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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Really enjoyed "Ender's Game." Got a handful of books on wait lists from the library, so I went in to browse today and pick out some reading material. Fairly unintentionally keeping the sci fi theme going. Got Asimov's "I, Robot" and Wiliam Gibson's "Pattern Recognition."
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NacMacFeegle Member
Joined: 16 Jan 2014 Posts: 2653 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Really enjoyed "Ender's Game." |
Enders Game is great, and the sequels are also worth reading.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Toni Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 829 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:03 pm
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Blue Plague: Decisions.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Just started a historical fiction "Deep Creek" about the massacre of some Chinese miners in Hell's Canyon and ensuing cover up by the locals. I only learned about that pathetic part of our history recently thanks to a cousin. Haven't got far yet but the book seems promising so far.
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Toni Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 829 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:38 pm
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Just received "13 Hours in Benghazi"
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Snow_Knot Member
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 439 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish County |
Fly the Biggest Piece Back by Steve Smith The story of Johnson flying service.
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Well, I think so, Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Well, I think so, Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
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Steve Phlogiston Purveyor
Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 769 | TRs | Pics Location: Bothell |
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Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:47 am
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Plato's Republic, Shaman's Crossing, Great Expectations.
Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.
Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3096 | TRs | Pics
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We Were Not Summer Soldiers-The Indian War Diary of Plympton J. Kelly 1855-1856 is a personal narrative of a volunteer who fought during the conflicts with the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Yakama Indian nations. As a diary, it is primary reference material. As such it is particularly gripping to read his words "Yesterday peu peu Mox Mox [a tribal leader] was taken up by Dr. Shaw and his ears cut off and to day he has been taken out and subject to further indignities". The import of those words can only bring revulsion for the brutality involved by the participants. Those responsible aren't al qaeda or ISIS but US soldiers and their volunteers. The book offers an original document for a better understand for the history of our relationship with the First Nations of Washington.
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6397 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:50 pm
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6899 | TRs | Pics
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Mike Collins, that sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm reading the lighter side of our native Americans. It's a compilation called Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest, by Ella E. Clark. Ella obtained oral stories from NW tribal members in 1953, and they are beautiful to read. Before a story begins, she might explain how portions were told in song or accompanied by hand-clapping to simulate ocean waves, for instance. The legends include stories about how the constellations were formed, what clouds are, how mountains were formed, how an annoying medicine man was dealt with, etc. (Glacier Peak was originally in the Wenatchee area, by the way).
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Phil Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 2025 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline, WA |
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Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:30 am
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Joe Abercrombie's latest!
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gb Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 6308 | TRs | Pics
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I’ve just read The Wolverine Way by Doug Chadwick and it is a terrific book. Not only do you learn a lot about Wolverines from the author who was a volunteer in a recent 5-6 year Wolverine study in Glacier National Park (see the PBS video Chasing the Phantom (Wolverines):
http://video.pbs.org/video/1642358743/
but you will come to appreciate why those people who do research on these amazing creatures develop such a vested interest in them.
Here is a quote from the book which illustrates both the writing style and one particularly amazing Wolverine (M3),
Quote: | I’d never really grasped the dimensions of the Glacier Wolverine Project before, I suddenly realized, never appreciated just how amazing the technological advances that underpin modern wildlife rearch have become. I’d never seen the computerized choreographies of electrons dancing from Earth to space and back again for the nigh-miraculous extensions of human senses and physical abilities that they are, never given much thought to how quickly we have come to take such inventions for granted, and never, ever, for all my admiration of wolverines, truly understood what a breathtaking invention each one of these life forms is.
“Holy sh##! He summited Mt. Cleveland!” (The park’s highest peak at 10,466 feet)”
“And he did the last forty-nine hundred feet straight up in ninety minutes.”
“Yuh. In frickin’ January.”
“All riiiight! We’ve got him traveling with M23 for a while first. (Copeland {lead scientist} had also sent the movements of the yearling son, adding them to the map.) Identical times and locations.”
“After climbing Cleveland he goes way up into Waterton Lakes. First he crosses into British Columbia, then into Alberta. No wonder we couldn’t find him. His territory’s several hundred square miles.”
Mr. Badass had gone international. |
....Quote: | M3 didn’t choose any of the routes that humans, goats, or bears have followed. Passing near Whitecrow Glacier, he blasted straight up the mountain’s soaring south face, a cliffy exposure with the shape of a logarhytmic curve, becoming ever closer to vertical near the top. The walls would make for a dangerous technical climb in the best of summer conditions. M3 bagged the summit by this route in midwinter when the face was a solid, icy, white barricade - a solo first ascent so impressive that it won M3 a bit of fame as word of his accomplishment got out. |
Wolverines are simply amazing, tough, tenacious, athletic, and yet what was not known before this study, also social within their extended families.
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bobbi stillaGUAMish
Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 8012 | TRs | Pics Location: olympics! |
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Mon Oct 13, 2014 4:00 pm
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too embarrassed to claim that i read 50 Shades of Grey...well, read the trilogy even
finished Gone Girl, whew! ending leaves you 'thinking'
also finished Sycamore Row, John Grisham.
continuation of the character Jake Brigance, from A Time to Kill.
my brain is tired
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"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!" - Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
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"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!" - Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
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