A meditative, humorous, and ultimately inspiring collection of stories about life amid the mountains.
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Socrates Would Be Proud (if he weren't dead),
By "natto_blasto" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stone Palaces (Hardcover)
In "Stone Palaces," Mr. Childs draws on portions of his fascinating past to create cohesive, inspiring vignettes. This book will keep climbers and non-climbers up all night on its own merits, but will hold a special attraction for anyone who has ever attempted to capture, on paper, the meaning of a personal experience. This book is inspiring. First, the writing is clean and concise and keeps the reader "in the room." Second, the stories bring their settings alive, whether they take place in a Vietnamese jungle, on the sides of distant mountains, or in an abandoned church in the Eastern US. Third, and most importantly, "Stone Palaces" reminds us why Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living." Buy it, read it, give it to a friend and buy it again (it won't be returned to you any time soon).
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palace guide-jester,
By Cait J. Sullivan "Cait J. Sullivan" (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stone Palaces: Childs (Paperback)
Unearth this diamond in the rough, Stone Palaces, immediately! Climber Geof Childs' ability to turn a phrase - be it recounting a Vietnam firefight or a Himalayan expedition gone askew - reduces scribes like Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried) and John Krakauer (Into Thin Air) to mere belayers. Mid-book you'll find "Bah," just about the finest wilderness love story ever penned. I knew Geoff was hilarious when he taught our ragtag NW Outward Bound '81 group to climb stone palaces. I'm sure grateful he delivered by way of a book nearly twenty years later.
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I am standing at the base of a boulder in a pine wood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Big Al, Fat Man, People's Choice, Ang Phu, Jim Bridwell, John Long, Cannon Mountain, Kahli Gurkha, Billy Westbay, Uncle Sydney, Cerro Torre, Bar Harbor, Frank Sacherer, Haji Fazil, Mead Cunningham, New Paltz, Whale's Tail New!
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I am standing at the base of a boulder in a pine wood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chalk bag, ice screws Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Al, Fat Man, People's Choice, Ang Phu, Jim Bridwell, John Long, Cannon Mountain, Kahli Gurkha, Billy Westbay, Uncle Sydney, Cerro Torre, Bar Harbor, Frank Sacherer, Haji Fazil, Mead Cunningham, New Paltz, Whale's Tail New!
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- New Paltz (NY) (Images of America) by Carol A. Johnson on page 150
- Collected Poems: Auden by W. H. Auden in Front Matter
- The Human Fly and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle on page 170
- The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford on page 184
- The Totem Pole: And a Whole New Adventure by Paul Pritchard in Back Matter
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- Over the Top: Humorous Mountaineering Tales (Mountaineers Anthology, Vol. 3) by Peter Potterfield on 4 pages
- Courage and Misfortune (Mountaineers Anthology) by Mountaineers Books Staff on page 69, and Back Matter
- The American Alpine Journal 2001 by Christian Beckwith on page 431
- Richard Bangs: Adventure Without End by Richard Bangs in Back Matter
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