly enjoyed. In The Pile I have Into Thin Air. What do you think - should I move it up? ... with me, DK_P. It's rather disconcerting at my age to find a kid's slow and tedious.
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Finished Into Thin Air btw and am now reading Ed Viesturs book about K2. Not the highest mountain, but one of the most difficult to climb. ...
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Sorry for the duplicate post between here and the YA thread.
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I'm hoping to get into Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Great Stink, Clare Clark
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
Aloft, Chang-rae Lee
Angels Flight, Michael Connelly ... that situation. Hmmmmm!
Donna- I haven't read Krakauer's very first book but I loved his others and my favorite has to be Into Thin Air. An amazing roller-coaster of a book! I was emotionally and physically drained after reading sections of that one! For W I read The Wall by Jeff Long, a thriller about climbing. Ever since Into Thin Air I, like many, many others, have been fascinated by mountain climbing. Why on earth would anyone voluntarily do this? is pretty much the root of my interest, and memoirs and true tales just ... ... my wish list. :)
There already were two books by Jon Krakauer that both my husband and I read and loved. They Were Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. (I just noticed both books started with the word "into". Weird!) I'll keep an eye on the one you just mentioned and will eagerly await ... From cwflatt's library, I chose Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer. Fantastic author! ... he uses a first-person point of view. Same with Mailer. Does that not make them narrators? What about Jon Krakauer's INTO THIN AIR? He's one of the participants on that tragic mission, supposedly giving an accurate account, yet there are others who were there who claim his criticisms of ... 38. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Wow. This is a harrowing true story of several expeditions to climb Mount Everest in 1996. Through bad luck (a massive storm hit unexpectedly) and bad judgment (among other things, preset turn around times were ignored), a number of climbers were stranded and ... ... year I'm thinking about doing a category about "disasters" including major physical disasters and personal disasters like Into Thin Air. I also want to read The Johnstown Flood by McCullough.
I don't think I will do a 101010 read--I'd like more freedom to decide what I want to read as I ... ... if Heaven. Same topic, plus I like other books by John Krakauer that I've read. If you've never read Krakauer's Into Thin Air, go for that one. ... my best reading quarter, but the best of the bunch are:
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shake ... ... Everest and for providing essential help when the 1996 Everest disaster occurred (the subject of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air). I'm fascinated by high altitude mountain climbing. I don't like to be cold and really don't understand why people do something so dangerous and ... I've got Into Thin Air on the list for my challenge!
If you ever run out of non-fiction books on climbing, you can always start on three of my favorite fictional accounts:
The Ascent, Angels of Light and The Wall by Jeff Long. ... Everest and for providing essential help when the 1996 Everest disaster occurred (the subject of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air). I'm fascinated by high altitude mountain climbing. I don't like to be cold and really don't understand why people do something so dangerous and ... Ridgeway if you enjoy No Shortcuts and haven't read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, I would recommend it! "I don't know! God, I don't know anything!"
Into Thin Air by Cindy Miles
"Why do you have a sword strapped to your back?" ... Price
Voyage on the Great Titanic The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912… by Ellen Emerson White
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Blackbird House: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
Haunted by James Herbert
Shake The Devi ... ... recommending so far include: Motherless Brooklyn, The Coffee Trader, Kitchen Confidential, Water for Elephants and Into Thin Air.
Do these sound about right? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. ... men have dropped novels (if they ever held them to begin with) for narrative nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air.
In my conversations with friends, women are usually flush with recommendations about novels, while men usually talk about books relating to a) business, ... ... Primer int he Social History of Pictorial Style, Baxandall
769.22 Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost", Dore
796.52 Into Thin Air, Krakauer
May 11: I'm reading Into thin air by Jon Krakauer and Comedies by William Shakespeare. And I've been trying to read Portrait of a Lady for a couple of months now, but every time I get around to do it, the postman arrives with a new mooch :P ... Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
I'm almost caught up with the series! Another funny Stephanie Plum adventure.
11. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Thrilling, harrowing look at Krakauer's journey to the summit of Mt. Everest, another TBR Challenge book.
12. The Uncommon Reader by Alan ... ... by Joanne Harris
Really enjoyed this book about a woman and her daughter who shake up a small, conservative town.
3. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Another great book, this was about Krakauer's journey to the summit of Mt. Everest and the storm that killed some of his friends and fellow ... Into Thin Air has got to get the award for "Getting the most people to read a book about something they would NEVER want to do themselves." Fabulous writing! ... I had the wrong touchstone, but now I've added Women of the Silk to my TBR list! And, I agree, Alive was good but Into Thin Air was great, one of my top 50 reads of my life, to date. ... about. She truly has a gift and we are so fortunate that she is here to share that with us.
Alive I thought was good. Into Thin Air was perhaps a once in a lifetime true story for me. I can't imagine that I will ever read another that takes me to "that place". I was in awe by the time I ... I just finished Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer and I loved it! It's my goal this year to read more non fiction and Krakauer is making that goal far easier for me to meet! 4 stars. Into Thin Air was a really gripping read for me, too. I couldn't believe that people would put themselves at such risk. I cannot even get on a roller coaster!! re # 123 and your book #42: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer -- I really got into this book. I read it several years ago and cannot say I "enjoyed" it, but found it fascinating, fact filled (although I understand that there has been bickering between family members over the "facts"), heart ... #42 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Note to self: no climbing mountains. I loved the book, couldn't bring myself to watch the movie as a result.
Also been meaning to read "Into thin Air" too, after my mountain mishaps last year I'm sure a lot of it would hit home :-) Yes, Garp83 -- I've been a Krakauer fan long, long before Into Thin Air. If you haven't already read it, I heartily recommend Eiger Dreams! I think I like it even better than Into Thin Air. Under the Banner of Heaven is an important, thoughtful book -- I still think of it often.
Int ... How about Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer -- one of my favorites! ... in Chinese history, philosophy and Mandarin. Little of that stuck, but it illustrates the power of a great novel!
25. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 3/5 19. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
20. Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
I found Into Thin Air by Krakauer to be more gripping, but Into the Wild was quite interesting as well. I appreciate his balanced look at McCandless, giving him credit where credit was due.
Maus is a ... ... through books that I decided I wasn't going to read/finish, so didn't want to make assumptions. What did you think about Into Thin Air? ... We've lost an essential, highly valued member of this expedition. One sec you're here, next sec -- poof -- you're gone into thin air. Though God or Fate or whatever you might believe, grant that such an avalanche not take us by surprise again. We may feel awkward or sad moving on at first ... I have read Into Thin Air, and I thought it was excellent. I didn't care for Krakauer's Into the Wild as much, though. Oh my gosh! You're so right, spacepotatoes! Into Thin Air was a fantastic book! And this is coming from someone who doesn't like to exercise or even get cold! ;-) >34 Have you read Into Thin Air? It's about the 1996 expedition to Everest that ended in tragedy for many of the climbers involved. There was also an IMAX film crew on the expedition so if you've ever seen the IMAX movie called Everest, this book tells the same story. If you liked Miracle in the ... 2. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (see message 23 for details on why this is numbered this way) ... Band Played On
2. Maus
3. Listening to Prozac
4. Thinking in Pictures
5. Nickel and Dimed (One I've read)
6. Into Thin Air (One I listened to)
7. The Satanic Verses
8. Middlesex
9. The Alchemist
10. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
11. A Perfect Spy
12. What is the Wha ... ... it is informative, amazing, and hysterically funny. Loved it.
Also, if you're going to read a Jon Krakauer book, Into Thin Air, which is a survival tale, would be a better choice, though I loved them both. ... Kenner's Ulysses
Ulysses Annotated -- Don Gifford
for fun:
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Into Thin Air -- Jon Krakauer
#38: Definitely put his other books on your TBR list! His books are very good. Into Thin Air would fit the bill for you as far as mountain climbing stories. Just keep thinking positive Wilf! I second your Into Thin Air take. Let us not must not make the same tragic mistakes as other unfortunates who lost their lives in The Death Zone. ... With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
5. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
6. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
7. Julia and Julia by Julia Powell (That counts right?)
8. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by ... ... how he actually felt short of breath (no, he thankfully does not have a bad heart nor pulmonary disease) while reading Into Thin Air.
One thing I loved about Krakauer's book was how he made the adventure come alive. If you ever get a chance, see the IMAX movie called "Everest". It ... One of my favorite audiobooks was Into Thin Air, read by the author. I felt that you could hear the tension in his voice as he relived the tragedy. I found it to be much more powerful than the printed version. ... rt
3. A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power
4. Blowback by Chalmers Johnson
5. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
6. The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
7. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
8. It's a Boy: women writers on raising sons ... ... influence me, especially Jon Krakauer and Richard Preston - what they write is true and leaves me breathless. I've read Into Thin Air three times. My newest favorite is Raven: the Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman.
Who are your favorites? I heartily second the recommendation of Into Thin Air. It's quickly moving, interesting, sad, and cold, cold, COLD!
Another one is In the Ghost Country (mostly) by Peter Hillary, son of Edmund. It's all about this trip that Peter takes to duplicate (or maybe surpass; it's been a while, and ... Hehe! The coldest (category #4) book I can think of was Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. This is about the author's ascent on Mount Everest. My husband said he was getting short of breath just from reading the book! :)
You might also like to read a book by the same author called Into the Wil ... For my 2008 888 Challenge, I over-planned and underachived. For 2009, I am giving myself a break and making it easier and more flexible. If I really do no overlaps (no guarantee on that), this will be 81 books, which is pretty much my maximum for a year. Between work, life, and my natural ... That one sounds really good; I will have to look for it. Have you read Into Thin Air? Similar harrowing read about a climb up Everest. The first three books on LT under the tag "adventure" are:
Treasure Island by Stevenson
Into Thin Air by Krakauer
The Hobbit?! by Tolkien ... for the nice comments about my posts. You guys are nice!!!
alaskabookworm, I think the next Krakauer book I have is Into Thin Air. Glad to hear you liked it.
And thanks to MusicMom (Go Giants!) for helping me out with the touchstones. They just weren't working for me las night.
... Great review of Under the Banner of Heaven. I really like Krakauer's books. Into Thin Air is fabulous. So is Into the Wild. It has been suggested to me (though I haven't done so yet) that Anatoli Boukreev's account of the Mt. Everest disaster (The Climb) be read as a companion piece ... ... Into the Wild on tape. My reactions to the last two were outrage and mystification, respectively. One day I'll get to Into Thin Air.
A survival book I found hard to put down is Alive! by Piers Paul Read about the soccer players who crashed into the Andes, and some survived. What a ... ... (finished 11/23/09)
The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (finished 3/26/09)
If you like Into Thin Air, you might give The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev a try. Boukreev is a professional mountain climber and was one of those involved in the rescue attempt of the people trapped on Everest detailed by Karakauer in Into Thin Air. Into the Wild drove me crazy. I read it after Into Thin Air and something else by Krakauer and I like his work. But the young man was just so out of touch with reality that it really irritated me. At the time, my son was also finishing his Eagle requirements (and as the daughter of an Eagle), ... ... that.
I finished (49) Into the Wild last night. It was not a very interesting book, by I hear Krakauer's other book Into Thin Air is much better, so I think I'll give him another chance. Into the Wild is an easily forgotten book. ... the beaten path recommendations which may not relate to any thing I have ever bought before; and is interesting. I found In Thin Air in that manner. Nothing about me would suggest I am interested in mountain climbing or adventure but I really liked this book. Also, this was true of A Brief ... ... Green Mill with the in-laws
Bathe Tawnie (oh she LOVES that, NOT)
Maybe watch Atonement
Continue reading Into Thin Air
In copious spare time, do collage-a-thon for ATCards ~blank page~
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Now what? Heh. ... the Wild and watched the Sundance special with him and Penn. I liked this one and will definitely read more. I have Into Thin Air and will probably try that one next time. ... Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
10. Living Dead in Dallas by CHarlaine Harris
11. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
12. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
13. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
14. Marley and Me by John Grogan
15. Love is a Mix tape by Rob Sheffield
16. Eat Pray Love by Eli ... ... A Nascar Holiday (Anthology)
7. Lord of the Fading Lands by C.L. Wilson
8. Into Thin Air by Cindy Miles
9. Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward
TV/Movie Tie-In (because I have so many):
1. Lost: Endangered Species ... ... is made up, but I couldn't resist after typing "Alaska.") The very first semester I taught English, I'd used Krakauer's Into Thin Air, which captured most of the men's imaginations, but not all the women were thrilled with it.
I considered The Road, which I'm still reading, but it's so ... ... ion
1. A Year of Living Biblically - finished
2. The Greatest Game Ever Played
3. The Devil in the White City
4. Into Thin Air
5. Seabiscuit
6. The Sociopath Next Door - finished
7. Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy - finished
8. The Know it All - finished
Agatha Christie Myst ... ... ion
1. A Year of Living Biblically - finished
2. The Greatest Game Ever Played
3. The Devil in the White City
4. Into Thin Air
5. Seabiscuit
6. The Sociopath Next Door - finished
7. Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy - finished
8. The Know it All - finished
Agatha Christie Myst ... ... Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by
Nick Heil
in the tradition of Krakauer's Into Thin Air - adventure, reflection, increasing evidence of gross commercialism and excesses for the ultimate prize of mountaineering ... of contemporary stuff, i.e. Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Long Way Gone, The Glass Castle, Shabanu, Into Thin Air, etc. along with the more traditional classics and anthologies. But then I suppose it all depends on the schools and the teachers.... ... to say, I just know whether I like them or not - but yes, I did list The Climb in my latest posting. Having read both Into Thin Air and The Climb, I will say that Krakauer's book was easier to read, but I enjoyed the perspective of Boukreev's book too. He writes as the professional ... ... by Margaret Atwood
For BookMooch:
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (3 copies)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander Mccall Smith ... the Sky by Robert Newton Peck
The Stars are Also Fire by Poul Anderson
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer I greatly enjoyed Into Thin Air, about the ill-fated Mt Everest climb in the mid-90's; Jonathan Edwards, A Life, which, in addition to being a biography, gives a good picture of American colonial life; and The Gulag Archipelago, which contains many personal stories from the author's ... ... Basbanes is probably my favorite book of all time
Anything by Alex Kershaw but especially The Bedford Boys
Into Thin Air by Jon Karkauer
Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
Any of the true crime books by Col ... ... James M. McPherson
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Klondike: the Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush by Pierre Berton (publishe ... I just recently read Into Thin Air and only yesterday finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil last night on my train ride home (review here). I loved them both.
I think there is something wrong with me though, as ... ... person might want more about deep sea diving, and someone else might want books about other major physical challenges like Into Thin Air. ... Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992 ... Hi whicker. I am so glad to hear that you enjoyed Into Thin Air. It has been in my TBR stack for a whle, but I just haven't gotten around to reading it. I will move it up closer to the top now. Thanks. 31. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer (Finished June 9) 373 pgs
I absolutely loved this book. Krakauer does an excellent job of recounting the tragedy without being dull in the least. He does an admirable job of reporting the events fairly and presenting his own shortcomings frankly and taking ... ... didn't ask for advice, but here I am anyway. If you want to make some progress, here are my suggestions from your list:
Into Thin Air--I loved this book. Once I started reading it, I just couldn't put it down. My daughter was a needy 9 month old at the time, but I managed to read it while ... Hi Always,
Into Thin Air and Into the Wild are 2 of my favorite books. Another that might be interesting for you is Three Cups of Tea. The person is a mountain climber, but the book is about his efforts to build schools in Pakistan after coming off K2. His writing is not as eloquent as K ... ... English though...but she writes about falling in love with ghosts. She's got two great stories so far Spirited Away and Into Thin Air, though they might not have enough sex in them for you, CC! ;-p But very endearing stories.
Last week I snagged Into Thin Air and Cryptonomicon for 75¢ (cents) a piece! ... today for $10.50:
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Bounty by Caroline Alexander
South from the Limpopo by Dervla Murphy A Flame in Byzantium
Into Thin Air
Cold Fire
From Earth to Heaven
Dirt
bonus short story/novella -
The Wind from a Burning Woman ... than the general public - of the top 20 titles, the 3 by Steele rank number 17, 19, and 20 here.
Angela's Ashes and Into Thin Air were excellent. Cold Mountain and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil were very good. I have an older edition of Joy of Cooking, and didn't bother ... into Thin Air and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil were both excellent books. ... or six or more books that have staying power and other years look like this one. Out of twenty books Angela's Ashes and Into Thin Air are the only books here that will have staying power. Cold Mountain may have, I believe the jury is still out on that one. Of course the Rombauer book ... I had the same reaction to Into Thin Air, and The Climb- while I really enjoyed them, I kept thinking - what would ever possess someone to want to risk their life in such a way? So desolate, incredibly dangerous and COLD!! It epitomized why I love to read though...getting a taste of the ... ... Golden
Libya -- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Mexico -- House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Nepal -- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Nigeria -- Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Palestine -- Dreamers of the Day by Maria Doria Russell
... Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer as read by the author. He's not much of a narrator and not much of a writer either. He uses phrases that I don't think he really undertands and his delivery is monotoned. Good thing the story is interesting. ... by Philippa Gregory but this one has failed to capture me. So far.
Climb and Touching the Void I really enjoyed Into Thin Air so I thought this might be interesting too.
Silmarillion Does this one come anywhere close to Lord of the Rings?
Revenge of the Whale I liked Nat ... ... style
Vesuvius A.D. 79 - only a few copies on LT
I will second the suggestions for The Children's Blizzard and Into Thin Air - both are very good.
Into Thin Air is pretty harrowing. ... : a novel by Hilma Wolitzer
Liar's game by Eric Jerome Dickey
The trials of Tiffany Trott by Isabel Wolff
Into thin air by Cindy Miles
Wife for hire by Janet Evanovich
To catch a cheat by Kelley St. John
... Love
24. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
25. One Good Turn
Nonfiction:
26. A Girl Named Zippy
27. Into Thin Air
28. Mask of Motherhood
29. The Price of Motherhood
30. Operating Instructions
31. The Portable Atheist
32. How Language Works:
33. Wealth and ... ... to read happy things, or at least stories of overcoming hardships and becoming stronger for it. I love survival memoirs - Into Thin Air, The Climb,The Hungry Ocean, Maiden Voyage, Alive.
... is pretty cool. I wished she would have fleshed it out into a full story. But I'm liking it nonetheless!
Next up is Into Thin Air a second book by a relatively new author Cindy Miles who wrote Spirited Away, which I really enjoyed.
1. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer.
Fascinating and a good vacation/airplane read. ... way through the massive amount of books I purchased in December.
I became interested in both because last month I read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and thought it was a very interesting and compelling read. I know my mom read and enjoyed Touching the Void, which seems like a great tale ... ... came out, anxiously waiting for the next installment.
I am now just starting Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I loved Into Thin Air and can't wait to get into this one. I have The god Delusion waiting in the wings. ... of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Blind Submission by Debra Ginsburg
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
I was also lucky enough to snag the ARC of The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes that we got in at my B&N (I've never even tried to ... ... and good don't belong on a top 5 list.
My list -
the Red Tent by Antia Diamant
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer - I also just picked up from the library - Into the Wild which I'm hoping is just as good.
What the dead know by Laura Lippman, a mystery ... ... too by Edward Gorey
When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce
And from a yard sale for 5 bucks total:
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest ... ... & drink: Kitchen Confidential
791 Public performances: If Chins Could Kill
796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games: Into Thin Air
798 Equestrian sports & animal racing: Seabiscuit
914 Europe: Round Ireland with a Fridge
915 Asia: Annapurna
926 Not assigned or no longer used: Ch ... ... ick
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbra ... Ah...
Into Thin Air was great. Very, very sad though. Thank you for telling me! Keep me posted on the lasted NF you've read that are worthwhile.
Thank you so much!
Edited to add: I'm loving Reading Lolita in Tehran so far! So good, and also very sad. ... then asked for suggestions.
Nonfiction books I have enjoyed include:
Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing by Ted Conover
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown & Paul Dugu ... ... book. Anything that's science discovery, but definitely NOT technically written.
Um...Everest stories. I'm reading into thin air and left for dead right now, so if you know of any NF Everest stories other than those, you'd be a lifesaver.
If possible, something fairly light, but ... "The previous year a guided American expedition had hired a Sherpa named Kami Rita as a cook boy."
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer ... by Manning Coles
The Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner ... Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh
Dr. Rosberg's Do it Yourself Relationship Mender
It Could be You: A Personal Account of Being Struck Down by a Rare and potentially Fata Paralysing Illness
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage ... of nonfiction? Here are a few of mine:
Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900 by Erik Larson
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (warning: this bears almost no relationship to the movie)
... ... fires History of the Great Conflagration, explosions City on Fire, pandemic The Great Influenza, bad decision-making Into Thin Air, mining Fire and Brimstone, and general technology failure Sinking of the Titanic.
I was surprised we have so few shared titles within this group right ... ... also starting the audio version of Inkheart thanks to a previous post..thank you!
On a non-YA note, I just finished Into Thin Air, the audio version and it is phenomenal. Farthest thing from a light read but well worth it. ... One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson. It's a non-fiction adventure story along the lines of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm with a bit of World War II history thrown in. It's about diving, which I have no inclination to do, but I loved Ship of Gold in the De ...
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