[pct-l] Re:(pct-l)Books

[pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net (Jesse Whyte)]

I've only got one significant book to add that might have broad appeal
across this audience:

Pirsig's  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Truly thought-provoking and worthy of constant re-reading.

Jesse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saskia" <saskia.home@wanadoo.nl>
To: <pct-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Re:(pct-l)Books


> I thought this book was really good. My partner even read it, and he
> rarely reads books. I thought it gives a good impression of the
> mistakes - all small - that can add up to become a disaster. It also
> views commerciality with a non-committal empathic eye. It made the
> weather we suffered from in Norway (icy rain for days) much more
> bearable. We had long discussions about this wish to reach the top,
> and how it seemed to overpower all else. I tend to be cautious and
> prefer to go almost to the top instead of all the way if there is a
> lot of danger in going higher.
>
> Personally I also loved Cindy Ross' account of the PCT. On the road I
> tend to take the lightest novel I can find and regret it later. Once,
> at Kennedy Hotsprings trailhead, someone left a thriller by Faye
> Kellerman. I gobbled it up as if I were addicted. Since then I know
> that I should take something that I enjoy reading, and not look too
> much to its weight.
>
> I like SF books if they are good enough to question all aspects of
> life as we know it. Some of them really do that. E.g.
>
> Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
> Ender's Game (and the sequels to it), Orson Scott Card
>
> Saskia
>
> >Marion wrote:
>
> >I recommend:
> >
> >Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer  (on Everest Mountaineering)
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